Tag: Running

Acorns fall near the tree

Disney Keynote Speaker Jeff Noel
From 2010? Definitely still at Disney Institute. Climbed the 8-foot fence to get in. All the gates were locked. There’s a special, lunatic “one-lap fraternity”. i am a lifelong member.

Spring Grove Area High School.

1977 graduating class.

Produced a few remarkable things for a Paper Mill town without a stoplight nor a grocery store.

One of the least important was a nobody who ran the 440 (400 meters in today’s speak).

Turns out that kid set a High School 440 record that stood for 45 years.

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Thank God as kids

1969 black and white photo of a kid on a pogo stick
Probably 10 years old. In front of our cousin’s house.
Black and white photo of two young children at a petting zoo
We ran everywhere. Why? Walking took too long.

A decades-long career in a Fortune 500 company can easily push running everywhere off the table. There’s literally no time to go outside and play. So we don’t. For our entire career.

Thank God as kids, we divinely avoided this…

Knowing how awkward running is to most of us now, imagine if we started out thinking like that as kids.

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Favorite exercise? Body

Apple iPhone alarm
A growth mindset easily sees sleep as an exercise.

Favorite exercise?

Running.

And when unable to run, walking.

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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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