What Could You Do If You Had 7 Months?

We learned all the basics in school. Right?

A desire to be well, to keep it simple and stick to the basics kept ringing in one ear. But in the other, a voice, “What could you do if you had 7 months?

Could you make a comeback and be ready by Nationals?

Depending on our life experiences, we’ve been taught (or not) that nothing is impossible. The place I call home and a 27-year career at Disney, have developed a nearly insatiable habit to pursue excellence.

So that’s what happened. The journey began – starting with physical therapy.

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Counter Balance Those Curve Balls Life Throws You

Ice crystals forming in Iowa ditch, April 2011.

Did I feel like going out in the freezing weather at sunrise to run? Uh, nope.

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Note: Read this one carefully.

It’s interesting how opportunities are placed before us when we least expect them. This counter balances those unexpected curve balls life throws at us.

But if we’re not paying attention (par for the course), we remain clueless. This leads us back to something Lane 8 has always been about – having a reason, other than yourself, to get and stay healthy.

Remember?

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Able To Find Opportunity From Terrible Embarrassment?

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Ok, so I ripped the other hamstring. Something I swore (promised even) would never happen again. What an idiot!

Have you ever failed so miserably that you embarrassed yourself?

The good news? It was January. Still time?

Were you able to find an opportunity hidden under your embarrassing failure?

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Be Well In All That You Do And All That You Are

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By the way, this story at Lane 8 should look, sound and feel familiar to your own. Running is simply a metaphor.

The goal? To let you see the many reasons why I should have given up, quit.

With reasons to quit, we get to choose. What makes us champions is not quitting.

So the 2006 Winter/Spring track season began in January at the National Training Center in Clermont, Florida. The first meet of the season guess what happened?

Rip…

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