With the Cross-Country team‚ I feel like an insider. An experience that best exemplifies this feeling is from a practice during my freshman year. I was a slow runner‚ running in a pair of poor quality shoes and the fastest kid on the team came up to me and told me that I needed new shoes and that he would help me purchase them. As a scared freshman on my first runs‚ I needed something of this nature‚ a confidence booster. It showed me that the community surrounding me was not only caring‚ but also
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October 29‚ 2016 I was competing in the IHSA cross country sectional meet in an effort to advance my team to the state finals which was the following week. I finished the race and was immediately rushed to an urgent care facility where I found out I had pneumonia. The week leading up up to the race I was home sick several days with an upper respiratory infection but knew I had to get back to training in order to support my team as I was the number three runner. Seven days later I raced at the State
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well can achieve your goals and tell you about how I achieved mine. In fact I never quite associated running with myself until in my thirties. My flatmate was a runner‚ and she would always come back from her runs with a certain glow‚ and I told her that I wished I could run like her. After taking up walking for a while‚ I finally decided that if I could take long walks‚ I could take up running. My first ever run was somewhat of a flop. First I spent way too long stalling and procrastinating‚ which
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example of this is the assessment of reading. A Running Record is one method of assessing a child’s reading (Hill‚ 2012). The running record allows the teacher to note a child’s reading behaviour as he or she reads from a chosen text. It examines both the accuracy of reading and the types of errors children make when reading. It also allows the teacher to determine the reading level of the student. A close analysis of the results of a running record assessment provides insights into which reading
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upperclassmen due to the fact that the quote tied together all of the meaningful experiences that we’d shared with as friends and classmates throughout our years as cross country runners. The gift of running has given me so much in life in regards to comradery and friendship. The experiences gained through running Cathedral cross country‚ have shaped my character and taught me the value of hard work and perseverance‚ leaving an enduring mark on who I am. As an athlete‚ I managed to achieve a great deal in
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“Time is Running Out” "Time is Running Out" is written by Oodgeroo Noonuccal‚ an author and politician who is most commonly lauded as the first Aboriginal poet to publish a collection of verse. She is also an active campaigner for Aboriginal civil rights. The theme of many of her works is the hope for understanding and peace between black and white Australians. In “Time is Running Out”‚ Oodgeroo expresses her criticism towards the irresponsible miners who exploited and violently destructed her
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Running with Scissors Review I loved reading the book “Running with Scissors”‚ so when I was told we could watch the movie for extra credit I was very happy‚ since I had never seen it. Running with Scissors seems to deal with every aspect of addiction and mental health. As you will see it seems to deal with the more extreme and the further you go into his life the more grateful you seem for yours. The book/movie is a memoir of Augusten Burroughs. It chronicles his life from age 9 to 17. At the
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In ALWAYS RUNNING‚ Luis J. Rodriguez offers a loosely organized but thoroughly wrenching account of his experience growing up in and around Watts and the Las Lomas barrio‚ just east of Los Angeles. Rodriguez‚ a poet and journalist who now resides in Chicago‚ was born in 1954 in El Paso‚ Texas. His parents‚ recent immigrants from Mexico‚ soon migrated to the Los Angeles area. There‚ Rodriguez experienced the indignities of poverty‚ prejudice‚ and nearly unchecked police brutality. Joining a gang and
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Running is unlike most sports‚ it is one where it is more mental than physical. Sometimes it feels like you eventually hit a plateau. That point where no matter how hard you are working in practice every day you just can not seem to shave those seconds. However‚ there are unconventional ways that do not directly correlate to running that could influence times. In “12 Uncomfortable Ways to Become a Better Runner in 2016” by Sinead Mulhern from December 17th of 2015‚ posted under Training in Canadian
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It’s cold‚damp and misty. The fog covers my view of everything in front of me. I can only hear the sounds of both the shouting of the men following me and the footsteps of my acquaintance ahead of me. The urge to keep running surges through my veins. My mind is clouded due to the adrenaline. Adrenaline‚ what an interesting thing. It seems to take over your body. Almost as if there’s another hand on the steering wheel controlling my body. I begin to slow down in exhaustion. There is a shooting pain
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