The Gazelle and I are going to be running the Subaru Niagara Running Series Confederation Park version on Saturday.
The Gazelle is going to go and try for a PB. I might have mentioned before that his goal is to run in 25 minutes. He definitely has the drive to do it.
I am a little more laid back about running. I think I might really be in it for the social aspect. Ask anyone at work and they will tell you I am a social butterfly. I flit from group to group. Talking about my trip to England, or my latest pair of shoes.
But now, I have an extra reason to be not as laid back about running. I was reading the CBC website, which I might have mentioned is the only news source for me. I used to grumble about having to go to CBC, but now I really like it. They have all kinds of interesting information. And some really scary stuff too!
Like the recent article about office workers. It was about a recent study done about to be published in the Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. The study was conducted using 17,000 Canadian men and women. And the concusion of the study is that the longer you sit at your job, the higher the mortality rate. The really scary part was that it took into account other factors like body mass, smoking, drinking and the amoutn of physical exercise.
So maybe being a social butterfly is a good thing. And maybe aiming for a 25 minute 5 km isn’t a bad thing either.
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