Extreme fitness is less about being young again and more about building yourself up for the years ahead.

     I read an article today on extreme athleticism being the new midlife crisis.  I don't know if I agree with that.  (link to the article below).  But I do believe the above quote.  We all just want to age as well as we can.

https://elemental.medium.com/extreme-athleticism-is-the-new-midlife-crisis-d87199a18bed

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
                                     Johann von Goethe

Timothy Leary quote

“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…”

The Mind Unleashed

Wow!

     Yesterday I didn't feel like running so I took my dog for her daily walk, then drove to Red Rocks Amphitheater to walk the stairs.  I did 10 complete laps which was 2.5 miles.  I walked as fast as I could, and was appropriately short of breath.  My Garmin GPS said I did 2000 feet of elevation gain, but that this was much easier than my usual effort.  (What do you know, Garmin.  It was hard.) And today my quads and calves are very sore.  Which means I'll have to try this again sometime before winter snows set in.
     It was crowded with tourists.  Employees were setting up for the evening rock concert doing sound checks, playing music, so it was actually pretty interesting.

Failing forward....

The words of Greta Thunberg

 

"This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!

For more than 30 years the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away, and come here saying that you are doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.

With today’s emissions levels, our remaining CO2 budget will be gone in less than 8.5 years
You say you “hear” us and that you understand the urgency. But no matter how sad and angry I am, I don’t want to believe that. Because if you fully understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil. And I refuse to believe that.

The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5C degrees, and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.

Maybe 50% is acceptable to you. But those numbers don’t include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of justice and equity. They also rely on my and my children’s generation sucking hundreds of billions of tonnes of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist. So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us – we who have to live with the consequences.

To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5C global temperature rise – the best odds given by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the world had 420 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide left to emit back on 1 January 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatonnes. How dare you pretend that this can be solved with business-as-usual and some technical solutions. With today’s emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone in less than eight and a half years.

There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures today. Because these numbers are too uncomfortable. And you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is.

You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.” - Greta Thunberg

     She gives me hope.

There is no time limit on greatness.

(seen on FB today.  I love it)

Our house is on fire....Greta Thunberg

     Today is Global Climate Strike day. Please do something today to fight climate change....don't drive anywhere, don't eat meat, learn the science, do something. Science is not a matter of opinion.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
                                   H.G. Wells


 The Little Mother Goose (1912) which was printed in the USA:

Lady-bug, lady-bug,
Fly away home,
Your house is on fire,
Your children will burn.

     I listened to multiple episodes of "The Moth" podcast on my 10 hour drive home earlier this week.  The point of all of them seemed to be to seize the day, to not waste time, that life is short.
     Then I returned home to find that my best's friend's child is dangerously ill and may not survive. Seize the day, don't waste time, life is short. And please send positive thoughts out into the universe for my friend and her family.
   

     I picked up my big dog....Charleigh-girl.....from the kennel.  She is so glad to be home and is snoozing at my feet. All is well with the world.

      I'm home again.  It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. 

     I won't be posting for the next few days. Have a great weekend and dance!.

Wow...centenarian athlete Man Kaur

     She is an inspiration.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/yearinoffbeatgoodnews/its-never-too-late-to-follow-your-heart-and-start-something-new-says-centenarian-athlete-man-kaur/ar-AAGQJFN?li=BBnb7Kz

     I should have done this years ago....I'd be rich by now.

Funny for the day....for readers.

     I saw this today on my library's FB page:

How to get an A on everything....

Commit adultery in a 17th century Puritan town.  

Do better

Truth

Choline

     Please don't believe the hype in the news lately about choline.  Choline from meat is harmful, choline, which is in plentiful supply in plants, is not. Here is an article from a trusted source....The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

https://www.pcrm.org/news/blog/clearing-choline-confusion?fbclid=IwAR39ReEdyhCtXI_tsn1Tvzk1jZ5YYYcPhm3cuX-ZZeMab8iUaBGn4hx2bTI

Now there are 5 beautiful beasties

2 glorious beasts

     Today I raced the El "Grito 5k.   It's a great small race, maybe 350 people of all ages with awesome burritos and beer at the end.  There is an El Grito yell contest for anyone who wants to enter, with the winners and runners up getting small bottles of tequila. Fun. There is also a large viaduct you have to run across....twice.  My garmin gps called it the "overpass of death."  It did feel that way.

FYI
The Wise Guide : El Grito de Dolores. The Grito de Dolores ("Cry of/from Dolores") was the battle cry of the Mexican War of Independence, uttered on September 16, 1810, by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Roman Catholic priest from the small town of Dolores, near Guanajuato, Mexico.

won a tile for 3rd in age group

                                   

     This is from yesterday morning's run/walk group.

What we need.....a mass unlearning of cultural conditioning

This girl is the future.

I will get here someday but I may be dead

Streak in Progress.....

      Today starts year 6 of my running streak, (begun 9-4-14).  I've run 10036 total run streak miles. There'll be a day when I can no longer run, but today is not that day.

Eat your vegetables

Labor day Denver, breaking all records

     I knew it felt hot out there!  Ran a race this AM, had to walk from mile 11.5 to 13 due to heat.

I had to laugh