Run for your life......

[Mick Mac]

I often wonder if people who are compulsive runners / fitness fanatics are going to be sooooo... fit that they are going to live long beyond the point at which they continue to enjoy life.

I'm incredibly jealous of runners really, but I do think there may be a downside to this level of fitness.

There must be an optimum age to die.

[oilworker]

I heard on the radio the other day that there are people alive now who will live to about 1,000 yrs old....

[Applespider]

Or they wear out their hearts and muscles earlier and die sooner?

One thing I have noticed though is the majority of joggers look pretty miserable. More grim, focused and trudging than if they are enjoying themselves. Then again I expect when I was training for a half marathon, I didn't look best pleased either.

The lithe runners on the other do seem to bounce along more happily. But not sure how many joggers make it to runners

[Jah Lush]

They'll be crippled with arthritis by the time they get old and will be in serious pain for the rest of their lives. Which reminds me there was a guy, whose name slips my mind for the moment; who wrote a book about jogging, who died suddenly when.... out jogging. Serves the bugger right.

[oilworker]

But harsh JL - I'm just off for a run now - if I'm not back in 30 mins call me an ambulance...

[Narnia]

I don't know about an optimum age Mick, but definitely the optimum day has got to be tomorrow.

[Mick Mac]

That's the first time you have made me laugh Declan.

Ever.

[Narnia]

Did you edit that just to add 'ever'?

[Mick Mac]

No. I was going to add a smiley, but changed my mind.

[Narnia]

Ah well, that's 1-0 to me then!

[*Bob*]

You guys.. sheesh.. like Morecambe and Wise.

[*Bob*]

More just Morecambe, really, thinking about it.

[DJKillaQueen]

When your times up, your times up, no matter how fit you are............imo

[steveo]

[karter]

DJKillaQueen Wrote:

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> When your times up, your times up, no matter how

> fit you are............imo

yep agree and it's all about balance ,also, eat, drink, be merry and look after your family and friends.

[Brendan]

It's definitely about balance. Eat, drink, be merry and then run away when the bill comes.

[KalamityKel]

And them get run down by a cyclist.

if you're in the way what else would/could/should you expect :)

[Loz]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> More just Morecambe, really, thinking about it.

I've not been to Morecambe. *Bob*. What's it like?

[DJKillaQueen]

Oh and if you owe money when you die, you've won (the game of life).....

[*Bob*]

Loz Wrote:

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> I've not been to Morecambe. *Bob*. What's it

> like?

Well, it's a bit like Mick Mack and Narnia.

[Mick Mac]

Feck off bob.

Wise words.

[sofaRunner]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> They'll be crippled with arthritis by the time

> they get old and will be in serious pain for the

> rest of their lives. Which reminds me there was a

> guy, whose name slips my mind for the moment; who

> wrote a book about jogging, who died suddenly

> when.... out jogging. Serves the bugger right.

that was James Fixx who had smoked for years before he starting running. He died following a heart attack at the age of 52 with severly blocked arteries but having outlived the age his father died at by ten years - a fate that might have killed him sooner were it not for running!

[Brendan]

Lots of things will take longer to kill you if you run.

Lions for one.

[Jah Lush]

Indeed Brendan. Also, didn't a guy who wrote a book on giving up smoking die of lung cancer and the fella Atkins who wrote a diet book die of obesity? Truth is stranger than fiction.

[SteveT]

Atkins of diet fame died by the hand of his ex-lover I believe.