Your Favorite 2008 Olympic Moment?

Team USA, 2008, almost set a world record in the 4 x 400 relay…

Remember the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics? Michael Phelps’ 8 Olympic Gold Medals.

Jamacia’s Usain Bolt becoming the World’s fastest human. Ever.

What was your favorite 2008 Summer Olympic moment?

Mine was watching Team USA go 1,2, 3 in what event?

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But He Kept Dreaming Until

The little boy worked hard for many years. He set a school record. He won the County Championship.

Then he went to College. And found out he had been a very small fish in a very big pond, more like the ocean.

He abandoned that childhood dream to become an Olympian.

And got distracted, and medicated, with College life.

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A Little Boy’s Big Dream

A little boy from a small Pennsylvania “Paper-Mill” town, watched the 1972 Summer Olympics on his neighbor’s TV, back when TV’s had knobs for changing channels.

A seed had been planted and he dreamt right then and there that he would become an Olympic athlete.

But he wasn’t big enough, or fast enough.

Ever.

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2009 World Championships

Lahti, Finland…2009 Senior Olympics…

Many readers are not familiar with what happened in 2009. This jeff noel blog was still in relative infancy.

But in 2009, my impossible goal was about to become reality.

What started out as the infamous, one-mailbox-a-day for a week wellness challenge, had morphed into the pursuit of a long lost childhood dream.

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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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