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Olympic Stadium, London, August 4, 2012. Minutes before the race of my life, the finals of the men\u2019s 10,000 meters. I wasn\u2019t running. I was a spectator. Below, taking their places, were two runners I\u2019d spent years coaching. Many, many hopes rested on those two men.<\/p>\n

Mo Farah, a 29-year-old from England, carried his country\u2019s dream of Olympic gold. Galen Rupp, a 26-year-old from Oregon, had a shot at becoming the first American in decades to medal in an Olympic distance event.<\/p>\n

Sometimes at big races coaches get to sit close to the runners. Not at these Olympics. I was in the stands like any other fan. Maybe that was better\u2014better that my runners couldn\u2019t see the tension on my face.<\/p>\n

For more than a decade I had led a program called the Nike Oregon Project, an attempt to show the world that, with the right training, Westerners could once again compete in world-class distance running. For years Africans had completely dominated the sport.<\/p>\n

The stakes were especially high at this Olympics. Doubts about the project ran rampant in the running world. Our runners had failed to finish higher than eighth place in the 2004 and 2008 games. It\u2019s a vanity project, <\/em>people said, Alberto Salazar trying to redeem himself. <\/em><\/p>\n

I knew what they meant. I\u2019d won four major marathons in the early 1980s. Then I flamed out and never won another marathon. I never won an Olympic medal.<\/p>\n

Were the doubters right? Was I here for the wrong reasons? I certainly had cause to wonder. I\u2019d made so many poor decisions in my life, in my running career. Yet an almost indescribable calm descended over me in that packed stadium in London. The gun sounded. The runners were off.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t help but marvel at the peace I felt inside\u2014the complete opposite of how I\u2019d felt in my own running career. Maybe it was the competitive fire I\u2019d inherited from my father, a hard-driving immigrant from Cuba who expected his kids to be Catholic, anti-communist and high achievers, in that order.<\/p>\n

Or maybe it was just my own arrogance. Whatever it was, from the moment I started running in high school, I approached the sport like a one-man army. I ignored coaches\u2019 advice and pushed myself beyond my limits. I bragged about my victories\u2014it was the confidence of a champion, I thought.<\/p>\n

I won the New York City Marathon in 1980, followed by two more New York City Marathons, and the Boston Marathon in 1982. Before I turned 25 I was ranked the top distance runner in America.<\/p>\n

Then, just as my coaches warned, I began suffering injuries. Stress fractures. Torn tendons. Hamstring strains. I tried physical therapy, surgery, unproven cures. Nothing worked. A few short years after my burst of fame, I was finished, washed up.<\/p>\n

Images of my own past races flitted through my mind as I watched Mo and Galen complete the first lap. They were several paces behind the leaders. Their strides looked good, exactly as we\u2019d practiced. I trusted them to conserve their energy until the last few laps, when distance races are won or lost.<\/p>\n

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That strategy\u2014conserving strength until it\u2019s needed\u2014was the foundation of the Nike Oregon Project.<\/p>\n

I thought back to the day when I\u2019d sat down with Nike executives to broach the idea. \u201cI think Americans can win again,\u201d I\u2019d said. But was it true? It seemed as if American distance running had followed the same downward trajectory as my career.<\/p>\n

Once regulars on the Olympic medal podium, Americans hadn\u2019t won the men\u2019s 10,000 meters since 1964. In the years since I\u2019d stopped competing, I\u2019d gotten married, had kids and taken a marketing job with Nike that kept me involved with running. But something was missing.<\/p>\n

My parents had raised me to believe God is always in charge. Still, I struggled to accept the direction my life had taken. My critics were right about one thing. The Nike Oregon Project was my attempt to find a new path, to find redemption, if you will.<\/p>\n

Mo and Galen began lap six. Several African runners held the lead. Suddenly a runner from Uganda stumbled, almost knocking Mo over. Mo lost his stride. The next moment he and Galen were both far behind. I took a deep breath, as if trying to inhale that feeling of calm.<\/p>\n

Mo and Galen had 19 laps to catch up. Besides, wasn\u2019t patience the first lesson I taught every Nike Oregon Project runner? \u201cRace when your body\u2019s ready\u2014not before,\u201d I always said. \u201cI won\u2019t let you make the same mistakes I did.\u201d That meant training plans were designed to build slowly and sustainably toward victory.<\/p>\n

