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National Championships in 2011

Missed it last year too…

The 2011 Master’s Track & Field Indoor National Championships will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 4-6.

I will not be there.

Of course, this is a trivial issue for all of you. In fact, I’d go as far as saying, unless you’re my Mother, you don’t care.

That’s okay, we can still be friends. But let this “disappointment” be another one of many, in the quest for an impossible goal.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. ~Robert Brault

We aren’t capable.

Not when we start, but we become strangely confident by the time it’s over.

A couple nights ago we had “movie night” at our house and chose Disney’s “Alice In Wonderland”, with Johnny Depp.

Early in the movie, Alice is sharing with someone that her Father would dream six impossible dreams before breakfast. A typical morning for him.

Alice’s Father was a dreamer.

Are you?

What would have happened if Martin Luther King wouldn’t have been a dreamer?

Don’t listen to your lizard brain, listen to your heart.

What would you say? Does it roll off the tip of your tongue like honeydew vine water?

Or do you hesitate?

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

(you do know that’s the tag line here at Lane 8, right?)

Heck yeah, I have no idea how I’m going to help raise money until a cure is found. It does feel impossible.

Until I remember why I’m here.

Getting in shape, whatever that means, is something most people know to be a reasonable and desirable goal.

But doing it is next to impossible for many people.

Do you know why?

Do you know the secret to overcoming what most can not, will not, and do not overcome?

Crazy thing is, both those questions have been answered here at Lane 8, at least a dozen times in the past 14 months.