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BEN JOHNSON VS N’RIKO 🏃🔥 What can I say? It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience to race and challenge the fastest man on the planet, the legendary Ben Johnson! A huge thank you to everyone who came out to support us, to all of our amazing sponsors, and to everyone who donated. Your support means the world and helped make this event so special. And yes… I believed I had a chance 😂, but Ben is simply on another level! What an incredible athlete and an even greater legend. Most importantly, thank you to God and to my family for always standing by my side through every challenge and every dream. What can I say… to be continued! 😅 (Just kidding… or am I? 😉) #BenJohnson #NRiko #CharityRace #Grateful #DreamBig

Your coach or you or
SOMEONE needs to appreciate, understand and care about where it all began for you athletically.
DON’T rush please. The ride is as much fun or more than what ever place you might think you want to be.

You are most welcome 🏆♥️

Prioritize you, your health and future FIRST, then with or beside these real life goals DREAM and ya, dream big.

Periodization is a way to plan.
Training isn’t cast in stone.
Things change. You grow and improve.
If you are getting injured more than once a year, it means something isn’t correct.
Injuries happen but many and most of them are preventable.
How you rehabilitate is also necessary to learn.

Are you sprinting faster, faster and skipping steps? Nah, no one does that do they?

Way back in the early 1990’s, Coach Charlie Francis experienced joy hearing reports that coach ‘Vincent Stephen ‘Franno’ Francis had been reading his books.

Chronicling our habits, stories and experiences within our life time may never happen. Sharing, caring and supporting another is something we want for ourselves and others.

I’m sure that many people in the track world understood as the “Jamaica Observer” reported that Coach Stephan Francis in his 64th year was “a sharp, uncompromising, deeply influential” man.

Rest in power Coach Franno.

Injuries.
Frustration.
Are the two connected?
Maybe. Sometimes.
Embracing your private,personal, professional and or recreational frustrations may be the seed for change, greater focus and dedication. You still need experience, education and sharing to find your results.
My coach and partner used to say, why do you need to reinvent the wheel. You don’t.
The more driven you are,
the more susceptible you’ll possible be for injury.
Once I accepted these facts, life as a competitor on and off the track changed and vastly improved my life.

The truth never gets old.

Thirty-eight years ago I got to see what it looked like to sit on top of a mountain. The view was spectacular..
briefly.

Thirty-eight years ago my coach had been using Electronic Muscle Stimulation with his amateur athlete’s. He wrote training manuals and protocols for EMS devices in exchange for owning devices to intensify the training effects on the track or for rare injuries.

Don’t forget, performance enhancement includes the love and care coaches have for their athletes and craft on the track and off the track, under the lights and away from the cameras.

The best, the most effective and fool proof PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUG might be produced by little young or old you, and by working on the habits and karmic rules of the universe. Nah. That even sounds silly. ( but it’s not) 🏆❣️🧘‍♀️🙏🏿