"Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plats are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail." From the Tao te Ching, Lao-tzu (about 300-400 BCE), translated by Steven ... Read more
There is no reason to neglect your training on road trips, you just have to incorporate exercise into your travel plans. I stopped along the way to continue my training during today's drive, a long one, to the Cleveland Clinic for another CAT scan to check the state of my abdominal aortic aneurysm stent grafts. I'm just getting over realignment of my pelvis, and it is still a bit of a battle to bring my running ... Read more
One key to fixing bodily and mental injuries, is to learn to reduce tension. I have to admit that I really love to relax with a good book or a country walk. Sometimes a book will promote long forgotten memories of events gone by. The other day, I was reading a biography, recommended by a friend, about Paris in the fifties, when La Rue Du Chat Qui Pêche was mentioned in the narrative. This is a famous, very narrow, ... Read more
Remember my vegetable gardening experiment, set up a couple of months ago? I set up four different plots of immature soil, all with added worms, as follows (A) bacterial treatment, (B) worm casts, (C) bacterial treatment and worm casts, (D) nothing extra. Well, the results are in, though I guess I have to repeat it a number of times to be sure. That said, I'm going to apply bacterial treatment across the whole thing ... Read more
8k Run: Age Group 70 to 74. Position 5/10 Bib 1369/2206 Morgan, Kevin M71 Carrboro NC 5 of 10 13:01 01:04:42.87. Slow but Happy! I finally negotiated FitOldDog's plantar fasciitis roadmap, and running again, thanks to: Massage therapist, Tara (sent me to Perry). Osteopath Perry North Coach Pauline - easy does it. In August 2013, I had a bike wreck, which resulted in some interesting outcomes, including ... Read more
As you get older, you learn that there are many simple tricks to improve your life. For instance, I was riding along in the car with Nick (16) the other day, when he said, "Kevin, you're in a really bad mood this morning. What's up?" I agreed! Then Nick said, "When I'm in a bad mood I just say to myself, 'No I'm not,' and it goes away." It's easy to change your mood if you find the approach that ... Read more
If you want to run a successful business, you have to do your market research, in my case internet marketing, or so I'm told daily by blogs that I follow, and more recently at the Internet Summit. One of my businesses is related to plantar fasciitis, so I research the condition from all angles, one of which is Internet search traffic. If you search on 'Marketing', you will see there are about 15,000 clicks on the ... Read more
path·o·gen·e·sis ˌpaTHəˈjenəsis/ noun MEDICINE the manner of development of a disease. There are two kinds of pathologists, lumpers (best for generating effective tables for further statistical analysis) and splitters (more suited to basic research and NOT for generating useful tables; they complicate and question everything too much, but they can guide the focus of the lumpers, if they approach the issue ... Read more
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