A thriver's guide to physical health and wellness
World-class tips, tactics, strategies and serious motivation
Paris, 2009, heading to Helsinki, Finland for the Masters World Championships…
I’m here to help you stay motivated. Don’t let disappointments convince you to quit. Ever.
Held every two years, the World Master’s Athletics Track and Field championships begin today in Sacramento, California. First time in 15 years Worlds has been on America soil.
With every reason to be bitter for missing this (potential once-in-a-lifetime) home field advantage, I refuse to.
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Ok, so it’s not jeff noel, but Jack The Bear, at University of Oregon’s Hayward Field…
Tip: Find fun ways to use iconic images, stories, legends, customs, traditions. Think of these as logs to add to your fire.
Jack the Bear has travelled the world with jeff noel. More USA National Championships and Olympic trials have been held at Hayward Field than anywhere else. Plus Steve Prefontaine ran here. Pre, a rebel, who just happened to be a runner.
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An Olympic Shot Putter. He won Gold – the only one in his age-group, 100-104.
Have adapted a new approach for world class Masters Athletics Track & Field competition. In the past jeff noel over-trained. Didn’t know. Learned the hard way. And it took years to finally wake up. Stupid boy (yep, Keith Urban reference).
So this year, a radically different approach. It’s exciting! Been doing it since late last year. It’s paying off. Refreshing, invigorating and it is, of course, a gamble.
How do you stay excited?
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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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Surreal
This post has been copied from the Lane 8 archives and reposted here today:
Race day at Lane 8 – August 4, 2009.
Men’s 400 meters, 50-54 age group. Call time 2PM. Heat time 3PM.
By the time my preliminary heat is over (8AM EST), most of you back in the United States will just be waking up.
I visualize myself running and feeling God’s pleasure. Running effortlessly, not to compete, but running simply because I can.
I don’t know why I run sometimes, all I know is that I enjoy it, and cannot help myself.
There is a popular misconception that winning is everything.
May I antagonistically challenge that?
Winning isn’t everything, doing your best is everything.
Don’t sell yourself short. Be as great as you can be. Even if you finish last. Even if you are not a runner.
Carpe diem, jeff noel :)
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No Predicting What Lies Ahead
Do you have a big goal you want to accomplish by this time next year?
What’s it going to take?
We contemplate what we believe we can do. You know, we take what we’ve done and think about what we’ll be able to do when we get the next chance to try again.
It’s kind of like being an armchair quarterback.
Sitting in the comfort of our living room, watching the game, or World Cup, we comment like we know what we’re talking about.
Nothing will ever replace the preparation, wisdom, courage and guts of “game day”.
There is one prediction. July 2011. Masters Track & Field World Championships in Sacramento.
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A Small But Dedicated Group
Ever have cool (free) opportunities to be invited in? To join a group? To have a privilege you always thought would be cool, but didn’t know where or how to start?
How’d that work out for you?
Tuesday evening, the stars were aligned, so on the drive home I finally got to do it. Had been invited about two months earlier to join a local runner’s group, after meeting the organizers at the annual Central Florida Corporate 5k – this year with 12k+ runners.
And as today’s blog post title implies, it was at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports complex, a world-class facility.
This all leads up to today’s message.
The longer and harder you work, the luckier you get. And if this has eluded you, it simply means you haven’t worked long enough or hard enough. Tough thing to hear for some of you, but true.
Dream big, get started, never stop. You CAN do it.
Usain Bolt, world’s fastest human, interviewed by Michael Johnson, former world record holder 200 meters and current world record holder 400 meters. What you can expect from this is a casual approach by two extraordinary humans. And even if you are not a runner, you have the opportunity to see best-in-class and look for ways to adopt their attitude and approach into your own approach:
Field Events Are Way Under-Rated
Track and Field. Not on most people’s list of sports to follow, except every four years during the Summer Olympics.
Well, after a decade of doping scandals, Track & Field’s popularity is on the rise. This Washington Post article explains why.
And as I leave Indiana University this morning, the NCAA Big Ten Track & Field Conference Championships begin.
Motivation is like a fire. Find a million ways to keep adding fuel to your fire, otherwise we all know what will happen to your fire.
Humans Are Born To Run
Significant human achievements, especially “firsts”, are rare. And they are rare because no human has ever done such a thing before. If we are lucky, we may see a few in our lifetimes.
What comes to mind from your own experience?
Tyson Gay, second fastest human ever, in the history of the world, is the ONLY human to run:
A few weeks ago, Tyson ran a 400 meters PR 44.89, to set the milestone above.
If you enjoy Track & Field or have a curiosity about the current hype between Tyson Gay, Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell – the three fastest humans of all time are running in the same lifetime, in the same meets – then you will probably enjoy this article from IAAF.org
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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.