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If your goal isn’t impossible

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From the top of the highest ski jump ramp in Lahti, Finland – site of the 2009 (i turned 50) Masters Track and Field World Championships.

If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.

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My goal was (and still is) to run from Lane 8, the worst lane in the 400 meters.

Lane 8 is assigned to the slowest runner.

Lane 8, because the runners stay in their lane the entire race (one lap), are blind to the rest of the competition.

The worst lane.

And i don’t care if i come in last.

Think about it.

Lane 8.

In the finals.

At the World Championships.

Come in dead last and still be the 8th fastest in the world.

Pretty cool.

Impossible, really.

Which is perfect.

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Recently won a bronze medal at the Masters Track & Field Indoor World Championships

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Lane 8 is the worst lane in the 400-meter sprint. The slowest runner is placed there.

 

In April 1999, i began running one mailbox a day for a week.

Each new week for many months i’d add an additional mailbox.

Mailboxes in my neighborhood are 100 meters apart.

So in four weeks for example, i was running 400 meters total without stopping – the equivalent of one lap around a High School track.

Pretty impressive, right?

In 2002 i ran my first 5k.

In 2005, i competed in my first Masters Track event in Orlando.

i got hooked on the karma older athletes demonstrate.

Fast forward a decade and i represented USA in the M50-54 age group at 400 meters at the 2009 Masters Track & Field Outdoor World Championships in Finland.

Finished as the World’s 43rd fastest M50-54 400-meter sprinter.

Telling you that to provide context for this…

Recently won a bronze medal at the Masters Track & Field Indoor World Championships.

 

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Life is full of disappointment and crushed dreams

American Flag at Chimney Rock
Two days ago at Chimney Rock.

 

Today i begin the official process of canceling my flight to Lyon, France. Scheduled to leave in six days.

It’s not gonna happen.

i will not be able to represent the United States of America in the M55-59 age group at the 2015 Masters Track & Field World Championships.

Life is full of disappointment and crushed dreams. It’s our job to find the blessings in the ashes.

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