A Little Boy’s Big Dream

A little boy from a small Pennsylvania “Paper-Mill” town, watched the 1972 Summer Olympics on his neighbor’s TV, back when TV’s had knobs for changing channels.

A seed had been planted and he dreamt right then and there that he would become an Olympic athlete.

But he wasn’t big enough, or fast enough.

Ever.

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2009 World Championships

Lahti, Finland…2009 Senior Olympics…

Many readers are not familiar with what happened in 2009. This jeff noel blog was still in relative infancy.

But in 2009, my impossible goal was about to become reality.

What started out as the infamous, one-mailbox-a-day for a week wellness challenge, had morphed into the pursuit of a long lost childhood dream.

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Wellness Challenge 2011

An Iowa Marriott front desk brochure…

Wellness used to be a buzz word in corporate health care initiatives. Wellness implies living a well balanced lifestyle.

Lane 8 is a health, wellness, fitness, diet, exercise, well-being blog. A way to teach Chapin about the fundamentals. And to provide inspiration for staying motivated for lifetime wellness.

Chapin and I began running one-mail-box a day recently.

Join us in this wellness initiative. Just jog, very slowly, one mailbox a day for the first week.

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You Figured It Out, Right?

To keep myself physically strong..it’s a promise…got that, a promise…

Yesterday’s post…the people in the ‘before’ photos were not smiling. They were not happy, and did not feel good about the way they felt physically.

The people in the ‘after’ photos, were smiling big. They are happy, and feel great about their physical health.

Some things are so obvious, even a 4th-grader can comprehend them. This is why I work so diligently to stay healthy – to teach our son why and how.

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Why Are The 2 Pictures Different?

A simple walk is all it takes to get started. The catch is that you can never quit…

Last night at Gold’s Gym, our Son asked why are the out of shape people in the ‘before’ pictures never smiling and the same people in the ‘after’, in shape pictures, always smiling?

Then he answered his own question and I replied, “Exactly!”

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