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When you can’t make the relay team, you know what this means? It means, at best, you’re the fifth fastest – on your team.
Not fifth fastest in your division or conference. This was sad for me. But a loop hole appeared. And…self-esteem problem solved…
The ‘freedom’ of college and the privileges that come with legal drinking age meant that by Junior year, no more Track.
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The younger jeff noel was, the faster he was. Set a 7th grade school record. And again in 8th and 9th grades. Even in High School.
But with age, reality isn’t always a gracious teacher. Come to find out (and completely ignorant to it, or maybe denial) that jeff noel was just a big fish in a very small pond.
The bigger the pond got, the slower he got.
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Simultaneously, and in concert with the push-up challenge for strength, the doctor recommended cardio-training: running, walking, swimming, biking, etc.
I chose running, having competed in Track & Field in Junior & Senior High School, and a couple years of college – it seemed logical.
There’s a second post to todays story – just scroll down.
The same week I started doing one push-up a day, I began running one mailbox a day for the first week. Then two mailboxes a day the second week and so on. Mailboxes are about 100 meters apart here.
The running goal was first, and very simply to “wake everything up” – tendons, ligaments, muscles, cartilage. The pace was slower than a slow walk. Seriously.
After one month, I was very slowly jogging the equivalent of one lap around a school track – 400 meters.
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Somewhere about 25-30 weeks into it, the epiphany.
We never said the push-ups had to be in a row. This allowed jeff noel to keep going at a make it or break it point.
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