| Want to take it to the next level?
Whether you're a beginning running trying to complete your first 5K, or an aspiring 4:20 miler, I want to help you achieve your goals and take your running to a higher level. I'd be happy to address any questions or concerns you might have. I would like to help as many people as I can, but I only have so many hours in a day, so please understand if I am slow to respond at times. I promise that I will read all emails--eventually. Also, feel free to contact me for any other reason. I'd be happy to hear from you. For example, if you notice any typos or errors, have comments, suggestions, disagree with something I say, would like to see something specific on the site, or just feel lonely and have no one else to talk to (just kidding), send me an email. The best way to reach me is through email: mentor@prexemplar.com You can also contact me through AIM. My Screen Name is Daikoku53 "I had never thought about or reached higher levels of speed and PRs throughout eighth grade track and 9th grade cross country. When I met Jin Daikoku during my track season in 9th grade he helped improve many of my times. Through his guidance in specified speed and distance workouts, support at races, and overall mentoring in track attitude, he helped me bring my 1600 time down from 5:28 to 4:46 and my 3200 time down from 11:06 to 10:12 in one season. I know this could not have happened without his coaching, but I don't recommend him to anyone who isn't determined on getting faster. With enough will and determination to put in the hard work and effort, Jin Daikoku can bring huge PR's to any runner." --Aaron Hill |
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling
