Archive For The “Running Free” Category
Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. –Nelson Mandela How did you get your start in cross-country? I got started because a football coach in 8th grade…
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. – Jesse Owens. How did you get your start in cross-country? I joined the Brockton High (MA) Cross Country Team my junior year to help with my fitness for the upcoming…
There is no such thing as practice – it’s all real. – Barker Ajax The second rule of Rebel Club. Know what the hell you are rebellious about. Think about rebelling FOR something, rather than against something else. “Thinking outside the box” accepts the concept of a box. Rebels do not get boxed in. Watched some talented…
The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit. – Ken Doherty The photograph of you jumping over that barrier makes this whole project worthwhile. I am so glad I made it worthwhile. It is seriously funny.Imagine the next step. With both feet up,…
Original Gangsters of Running and their cross-country experience. Being a series of conversations about the joys of running through the woods and fields and golf courses of cross-country. And I’ll tell you why. Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport. – Chuck Norris How did…
I have nowhere to return to. It’s like a state of imprisonment. The walls of the cell are the horizon of what I can see. Beyond them exists a world that’s alien to me and doesn’t belong to me. So for people like me the only thing possible is here and now, for every future…
Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stock, whether they laughed at you at home (where they are often unkind) or at school (where they are mostly blind, anyway). Indeed – to hell with the lot of them if you ‘feel’ you can do it. – Percy Cerutty As a matter…
“You would think there would be someone checking their work.” – B.D. Let me make a short story long. I have spent more time with Benji Durden than I can remember. I know this is true, because in my diaries, I recorded runs together that I don’t remember. So, when he had his recent surgery,…
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even – if you will – eccentricity. That is, something that can’t be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn’t be happy with. – Joseph Brodsky I am virtually amazed I cast a literal shadow as I perpetually pretend to run….
Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures. Don’t forget my ideas are only what’s been written down in history by the great people of the world who’ve gone before. All I’ve done is condense the wisdom of the world into an attitude for athletics. I’m not interested in athletics, I’m only interested in achievement. Athletics…