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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
How often do you struggle with things that ought to be pretty simple?
And when it comes to your health, what and how do you stay motivated?
Lane 8 is a health blog.
The catch is, I’m a runner.
Running is how I stay active. But running is really just the tip of the iceberg.
Running goals, ultimately, are simply a carrot.
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:
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?
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).
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.
Yes, jeff noel from Lane 8 here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
How important is a competitive advantage?
It’s everything! Right?
When I travel, I attempt to use the travel day as a rest from training.
Even though the newness, and the break in scenery, would make running here, and other places, very enjoyable and motivating, I have to remember that traveling leaves me vulnerable to conditions outside my control.
Air travel, flight delays, client schedules and commitments, traffic, weather, etc.
Wisdom comes from experience and experience comes from making mistakes.
If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough. Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