Kenna Smoak

Time🕰 and tide 🌊wait for no man🕺🏼, but time always 💯stands still for a woman 💃🏼 of thirty🎂

–Robert Frost ❄️

Had a great 30th thanks for all the wishes. My ppl are the best.

@ The Meatball Shop - Hell's Kitchen

Thank you 29...best year yet. Adopted another pup, promoted to associate director of s&c, won my class at the Arnold, made a few personal enhancements, tried & won at strongman, 3 teams went to championships, and deepened relationships. So I can’t argue this year is leaving me better than it found me.

How much different is my life now than it was when I turned 20?

At twenty I was certain I was smart and at 30 I’m certain i’m not and the ironic thing about it is, i’m smarter for it. I’m a grown ass kid in a 30 year olds body making the most of it.

The difference i wonder Will i still hear the p word....potential. Will i be warned don’t burn out (yea right my last name is smoke) or finally trusted i got this!

So much of this decade feels fast tracked. My first times as an athlete or coach were usually younger than average. Hence the hated p word. It felt like i couldn’t be taken seriously as who i was currently. With a 3 in front of my age it’s this milestone rite of passage to a respectable era of experience. I question did i end up filling that?I think the hardest part of a milestone age is being able to answer how did you make use of your time!

No matter how hard you try to fast track some parts just can’t be rushed or given. Potential isn’t a checklist you can finish if you are driven by purpose. Purpose can have so many paths and detours to get through where if you focus on yours only it’s already incomparable. Fast tracking cannot guarantee you’ll end up any further or better. because I’ve had to learn your only in a race against yourself. I’ve always had an endurance bug so good news my race is just starting. I’m welcoming getting old.

Army sports hall of fame i noticed had my name the day i started. I took it as a sign this place wanted me too.
@ Michie Stadium

Glasses making my meathead neediness come out.
You are not in control of your life.
In fact, when you start trying to control it, you mess things up. Your are about a lot of things—mostly, working , helping others, and a training addiction you are so so okay with.
But your lack of control clings to you. It begs you to acknowledge it but not dwell anxiously it’s there. Repeating not in control, not in control, not in control. How are you going to handle this?... That doesn’t have to be a bad thing. In fact, what if I told you it never was?
Control is married to Expectation and Expectation is a limiting belief. And you think they’re all friends with Goals, but Goals has never liked either of them. (She’s just too polite to make a big deal of it.) But when Goals decides to be the bitch she is by ignoring the way Control wants it to be, any possible way can yield to being the way.

We all have a bag. We all pack differently. Some of us are traveling light. Some of us are secret hoarders who’ve never parted with a memory in our lives. I think we are called to figure out how to carry our bag to the best of our ability, how to unpack it, and how to face the mess. I think a part of growing up is learning how to sit down on the floor with all your things and figuring out what to take with you and what to leave behind.-h. brencher

It got awkward & then i made it worse somehow.
-an autobiography

You get as many "do-overs" as you like. Of course, you never know you're living a "do-over" until it's over. Bc it’s just you keeping going.

There are lots of reasons for wanting a "do-over." Most of all, people want another chance to do things they were afraid to do the first time, and to say things they were afraid to say. Oddly enough, it's not their mistakes they want to rework, but their "unused" minutes.

Yeah, pretty neato, but you should know that it isn't any easier the next time, and because no two ever go exactly the same, the gifts, opportunities, and loves of one never appear the same way again. Your just a little more familiar w/ how to go about it.

So all in all, it's better to live as if there are no "do-overs," so that you won't need one. But let it be known so we all can work in the bits about fear, mistakes, and how precious today's opportunities really and truly are.

Westpoint Graduation. I’m extremely proud of all my athletes! Tried to time getting to all the fields to see pinning ceremonies. This place is special!!!
W/ softball Firstie class , baseball Forstie Class, confusing ppl, @, so glad I have been able to work with y’all! @ West Point, New York

Energy sharing, like minded, superstars i got to be around!
so glad this weekend worked out the way it did! .kelly.clay
keep setting that example.
Og workout partner. I’m so proud of you!!

So many others i was lucky to be around and learn from!


@ Sorinex Exercise Equipment

You just never know who’s going to show up at Summer Strong! appreciate the time you took to talk to me!