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Adrienne and friend after an 8 mile run in San Francisco
We're always getting ready to live, but never living. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today is your lucky day! MindfulEats receives the occassional comment from people who don't think they can start exercising/eating healthy/changing their habits because they're "too old."
One of my former bosses, the always inspirational Adrienne Crowther, guest blogs on how she started running at 45. Adrienne gets s**t done, and she does it with so much enthusiasm and fun she inspires those around her. She inspires me so much that when we were skiing at Alta I tore my ACL trying to impress her (and she was nice enough to get ski patrol for me too, but that's another story).
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