National Championships in 2011

Missed it last year too…

The 2011 Master’s Track & Field Indoor National Championships will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 4-6.

I will not be there.

Of course, this is a trivial issue for all of you. In fact, I’d go as far as saying, unless you’re my Mother, you don’t care.

That’s okay, we can still be friends. But let this “disappointment” be another one of many, in the quest for an impossible goal.

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It’s A Small World After All

USATF HQ 1 Block From Our Hotel
USATF HQ 1 Block From Our Hotel
USATF Head Quarters On The 8th Floor
USATF Head Quarters On The 8th Floor

Sometimes life just has a way of saying, “Thank you for trying to make our world a little bit better”.

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Track & Field Geek?

USA Swept the 400 In The Beijing Olympics

USA Swept the 400 In The Beijing Olympics

Track & Field geek? Totally. And I wasn’t fully aware how bad it was until yesterday morning.

Unexpectedly, it provided a keen reminder of how Disney fanatics feel when they get those rare opportunities to go backstage.

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USATF HQ Indianapolis

Indianapolis
Indianapolis

Getting and staying healthy is on your mind a lot, isn’t it? That’s one of the reasons you visit Lane 8. And it’s the reason I write Lane 8.

The real secret to health isn’t what or how we do it, and yet it’s the first thing people get hung up on. The real secret is finding the motivation to do whatever it takes.

Whatever it takes to never give up. To never quit. Ever.

Last night after dinner with a colleague, we walked a different route back to our hotel in Indianapolis. We are on the same street as the Capital building. Indianapolis is also home to USATF headquarters, and roughly three blocks away.

Guess what? We bump into the guy who runs the USATF online store and strike up a conversation. Small world? Karma? Opportunity? Fate?

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