How to Live a Life Without Regrets

90% of people say they have a major regret about something about their lives, and regret is the second most frequently mentioned emotion after love. This infographic discusses the sorts of regrets that haunt us as we try to sleep, and it offers some advice on how to avoid those regrets.Read more about this research here.

Worrying About Stuff Is a Sign of Intelligence

I must be VERY intelligent! if this is true... The tendency to worry about stuff could be a sign of a certain kind of intelligence, according to a paper in an upcoming edition of the journal Personality and Individual Differences (hat tip to Christian Jarrett at the British Psychology Society's Research Digest for spotting it first).

It is possible that more verbally intelligent individuals are able to consider past and future events in greater detail, leading to more intense rumination and worry. Individuals with higher non-verbal intelligence may be stronger at processing the non-verbal signals from individuals they interact with in the moment, leading to a decreased need to re-process past social encounters. You can read more HERE

Study Confirms That Men Are Dumb....

Since I decided to participate in #Transrockies as a way to raise awareness to the benefits of exercise for people living with Cancer, the findings in this research were right on the money... 

Every year, the British Medical Journal releases a Christmas edition with some offbeat and silly research. This year, there's a rather morbidly humorous study about which gender is more likely to die as a result of doing something really, really dumb. Spoiler alert: It's men. A team led by Ben Alexander Daniel, a student at the King Edward VI School in the U.K., simply looked at all of the Darwin Award winners between 1995 and 2014 — this is an award given to confirmed instances of people meeting untimely ends as a result of, to phrase it diplomatically, poor decision-making — and calculated the gender breakdown. Read More Here......

10 Secrets to Make You a Faster, Stronger, and Happier Runner

I am training for the Transrockies 2015, a multi day trail run that covers 59m and 9,000 elevation gain. I'm doing this to built awareness to Supportersize which organizes free outdoor events for people living with cancer. I am constantly looking for ideas and advise on how to prepare and train. Outdoor magazine had a  Great Story that just about talks about everything.

Are you sitting too much?

Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE thoroughly explain why sitting for extended periods of time—at a desk at work, for example—can be harmful to one’s health. Possible adverse effects include decreased bone mass, muscle weakening, increased LDL cholesterol, and even a shortened lifespan and for sure has negative impact on your running. I started standing at my desk while working, and the video they made is great..... video describing ways to solve the sitting problem

22 Ways to Get a Better Night’s Sleep

Sleeping has always been a struggle and the added worries about my health are not very helpful....Found few great ideas that work at the Art of manliness

4 Bulletproof Ways to Prevent Running Injuries

I didn't even start to properly train for the Multi day trail event I registered for in the summer of 2015 since I have been troubled by recurring calf muscle injury. I was looking for healing ideas and came across this great blog post in Art of manliness.

Training begins... and so are injuries.

Transrockies is about distance, altitude, multi day running. I ran long distance in the past but never under these conditions, so I decided I need some guidance from someone who has done it. Was introduced to  Jason Wolfe and after reading his blog and images and talking with him I figured, he's my guy....

Started to add running to my daily activities and quickly hurt my calf muscle, an old injury. Got to dial it back and heal properly before we restart. Meanwhile continue with Yoga and Strength. Like Mario Andretti once said

If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough.

Not yet formally training for Transrockies, but pushing myself

This morning i rented great pair of cyclocross bike at Big Shark and went on a 35 mile bike ride with my brother in law, Sasha and his buddies in St Louis.

I'm lucky to have Sasha as my "cancer quarterback" at my side from the day I was diagnosed advising and helping navigate between doctors, hospitals and treatments. It helps that he happens to be lung cancer researcher at Washington University in St Louis, working on a cure for lung cancer....

It took only four rounds of chemo therapy to wipe out 35 years of keeping fit and exercising, I'm still working hard on getting back in shape. Training for the Transrockies event is going to be tough, but I still have plenty of time to get stronger.