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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
To a runner, having healthy feet is a blessing, especially if the runner hasn’t had great-feeling feet in years and years. The down side is that feeling great is a huge temptation to overdo it. So yesterday, I took the day off.
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People who work hard have a way of making things look easy. This makes people who don’t work hard, well, jealous.
Life is not fair. But life does have natural laws, like, survival of the fittest, gravity, etc. It is what it is, and has been for ions. I hadn’t run very much in the past 10 days, due to a heavy workload. So yesterday morning…
With the goal of a sub-six minute mile, on a brisk Central Florida morning, I started off. First mile is always an easy warm-up, second mile the “time-trial”. First 800 in 3:03. Perfect. Crossed the line in 5:59.
Obnoxious? Yes. 🙂
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And our unhealthy choices break us.
But they do it so slowly.
Deceptively slowly.
Painfully slowly.
In either case.
This is why lifelong success is so elusive. We don’t see results fast enough.
And why health wake-up calls are so painful. We never see it coming.
Ultimately, our choices make us.
If you want to practice discipline, there are many ways. Mostly though, it requires an inspiring goal. You’ll need to figure out yours.
And if you don’t have one, then what? Consider yourself in a very exciting time – a time to work tirelessly until you’ve got something that makes you cry it’s so good.
I don’t like running 5k’s or 10k’s because they’re too far. No, seriously. Hard to believe, but I prefer 400 meters – 57 seconds or less, and you’re done.
Run a 5k or 10k at a leisurely pace? Preposterous! The primal, competitive urges overtake any rational ability to run slowly.
It is what it is.
Learning pace take practice, determination, and patience. Great news though, these skills are transferable to every other aspect of our lives.
In running, most sports, and life, pace is a crucial factor.
Real life. There’s a runner I know that recently ran two 5k’s. He preaches pace, trains pace, delivers pace. He says pace is key.
His goal was to run the first two miles at exactly 7:00 each, and then gradually run faster the third mile, aiming for sub-22:00
First 5k mile splits:
His other 5k was the same plan, first two miles at seven-minutes each, final mile gradually faster.
Few things more rewarding than practicing what you preach.