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Rhys 🕊:

--- Quote from: Dave in Tenn on August 30, 2014, 01:45:04 AM ---...and I'm old.

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Ain't that the truth  ;D

theophilus:
http://www.totalityofbeing.com/FramelessPages/Articles/IncreasingAnabolism.htm

"A word is needed here about sport / exercise based inflammation.  Most of us think of inflammation in terms of joints and muscles.  Until the late 1990's.  It was then that a large number of "30 and 40 something’s", who were hard charging business types and hard charging exercise fanatics, dropped stone cold dead from dry strokes or heart attacks.  They did not have a lick of arterial plaque; they all had wonderful cholesterol readings, all worked out and ran several times per week.  By the medical standards of the early 90's these men were as strong and fit as racehorses and would live forever.  But they didn't.  Turns out that the stress of business and the stress of exercise both create inflammation not so much in the joints but in the blood vessels and heart.  Inflammation that shut down the blood vessels as surely or better than arterial plaque could.   Today’s understanding of heart and vascular disease holds inflammation to be the #1 cause of strokes and heart attacks as well as being the causative precursor to such things as diabetes, Alzheimers and cancer!"

lareli:
I know this guy from when I was in boot camp.. He's about 34-35 years old and still in the corps. Guy has competed in five ironmans.. 5 of them.

Ironman is 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, followed by a full marathon 26.2 miles.

It's amazing to me what the human body is capable of doing. It's even more amazing to me how much power the human mind has to push the body to such feats.

I think of that guy Aron Ralston who they made a movie about.. Got his arm pinched between a boulder and a canyon wall. Had to cut his own arm off in order to survive. The minds will to survive and keep living was incredible in this circumstance.

I have no desire to compete in an ironman or cut my arm off but I do desire to push my mind and body through a certain amount of pain to achieve a goal. Running requires the least amount of special equipment, skill or money... Plus I read an article a few months ago about a 91 year old lady who ran a marathon in record time for her division while undergoing skin cancer treatment in the weeks leading up to the race.. After reading that I asked myself 'what's your excuse?'

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