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Archives for August 2011

The Impossible List is NOT a Bucket List

August 30, 2011 By Joel Runyon 83 Comments

The Impossible List is NOT a Bucket List. There's a difference. Not just in the name, but in the entire concept. Lots of people have a bucket list. They're static things made up at one point in time that most people don't end up actually incorporating into their lives and discard when things get tough. The impossible list is different. It's fluid, updating status of what's coming, what's next and where you've come from. It's always changing, always ...

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Filed Under: The Impossible, The Impossible List Tagged With: bucket, Bucket List, Impossible List, kick the bucket, life lists, list of things to do before i die, possible list, The Impossible List

Think You Can You Beat Me? An Open Challenge

August 23, 2011 By Joel Runyon 19 Comments

I had a really fun time racing with with Johnny at the Sylvania Triathlon last week. It was a lot of fun to not only do the race, but do it with someone, and then be able to hang out with them afterwards and talk for a bit. It was a really good time. There's a seeming under-representation of bloggers in the Midwest and it was pretty fun to hang out with someone like Johnny and share an experience with. I've been thinking lately that between now and my ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Fitness, The Impossible, Updates Tagged With: Awesome, exceptions for awesome, Racing, racing readers, readers

Bouncing Back & Setting PRs

August 19, 2011 By Joel Runyon 18 Comments

The Sylvania Triathlon After my last race, I needed to bounce back in a big way. I was disappointed because I knew I could do better than I had. And I knew that I was stepping it up in a big way this week. I was doing my first Olympic distance race of the year and I was meeting Johnny B Truant for the race as well. We've been talking back and forth about doing a race together, and finally found a good one, so I had to make sure old man Truant didn't beat ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Fitness, The Impossible, Updates Tagged With: daniel haley, elite endeavors, johnny b truant, ohio triathlon, olympic triathlon, Race Recap, seth haley, sylvania triathlon, Triathlon PR

Literally Impossible

August 17, 2011 By Joel Runyon 35 Comments

I was talking with Johnny at Starbucks after we finished the Sylvania triathlon together this past weekend. We went back and forth about the race and blogging until he paused at one point and said, "You know Joel, I should point out, the things you do aren't literally impossible things - they're more like unlikely things. The fact that they've been done before actually proves they're possible." I get this all the time from readers, friends and anyone who ...

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Filed Under: Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: 4 minute mile, chuck yeager, four minute mile, Impossible, literally impossible, literally impossible things, man on the moon, neil armstrong, roger bannister, scaling impossible, sound barrier, space program, what's literally impossible

Are You Really Going To Let That Stop You?

August 12, 2011 By Joel Runyon 23 Comments

I'm working on some pretty big things behind the scenes lately. They're not quite ready to share, but sometimes when working on projects, I start and stop and start again, but little things come up that threaten to stop them from happening. This is one of those little things. *** The site keeps getting bigger and bigger and a few months back I began brainstorming an idea for scaling the site and it's functions. I had a specific idea in mind to reach more ...

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Filed Under: Fitness, Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: are you really going to let that stop you?, dont stop, keep going, really?

The Upside To Disappointment

August 9, 2011 By Joel Runyon 20 Comments

Every once in a while, I'll have a race that doesn't go as planned. This race this past weekend was one of those. I woke up late for the race. I didn't have directions to it. My bike got stuck in 2nd gear for half the race. I didn't run a decent pace at all. At the end, I crossed the finish line, looked at the time and shook my head in disgust. I was disappointed. I was disappointed that my time was slower than I wanted it to be. I ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Fitness, Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: disappointment, keep going, Triathlon

The Problem With Choose Your Own Adventure

August 4, 2011 By Joel Runyon 17 Comments

Remember the choose your own adventure books? They were my favorite. You'd start reading a book and it'd start out just like any other story you've read and then all of a sudden something different happens. You have a choice. Does the character do option A or option B? You, the reader, get to intervene in the lives of the characters in the book. You get to decide the direction of the story. You get to choose what they do next. Their future. Their destiny. ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: choose your own adventure, create your own adventure, good story, great story, how to tell a good story, make you own option, option W, why are there only two options?

If You “Could”, You Already Would

August 2, 2011 By Joel Runyon 21 Comments

A few months back, Mark Lawrence introduced me to his friend (we'll call him Josh) who has an incredibly interesting job. Josh is a distributor. He buys things in bulk for cheap. Then he turns around and sells them to people who want it. He deals in tiny markets with huge volumes. It's incredibly obscure and wildly profitable. Josh is a cool guy, but there's a story Mark tells me about Josh that never ceases to impress me. *** Josh met with someone ...

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Filed Under: Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: baby bottle nipples, bruce lee, GARY VEE, Hustle, hustle hustle hustle, if you could, solar energy farm, spot hero, you would

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