Silent Running

“Push with the legs!” the coxswain screeched. “bend those oar handles!” she screeched again. I begins to say to myself “focus, accelerate, focus, accelerate…”! And this was just the beginning. This October I rowed in the Head of the charles for the first time. The Head of the Charles is the main event! For me it was just another three-mile row that was not no big deal. In the end I accomplished a big goal, I learned new skills. In Boston, the Head of the Charles is the “Big Kahuna” for…

sure if he should go in or not, since he did not know what to expect when they go inside. His son is very tired since their food and water supply is running short. We know this because the father states: ”The boy wasn’t doing well “ (McCarthy, pg.102) and…

I believe that nothing is hand given, you have to work hard for it. I remember back in freshman year, I was on the track team. My events that I ran were the 100 meter dash and the 200 meter dash. I have also ran the 400 meter dash and the 4x1 relay. While being on this track team, you have to work hard to be put into meets. However, this was based off your performances during workouts in practice. If you showed the coach what you were capable of, you were most likely put in a meet the next day…

program personnel, for horse playing around the lunch benches and if she keeps that up she would end up getting badly hurt, yet she never listens to her. On that day, Meta and her sister were again running around and jumping on the benches at the lunch area playing the game of Tag where she was it and running after her sister. Meta sighed loudly and was shaking her head when look back at her foolishness for being so into the game of Tag that she missed her loud big green coat on the ground, and…

your friends could join a softball or baseball team. Is a game of ‘Tag’ considered exercising? Of course! When you play tag, you run around a lot, trying to get away from the person who is ‘it’. Running is definitely exercise, one of the best types of exercise there is. If you aren’t the type who likes running, or being outside with a ball, try taking some dance classes. “Not only does it work all major muscle groups, but it also requires coordination, flexibility and strength. In addition,…

reading book I chose Running Into Yourself by Jean-Paul Bedard. Personally I really enjoy this book purely for the reason it is about running. A person that doesn't enjoy running most likely will not enjoy this book as much as a runner would. The book is about what you think about while you're running, how running can get you out of mental situations, and about working towards your goals. Running Into Yourself starts off talking about running a marathon, the climax of a running career. Every…

Imagine being in 6th grade, and having someone come to talk to your entire sixth grade student body about middle school sports. During a question and answer session I asked if it was possible to run cross country and play basketball, and in a loud voice that went across the gym, a kid said “Why ask you’re too fat to play sports” and the whole gym burst into laughter. This is how my introduction to middle school officially began. As one could imagine the pain and humiliation that went along…

condition. Doctor after doctor told me there was nothing wrong with me and that there was nothing neither they nor I could do. Several told me to quit running completely and I simply answered back with a blatant no. I returned such a blunt response because quitting was out of the question. The only thing I hate more than losing, is giving up. Running is more than just my hobbie or a sport I compete in. It’s something that I’ve grown to learn…

Have you ever had a passion that you want to follow you through life. Well, I have a passion that I know will follow me through life and that passion is track. Ever since I did track in the 7th grade, I knew I was gonna do it again in the 8th grade. Track was always fun to me and I had the best events to do. I had a good coach and good teammates. But there was always pressure on me when I was doing my events in a meet. But I always put that pressure aside. Track in 7th…

Coming of age I laid their wiggling like a worm in the dirt. Then i just woke up on air mattress in my grandparents house. I stood up looking out the windows checking for the sun but the their was, was the moon lighting up their yard. I stumbled out of the room carefully stepping over my brother, who was snoring louder than an air horn. I opened the sliding door to the living room and my grandparents were their to meet me. I walked over to the clock to see what time it was, the clock read…