There’s Always More
How do you know what’s left unless you use it all? I hear Bo now. He was my indoor track coach when I was a freshman in junior college. I wasn’t on the team because I was some kind of a great runner or anything. They received points for every participant, so my presence at the meets helped the team.
Everyone on the team was super supportive and doled out much advice. A sprinter gave me tips on coming out of the blocks. The half-miler girl had me bring down my arms so my elbows would brush my hips. And, the long distance runners told me to bring my arms up straight instead of crossing my body. “All motion should be forward.” they said. Although I was always last in my event, I never minded because I was competing against people who’d been training for years. Coach Myers told me to focus on beating my own best time each race.
Every experience has some use. To this day, the advice one All-American sophomore gave me rings true. Not only did she let me borrow her ultra-light shoes which helped cut my personal best by five seconds, but she bestowed her own secret. She told me to pick a point toward the end and ‘blow out everything I had’ for that goal. Then, when I reached this place, I was to find what was left. She said, “There’s always more.”