In my last blog entry about my man of steel – way back in November – had just been diagnosed with shingles, couldn’t get outside to jog because a terrible winter had just begun, and the hospital where he works insisted he get the flu shot, his first ever. Day after day, he was moping around the house, feeling like an old man in decline.
Well, these days he’s a different man. On Saturday he joined thousands of other runners in Des Moines for Dam to Dam, the largest half-marathon in the United States. Next week, he’ll be in the Boundary Waters hiking across Isle Royale with several other men from our church. An amazing transformation, huh?
If you’re ready for a transformation, follow the simple steps he followed:
- Lose any excess weight. Hiram lost 20 pounds, mostly by not eating ice cream.
- Run every day.
- Do palades twice a day.
- Join your wife for her morning walk. Be sure to embarrass her by wearing your hiking pack.
- Load your hiking pack with 60 pounds of weight and then mow a 1.3 acre lawn with a walking mower.
These days, my man of steel doesn’t mope around the house feeling like an old geezer in decline. He acts like a Cub Scout getting ready for his first camp out while he dries apples for the trip to Isle Royale and repacks his pack once a day.
And every day, he makes me laugh out loud. Who wouldn’t laugh at the sight of a guy with a 60 pound pack on his back mowing the lawn?
