How to Win Bets Using Spiritual Oomph

How to win bets using spiritual oomph And a Tribute to The 1903 Winton Horseless Carriage Cynthia Winton-Henry The Winton was the first horseless carriage driven cross-country. The Challenge? No roads. San Francisco. 1903. Dr. Horatio Nelson bet 50 bucks that he could drive a car to the East Coast before there were roads. What? Wow. Reminds me of dad, Hal Winton, retired engineer Holy Spirit guy, Park Service Volunteer and trail boss. Dad collects feats –the annual Catalina Island fifty miler, the John Muir trail, traversing the Grand Canyon back and forth. To feel productive he clears trails in LA’s San Gabriel Mountains, leads the annual Angeles Crest 100 mile Endurance Run, and wields the chain saw that keeps trails open around Palos Verdes Peninsula, site of his first marathon decades ago. I feel awe and pride at dad’s accomplishments. But you won’t catch me running! Running makes my thighs itch! Endurance runners are rare athletes who move through pain and ridicule. Horatio was a kind of endurance athlete. He had to love adventurous physicality to confront… A fuel leak that drained out his gas and caused him to rent a bicycle, ride 25 miles, fix a flat tire on the bike, return to the car with fuel, and drive back the same 25 miles to fill er up. The time he lost his coat in Idaho that contained most of his money but said it was not missed, and arrived in New York City July 26, 1903, two months after beginning. Being too old when World War I broke out and contacting President Roosevelt in order to get commissioned as an officer. Spiritual Oomph? Perseverance is credited as the single most important characteristic for success in any field. To persist means to stand through, keep going...no matter what. In InterPlay we call this Incrementality.