=For a Future Superman=
"How much does height factor into cycling?
Being sixteen, 3 years older then when Lance
Armstrong started racing in Triathlons, how
behind I am in the sport?"
Yoda-Reid has reply, this:
You are not behind in sport,
Sport will be behind you soon,
As you leap ahead, race in!
young man, an aside, serious: the harder you train, the sooner you may wear something out.
Look up the lives of great athletes? I do not think they live particularly long, many of them.
Or are you to be a Roman Candle? Vigor in youth, moderation in the middle, for conservation of age.
When I was...forty three, I could still train, and did, like a youth. I can't do that anymore at fifty seven.
I won't dare to push myself so hard now, for I do not want to die, and am already past my expected allotment.
[COLOR= rgb(128, 128, 128)]Let me add a point more, you say that Lance was virtually a "pro" athlete at thirteen?[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(128, 128, 128)]And what happened to him some years ago? Testicular cancer is not that rare, but...[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(128, 128, 128)]In my "watching" of peoples' lives, the more intense they are, the less long they tend to live.[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(128, 128, 128)]I am an intense personality, and am paying a price for that now in my latter years,[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(128, 128, 128)]my blood pressure goes high, my heart slows to a crawl, I feel like I wore myself out, a bit.[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(128, 128, 128)]Look up the life of Zimmy Zimmerman? And, so, you want to be a super athlete, and can be,[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(128, 128, 128)]but...think about the long years ahead, and "don't burn your wick at both ends"?[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(128, 128, 128)]Is Lance really a super-healthy guy? Ask Jim Fixx about longevity and hard training?[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(128, 128, 128)]Ernie's dad never exercised a day in his life. He lived ninety seven years, all but one were perfect health.[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(128, 128, 128)]My mother was an athlete from childhood, played tennis, mostly, taught. Her heart wore out last month, shy of eighty four.
Her mother never exercised a day, ate eggs and sausage and buttered grits every morning, lived ninety years.[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(128, 128, 128)]"Bird Brain Brown", our bird-like, wizened, fifth grade teacher, tried to control the unruly class, but we ignored her,[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(128, 128, 128)]"Students, settle down? Don't you know, the heart has only so-many beats built into it, and you will use them up!"[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(128, 128, 128)]((what a load of bird-lime, that was...but...extreme stress on any machine wears it out faster. My mother's heart failed her.))[/COLOR]