Tag: Running

Head North if you aren’t planning on running

Disney's Grand Californian Hotel room view
Two nights here. Photo: Yesterday at 10am, prior to checking out.

 

Fairfield Inn Disneyland Resort area
One night (last night) here.

 

 

Wasn’t here to run the Disneyland Star Tours 5k, 10k, nor this morning’s half-marathon.

After downloading photos and writing five blogs, we changed hotels (Grand Californian wasn’t available last night), we headed north to Hollywood for the day.

While this blog is about our physical health, it’s helpful to remember that having “rest days” is part of the formula for wellness.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our physical health. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s spiritual health website, click here.

 

Hoping this morning’s run is full of zest

iPhone stopwatch screen shot
This is what your stop watch looks like almost 25 hours after forgetting to stop it.

 

Hoping this morning’s run is full of zest.

But if it’s not today, it will come.

i will continue to run regardless of the circumstances.

How could i not?

PS. This karma can be applied, and should be applied, to everything.

 

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We forgot yesterday

Thanksgiving Day dinner in Florida
Yesterday’s Thanksgiving dinner on the back porch.

 

We forgot yesterday. No, we did’t forget it was Thanksgiving. We forgot to run “three mailboxes.” When things like this happen, forgive yourself and know that one day isn’t going to ruin things.

 

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This is a big deal even though it’s so insignificant

Firewood sleds
Taught our son how to make a firewood sled – a simple way to transport armfuls of wood in a single trip.

 

firewood sleds
Minutes before, we completed three mailboxes.

 

Our son and i have begun the fourth week of running. We ran to the third mailbox from ours last night. The first week we ran to the mailbox closest to ours, about 100 meters away. The second week we repeated that distance. Week three (last week) we added another mailbox for a total of two (200 meters total). This week we added another mailbox for our new total distance of three mailboxes (300 meters). This is a big deal even though it’s so insignificant.

 

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There are moments in time that change everything

Mid Life Celebration keynote speaker
The upper right quadrant represents our body. – our physical health.

 

There are moments in time that change everything. And if we are intentional, we’ll control when many of these moments happen.

And the reason we want to control when they happen is so it will be easier to remember them.

The easier it is to remember them, the more likely they are to perpetually influence how we live moment to moment – most of us dream of being in the moment more often.

April 15, 1999 (income tax deadline – a day every working American is familiar with) i began running one mailbox a day for a week. Less than a month ago, on Halloween, my wife and son began doing the same thing.

 

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