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Amid the booming silence I kept my eyes on the road and mulled over Bowerman’s eccentric personality, which carried over to everything he did. He always went against the grain. Always. For example, he was the first college coach in America to emphasize rest, to place as much value on recovery as on work. But when he worked you, brother, he worked you. Bowerman’s strategy for running the mile was simple. Set a fast pace for the first two laps, run the third as hard as you can, then triple your speed on the fourth. There was a Zen-like quality to this strategy, because it was impossible. And yet it worked. Bowerman coached more sub-four-minute milers than anybody, ever. I wasn’t one of them, however, and this day
Denying your creativity is like staying in a toxic relationship or a dead-end job because you can’t imagine anything better.
Creative Calling
Chase Jarvis
Whenever I saw him, he’d say, “The ocean is God’s greatest and most beautiful creation.” When he did his daily swims off Long Beach, he meditated. He asked what I thought about when I swam, and I told him: I focused on my breath—on the sounds of my inhales and exhales; on the long streams of bubbles released into the water. I felt myself move through the water, and felt how it lifted and flowed around me. For hours I listened to the sounds of my hands capturing water and pulling me across the sea. Sometimes, I felt at one with the water. He told me that I meditated, too.
Open Water Swimming Manual
Lynne Cox
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