The beautiful aspect of running is it can be regarded as a perpetual competition against yourself. Sure you race against others, but the competition level is a variable in large part not within your control.
Within a work environment, you can get weighed down with political alliances, lack of advancement opportunities and poor work assignments. With running, you determine how far you want to pursue this craft. I am very pleased in a matter of one week of hard training, I was able to lower my 5K time by seventy-seven seconds.
This Saturday will mark a milestone within my lifetime fitness level. I have never been able to complete a five mile run, much less within a race environment. At the present time, five miles is on the upper limit of my running capacity, but within reach.
I have always had the ability to run, but for a variety of reasons, have not chosen to do so until now. It's up to each one of us to perform an introspective search occasionally and construct paths for success, whatever the endeavor may be.
Notes: The results of the May 9th Run for Children 5K run were published in the Wednesday May 13th edition of the Lebanon Daily News.
Recently heard about 'Blue Zones', a regional concept advanced by author Dan Buettner. He looks at cultures around the globe where the people enjoy very long lives. Needless to say none of the locations are in the Unites States.
Many of the cultures consumed herbal teas which contain compounds that lower blood pressure and decrease the risk of heart disease and dementia. I am now drinking a cup of herbal tea a day.
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