Silent Running

was right, but at the end of it all he felt like the sacrifice was worth it. After Smith had been put in the boarding school, he had been identified as a special talent, and the Governor wanted to exploit that gift for the prestige of the school. Running was something Smith could always rely on to clear his head, and having it objectified and exploited for the benefit of people who were essentially holding him captive didn’t sit well. The Governor said…

The end of 2016 is seriously FLYING right by!! Turkey Day is right around the corner, and we are officially seeing all the Christmas decorations and of course the endless ads. Although the end of the year seems to be rapidly approaching, for us these past two weeks have felt like forever! So much has happened: Halloween weekend was a success!! Lauren flew in from Milan saturday afternoon in Newark, jumped on a plane to Denver, and Bri picked her up around 7pm. They went straight to get ready…

implies, barefoot running. The video clip compares the advantages of running with and without shoes. The video inaugurates with the author Ruben Meerman stating that due to absence of shoe usage in humans for hundreds and thousands of years, ‘some’ people may think that running without shoes how humans should be running by default (Meerman, 2012.) What catalyst has most likely attempted to do is provide these people with a second point of view in terms of the new barefoot running phenomenon,…

Coach, McCarthy was my track coach in high school. He was also my sophomore biology teacher. While I was there, he received his share of ridicule and at times was controversial in an unorthodox way, like the time he named a sophomore, Jimmy Euell, to be a co-captain of the track team. I remember shortly thereafter a Norwich Bulletin sports writer crucifying him for that decision and calling him the “Innovator” in a rather derogatory manner. It didn’t bother me or my teammates one bit as we all…

to try to do too much running too soon. You cannot just decide to go out running and start off by running 2 or 3 miles or more. Many people try to do this. In fact, if you have not been doing anything - it may even be hard for you to even run 1 mile. The best way to avoid the "too much, too soon" syndrome is to start off doing a walk/run process until they can run a mile without stopping. What this means is that you run so far, walk so far, etc. You continue with more running and less walking…

A while back I was at my friend’s house with my brother. We were just doing normal stuff inside because it had gotten dark. After just hanging out inside for awhile, we decided to go back outside. These particular friends of ours live in a fairly remote area among other acreages without many city lights and many wild creatures. We ran outside to go jump on the trampoline, joking with each other about the potential of wild animals like cougars hiding out in the bushes. We had just started…

for the outcome, regardless of how I felt or others felt about it. Maybe I didn’t run one of the better races of my life. But that does not give me the right to complain about how my life turns out. Running that race that day gave me the right to thank my heavenly Father for four years of healthy running and the ability to finish those years with my team up on the…

lower than running in a shoe, and rate of loading that are equal to or lower than wearing a shoe…which is why it’s comfortable and potentially less injurious.” (Sandler, Lieberman). Running barefoot leads to three times lower impact forces and loading rates which suggests that “people who are barefoot or minimally shod have a better chance of avoiding injury.” (Running barefoot vs shoes). Opposers…

An athlete of the women’s soccer team came into the athletic training room the day after weekend road trip complaining about pain in her leg. She said she started feelings this pain during warm up of one of the games they played during the weekend and that it slowly got better as the game went on. Although she did say that the pain returns after she cooled down after the game and was still present the next day. She said it felt very similar to “shin splints” which she had had once before. After…

such as time, or some other variable, such as a predetermined event”. Of course, this negatively impacted my ability to gauge time/distance as well as get into a steady rhythm in which to maintain. As I was focusing on tactical awareness, such as running the tangents (straightest line possible), I became aware that this may not be the best tactic after all. This, for two reasons 1) there was often people in the way 2) there was particularly muddy patches, both of which would slow me down.…