Portland‚ Oregon this past June from Woodbridge‚ Virginia. Remi has always been a strong runner with endurance that was downright envious. When she lived Woodbridge‚ she was featured in her county’s newspaper several times for her excellent times running a 5k. Her very best time was a 16:29. Now starting her freshman year in a new school‚ she wanted to make a name for herself and get on the varsity cross-country team. And since Remi believed that practice makes perfect‚ she woke up at five-thirty
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I believe in running. I believe in the healing running does. Running can make me a better person. When I run it helps me push myself. At some point in every race I feel a struggle‚ a wall of pain‚ but I push myself to run through that wall every time. The wall represents all the struggles in life as well as the struggles I’m facing through the race. Pursuing our endeavours is never an easy task. How many times when faced a hardship do you want to quit? Everyone has always been in a situation where
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for my achilles. These superfluous attempts at eliminating pain only created more problems. Could these very things - cushioned‚ bulky shoes - designed to maximize running performance be hampering our running and causing excessive injuries? Many runners‚ professional and ametuer‚ have arrived at this conclusion and have begun running barefoot. Many believe that clunky‚ padded shoes make runners strike on the heel‚ which sends a massive shockwave of force up the leg and is absorbed by the knee and
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exactly fits the criteria of art and who’s to say what is and isn’t art. Especially since everyone has a different perception of it art could be painting of a breathtaking landscape or splatter of paint on a canvas. Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s the Running Fence is primary example of this never ending debate. The Installation art piece that was the main subject of 1977 documentary of the same name was comprised of a veiled fence that ran for 24.5 miles and extended across the hills of Sonoma and Marin
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during my junior year of high school‚ I began taking the sport more seriously after realizing my potential in running with the top 8 girls on the team. This season was also unlike most seasons that I had ever experienced because I felt healthier and faster. Because of this I had the hopes of qualifying for Districts. To achieve this goal‚ I went beyond what was expected of me by running every Saturday to incorporate extra mileage in my training and
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Nicole Angelic R. Simpao BSMT-1B Cool Runnings There really was a Jamaican bobsled team. ‚ the Jamaicans practiced on a bobsled with wheels‚ in the absence of any snow in their native land. Then they went to the winter Olympics‚ where the crowds cheered their pluck‚ if not their speed. The Jamaican national bobsleigh team represents Jamaica in international bobsledding competitions. Not only was there the novelty of having a tropical country compete in a cold-weather sport‚ but they had
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situation quite often. Running is painful. Muscles cramp‚ stomachs churn‚ and heads get dizzy. Even so it is a pain I would not trade for the entire world. When I go out to run‚ my mind clears of everything except the finish line ahead. It is an escape like no other. There are so many reasons why I have loved running through high school. It has taught me so much and has helped me grow in so many ways. How is it possible to love to run when it can be so brutal? By running cross country and track
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Cool Runnings is a movie about four Jamaican men named Derice Bannock‚ Junior Bevil‚ Yul Brenner‚ and Irv Blitzer who set out to raise money in order to compete in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary‚ Alberta as a bobsled team. The group of men tried a few different ways to raise the money to go compete and they seemed to keep failing. Finally one of the men decided to sell his car in order to help them reach their money goal. After Junior sold his car the team were on their way to Calgary
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Understanding of Running Fence After watching the great project-Running Fence‚ I have changed my appreciation of art. Christo and Jeanne-Claude are outstanding installation artists‚ and they enlarge people sight of traditional artwork. In this project‚ a twenty four and a half mile long white silk fence hung up across the hills and extended to sea shore are in California’s Bodega Bay. With Christo and Jeanne’s precise calculation‚ workers installed staffs within certain distances‚ and used strings
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and what defines our identity and others. The Running Man‚ by Michael Gerard Bauer‚ explores ideas on the effects of war and society’s expectations through the relationships formed throughout the book. Similarly‚ the poem ‘Weapons Training’‚ by Bruce Dawe‚ uses the relationship between the drill sergeant‚ the soldiers and their enemy to shape our understanding of the viciousness and brutality of war and the expectations of society. In The Running Man‚ the relationship between Joseph and Tom explores
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