A thriver's guide to physical health and wellness
World-class tips, tactics, strategies and serious motivation
Track Shack, keeping Central Florida fit since 1977…
Your pace or mine?
Insight: This has no subliminal meaning. It’s intent is to showcase even the slightest creative adaptations can be fun and powerful… with a saying, or motivation to not quit.
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finding a million ways isn't theory, it's do or die
feeling even better than last year's 2011 run
Maybe a decade ago I needed to find a great reason to not quit running. Had been running on my own for several years but was really struggling to get out of bed to do it. Enter a 5k? Maybe that would be interesting since I’d never done it before. So that’s what I did.
And now the 2012 Windermere “Run Among the Lakes” 11th annual 5k is almost here again…can’t wait.
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The girl that was engaged (but it fell apart) to be married, Cheryl, well, she moved away – far away – on my recommendation. She graduated and became a Residence Hall Director at Washington State University – the opposite corner of the Country.
I moved to Orlando, Florida to work as a Disney World Cast Member Intern – a Jungle Cruise skipper. We couldn’t have been farther apart without leaving the States.
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The same week I started doing one push-up a day, I began running one mailbox a day for the first week. Then two mailboxes a day the second week and so on. Mailboxes are about 100 meters apart here.
The running goal was first, and very simply to “wake everything up” – tendons, ligaments, muscles, cartilage. The pace was slower than a slow walk. Seriously.
After one month, I was very slowly jogging the equivalent of one lap around a school track – 400 meters.
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Lest We Forget…freedom, health, it’s all the same. It must be protected…
As you ‘race’ through your day, here is a critical announcement.
What you do not value, you do not protect. What you do not protect, you lose.
Health is wealth. Do I need to draw you a map?
You CAN get and stay healthy, if you make fitness something very vulnerable, that needs protection.
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Traveled To Finland For 400 Meters
If you want to practice discipline, there are many ways. Mostly though, it requires an inspiring goal. You’ll need to figure out yours.
And if you don’t have one, then what? Consider yourself in a very exciting time – a time to work tirelessly until you’ve got something that makes you cry it’s so good.
I don’t like running 5k’s or 10k’s because they’re too far. No, seriously. Hard to believe, but I prefer 400 meters – 57 seconds or less, and you’re done.
Run a 5k or 10k at a leisurely pace? Preposterous! The primal, competitive urges overtake any rational ability to run slowly.
It is what it is.
Learning pace take practice, determination, and patience. Great news though, these skills are transferable to every other aspect of our lives.
OK Now Focus, Speed, I Am Speed
Heading to Orlando for the annual Track Shack 4th of July Watermelon 5k run.
Yeah, it’s a Sunday, and a holiday, and it’s early.
Having fun and staying healthy can sometimes feel like work, but mostly it feels like this:
These are just a few of the advantages of hard work.
But you already know that.
Corporate 5k & 12,600 Runners
Last night, 12,600 5k runners. The second largest Florida 5k ever.
Work hard. Play hard.
Just do it.
No pain, no gain.
It’s who you know.
Climb the ladder of success.
Buzzwords and catch phrases.
IOA Corporate 5k.
Orlando, Florida.
Lake Eola.
Track Shack.
Jon and Betsey Hughes.
Mayor Buddy Dyer.
David and Goliath.
I would be David.
Goals:
Mission accomplished.
Excellence is not a spectator sport.
Yes. If you don’t know what this means, there’s still hope for you.
There are hundreds of ideas here at Lane 8.
But they are of no use if you don’t do something, like read them.
Here’s today’s biscuit.
Mind, body, spirit, money, and hq...
You see four of them below. The fifth is the "box" the holds the other four...
America's unheralded work life balance expert. jeff noel, is a Servant, Husband, Dad, Boomer, speaker, author, runner. He believes work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else. Allergic to most pollens and mediocrity, he can't wait for the alarm clock to go off every morning.