The 1999 cholesterol report served as a wake up call. Get healthy or you’re in big trouble. About 25 years prior (1974), a neighbor’s wife started running – to another neighbor’s mailbox and done. She did this daily for a week. The second week she ran to the second neighbor’s mailbox. For a week. It took weeks before she ran the equivalent of 400 meters, or, one lap around a track.
I remember thinking how ridiculous this seemed, since I was a ninth-grade track runner at the time. What I never saw coming is that I would adopt this as my plan of attack too, as those years later.
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10 replies on “This Runner’s Blog Is Not Intentionally A Running Blog”
Cool to know the origin for you.
I had always thought there was some tie to Zig Ziglar. He utilized the same strategy. It’s fun to listen to him talk about it. 🙂
Love Zig Ziglar. Listened to many of his “tapes” from ’84-’90.
Didin’t know the one mailbox a day could have been potentially linked to him. Interesting how it was an out-of-shape Jr. High Art Teacher’s wife where I found the seed.
It seems like it’s a physical transformation that he went through in th late 90s or early 00s.
I’m pretty sure he referenced it happening fairly recently.
Zig?
Yeah. At least I think the recordings were current.
I do know that, after a stroke, within the past few years, his activity has waned a bit.
But it still seemed like it was from the past decade or so.
Somewhere around 1990, I stopped listening to Zig’s tapes. So I missed the health challenges he faced and what he did to overcome them.
Definitely speaks to the brilliance of the mailbox method! 🙂
Craig, I might be missing something. Are you saying Zig used the 1 mailbox a day thing to get healthier?
Yessirree. Brilliant minds train alike. Yes? 🙂
Wow, small world. Maybe he knew my Jr High Art Teacher neighbor.