It also meant an even more important lesson: \u201cYou need something bigger in your lives than running. If running is all you care about, like it was for me, you\u2019ll burn yourself out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Religious faith is not a prerequisite for becoming a Nike Oregon Project runner. I don\u2019t preach from the sidelines. But I don\u2019t hide my faith, either. And many of my runners are people of faith too, particularly Mo and Galen. Mo is a Muslim, Galen a Christian.<\/p>\n

Galen and I pray together before each race, and Mo joins occasionally to pray for family members in need. The two of them have become close friends. They\u2019re roommates on the road. They\u2019re both into soccer. They know each other\u2019s families. They support each other on and off the track.<\/p>\n

For years I taught this training philosophy, praying for some sign that it wasn\u2019t, as critics said, just a vanity project. At times I doubted my own motives. Then one day I got a sign\u2014though I had no idea what it meant at the time.<\/p>\n

I was walking across the Nike campus with Galen and two other runners. Out of nowhere a crushing pain flashed in my neck. I sank to one knee. The world went black.<\/p>\n

I awoke in the hospital. My wife, Molly, was there. \u201cAlberto!\u201d she cried. \u201cYou\u2019ve had a heart attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019d had more than a heart attack. Despite years of running and maintaining my health, a rogue piece of arterial plaque had suddenly blocked blood from entering my heart. The heart muscle seized up.<\/p>\n

For 14 minutes I\u2019d lain on the pavement while a doctor and an Army medic recently returned from Iraq\u2014both men just happened to be on the Nike campus that day\u2014performed CPR until an ambulance arrived.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Ordinarily the brain can\u2019t survive more than six minutes without a steady supply of oxygen and nutrients carried by the blood. My heart had stopped pumping blood for 14 minutes. Yet somehow I was alive.<\/p>\n

I returned to coaching as soon as I could. But no matter how hard I worked, or how steadily my runners improved, I couldn\u2019t figure out why I\u2019d survived that heart attack. It was a miracle, I knew. A sign, surely. But of what?<\/p>\n

A bell clanged. At last, the final lap of the 10,000 meters. Slowly, patiently, just as they had trained to do, Mo and Galen regained positions in the lead pack. They were surrounded by Eritreans, Ethiopians and Kenyans. Tariku Bekele, a talented Ethiopian, was in front.<\/p>\n

Now, <\/em>I thought, focusing my gaze on Mo and Galen. Sprint now. <\/em>They did. Mo\u2019s legs churned. Suddenly he broke past Bekele into the lead. The others scrambled to catch him. Galen pulled even with Bekele. The pack rounded the final turn and Mo\u2019s lead grew.<\/p>\n

A roar erupted in the stadium\u2014an Englishman was about to win! I stood. My heart\u2014my miraculously healed heart\u2014 beat harder. Mo was almost to the finish line. Galen and Bekele were battling for second. Mo crossed the line\u2014gold! The next moment Galen shot ahead of Bekele and claimed silver.<\/p>\n

You might think that I immediately jumped up into the air and shouted myself hoarse, dancing on my seat. After all, it was the victory I had toiled for. The victory that everyone at Nike, in England, in America, wanted. The victory that critics said would never come.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t dance. Instead, I stared transfixed at something no one else in that giant stadium noticed. It was Mo Farah right after he crossed the finish line. Photographs of that moment show Mo with his hands cupped to his astounded, joyous face. Mo Farah exults in his victory, <\/em>read the captions.<\/p>\n

\"Mo<\/a><\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not what the photographs really show. Mo\u2019s face lit up then not because he won gold\u2014but because he turned around and saw Galen win silver. At the moment of his greatest triumph, Mo wasn\u2019t thinking about himself at all. He was thinking about his friend.<\/p>\n

Something bigger in your life than running.<\/em> All at once, in the rush of victory, I understood why I\u2019d been so calm at the start of the race. I understood why I\u2019d survived my heart attack and why my running career had taken me not to my own Olympic victory, but to this race in London.<\/p>\n

Something\u2014no, Someone\u2014bigger than running had brought me here. My youthful mistakes, my brush with death\u2014they were moments of grace, reminders that God is at work even in the midst of our human imperfection and mortality.<\/p>\n

Slowly, sometimes painfully, I learned to take the focus off myself and give the lead to God. With Mo and Galen and my other runners, I learned to run a different kind of race, one that takes us beyond winning, a race that is won at the end and not the beginning.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Download your FREE ebook, The Power of Hope: 7 Inspirational Stories of People Rediscovering Faith, Hope and Love<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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