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The Second Month

Same thing, kept adding an additional mailbox each week, so after two months, it was a very slow jog for 800 meters.

The third month I began adding an additional 400 meters (quarter mile) to each week. Meaning the third month looked like this:

First week = 1,200 meters
Second week -= 1,600 meters (1 mile)
Third week = 2,000 meters
Fourth week = 2,400 meters (1.5 miles)

It took ten weeks to reach 1,600 meters, a mile. A VERY slow mile.

Who’s got the patience to wait 2.5 months before they can finish one mile?

Blog Comments & the BFO

Ever heard the acronym, BFO?

BFO……. Blinding Flash of the Obvious.

Wanted to mention the obvious, because it may not be. Blog comments add a rich thread to the social media conversation. In fact, yesterday, David left a comment that also included a website called c25k. It proposes that you can go from couch potato to running a sub-30 minute 5k in nine weeks.

Sound too good to be true? You’ll have to decide.

When I started running 11 years ago, I jogged, very slowly, to my neighbors mailbox that first day, and did it four more days that week. The second week, I ran past the first mailbox to the second and did that for a week. The third week, ran past the first two mailboxes to the third. Did that each day for a week. Mailboxes are 100 meters apart.

So it took one month before I was running 400 meters, the equivalent to one lap around a track. A month. Are ya with me. The second four weeks…. (to be continued).

The Clock Is Ticking

Getting in shape, whatever that means, is something most people know to be a reasonable and desirable goal.

But doing it is next to impossible for many people.

Do you know why?

Do you know the secret to overcoming what most can not, will not, and do not overcome?

Crazy thing is, both those questions have been answered here at Lane 8, at least a dozen times in the past 14 months.

Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports

Ever have cool (free) opportunities to be invited in? To join a group? To have a privilege you always thought would be cool, but didn’t know where or how to start?

How’d that work out for you?

Tuesday evening, the stars were aligned, so on the drive home I finally got to do it. Had been invited about two months earlier to join a local runner’s group, after meeting the organizers at the annual Central Florida Corporate 5k – this year with 12k+ runners.

And as today’s blog post title implies, it was at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports complex, a world-class facility.

This all leads up to today’s message.

The longer and harder you work, the luckier you get. And if this has eluded you, it simply means you haven’t worked long enough or hard enough. Tough thing to hear for some of you, but true.

Dream big, get started, never stop. You CAN do it.

National Running Day

Today is National Running Day. Who knew? As a runner, I had never heard of it. Showed up on Facebook this morning. Many people say things like, “I hate running”, or “I’ve never been a runner”.

Given a choice, it would almost seem like many would also add, “I hate walking”, or “I’ve never liked walking”.

And it doesn’t stop there, it continues with, “I hate vegetables”, or “I’ve never liked vegetables”.

Absurd!