Medical checkup

Last week I went through an annual medical checkup. All the examined items resulted in "normal". Good news is that low-density-lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol came down to below a warning level. For almost ten years it had persistently kept above the warning value. It had been mostly constant but never shown a sign of decrease for whatever I did, from avoiding eating fatty meat, to skipping lunch, to walking ten thousand steps a day. The significant drop in this "bad" cholesterol is, therefore, obviously due to my daily running.
This was not what I intended. My dream of running at the Tokyo City Marathon ended up in smoke, but I did not imagine it was made up this way. Taking up jogging is now rewarded.