Rum-running

I have never considered myself to be extremely fit. In fact, I would have laughed if someone told me two years ago that I could tramp for 7 hours a day for 4 days consecutively. This is exactly why I am incredibly proud of my Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award. The 47km tramp in Whanganui National Park was life changing because I was completely outside of my comfort zone as I climbed mountains after mountains with a group of people I barely knew at first. However, over the 4 days and 3 nights, I…

It was a normal Saturday afternoon, I was playing in the sandbox with my brother, Tommy. We had a dull crimson shovel, which was rusty from all the countless days it has been left outside. The sand was damp, from the storm the previous night. We took several breaks, as we wanted to dig the deepest hole that we could. Several feet down, we noticed a luminous glare. We thought we found treasure and we ran to get a camera. We finally dug out a deep enough enough the pull out the amulet. The…

I am running, again, it’s exhilarating, just as I remembered, but this time something feels different; maybe I just understand it better this time. I had been little the first time, and the second, the third time had been only a few years ago but those few short years had felt like a long time. Now it’s my fourteenth birthday, not that it matters, and we are running again. Johnathan had been afraid for a few days, growing more anxious at every squeal of tires and every bang of car doors, the…

I’m standing and waiting. The wind is gusting and the sun is starting to set. I hear the clink that always makes my adrenaline flow...and I run. Everyone is yelling and as I round the corner I almost lose my footing. I do this in the same spot every time. I hit the final corner and burst into a full-out sprint. As my head bobbles up and down I lose the thought of everything in life: the stress, the happiness, and am only focused on making it that 90 feet. I am almost there, closing in 30, 20, 10…

Garnet was running in the woods when she heard a scream over her blaring earphones. She took them off and looked back to find a bleeding child withering under a man. Her eyes grew blurry with tears. Seeing such a vulgar thing happen in real life tore at her heart and filled her with rage. The abuser was slamming the poor child into an oak tree repeatedly, not noticing the rage filled teen running straight towards him. Before he could reach for the child’s half dead body once more, Garnet plunged…

Have you ever trained for a 5k? In training you have to keep track of where you run and what speed you were going at, imagine one day you went out to practice running the 5k and made it in 45 minutes! When you get home you notice you forgot to turn on your running log, all that work and nothing to show. That’s how it was for early sailors, they had trouble keeping track of how fast they were going, when it changed , and where they sailed. To solve this they had a Traverse Board an early…

later. Now think about how your horse feels every time you run him without a proper warm up. Without a proper warm up, you may be paying thousands of dollars in vet bills or even hospital bills if you or your horse gets injured during your run. Is running the fastest time really worth anything if you or your horse gets injured and can’t run again. The process of warming up your horse before a run may seem pointless, however it prevents your horse or even yourself from injury and gets your horse…

“Run Abigail Run’’ Elliana spoke. I slightly turned my head around to see if the dog was still behind me. Not to mention that I could hear my heart beating fast, terrifically fast . Furthermore, I was thinking about how this all started. A few minutes ago, my friends and I went to the park. Imiediatly I realized that the park was filled with people . I noticed kids that I haven’t seen before in the apartment complex . It was a hot day. I sensed the boiling sun on my face. It felt as if hot…

I was introduced to running in junior high school. Here, as part of my Physical Education requirement, I was required to run a mile every Wednesday. At first, I greatly disliked running. I would run out breath after 0.25 miles, and would barely finish the mile at a time of 6:26. Over the course of the year, I started to run around my local neighborhood. These short runs would be 20 minutes, and later in the year, these runs increased to an hour. With these runs, I noticed a considerable…

he decided to go out for track in the spring. Chris usually only ran cross country and played basketball, but Chris decided he wanted to do track. He signed up for the track team, and he became a distance runner. Chris was pretty good at distance running, and he soon began to break school records. He set a conference record in the mile, and multiple school records in the 800 and 4x800 with his teammates, Will, Mike, and Shawn. Chris ran all the time to keep in shape because he was paranoid.…