the question isn't "how much more can you take?"

But "how much more you can give?"

Just when you're ready to quit.

Your mind says "push harder".

You listen, sensing an inner strength that wasn't there before.

&& suddenly you discover -- you no longer feel pain.

only a burning desire to do what others cant or wont.

only a burning desire to win.

destiny.

Don't talk to me about destiny.

Destiny doesnt throw up every session

Destiny doesnt clear the hurdles

I dont really like destiny

Destiny doesnt push this hard

Destiny has never caught the bus for 2 hours to training

&& I bet destiny cant to this

By the way, that wasnt luck

behind the blocks, destiny panics.

Destiny doesnt get back up

again

&& again

&& again

Destiny makes excuses

Destiny doesnt remember

Destiny doesnt decide if I win.

i do.

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Destiny is not a matter of chance,

it is a matter of choice;

it is not a thing to be waited for,

it is a thing to be achieved.

If you want to see me,

you must be quick.

If you want to catch me,

you must be fast.

If you want to beat me,

you must be kidding!

Make it happen!

And all those days, those minutes and seconds of torture

the peace and freedom in those moments of pain

it all comes down to this.

you can sit on your ass and wish things to happen

you can pray and pray and will them to happen

or you can put your spikes on and make it happen.

If everybody's making fun of you and criticizing you,

then you know you're on the right track

The thing i want most in life, cannot be bought nor sold. But earned.

think, really hard.

&& ask yourself.

are you doing enough?

are you working hard enough,

are you looking after yourself good enough,

are you doing everything you can?

if the answer is yes, then your a lying fraud and you should stop reading this blog and go be mediocre else where, coz the truth is, you could always be doing more.

more reps.

more speed.

more strength.

more technique.

more smiles.

more laughs.

more hugs.

more sleep.

more, more, more.

but when can you sit back and say, i have done enough.

well, you cant really.

There are only a few people in this world that can say they have done enough.

Usain Bolt: 100m World Champion, Olympic Champion, World Record Holder, Olympic Record Holder.

Lance Armstrong: 7 time Tour De France winner and cancer survivor.

There are others who fit this catigory of the most amazing athletes we have ever seen but i have chosen these two for a reason.

The feats both these athletes have accomplished are phenomenal.

Yet both of these athletes have never once said "I've done all i can do"

Bolt is still chasing down his own world record.

Armstrong is training for yet another tour de france win.

so dont sit there and tell yourself you are doing enough

because the truth is you can always be doing more

you'll always have to do more

There is no end to how hard you have to work.

it'll always be harder, harder, harder..

until your day is done.

Out from the darkness into the light.

There are two types of people in this world.

Those that let things just happen to them.

and those that make things happen.

Unfortunately, the past 6 months i have been just let things happen.

This season has been such an adventure. And ive just been hanging on for the ride.

Id hate to say it, but this season was easy. not easy in the sense that i didnt have to work hard. but easy in the way that im not working any harder then usual yet every time i hit the track im getting a PB. Its both a blessing and a curse. Its good that all the hard work over the last 16 years is finally paying off but now im used to things just happening. im used to being given the win. given the PB. but i dont think Nationals is going to be so easy. Its definitely mine for the taking, as long as i rise to the challenge.

Its time to make this happen.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.

But at first, any belief worth having must survive doubt.

This is how humans are, we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.

I believe because it is impossible.

I believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.

The stories of past courage can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each person must look into their own soul.

A person often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Fear.

Fear is a great motivator for my running. I am one of those people who are terrified of losing. There are millions of people like me. Afraid of failure. The difference between them and myself is that my fear motivates me, it doesn't hinder me. When I'm scared, I work harder, I don't give up. When I'm defeated, I believe harder, I don't doubt myself.

When I'm scared, I'm desperate and it written all over my face when i run.

This is a tough way to play the game. But my fear is my strength. When it comes down to racing, its a matter of life and death. Failure is not an option i consider or prepare for.

Thats what its all about. Catch or be caught. Flee or Fail. You have to know you are the best. There is no option. Bare your souls and lay everything on the line.

Because, if your not scared, then your not taking risks.

&& if your not taking risks, then your not going anywhere.

today is the first day of the rest of your life

Here i sit. With high hopes and big dreams. But i am no different to most. "I wanna do this, I'm going to do that" but am i really willing to do what others don't to achieve what others wont? I'd like to think i would do everything to be the best i can but some days that is a lie. The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The WILLINGNESS to learn is a choice and some days its just easier to choose to be mediocre. Why must this pursuit for perfection rule my life? To myself I seem to be like a girl playing idly on the seashore, now and then finding a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of success lay undiscovered before me. I have had my solutions for a long time, but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. I work hard, believe, suffer and sacrifice. The idea that so much suffering can be in vain is intolerable to me, i know persistence is the key but which door does it open? My mum told me when i was very young that God will never give you more then you can handle. and i try to keep this in mind on days like this. Day so dark you wouldn't know them to exist.

But I must get up, dust myself off and pursue these dreams. Maybe I made you believe that it was easy. But I've worked on this these dreams, every single day of my life.

Which is exactly why I must push on, and persist. To chase my dreams through the struggle and hardship because if I don't, the last 16 years of my life had been a build up to nothing. A giant drum roll.

The graveyards are full of irreplaceable people, but only winners are remembered.