The computer maker, Hewlet Packard is known by their initials, "HP". Their current slogan for their company is "HP: Invent." It's catchy, I guess, aims to get us consumers thinking about their inventiveness, their corner on the market is supposedly more inventive than their competitors. It works.
I've been calling one of our runners by HP. It's her initials and since some have begun to refer to me simply as "CP", I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and so I take all the syllables of Hanna Peterson and reduce them down to "HP." She doesn't seem to mind, so it works.
It struck me the other day as I was finishing a run with her that her running has begun to match Hewlet Packard's slogan. HP, I mean Hanna Peterson, is in the process of inventing herself athletically!
Last Fall in cross, she was like many freshmen are: A bit timid, quiet, and definitely JV. But something happened to her over the winter. She joined the Lobos club, worked diligently, and in the process of time and consistent sweat, she's reinvented herself athletically. She's not who she was last Fall! That don't-rock-the-boat rookie 9th grader has become a take-no-prisoners runner! What a great invention!
The signs are obvious that this is a newer version of Hanna. Let's call her Hannah 2.0. Last week in her first ever track race (the 800), she put down a very respectable 2:36, fourth fastest for King on the day. Two days later, she pulled a 19:29 3 mile threshold effort. Yesterday, she closed out the 8.5 miler with a 7:29 last mile.
Where's this all come from? Where is this new inventiveness found? I'm not totally sure what clicked in her mind, but the outcome is exciting and growing. It's the same outcome a lot of you are finding to be true. If you work hard, stick with it, good things will come.
The new Hanna is the new many and it can be the new you if you aren't yet inventing yourself. Like all great inventions, the latest and greatest usually beckons copy-cats. Feel free to copy. There's no patent on her invention.
I love this sport! You get out of it what you put into it ... but that's something any inventor already knows.
I've been calling one of our runners by HP. It's her initials and since some have begun to refer to me simply as "CP", I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and so I take all the syllables of Hanna Peterson and reduce them down to "HP." She doesn't seem to mind, so it works.
It struck me the other day as I was finishing a run with her that her running has begun to match Hewlet Packard's slogan. HP, I mean Hanna Peterson, is in the process of inventing herself athletically!
Last Fall in cross, she was like many freshmen are: A bit timid, quiet, and definitely JV. But something happened to her over the winter. She joined the Lobos club, worked diligently, and in the process of time and consistent sweat, she's reinvented herself athletically. She's not who she was last Fall! That don't-rock-the-boat rookie 9th grader has become a take-no-prisoners runner! What a great invention!
The signs are obvious that this is a newer version of Hanna. Let's call her Hannah 2.0. Last week in her first ever track race (the 800), she put down a very respectable 2:36, fourth fastest for King on the day. Two days later, she pulled a 19:29 3 mile threshold effort. Yesterday, she closed out the 8.5 miler with a 7:29 last mile.
Where's this all come from? Where is this new inventiveness found? I'm not totally sure what clicked in her mind, but the outcome is exciting and growing. It's the same outcome a lot of you are finding to be true. If you work hard, stick with it, good things will come.
The new Hanna is the new many and it can be the new you if you aren't yet inventing yourself. Like all great inventions, the latest and greatest usually beckons copy-cats. Feel free to copy. There's no patent on her invention.
I love this sport! You get out of it what you put into it ... but that's something any inventor already knows.
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