The Will to Prepare

Topic: Inspirational Thoughts From Gmail
Key Words: Bobby Knight, Shiznit, Flare
Word Count: 342
Tomorrow's Topic: Will I Ever Run Again?!?

I switched to Gmail over one and a half years ago. It's a free email service from Google, and it's basically the bomb shiznit. Word. I'm not sure if their business model is scalable for the long run, but for now, they really seem to be first class innovators. Gmail seems to be their platform from which they expose new feature: ads that "sense" the content of your email, online spreadsheets, online calendars, news readers with a "Google flare", and oh yeah, they also own the site this blog sits on!

So today, I had my Gmail account open at work as usual, and I noticed the top line of ads was, as is sometimes the case, replaced with a quote:

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to practice. - Bobby Knight

Very interesting stuff from old Bobby. No matter your opinions on the man, what he speaks is the truth. If you really want to succeed, you don't just work at it for a while, you work at it constantly. I ate chicken wings and had beer tonight. With good reason mind you, but still, I didn't have the will to practice. The rain is making pure running hard, but the rain doesn't affect the elliptical machine in my apartment complexes gym. And though this afternoon was conflicted, the morning never is; shouldn't I be able to convince myself to get up a few mornings of the week in the name of a leg workout?

Houston Fit's Fall Marathon training program starts next week. I'm proud of my Spring of running, as it is more than I normally do; I am as prepared as I have ever been ... well, to prepare! If I add to this base a strong will to practice, maybe I can get somewhere.

But if not, chicken wings and beer isn't a bad fall back :)