Rum-running

than one. Whether it is singing, painting, sports, and even cooking, but everybody something they excel at. It took Steve Prefontaine a little longer than most kids to find his talent, Running. Steve Prefontaine grew up in Coos Bay, Oregon and just like any boy in middle school, he wanted to play contact sports. Running never even crossed Steve’s mind as a middle schooler. However, coaches did not find him physically able to play such contact sports like football. His height played the primary…

When the word ‘culture’ is mentioned most people don't think of running. Instead it seems that when culture is being talked about many people think of different countries, ethnicities, or religions, but usually not the running culture. Running is in fact a very real and serious culture, and it is shaped by many people, places, and things. One ‘thing’ or artifact, in particular, is a GPS running watch. Nowadays it seems like every runner has them, and if someone doesn't have one directly on them…

Quickening my breath, I felt my lungs stop accepting the air that I gave to them. Sadly, I was never going to survive the agony of continuing on; . Suddenly, a random blonde haired girl about my age rushed passed me and many more runners followed her. I was losing the battle. Weighed down by the grass that tugging at my feet, I struggled to hold my head high and focus. It was almost too much to handle. The anxiety of being left behind weighed on me like a rope fastened around my neck hooked to a…

“Are you kidding me!” I think to myself. The way I am running alarms my coach that I am still in pain. He then subs me back out. I text my mom and we go to the Emergency Room after the game. The wait was unbearable. My mom and I went to the emergency room at around 6pm and we didn’t even get called down until 10pm. My mom was furious. I guess the doctors at the hospital didn’t think my potential heart injury was serious enough, or they just didn’t care. My body filled with nervousness. My hands…

I experienced failure last year during my cross country season. It was my first year of cross country and my coaches thought that I was going to be able to get a 5k time in the nineteens by the end of the season. I thought that I would be able to get or at least come close to that time. This was not the case though, I suffered from a burnout and formed a stress fracture soon after. Finding out that I had a stress fracture was heartbreaking. I was very upset and didn’t understand why it had to…

us run some patchies. A patchy is like a suicide, which is when you run to the free throw line, turn around and sprint back, then run to the half court line and run back, and so on. But instead of turning around and running back to the line you ran backwards to the line. While running it I was on the last line and fell backwards. I tried to catch myself by putting my hands behind my back. I fell on my left wrist wrong and almost instantly I knew there was something wrong. I couldn't move my arm…

2 Shuttle run is an exercise we are tested on because it determines whether our fitness level for running is successful or not. In fitness I reached to level 4 in the shuttle run. This not at least level 5 because a level 4 would consider be a female level. I’m not proud of that score I got, which eventually I will change it by working on specific exercise that will help me become more better at shuttle run. Mainly Shuttle run is what I’m worried about because I feel not capable of…

It was record time speed for a woman. It was interesting the when she was being awarded she looked like she hadn’t even ran a foot. Her hair was perfect, she was barely sweaty whatsoever. So apparently Rosie Ruiz finished the Boston Marathon in almost record time without sweating. It seemed strange to everyone that you had just ran over 26 miles and you were barely breaking a sweat. Once people started getting suspicious they realized, “no one — neither competitors nor spectators — could…

it comes to running? Some people believe that they do and others believe that they do not. What is the correct answer? “There is no doubt that physical activity is the basis of efficient functioning of the human mechanism, both physical and mental” (Pradesh). Running can be considered one of the most euphoric and rewarding hobbies with great physical benefits; however, the mental aspects greatly outweigh the physical benefits. Despite the belief that the mental benefits of running…

We ran for almost 4 hours without even touching a soccer ball. Right when we got there, we had to run a complex which is running around the whole soccer complex and it’s about 0.7 miles. Our coach encouraged us to run our fastest and get our best time, so that everyday we can challenge ourselves to get better everyday and get a better time. After the first day of soccer tryouts…