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
Next: Running for Your Life: Go,
Leafs, Go !
