{"id":28,"date":"2013-08-29T06:07:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T06:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/page-clan.com\/hectic-dad\/?p=28"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:21:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T21:21:57","slug":"life-isnt-a-marathon-its-a-series-of-sprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/life-isnt-a-marathon-its-a-series-of-sprints\/","title":{"rendered":"Life isn&#8217;t a marathon, it&#8217;s a series of sprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/males-318480_1280.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1670\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/males-318480_1280.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"males-318480_1280\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/males-318480_1280.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/males-318480_1280.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/males-318480_1280.jpg?resize=225%2C150&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/males-318480_1280.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/males-318480_1280.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ironically, I heard some advice on a radio show the other day that almost caused me to drive off the road. It\u2019s not bad advice,\u00a0at least not for some people\u2026&#8221;Life isn\u2019t a sprint, it\u2019s a marathon&#8221; . While I get the point of approaching life like you\u2019re in it for the long haul, the advice falls flat for me in my day-to-day hectic life.<\/p>\n<p>My life is really a series of sprints, followed by sporadic rests&#8230;often punctuated by the beginning of the next sprint. I\u2019ve written before about recognizing that things aren\u2019t going to be perfect, despite my desire for them to be that way. I\u2019ve written about trying to do everything set before me, and my slow (in my case v-e-r-y s-l-o-w) realization that it\u2019s just not going to happen. But life in a busy family with active kids, by it\u2019s very nature, is going to be filled with getting from one place to another.<\/p>\n<p>Take last Saturday for example. We have three kids in high school. One is on the Cross Country team. One is on the Volleyball team. The third is on the Football team. It\u2019s Fall sports season, so there was Cross Country practice on one side of town. There was a Football scrimmage at the local stadium. The Volleyball team was also hosting an officials clinic, and the girls were playing in scrimmages so the officials could all learn how to officiate.<\/p>\n<p>So in an effort to combine all those events with our desires to workout, my wife and I devised a plan to do our running\/walking around the transportation that everybody needed. We conned out youngest into riding her bike while I walked the three miles from the Cross Country practice to the Football stadium. In the meantime, my wife ran the five miles from home to the Cross Country practice, so she could drive our XC runner home. Quit looking at me funny&#8230;she\u2019s the one that wanted to run, and wanted to run the longer distance. Really, she did.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the XC practice started at 8am, so we got up and quickly dressed and sprinted over there (well, we drove the van but since the operative word here is \u201csprint\u201d just go with me on this). Then I sprinted to the Football practice (again, we\u2019re talking metaphor. No one would call what I do \u201csprinting\u201d) while my wife sprinted from home to the XC practice. Then she and our runner sprinted (again, in the van) to the Football scrimmage. Then we collectively sprinted the \u00bd mile to the Volleyball scrimmage.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s just one day, and although we are in things for the long haul, I find myself sprinting from one event to another. I know, I know&#8230;we could tell the kids to participate in less. Another option would be to divide and conquer and split up who attends which events. Or we could just skip some events. I\u2019ve done all of those. I\u2019d rather sprint and be there for the kids than miss out on any more than I absolutely have to.<\/p>\n<p>When I was in Middle School and High School, my Dad made a huge effort to fight through Chicago\u2019s suburban traffic to attend my sporting events. He had to drive over an hour in heavy traffic to make most of them, but I remember him being in the stands cheering me on. His booming voice and hearty congratulations were always there for me. Honestly, it\u2019s where I learned to \u201cdialogue\u201d with officials too. Maybe that wasn\u2019t the best lesson, but it is one that I really learned. From his attendance we created a bond that I\u2019ll always have with him. I want to pass that on to my kids. I want them to know that their biggest fan is there when they are having an all-star day and especially when they are having an \u201cagony of defeat\u201d kind of day.<\/p>\n<p>Does that kind of commitment make for crazy days? Sure. In Kansas we travel hours to compete. That means a lot of windshield time. It means a lot of early starts and late nights getting home. But I wouldn\u2019t trade it for the world. To me, those drives are worth every minute. When my kids were swimming we used to joke that our swim-time to driving-time ratio was something like one minute swimming for every hour of driving. But watching my kids was worth every bit of the effort. And trust me, sometimes those drives really were sprints!<\/p>\n<p>So I do take a bit of exception with the \u201clife is a marathon\u201d analogy. To me, it really is a series of sprints that are strung together. But that\u2019s OK with me. I\u2019m willing to make those sprints to be there for my kids.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d love to write\u00a0more, but I\u2019ve got to run. It\u2019s not always a hectic life&#8230;ok, it really is&#8230;but that\u2019s fine by me.<\/p>\n<p>Get out there and sprint to your next thing&#8230;ok?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/honestmum.com\/category\/brilliant-blog-posts\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/fJzNWoE.jpg?resize=301%2C189\" alt=\"Brilliant blog posts on HonestMum.com\" width=\"301\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ironically, I heard some advice on a radio show the other day that almost caused me to drive off the road. It\u2019s not bad advice,\u00a0at least not for some people\u2026&#8221;Life isn\u2019t a sprint, it\u2019s a marathon&#8221; . While I get the point of approaching life like you\u2019re in it for the long haul, the advice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[49,50,128,74],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parenting","category-productivity","tag-kansas","tag-kids","tag-parenting","tag-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Life isn&#039;t a marathon, it&#039;s a series of sprints -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/life-isnt-a-marathon-its-a-series-of-sprints\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Life isn&#039;t a marathon, it&#039;s a series of sprints -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ironically, I heard some advice on a radio show the other day that almost caused me to drive off the road. 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