和落花、b姐、晓阳一样,这是我连续比赛之后的一个赛,两周前刚完成一个超马,还没恢复。这个算是欢乐跑,加上长途旅程,没有休息,打算跑到哪算哪。但是,人一站在起跑线,上了战马,你就不能自己了,你本能地想 Be the best version of you! 虽然心率从140到了160,我还是极力想维持不掉速,看能坚持到哪里。终于,在最后两英里,进入了极限状态,心率上了170,最后冲到184。而同时,速度在25英里掉了16秒,26英里再掉了15秒,破了8,达到8'03"。我再也受不了了,在25.7英里停止再拚,等到看到终点线,做了最后冲刺,配速进入6分多。
后来,在我遇到困难时,想要放弃,他的语句就萦回在我的耳边。我知道,我这个比赛不会是我的PR,就是个欢乐跑,观光跑。可是即便如此,我也要成为最完美的自己,Be the best of me。不能成为一棵大树,就当个小草;做不了高速公路,就做个小步道;成不了太阳,我也要做一颗闪亮的星星。没有PR,也要跑出我今天最好的成绩。
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.