Tag: Life

Do you think I should?

Thursday night, I asked my son, “Do you think I should still go the World Championships“?

Without hesitating, he said, “Yes“!

“Why”?, I wondered out loud.

“Two reasons”, he said.  “Number one, to complete your goal of being the slowest of the fastest“.

I smiled and asked, “And what’s the second reason?”  

“So we can be a little famous.”

Smiling again I asked, “Is being famous a good thing?”

He said, “Being a little famous, who wouldn’t want that kind of esteem?”

Kids say the darnedest things.  Indeed.

Carpe diem, jeff  🙂

PS. Esteem, or self-confidence is a critical success factor, in my humble opinion.  If something were to ever happen to me, maybe he’d remember that his Dad always said, “You have the choice to be positive or negative“.

I’ll explain the “Slowest of the Fastest” metaphor tomorrow.

You do the math!

Do the math?  What the?

Thirty to fifty?

Yep.

Thirty days until I turn fifty.

And, roughly 90 days until the prelims. 

Ten years in the making and it will be over, either side of 55 seconds.

Huge investment for such a short “performance”.

Decent run yesterday, and as the trend remains, intermittent pain all day.

Where could you end up ten years from today, if today was the first day you started exercising, and you didn’t stop for the rest of your life?

Carpe diem, my wellness-minded friends.  jeff 🙂

PS.  Tomorrow, I’ll post my son’s answers when I posed this question, “Do you think I should go to the World Championships?”

Lane 8 and Track & Field?

Lane 8 and Track & Field?  Absolutely.

Then what about quitting?

Yesterday, I posted that I wanted to quit.  

Believe that?

Heck no.  i don’t want to quit.   Then what?

I felt like quitting!

Big difference.

I’ll be back out on the road before 7AM this morning.

The journey of 10,000 miles begins with the first step, and most likely, never ends.

So I constantly remind myself, “Just keep going.  You need to be a role model for the people close to you.  Your wife, and especially your son, need to see that it is possible to do the impossible“.

Carpe diem, jeff  🙂

I wanted to quit!

Yesterday, I wanted to quit.  Seriously.

I kept thinking, “This isn’t worth it.  It’s too much work.  The pain isn’t going away.  What if I spend $1,000 for a plane ticket, plus hotel, etc, and I can’t run?  Maybe this is too much to expect, too soon – even though it’s been a decade in the making.  Maybe I’m being selfish.  Maybe I’m being blind to something obvious.”

I don’t know.

My foot was sore when I woke up in my Niagara Falls hotel room.  It was also sore the day before.  It was sore when I presented the Disney Service Keynote speech.  It was sore on the plane home.

I didn’t run yesterday, and I wasn’t going to run today.

But I did.  And I took it easy.  Ran 40 minutes with only slight pain.   This all gets so confusing sometimes.

Anyway, I have to get going.

No matter your situation, I wish you wisdom and guidance for good decisions and also a bit of forgiveness if you make any errors.

Carpe diem, jeff noel  🙂

Celebrex or Celebrate?

Celebrex or Celebrate?

I took my final Celebrex capsule yesterday.

And I also took the day off from training.

Heading out for a five-mile run shortly, before flying to Niagara Falls, New York.

When I think about the journey, with its struggles and trials, I couldn’t even jog ten years ago.  And when I did start jogging two years later, I ran one mailbox per day for a week.

The following week, two mailboxes per day for a week.  Third week?  You guessed it, three mailboxes per day for a week.

Here we are just over a decade later, and I’m still jogging.

And heading to the 2009 Master’s Track and Field World Championships in Finland.

Amazing what can happen when you don’t give. Carpe diem, jeff 🙂