| first of the lasttoday was my first day of my last year of cross country.
i started out with the faster people on our team: jennifer, beverly, ali, dani, kyle and our coach cliff...then fell behind. i eventually caught up with the group that went out first, the girls that i should have been with to begin with because i haven't really run routinely since last fall. sammi slowed the first group down for me to catch up, so that was nice. we were supposed to run 3 cemetary loops without the cannery, but on the 2nd, when i finally was catching my stride mr. bailey told our group to stop.  i should've went ahead and ran the 3rd, but ohhh well. i feel so out of shape, but that was roughly 2 miles...give or take a bit.
oh yea, we have about 13 people on the team as of today.
initiation- august 20th at mr. bailey's
first race- august 26th at marietta's broughton inv.
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RUNNING QUOTES
- "Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire. Sweat sprayed his skin with each foot strike so that he ran in a hot mist of his own creation. With each slap on the softened asphalt, his soles absorbed heat that rose through his arches and ankles and the stems of his shins. It was a
carnival of pain, but he loved each stride because running distilled him to his essence and the heat hastened this distillation."
- James Tabor, from "The Runner," a short story
- "Good things come slow - especially in distance running."- Bill Dellinger, Oregon coach
- "Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'"
- Peter Maher, Irish-Canadian Olympian and sub-2:12 marathoner
- "I prefer to remain in blissful ignorance of the opposition. That way I'm not frightened by anyone's reputation."
- Ian Thompson, who ran a 2:09:12 marathon at the 1974 Commonwealth Games
"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired...You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going."
- George S. Patton, U.S. Army General and 1912 Olympian
- "Once you're beat mentally, you might was well not even go to the starting line."
-Todd Williams
- "The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed."
- Jacqueline Gareau, 1980 Boston Marathon champ
- "If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles."
- Bill Bowerman
- "A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways as they're capable of understanding."
- Steve Prefontaine
- "It came like electricity, it came from every fibre, from his fingertips to his toes. It came as a broad waters come through a gorge. He called on it all."
- Norman Harris, description of Jack Lovelock's finishing kick to win the 1936 Olympic 1500
- Get out well, but not too quickly, move through the field, be comfortable. Strategy-wise, go with your strengths. If you don't have a great finish, you must get away to win. I've always found it effective to make a move just before the crest of a hill. You get away just a little and you're gone before your opponent gets over the top. Also, around a tight bend, take off like holy hell. I've done that a number of times. You should not be flying down the home straight. Most of your efforts should have been put forth earlier.
John Treacy, Ireland's two-time world cross country champion (1978, 1979)
- I prefer running without shoes. My toes didn't get cold. Besides, if I'm in front from the start, no one can step on them.
Michelle Dekkers, the barefoot South African runner who won the 1989 Ncaa cross country title for Indiana
- I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimulator of my running was fear.
Herb Elliott
- Running is like mouthwash; if you can feel the burn, it's working.
Brian Tackett
- Running has never failed to give me great end results, and that's why I keep coming back for more!
Sasha Azevedo
- Everybody and their mother knows you dont train hard on Friday, the day before a race. But a lot of runners will overtrain on Thursday if left on their own. Thursday is the most dangerous day of the week.
Marty Stern, Villanova women's coach
- Act like a horse. Be dumb. Just run.
Jumbo Elliott
- "The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep." - Robert Frost
- "We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." - Will Rogers
♥ micalyn |
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