Posted on 05/19/2019 5:56:04 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
She could do with a few cheeseburgers for sure.
I’ve never eaten mussels.
I don’t suppose you put ketchup on it, do you?//
garlic and butter
everything is better with garlic and butter.
it even turns snails into escargot.
In the case of Jim Fixx, the genetic deck was already stacked against him. His father and brother died at a younger age. There was a family predisposition toward heart disease and early death. Running bought Jim Fixx a few more years.
I have a colleague who ran his first marathon at age 50.
Astoundingly he completed two of them.
Afterwards it was weeks before he could walk normally again.
His wife has since banned him from running any more of them.
Serious Marathon runners... not the folks who do it just to prove they can once or occassionally.. are almost ALL thin. Unless you are very very young, your knees cannot handle the amount of pounding that these guys put on themselves to complete competitively, if you have any serious weight at all..
Just go look at images of “worlds best marathon runners” and you’ll see, all of them are very very thin.
To do a marathon in 2:45 minutes you are averaging something like 9.5 MPH. And to be able to do that on race day they are running 100+ miles per week training... IF you are doing that, first of all your caloric burn is going to be crazy... meaning you aren’t likely to have a lot of excess body weight to begin with if you are doing that... but if you are, it sure isn’t going to last long. Secondly to do that many miles every week, unless you are incredibly young, your knees are NOT going to let you do that for too long, unless you are very thin.
So the 48 year old woman was not that thin for a marathon runner.
(I have notice a difference on my knees after losing 52 pounds!)
My stepfather decided to run the Marathon one year... he was big guy... 6’1 250+ lbs... Pretty good shape physically.. he trained for months for it...
He came home from the race that day looking like he literally had had the crap beat out of him... but he did it.
I have always assumed people who want to run marathons never read the end of the story for which they are named....
I admire them for their perseverance, I truly do, but there is NOTHING in my mind that say, I want to VOLUNTARILY do that to my body.
That is a lot of what women who run competitive marathons look like.
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