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Arun Gupta is a technology enthusiast, a passionate runner, and a community guy who works for Sun Microsystems.
Saturday July 26, 2008
Running Strong with Billy Mills
July
2008 issue (page 96) of Hemisphere
Magazine has an interview with Billy Mills
- the only American to ever win a Gold medal in the 10,000 meter run at
Olympics. He did that in 1964
Olympics @ Tokyo. It is quite an inspiring interview and I
read it a few times during my travel this week. I could
connect with it more closely now that my upcoming
1/2 marathon is a week away.
I'd like to share some inspirational quotes from there:
"I tried all different
sports. Running - even though I wasn't fast in the beginning - brought
me tranquility. It was almost spiritual."
His dad was his inspiration who said:
"Look down deeper, where
the dreams lie. Find your dream, son. Pursure your dream. It's the
pursuit of a dream that heals you."
And another one ..
"It's important to
pursue a dream that heals you. With dreams come desire.. With desire
comes self-motivation. With self-motivation comes work. With work comes
success."
Check out one of the biggest upsets in Olympics:
A movie was created based upon Mills's story in 1983 - Running Brave
and it's way at the top in my Netflix
queue now! Here is an excerpt from the movie:
Quite an inspiration! Team
Hoyt and Dean
Karnazes are my other inspirations for running. What
motivates you ?
I could not verify the "only American" claim @ Olympics official
website because the searchable database allows to search for
all sports except
"Running". Weird, isn't it ? But check
for your self:
Wikipedia comes to help and prooves that Billy Mills has indeed been
the only
American to ever win a Gold medal in 10,000 meters. Billy has
taken running to a different extent now where he is traveling 300 days
in a year as motivational speaker and supports non profit group Running Strong.
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Hi Arun,
on the Olympics website instead of Running, you need to choose Athletics and select 10000m in the sport column.
Posted by Martin on August 08, 2008 at 06:08 AM PDT #
I mean, select 10000m in the event column :)
Posted by Martin on August 08, 2008 at 06:10 AM PDT #
Ah thanks, finally could see the results. I knew I was doing something silly :)
Posted by Arun Gupta on August 08, 2008 at 06:22 AM PDT #