Sprint 2

The group project Reflective essay Each time when I sign up for any of courses, I think my life won’t be change, but this course is totally different. It made me learning many materials that not only in the class because we must build up a team producing a project for this entire course, and our class teach us many concepts for using web2py, javascript, ajax, and basic HTML, but our team can use any technique that wherever we want which my team are using another new tool base name Angular2. It means this course not only teach us how to make a web application, but it also educates me how to do a group project, so we can gain during the lecture and self-study. In the first week, which was before the sprint 1 started, we started with some random people because I didn’t know anyone in this class, and as I know some people in this class had taken CMPS115 before this class, but I am not in this case. I was lucky that I found our current team and this team had many motivations which we wanted to make a real project that the goal is eventually open for everyone in the world. We started with scrum meet and found out what kind of project we wanted to produce. After couple ideas came out to our mind, we finally decided to make a scrum board, a real board belong to us for the scrum. That is very interest…

I passed one person. Then I passed another person. Eventually I had passed a good 10 or so people. I started to make the turn to break for the finish line when I noticed something odd; no one was ahead of me. I slowed down, then noticed that everyone was turning to run a second lap. I slowed down to a steady jog again. Although I was tired, I prepared myself to run another lap, and then sped up to a faster pace. In what seemed like only 30 seconds I was almost finished with the lap, and still…

into my life in 2011 and left in 2014. I understand that 3 years may only be a glimpse of time in our lives but those 3 years were abundant of friendship, success, tears and tragedy. In retrospect, he was the type of person who would laugh at my blonde moments and buy me sherbet lollipops as bribery to run laps around the oval. It was mid year in 2011 when I saw him, tall and thin with sparse hair which he often covered with a cap, branded by his favorite sports team. No matter the weather, he…

The history behind running barefoot dates back to several years ago. Running has been a practice for many people since the beginning of time. Undoubtedly, running has changed over the years and it has transformed into a source of competition, a source of healthiness, and even job opportunities. When researching running or unique ways to improve one’s running skills, people often come across the infamous tribe, the Tarahumara Indians. The book Born to Run, written by Christopher McDougall,…

Now it was time for the meet. It was the normal routine, warmed up, stretched and got ready to run as fast as I can. I practiced handing off the baton since I was the second person to run out of us four in the relay. As soon as I knew it, I was on the starting line ready to run. The gun went off and our first runner, Ian started running. The first race was only 100 meters long so it would only be 11 seconds until the gun goes off until I get the baton handed to me. After the 11 seconds passed…

On a daily basis, I am asked why I run. When people think of running, they think of absolute pain and distress. However, when I think of running, I think of freedom and strength. Running gives a sense of relief from the stresses of daily life; whenever I have a difficult day, jogging along trails and dirt roads instantly rids of the strain of the day. You feel free because your legs can venture wherever you may desire. After you run, there is a sense of achievement that fills your body with…

The ideology behind life as a race and life as a run is complex and can be depicted differently by each person who comes across it. In simple terms life being a race is competition whereas life being a run is freedom. Comparing life to a race has many different meanings. Life is constantly moving like people running a race. It is competitive, the winner shows dominance and strength to the other runners. This comparison also teaches a lesson, especially in the context of The Loneliest…

As the powerful Colorado River churned beneath me, as it has for centuries, and the relentless sun peaked over the top of the North Rim, I could not help but feel astounded. I was in a timeless place: a place disconnected from the society I had left behind miles ago. Down here, in the lowest section of the Grand Canyon, it was just me, my friends, and the heat. Always the heat. We had started our journey, a run from the Grand Canyon’s North Rim to the South Rim, at 4 AM in a futile attempt to…

When the Are High When the gun goes BANG, the runners take off. The Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt gets off to a fast start. Bolt is beginning to pull away; he celebrates as he crosses the finish line, and wins the race with ease. All sprinters have specific gear they wear to increase their chances of winning. For example, all sprinters wear tight fitting shirts, shorts, and track cleats. This Puma ad depicts the Jamaican sprinter running in the foreground with his arm stretched out wide as he is…

“They can’t stop what they can’t catch” This very Nike quote explains where my love for running began. This story is about me winning my first Track race. The day started well going through my classes as usually just as commonly as I do. During lunch I was thinking all about what I was going to eat; healthy or not-healthy. I also had to think about hydration and how much I wanted to eat. My nerves would always tense whenever someone mentioned the meet later today. Then came the ninth period-…