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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Ever do a 5k in your community and place in the top 20 for your age group?
Pretty cool feeling, if you’ve done it. And if you haven’t, you know what a cool feeling of accomplishment it could be.
Having a decent goal is very motivating.
How important is motivation?
Perhaps it’s life’s silver bullet.
PS. This is going somewhere…
Are you crystal clear about why you do what you do?
Are you crystal clear about why you don’t do the things you do?
Most aren’t. It’s the difference between living “on purpose” or “going through the motions“.
Going through the motions doesn’t make a person bad, and it certainly doesn’t make a person thrive.
You have the opportunity to take a stand, for yourself, and live more on purpose than you ever have. Because if you don’t, it’s guaranteed that you will experience physical and psychological discomfort.
Not exercising feels rational and easy good at the time, but when you feel unhealthy, you realize you should exercise. There will never come a time when not exercising will suddenly bless you with good health.
Trying to keep from going crazy is a full-time job, with the pressures of today’s economy and all that.
Running helps me maintain perspective and balance.
Leaving here in a few minutes to drive to Windermere, Florida for the ninth annual Run Among the Lakes 5k, which starts at 8:00AM.
It’s a short drive. Tiger, Shaq, Ken Griffey Jr, and a host of other famous people live there.
My very first 5k ever was this race, back in 2004. Shooting to break the 22:10 from my inaugural 5k.
More later. Gotta go. Stay healthy, have fun….stay healthy, have fun….stay…..
How are your health goals progressing for 2010?
It’s a challenge keeping up with them, isn’t it? What do you do to not give up, to not give in?
Just keep trying, is the mantra we read in yesterday’s Lane 8 post. So here’s a little story.
Was in Albuquerque the past three days. Two of them without exercise, even though I intended to.
Yesterday, after landing in Orlando at 5:00pm, I stopped at Gold’s Gym on the way home, for a brief core workout and then drove to Windermere for an easy 5k.
Tomorrow is the annual Windermere Run Among The Lakes 5k. There’s an emotional attachment to this event. It was the first 5k I ever ran, maybe 2004. And it’s the last one I ran in 2009.
The obvious message: Getting and staying physically active and healthy is hard work. Period. Anyone telling your differently is lying to you.
Find a million ways to get and stay motivated and be prepared for a lifetime of temptations to quit.
Steve Prefontaine. The son of an Oregon logger man.
Too small for football. Too slow for track. Not a sprinter. Also not fast enough to be a great miler.
But, he could endure more pain than anyone else.
He set the the National High School two-mile record. Bill Bowerman, the University of Oregon head Track Coach, recruited “Pre” and the two of them forever changed American running.
Steve Prefontaine is the only athlete, ever, which Nike has immortalized with a bronze statue. Are ya with me? The only one.
This You Tube video is the final five minutes (of a 13-minute race) of the 1972 Munich Olympics 5,000 meter final. It’s breathtaking, and awe inspiring to watch a man run the best race of his life, and finish fourth.
America thought the best was still to come and the world knew that Steve Prefontaine would return in four years, with a vengence and determination to win the Olympic Gold medal and set a new World Record.
But a tragic, late night car crash changed all that.
Carpe diem.