Tag: Running

Respect the running community

Running event traffic sign
From the photo archives when i used to be able to run.

Respect the running community.

Why?

They hold, perpetuate, and guard the childlike energy kids possess after kids learn how to walk.

After a kid learns to walk without any education, a kid learns to run.

Why?

Because they see other kids doing it and walking gets boring after a while. Why not do what the older kids are doing?

And think of it this way, if you’re a senior citizen (or just someone who’s been out of high school for a few years)…

You’re an older kid now in your 40’s, 50’s, 60’s plus.

Because running for your whole life ought to be as motivating as it was when you first learned how to run as a young child.

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Australia Day 19, body

Two kids on a living room floor
1966…me and my younger sister. In our downstairs family room, or as we called it, the TV room.

i love running and have been doing it since shortly after learning to walk.

dad


Funny how life has dealt me a hand that for the past five-ish years has made running impossible.

Then, perhaps seven months ago, i was finally able to reach a ‘potential comeback place’ whereby i was running daily, multiple intervals of nearly 100 meters at 6:00/mile pace.

Enter a month-long Glacier trip (exceptional walking but no running) and two retina-tear-repair surgeries which netted a six-month running hiatus.

Lost all physical conditioning.

Two dozen years of consistent, constant, high fitness.

Never in a million years did i think i would not be a runner.

Yet here we are.

Yesterday, in Australia, i jogged through two separate intersections.

This is a simple milestone.

i consider it a gift.

Thank you, Universe.

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Lean into discomfort, example

21-second 2020 video: Recorded this video maybe an hour before today’s previous MLC post’s video.

How we react to being alone and quiet measures our life’s quality. A ‘disappointment’ became a revelation.

When i couldn’t run without pain, the revelation eventually appeared.

i love running fast.

Thought i couldn’t let go of what i love.

But more than running fast, a revelation…

i simply love to run, at any speed.

And when that was not possible, the revelation appeared.

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Roger that!

I sometimes think that running has given me a glimpse of the greatest freedom a man can ever know, because it results in the simultaneous liberation of both mind and body……The runner does not know why he runs. He only knows that he must run……We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves.

Roger Bannister

The morning of May 6, 1954, Roger did the impossible. He broke the 4-minute mile barrier, and set a new world record in 3:59.6

The current world record is 3:43.13 set in 1999.

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Which would you aim for?

paper note pad with handwritten notes
Scribbling notes on our kitchen notepad when inspiration, or a crazy memory, hits. Reflecting on the promise to myself when turning 40 – never again say, “I need to start working out and eating better”.

Would you rather be the fastest of the slowest or the slowest of the fastest?

Dear son, you could finish dead last in your race and still be the 8th fastest in the world.

Masters Track & Field World Championships.

In the finals.

Dead last.

Number 8 in the world.

Change what you see and what you see changes.

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