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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
This morning, I’m questioning why I place so much thought and effort on exercise.
Maybe it’s wasteful.
Maybe, if I’d wait long enough, I’d get used to not exercising, and used to feeling no where near a healthy, well-rounded human being.
Monday, Ryan Hall set an all-time American record, 2:08.41, for the fastest Boston Marathon finish by an American. Ever!
Ryan Hall was fourth overall, and the winner set a new Boston Marathon course record. Fastest Boston Marathon in it’s 124 year history.
Ryan ran only six one-hundredths of second faster than the previous American record.
Not six minutes faster, not six seconds faster, not six-tenths of a second faster.
Six one-hundredths faster.
We can’t even blink that fast. That was the cumulative time over 26.2 miles, 0:00.06 faster.
Mind boggling!
What does this mean to you? Most likely, nothing.
Or it may just be the daily motivation you were looking for. We start anew every day. We can never tire of the basics. Ever.
Rita Hanscom was selected as Master’s Track and Field Athlete of the Year for 2009.
Rita Hanscom (San Diego, Calif.): Named World Masters Athlete of 2009 by the IAAF and World Masters Athletics after winning five gold medals in Lahti and setting a world record in the W55 heptathlon. She’s a deputy attorney general for the state of California.
The photo above is from the 2009 Master’s Track & Field Outdoor World Championships in Lahti, Finland. It was a privilege to meet Rita and her son and daughter.
In Finland, there was a sense of community and fellowship among the 5,300 athletes from 80 countries. It’s challenging to explain. It was unique, competitive, healthy and vibrant, supportive. Amazingly supportive.
Who couldn’t use as much of that that the law will allow, in pursuing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle?
USATF Press Release, February 8, 2010: United States Largest Master’s Track & Field Indoor World Championships Ever, heading to Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
Click here to read the official USATF Press Release.
The past few weeks have been a painful reminder how challenging it is to stay motivated. Most of us can eventually find a compelling reason(s) to get healthy.
Few of us find compelling, long-term reasons.
That is why it is essential to figure out a million ways to stay motivated. A million. Are ya with me. Succeed or fail. There is no middle ground.
USA Track and Field does it for me. For now.
What’s doing it for you?
Lane 8 is the worst lane. The slowest competitor is placed there. You know this already.
There is an art to being in Lane 8.
Huh? Exactly.
Although it doesn’t seem so, striving for (metaphorically) Lane 8 is really impossible.
Getting healthy and staying healthy, until we die, is really quite impossible too.
Or is it? There is an art to not quitting, not giving up, no matter what.