和落花、b姐、曉陽一樣,這是我連續比賽之後的一個賽,兩周前剛完成一個超馬,還沒恢複。這個算是歡樂跑,加上長途旅程,沒有休息,打算跑到哪算哪。但是,人一站在起跑線,上了戰馬,你就不能自己了,你本能地想 Be the best version of you! 雖然心率從140到了160,我還是極力想維持不掉速,看能堅持到哪裏。終於,在最後兩英裏,進入了極限狀態,心率上了170,最後衝到184。而同時,速度在25英裏掉了16秒,26英裏再掉了15秒,破了8,達到8'03"。我再也受不了了,在25.7英裏停止再拚,等到看到終點線,做了最後衝刺,配速進入6分多。
後來,在我遇到困難時,想要放棄,他的語句就縈回在我的耳邊。我知道,我這個比賽不會是我的PR,就是個歡樂跑,觀光跑。可是即便如此,我也要成為最完美的自己,Be the best of me。不能成為一棵大樹,就當個小草;做不了高速公路,就做個小步道;成不了太陽,我也要做一顆閃亮的星星。沒有PR,也要跑出我今天最好的成績。
Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail! If you can't be the Sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or you fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
This is the most important and crucial period of your lives, for what you do now, and what you decide now at this age may well determine which way your life shall go.
And the question is whether you have a proper, a solid, and a sound blueprint. And I want to suggest some of the things that should be in your life’s blueprint.
Number one in your life's blueprint should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your own worth, and your own somebodiness.
Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody. Always feel that you count, always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.
Secondly, in your life's blueprint, you must have as a basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor.
You're going to be deciding as the days and the years unfold what you will do in life, what your life's work will be. Once you discover what it will be, set out to do it, and to do it well.
Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail! If you can't be the Sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or you fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
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Finally, in your life's blueprint, must be a commitment to the eternal principles of beauty, love, and justice. Well life, for none of us, has been a crystal stair, but we must keep moving, we must keep going.
If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.