To all men in my age group: Please carefully read this article from the WSJ. Upon completion of your read, please immediately curtail all training and racing as it could promote a sooner than expected departure from your life as you currently know it.
In other words, go sit on the couch and watch TV, that way you'll live longer.
The RCVman comment of the day: Dear researchers: Thank you for your work. Now go away. I have a run scheduled for 1600. And that run so significantly increases my quality of life that even if I was to succumb to a myocardial infarction at mile 3, the smile upon my face would be there for all to see as I lay motionless for eternity in a cheap pine box.
Sad fact is that a lot of people will use this as justification to not run.
Don't be one of them.
Late breaking news: As if all that mis-information wasn't enough. Try this one on for size. Seems pro sports has a drug problem. Much like semi-pro sports, much like college sports and much like amateur sports. Uppers enhance performance? 30 cups of coffee will "sharpen" your ability to reach maximum speed quicker? Whoa! Somebody alert the sprinters. I was told last night that Adderall is a mask for steroids. Pros can get a TUE (Therapeutic Use Exemption) legally (150 issued in MLB last year) and use that to cover serious steroid (illegal) use.
Man's insipid march towards temporary ego gratification, fame and fortune continue.
OK, so today we learned that it is not good to run to much and that drug use is WAY more prevalent than we ever thought in many sports. Spin:
Folks, please, can we simply get back to the business of good clean fun? Can we work hard and not worry about mega-millions and celebrity status? The cost of happiness?
Free. Today only. Have a cup of Italian roast and go run yourself a 5K. You will not die and you will not be arrested. The organic way to reward your mesolimbic pathway.
One last thought: Living without fear is a performance enhancing mantra. Try it and see.
One last thought: Living without fear is a performance enhancing mantra. Try it and see.
4 comments:
When I was in graduate school in journalism in the early 80s at this one esteemed school, a code of ethics for "professional" journalists was all the hot topic; that way (the strategy went) journalists could be trusted just like doctors and lawyers who also had a code of ethics and professional conduct (and journalists could quit acting like ping pong balls). I don't know what happened to that plan.
The money thing? Look at how many views this crap has mustered from the WSJ. You are right, it is not only bad reporting it is based on bad science. The new code of ethics is the code of cabbage!
I read it yesterday "America is not a country, it is a business."
So much for freedom, eh?
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