Better than or about what you expected?

Watermelon 5k resultsBetter than or about what you expected? The annual Track Shack Watermelon 5k run had 4,000 runners and walkers. It’s become a tradition to start July 4th by running this hot and humid race. It went better than expected.

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PS. Traditions, fun, and goals are three great ways to stay motivated.

Thought I’d be able to run more (it didn’t happen)

Cape Cod
Never seen Cape Cod from this angle before.
Cape Cod, MA
Cape Cod, MA

We make plans, right? Say we’re going on a trip. We plan our arrival and departure and a few (or more) scheduled activities. Business appointments and meals are a given. I also plan eight hours sleep each night. What’s left is what we can call discretionary time – for running, sightseeing, etc.

Five days at Disneyland Paris. One 12-minute run. How did that happen? How does any of it happen? For any of us?

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Health Focus Areas Top 3

Focus our health on top three areas:

  1. Cardiovascular
  2. Strength
  3. Flexibility

The last one, flexibility, is the one most often overlooked.

Click here to explore why, and to discover simple tips to overcome this.

Sounds simple, but it will be one of the toughest, and longest, journeys of your life.

And one I wouldn’t trade for anything.  We reap what we sow. Make it a great day.  It’s up to each of us.

Amazing Grace At The Gym?

Whether or not you go to a gym is inconsequential.  It doesn’t matter.

Why?

Because who cares where you exercise?  Really.  Who cares?  No one. Maybe you care, but in reality, no one cares.

So what’s the point then?

Simply this – if you have the capability to exercise and don’t, aren’t you forfeiting one of the most amazing graces ever bestowed on you?

Lane 8, What’s Next?

Lane 8, “What’s next”?

Face to face questions, as well as emails, ask the same thing, “Are you preparing for any upcoming meets”?

Yes, and no.

YES, there are two big meets in 2010.  The WMA Masters Track & Field Indoor World Championships in early March, in Kamloops, British Columbia.  And there’s the USA Masters Track & Field National Championships, in July, in Sacramento, California.

NO, the left heel pain precludes me from anything remotely intense enough to be considered world class training.

This may be a good thing. If you don’t know, it was never the intent to become a world class Master’s athlete.  But after several years of running and making common sense, common practice, I wanted to see if it could actually be done.

Tomorrow I’ll describe the level of fitness that I didn’t even know I had achieved.  And what it feels like to see it slip away and the thought process on how, and if, I should deal with that.