The clock is tick tick ticking towards our USA Olympic Trials Marathon.
This time, this Olympiad, this race, in Los Angeles. To everyone that dared dream and made it, good on you. For those that did the dreaming but not the daring tsk tsk.
Thirty years of experience informs me. If you didn’t go for it this time it may well have been your last shot. Sad fact of running at a national level. You either dream and dare or you stay home.
That is why I stress URGENCY. This does matter. Now. It won’t be too long and you’ll be looking back with your what ifs and shoulda woulda coulda beens. How many of you will be around making a run for the 2020 Olympic Trials? Not many, not many.
Good news is that there is always youth. Exuberance, hubris, juevos, daring dreamers.
Those very few, the very select, with good genes and good coaching, with a strong mind, with a mission.
We can only bask in Tanner Fruit’s and Mike Morgan’s origin from Nebraska this time around. Mike gone now 12 years, Tanner taking his talents to Boulder. No male or female Olympic Trials qualifiers from Nebraska proper.
I find it difficult to believe that no one from Nebraska is talented enough for the standards.
Ah, the tribulations of the trials.
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