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Running in the Rain
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I think I am truly free of the full cold I could have gotten had I not worked on increased rest, vitamins, good nutrition and yeah, skipping of work-outs.
Last Thursday I decided to start serious running again. What I mean by serious is doing the whole nine yards -- good sleep, garmin watch, early morning rise, hydration, pandora through my iphone. So I go to this park that has been my running park for the last 10 years.
The sky was overcast but it was 6:30 a.m. I shrugged it off, yeah, early mornings are colored gray anyway and besides I am already psyched for the morning run.
Further Introspection on Immunity
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Different thoughts come to my mind while I run nowadays. Whereas when I was much younger I was occupied by thoughts of ‘how to increase my speed’ or how to ‘beat the runner beside me’, lately I think more about how to keep myself healthy until the day I die. I know this is kind’a morbid but it is a fact. Since I turned over 50, I have become more introspective as far as my health is concerned.
There is information overdrive all around us: how to lose weight, how to enjoy sex, how to be energized, how to eat right, what’s the latest magic pill, what’s the latest exercise craze, diet solutions left and right as if someone discovers the fountain of youth and health somewhere everyday. Despite these, some still get unhealthy and malnourished and some still get heart attacks or strokes or cancer or flu EVEN the most health-conscious of us all. I know this because I work in a hospital. The truth is, health scientists don’t have standard, fully scientific, objective, factual answers to health/immune system questions, all the information forced-fed upon us are mere speculations. Have you ever wondered why a certain vitamin works today but not next year? Or a pill today is under a class lawsuit tomorrow due to false claims or worse, casualties? Have you wondered why the exercise technique of so and so was proven inferior by the exercise of so and so? Well, the answer is simply, Nobody knows.
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