Tag: Lane Eight

What’s The Healthiest You’ve Ever Been?

The Fountain of Youth resides in a Beverly Hills, Michigan Westin. Was there recently.

What’s the healthiest you’ve ever been?

What motivated you then?

What made you successful?

I’m almost afraid to ask…

What’s stopping you now?

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In The Blink Of An Eye, jeff noel Misses Being An All American

Looking carefully, you’ll see the heat results at the top and overall results in middle.

The bad news, jeff noel finished 5th in that heat. The good news, surprisingly, after it was all said and done, finished # 10 overall, just missing the finals. Tenth in the Nation, for M45-49. And healthy!

Lowered my season best from 57.19 to 56.35. Anything 56.0 and under is an age-graded equivalent All-American standard.

To blink your eyes closed and open, is about .35 seconds. That half-step backwards stole the AA honor.

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BANG!

It was 8pm, but you get the picture, the stands are filled with experienced Masters athletes, coaches.

BANG! The starter’s pistol fires. Everyone is off to a great start, except Lane 1 (me).

So nervous standing there watching all the others get set in their starting blocks, that my first step was not an explosive jump forward, but a nervous half back-step, as if startled and afraid by what just happened.

Too bad so sad. Go, get moving.

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Runners To Your Mark

Lane 1 is the tightest turn of all the lanes. The second slowest runner goes there.

If Lane 8 is the worst because the slowest runner gets it, then Lane 1 is the next to worst because of the tight turn.

The official barks out, slow and deliberately, “Runners to your mark!”

All the runners but me get down into starting blocks. jeff noel is only one using a standing start (Rookie!), in Lane 1. What seems like forever, and the official barks, “SET!”….

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