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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Sure, it’s crazy, but so what? Who cares? You better!
So I made two goals, opposite ends of the spectrum, which is what I recommend for you – whether beginner, intermediate or advanced. Make a small, easily achievable goal. And then, set an impossible goal.
Small – one mailbox a day for a week.
Impossible – dreamt big to get, and more importantly to stay, healthy – for a lifetime.
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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 the mind and body….. The runner does not know how or why he runs. He only knows that he must run….. We run, not because it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. — Roger Bannister, 1956
Fact: More USA Track & Field National Championships and Olympic Trails have been held at Oregon’s Hayward Field than anywhere else. Period.
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Our habits control us or they set us free. Which do you think happens more often?
Most people don’t think long and hard about this battle.
But for me, it’s my job. A gift, so to speak.
Only running twice in two weeks is not healthy.
This would be the fuel that allows quitting to occur.
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PS. This is post 2,997
Do you exercise, or want to exercise, and do you follow the story here at Lane 8? Then you probably know that I’m (currently) a runner, a Father, Husband, Transformational speaker, recovering alcoholic, person with a disability, and the descendant of a Family history of Heart Disease and Dementia.
Do you think your health goals are impossible? Do you think your work life and home life schedules need to change before you can commit? Indeed, there are things you’ll need to stop doing before you can start doing.
What started so humbly and innocently 11 years ago has grown into a nice burning fire of desire. But without continuous fuel, what happens to your fire? So eventually, I found fuel through competition. First in local 5k races and then Master’s Track. But then…
Injury after injury. Year after year.
Yet, by taking continuous action, continuous improvement, I’m currently no longer:
This may seem inconsequential to you. It may not.
You must find your own way. And find a million ways to keep going your own way. Making progress is a great motivator. (Duh!)
There’s one more thing I don’t do anymore. Give up.
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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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