14-05-15, 11:05 PM
(14-05-15, 09:26 PM)chaz link Wrote: Don't you know jogging is fatal?As is motorcycling , but if I'm going to die , I would rather it was doing something I enjoy , my wife's uncle was Tommy GOdwin from SToke , he set a Guinness record for endurance cycling before WW2 , the record still stands today , funningly enough he had a heart attack whilst riding his bike , he had a congenital heart problem , the doctors reckoned the cycling kept him alive .I
Jim Fixx (1932–1984) was the author of the 1977 best-selling book, The Complete Book of Running. He is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution, popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. On 20 July 1984, Fixx died at the age of 52 of a fulminant heart attack, after his daily run, on Vermont Route 15 in Hardwick.