First photo, leaving Indianapolis last week, I spotted a “hidden 8”. A moment later, the Indy 500 Track. Highways and motivation are a lot alike. They take us where we want to go, don’t they?
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Category: Lane 8 Vision
USATF HQ Indianapolis
Getting and staying healthy is on your mind a lot, isn’t it? That’s one of the reasons you visit Lane 8. And it’s the reason I write Lane 8.
The real secret to health isn’t what or how we do it, and yet it’s the first thing people get hung up on. The real secret is finding the motivation to do whatever it takes.
Whatever it takes to never give up. To never quit. Ever.
Last night after dinner with a colleague, we walked a different route back to our hotel in Indianapolis. We are on the same street as the Capital building. Indianapolis is also home to USATF headquarters, and roughly three blocks away.
Guess what? We bump into the guy who runs the USATF online store and strike up a conversation. Small world? Karma? Opportunity? Fate?
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Health, Wellness & Lane 8
Race Day 2009 At Lane 8 (respise)
This post has been copied from the Lane 8 archives and reposted here today:
Race day at Lane 8 – August 4, 2009.
Men’s 400 meters, 50-54 age group. Call time 2PM. Heat time 3PM.
By the time my preliminary heat is over (8AM EST), most of you back in the United States will just be waking up.
I visualize myself running and feeling God’s pleasure. Running effortlessly, not to compete, but running simply because I can.
I don’t know why I run sometimes, all I know is that I enjoy it, and cannot help myself.
There is a popular misconception that winning is everything.
May I antagonistically challenge that?
Winning isn’t everything, doing your best is everything.
Don’t sell yourself short. Be as great as you can be. Even if you finish last. Even if you are not a runner.
Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂
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Predictions?
Do you have a big goal you want to accomplish by this time next year?
What’s it going to take?
We contemplate what we believe we can do. You know, we take what we’ve done and think about what we’ll be able to do when we get the next chance to try again.
It’s kind of like being an armchair quarterback.
Sitting in the comfort of our living room, watching the game, or World Cup, we comment like we know what we’re talking about.
Nothing will ever replace the preparation, wisdom, courage and guts of “game day”.
There is one prediction. July 2011. Masters Track & Field World Championships in Sacramento.
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