http://community.active.com/community/sports/running/boomers?view=discussions Most recent forum messages en Sun, 19 Aug 2012 02:12:08 GMT Jive SBS 4.5.5.2 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2012-08-19T02:12:08Z en http://community.active.com/message/1251732?tstart=0#1251732 <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:a9f52f55-129e-4675-9ff9-c940b3c9dc68] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Over the course of these several days, I did about 100 pushups.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>I could offer excuses why that's all I did, by detailing my unusual variety of physical ills during this brief period: from back pain (both disc- and muscle-related) during a trip to Washington, DC, for military training, where I also suffered from ongoing knee, hamstring, and foot problems, to this morning, when I rose at 2:30 in Massachusetts to catch a plane to Texas, only to find myself a few hours later, somewhere over the Midwest, passing out in the rear of the plane, wracked with nausea, with sweat pouring off my face and pooling beneath me on the hard stippled rubber floor where the stewardesses stand to prepare their refreshment carts. However, in the end, as football coach Bill Parcells observed years ago about his 8-8 football team, "You are what you are," and excuses don't change reality.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Dark Horse</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:a9f52f55-129e-4675-9ff9-c940b3c9dc68] --> Sun, 19 Aug 2012 02:12:08 GMT guest http://community.active.com/message/1251732?tstart=0#1251732 2012-08-19T02:12:08Z 9 months, 5 days ago 0