跑到死为止

麒麟~

“I want to die running.”
That was motto of Joy Johnson, a marathoner in the truest sense of the word, and she came pretty close to fulfilling it.

Johnson, who lived in San Jose, Calif., was 86 when she crossed the finish line at the New York City Marathon Sunday in 7:57:41. It was Johnson’s 25th New York Marathon, though she had completed dozens of other races throughout the country. (Read a 2008 story on Johnson.) This one might have been her most courageous, though. Johnson fell around mile 16, suffered cuts to her face, then got up and finished anyway.
According to her daughter, Diana Boydston, Johnson got bandaged up in the medical tent but didn’t bother going to a hospital for further examination.
Monday morning she woke up and followed the ritual that had become a part of her New York marathon routine – she went to stand outside of the Today show studios with her medal to say hello to Al Roker. As usual, Roker found her and shared a few words with Johnson, who collapsed minutes after the interview and was soon pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.
Johnson, a former physical education teacher who didn’t take up running until 1985, had made it clear to everyone that if she collapsed running she did not want to be resuscitated.
She spent about two hours each morning circling the track and running the bleachers at a local high school in San Jose. She ran half-marathons in the freezing February cold of her native Minnesota and trained at running camps in Lake Tahoe with renowned coaches, including Jeff Galloway.
“She went out happy,” Boydston said Tuesday. “She couldn’t have asked for more than that, except maybe a few more years.”
On Johnson’s kitchen wall and never far from her thoughts was the  runner’s mantra she often recited from the Book of Isaiah.
“But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”

Jonathan Sprague for The Wall Street Journal

86岁的高龄完成纽约马拉松是一件很厉害的事，主要post上来是为了提醒大家我们不是超人一切要量力而为。


照片来源 NY Daily News


Joy Johnson during her 'Today' show appearance Monday with Al Roker, her face bandaged after her fall during Sunday's New York Marathon. She died just hours after this picture was taken.

愿他老人家能够在天堂安息

ckhsen

http://yourhealth.asiaone.com/content/25-year-old-woman-dies-after-running-10km-marathon

rc5

So what?
She knew she's going to die.
So she decided to run the last marathon before the death.
At the age of 86, what else can you expect?

rc5

If she had not exercised that much, she would probably die before 86.
You never kinow.

麒麟~

她86岁死在自己喜爱的运动是她的自由，也可能是她最佳的归属。 那你准备好死了吗？
你在这里发表意见那是你的自由；我post上来的原因是要大家多注意身体；练习要到位。there is always another run,但生命只有一次。就酱

rc5

Everyone dies. Some die in their preferable way, like this old woman.
The point is people are caring too much about what may hurt them by doing something, and caring too less about what may hurt them by not doing something.

長江七號

爬山客也很多死在山裡