Running for Your Life: This Hour Has Seven Hours

You might have to be Canadian-born (and a reporter) of a certain age to get this reference. But if there was a single TV show influence that drew me to work in public affairs it is the CBC news show called:

“This Hour Has Seven Days.”

I have to admit that I was too young to enjoy the short-run show (from 1964-66, only 50 episodes), but while a student at the Carleton University School of Journalism I studied it. Man, was it ahead of its time (and still is)!

Imagine this, cribbed from a Canadian Press review:

“The final segment featured unflappable Robert Hoyt interviewing two Georgia-based Grand Dragons of the Ku Klux Klan. Wearing hoods, the two elders had no idea Hoyt was going to invite a black civil rights leader onto the panel. By the end of the tense segment, you could barely see any of them through the thick haze of cigarette smoke.”

Which brings me the latest running-longevity study. So a new survey widely published says that one hour of running equates to an additional seven hours in the life department …

Let’s do the gazintas … Beginning in 1976, I started running every other day (as has been the subject of this blog since 2010). Let’s say the early, not-too-strenuous jogging years cancel out the marathon training years (eight), leaving, conservatively, 2.5 hours per week X 52 weeks, or 130 hours per year, X 41 years = 5,330 hours of running, X 7, or 37,310 additional hours, or expressed in days, 1,555, for a grand total of 4.3 additional years.

All this for a measly 4.3 years … ? Hmmm, I’ll have to think about that J

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