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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Charlotte, North Carolina, summer 2006, a Fraternity brother and his Family sure don’t take health for granted. Leukemia stinks.
You’ve reached big goals in your life. Congratulations. Yet mountains remain.
Wouldn’t it be cool (even inspiring) if some of you wanted to share a story or two. Lane 8 is about finding the motivation to never give up on our health.
To always find a way to stay (relatively) healthy. We’ll benefit if we stick together.
Common sense, but not always common.
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Looking carefully, you’ll see the heat results at the top and overall results in middle.
The bad news, jeff noel finished 5th in that heat. The good news, surprisingly, after it was all said and done, finished # 10 overall, just missing the finals. Tenth in the Nation, for M45-49. And healthy!
Lowered my season best from 57.19 to 56.35. Anything 56.0 and under is an age-graded equivalent All-American standard.
To blink your eyes closed and open, is about .35 seconds. That half-step backwards stole the AA honor.
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It was 8pm, but you get the picture, the stands are filled with experienced Masters athletes, coaches.
BANG! The starter’s pistol fires. Everyone is off to a great start, except Lane 1 (me).
So nervous standing there watching all the others get set in their starting blocks, that my first step was not an explosive jump forward, but a nervous half back-step, as if startled and afraid by what just happened.
Too bad so sad. Go, get moving.
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Lane 1 is the tightest turn of all the lanes. The second slowest runner goes there.
If Lane 8 is the worst because the slowest runner gets it, then Lane 1 is the next to worst because of the tight turn.
The official barks out, slow and deliberately, “Runners to your mark!”
All the runners but me get down into starting blocks. jeff noel is only one using a standing start (Rookie!), in Lane 1. What seems like forever, and the official barks, “SET!”….
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After 7 years of running, was seeded 20th, M45-49 400m. Not bad for a rookie at the 2006 National Championships.
Make the most of it. Ever mumble those words under your breath? There was no other choice (except quit). Never forget, everyone struggles. So, there, all’s fair. Get over the pity party.
You know the feeling about needing to use the restroom before some big event you’re involved in? Think of it on steriods. Plus, had to (try and) manage the warmup timing. Too little and you’re unprepared for excellence. Too much, you might miss the heat announcement.
Where you get to warmup, it’s not easy to hear announcements.
I was a rookie at every step of the process.
You could feel the veterans looking down on you, thinking, “Rookie!”
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