A young boy named Tim was running away from home on a cold night because he wanted to see what life would be like at a young age like him. Without his parents even noticing he jumped out of the window and ran into the woods and he walked into these big cities and towns. Keep on reading and you will hear the whole story. Tim was born on July 21,1861. When he was 4 years old his dad told him how to run,play baseball,and told him how to walk. When his dad told him all of these things,Tim told…
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.…
and saw that he had a deathly stare in his eye as he was still coming at us. I jumped onto the hard ground from the truck door and started running faster than I had ever ran before. I could hear the rhino behind me and felt his monstrous steps. The fence was only a little ways away from me now and I thought I could make it. I kept running and running and running until the fence got as close as possible. I flailed myself upward into the air. I grasped the fence, but as I started climbing the…
hadn't drunk water in ages, but I kept running as fast as I could. I promised myself that I wouldn't stop running until I reached civilization, where no one could begin to interpret the horrors that I had seen. Finally, my eyes lit up to the sight of lights and people. My running halted to a walk and I noticed the eyes that were glaring at me. I realized how I must have looked, torn dirty clothes, my hair a mess from the howling wind and of course the blood running from my arms from the horrors…
When I first met the man that would become my husband, I told him that there was something that he needed to know about me. “I don’t jump”, I said. “I don’t throw, hit, or catch and I definitely, definitely don’t run”. It was important for me to tell him this, as this meant that at cookouts there would be no horseshoes or volleyball, there would be no office picnic baseball and there definitely, definitely would be no charity 5K runs or any other races. All of this was true, until I decided…
Jamie say’s cluelessly “You are in one of your opponents gym” Said the Russian man. “What is going on?” “You are being held for ransom by the one and only Russian Volleyball team.” Jamie then realized who had kidnapped her. “Why have you kidnapped me? Asked Jamie dreadfully.” “You are one of the best players on your team and wouldn’t…
Prefontaine did not win an Olympic gold medal, but Steve Prefontaine is considered to be one of the greatest distance runners who ever lived. In his senior year of high school, Steve Prefontaine, nicknamed Pre, broke the U. S. high school record for running two miles by nearly seven seconds. He ran two mines in eight minutes, forty-one and half seconds. Pre was not tall and lanky like some great runner, but he had determination. And confidence that he could run faster and longer than anyone…
drank away. The water emptied out as i threw the bottle to the ground. “Hey! Come back here you nerd!” yelled someone behind me. I knew it was Tyler, due to it’s low grumpy shout. I kept sprinting as fast as my legs could carry me. My air was running out like a oxygen leak. Finally, i couldn't run any further. Tyler was gaining meters in seconds, closer and closer to where i stood. I looked around to find a place to hide, yet there was none. I could almost hear the pounding footsteps of…
What Is Passion? Passion is an intense, uncontrollable emotion Tears streamed down my face as I watched the first man finish the sixty-hour marathon in the Netflix documentary “The Barkley Marathons.” I jumped up and threw both fists in the air. I felt like I had won. His determination and perseverance had done something to my core. I could control neither my body nor my tears. My reactions demonstrate how passion is both intense and uncontrollable. Passion is an ambition we put into action…
Trying to do the right thing is better than not doing anything at all. Scarlett also learned that you should not run away from your problem, but to face them. If Scarlett had not went after the man in the cloak, he would have gone to other places and take there money too. The cashier would not have got his money back. In the end, Scarlett Skye did do the right thing, and she learned a very important…