He was one of the best runners in the world a couple decades ago and still in good shape today. And sounds like he was following all the "rules" for good health yet had a heart attack at a relatiively young age. The "rule" he didnt follow was about having ancestors without heart trouble, like Jim Fixx. I suspect his good ahpe helped him live past the attack.
He was one of the best runners in the world a couple decades ago and still in good shape today. And sounds like he was following all the "rules" for good health yet had a heart attack at a relatiively young age. The "rule" he didnt follow was about having ancestors without heart trouble, like Jim Fixx. I suspect his good ahpe helped him live past the attack.
Thanks Rick, that was a decent read. But I must ask: what kind of a [censored] has a heart attack? I mean WTF is wrong with this guy? All that running, and he does a Fred Sanford? What a wimp.
What a stupid comment. According to your premise, exercise would deliver eternal life.
He was one of the best runners in the world a couple decades ago and still in good shape today. And sounds like he was following all the "rules" for good health yet had a heart attack at a relatiively young age. The "rule" he didnt follow was about having ancestors without heart trouble, like Jim Fixx. I suspect his good ahpe helped him live past the attack.
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Thanks Rick, that was a decent read. But I must ask: what kind of a [censored] has a heart attack? I mean WTF is wrong with this guy? All that running, and he does a Fred Sanford? What a wimp.
What a stupid comment. According to your premise, exercise would deliver eternal life.
He was one of the best runners in the world a couple decades ago and still in good shape today. And sounds like he was following all the "rules" for good health yet had a heart attack at a relatiively young age. The "rule" he didnt follow was about having ancestors without heart trouble, like Jim Fixx. I suspect his good ahpe helped him live past the attack.
Thanks Rick, that was a decent read. But I must ask: what kind of a [censored] has a heart attack? I mean WTF is wrong with this guy? All that running, and he does a Fred Sanford? What a wimp.
Actually I do question Albertos fitness. The guy only runs 20 minutes or so per day, x5 days, so technically he isn't a LD runner. The LD running he did years ago doesn't count. He runs like that punkass [censored] Knebel, a dainty 3 miler. That ain't real running.
Actually I do question Albertos fitness. The guy only runs 20 minutes or so per day, x5 days, so technically he isn't a LD runner. The LD running he did years ago doesn't count. He runs like that punkass [censored] Knebel, a dainty 3 miler. That ain't real running.
He was one of the best runners in the world a couple decades ago and still in good shape today. And sounds like he was following all the "rules" for good health yet had a heart attack at a relatiively young age. The "rule" he didnt follow was about having ancestors without heart trouble, like Jim Fixx. I suspect his good ahpe helped him live past the attack.
I know the data, when you factor in the numbers, shows that those who exercise live longer. Just like all tables, they are based on averages and frankly not very meaningful for each individual. For me I don't find the longevity metric anywhere as meaningful as the quality of life before our plug gets pulled. Maybe others run so they can live longer but I wonder if that isn't a fools goal, so to say. Each to there own.
I know the data, when you factor in the numbers, shows that those who exercise live longer.
Yeah, those who exercise longer than Alberto does. His wussie little 25 minute runs do not qualify as real long distance running, and therefore offer little, if any, cardiac benefit. This would be as great an injustice as calling a prancer like Knebel a runner. Prancing around for 30 minutes is nothing, it takes 90 minutes of running to produce true cardiac benefits.
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Just like all tables, they are based on averages and frankly not very meaningful for each individual. For me I don't find the longevity metric anywhere as meaningful as the quality of life before our plug gets pulled. Maybe others run so they can live longer but I wonder if that isn't a fools goal, so to say. Each to there own.
Well finally after all these years, Douglass is right. Run for the way it makes you feel today.
He was one of the best runners in the world a couple decades ago and still in good shape today. And sounds like he was following all the "rules" for good health yet had a heart attack at a relatiively young age. The "rule" he didnt follow was about having ancestors without heart trouble, like Jim Fixx. I suspect his good ahpe helped him live past the attack.
As I read that article, I remembered reading one a few years back about the time at Boston where they ran neck and neck (was it '82?). He finished the last several miles without water, and though he won, there are people who claim he has never been the same physically because of the damage he did that day.
As I read that article, I remembered reading one a few years back about the time at Boston where they ran neck and neck (was it '82?). He finished the last several miles without water, and though he won, there are people who claim he has never been the same physically because of the damage he did that day.
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What stupidity. Dehydration doesn't cause permanent damage that suddenly creeps up years later and gives you a coronary. Are you related to Rick++? Brothers? Classmates at "That special school"? Bus mates on the short bus?
As I read that article, I remembered reading one a few years back about the time at Boston where they ran neck and neck (was it '82?). He finished the last several miles without water, and though he won, there are people who claim he has never been the same physically because of the damage he did that day.
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brianj
What stupidity. Dehydration doesn't cause permanent damage that suddenly creeps up years later and gives you a coronary. Are you related to Rick++? Brothers? Classmates at "That special school"? Bus mates on the short bus?
Jeez, I'm gald I didn't write the article I was talking about (maybe you didn't catch that fine distinction), otherwise I would take your criticism really seriously and it would probably keep me awake at ni . . . zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
