The easier route or the more challenging route? Which is your default decision? When you select the easier route, odds are you will not be challenged or tested to do anything you haven’t done before. You may even be able to predict with fairly reasonable accuracy how long it will take to finish this easy route. By selecting the more challenging route you know you’ll be tested. Either physically tested or mentally tested or both. You have no idea how much time will be needed to … [Read more...]
Are You Up For The Challenge?
In 1954 there was a widely held belief that no one would ever run one mile in under four minutes. The world of track athletic competition felt this was in fact nearly a certainty - impossible. It was considered a barrier - never to be broken through. On May 6, 1954 at Oxford, an Englishman, Roger Bannister, ran the mile in 3:59.4. Later that year, two men who were competing – John Landy (Australia) and Roger Bannister – in the Commonwealth Games held in Vancouver B.C. both ran the one mile … [Read more...]
