Race Series Essay

We finally got three practice laps so we could feel what the track was like to ride. Next we immediately started trials meaning we raced to get the best 14 riders to continue to the main event that night. I was in two classes The 250 and the 450 so I had two chances to make the main event. 250 trials was the most difficult because there were 28 riders, and only 14 could go on. Now nobody really tried on trials it was just a chance to be good enough to make it to the next round. I was 7th out of the 28 so I ended up getting 7th gate pick for the main event. The 450 class had its pros and cons. There were usually less riders, but I rode a 250, a bike almost half the size, but racing against harder competition can only make your better. There were only 20 of us in the 450 trials, and I gave to the best of my ability to get the best gate pick I could get and ended up being

In June 2015, a local reporter at Spokane, Washington news station KXLY, Jeff Humphrey, confronted the head of the local chapter of the NAACP, Rachel Dolezal, with questions about her racial identity. What was a relatively innocuous report soon blew up into one of the most controversial and topical debates about racial appropriation, white privilege, and racism in the United States. Dolezal was confronted about her father – a man that, she claimed at the time, and continues to assert, is African-American. Soon after the report went viral, Dolezal’s birth parents were quick to provide a copy of her Montana birth certificate, which clearly showed Dolezal’s birth parents were both white, of

Race has been a controversial topic for many years. Depending on your race it can be a blessing or a misfortune. According, to articles such as “Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Race” or “Race: Is It a Valid Issue?” they all come to the conclusion that race is a social construct because race cannot be determined by genetics or the color of the skin. There is no such thing as subspecies we are all human beings. Yet, for many years’ people of European ancestry (whites) have committed monstrous acts towards people of color. Whites enslaved people of color tearing countless families apart, and taking away liberties that every human being should possess. As the issue of race continues, many laws have been implemented as an attempt to mitigate white supremacy; however, alongside with each successful attempt, white supremacy continues prevailing.

Many people forget or do not realize that race is a social construct used to obtain superiority over others of different skin pigmentation. Race is defined as “a group whose inherited psychical characteristics distinguish it from another group” (Henslin, 2015, p. 263). Although the construct of race may be different in one culture to another, the idea of race is still one that has been conceived by society. There is no biological evidence that race is part of a biological makeup. Ethnicity has to do more with how someone identifies culturally, and can identify with multiple groups no matter their “racial identity.” As ethnicity is defined as “having distinctive cultural characteristics” (Henslin, 2015, p. 266). However, even though race is

Now that Spartan USA is using the barcode registration system, registration has been running much faster and smoother and this weekend wasn’t any different! They also now had us sign a screen and not have to complete a paper waiver which kicked ass! The Festival area was setup with most of the booths and vendors next to each other, with the exception of bag check, which was placed way over in China.

Although I was able to witness many different examples of inequalities in most of my daily encounters, a situation occurred that has had the ability to overshadow all of my other observations. While at work, I was able to have a conversation with a co-worker about her father’s recent loss of a job promotion. What makes this situation, such a powerful example of the force of stratification is more that just the conversation that took place but also in the context in which I had it and regrettably in my response to the conversation.

The Confidence Course consists of eleven obstacles, designed so that each obstacle is more physically challenging then the

I enjoyed this and found it to be a decent challenge. The course then continued on going against the mountain and made its way to one short trail up a small incline and came to the next obstacle that was a slanted wall with a rope called the “Atlas Wall”. With my Icebug Zeal's on, I love these slanted walls with a rope to help as most of the time they are a nice and easy obstacle and best of all, give me the chance to help other racers get up and over the walls by either helping or coaching them. Once up and over this obstacle the course continued down the mountain for a short distance and came to the next obstacle which was a fun water slide. The course continued on a short distance back up the mountain and then came to the next obstacle which also happened to be the second obstacle of the course, the black plastic tubes and this time racers crawled through the black tubes we had jumped over at the beginning of the course. A short sprint later was a crawl under another set of black half tubes that we also happened to do as an obstacle earlier in the course. At this point course now back near the festival area made its way through a gated fence section and came to a section of the Platinum Rig that was set up as a pretty high rope climb, I have

This past weekend, 108 entrants set off on a hundred mile race—the fourth annual Pine Creek Challenge. The footrace follows the Pine Creek Trail, a flat, scenic route that still provides ample challenge for the runners. Race director, Steve Hanes, comments, “For me as a race director, it’s great to see people stretching their boundaries...it's great to see people work towards something they might not have even imagined a few years ago, and come out here and accomplish something that's really noteworthy.”

2) Several racers wanted to know why some of the obstacles were damaged this year?

Life for me as a child was Disney movies and hopscotch. For many years, I viewed the world with beautiful gray glasses. I knew there was a difference in the color of my skin and others but had no understanding how that would affect me. Upon reaching the age of adolescence, my understanding of racism developed. Racism is like the “elephant in the room” that no one wants to address. For this research assignment, I would like to research and write about how racial discrimination is impacting health.

When people are faced with a questionnaire, they are generally faced with the question of their race, and they hardly ever stop ask or wonder why that should matter, the fact is that it does, and given our popular usage of the term, it shouldn’t. Throughout this paper, my goal is to prove to you why the use of the word ‘race’ in our current understanding is ultimately dangerous, to convince you to ask why such a thing should even be asked, and to call census coordinators to either help in the reformation of the word race, or to ask questions that are more meaningful than skin color or heritage, but that may serve to take the place of that term. The brash truth is that you, as a citizen of the United States in particular, have the power to ask why you are being subjected to such questioning, and you very well may find that reasons for such questioning are much more devious than you would have previously believed. Throughout my research of this topic, I’ve examined six different academic sources, some to prove as examples of the negativity that the current use of the word ‘race’ can bring, and others as the opposing sides of this ongoing debate on what to do with the term. This paper is meant to serve as an educational and informative piece made to highlight the corruption within the differing sides of this debate, and why there should ultimately be an overhaul of the term ‘race’ with some very specific conditions that would have to be met. Those conditions would be meant to

The course was redesigned just for this event in a “spoke and wheel” format with six distinct obstacle course loops and a central zombie zone that racers had to cross between to enter each loop. Participants had to attempt to complete the course without losing all three of their flags. I have only participated in one previous Zombie themed obstacle course race that provided flags and had zombies on the course attempting to remove the flags from the racers, but I was very impressed with the “spoke and wheel” course design as it allowed all be it a small number of racers to spread out between one of six course loops and prevented delays at all the obstacles. I also liked that

“Are you crazy or are you insane?! That’s a hundred grand. A hundred grand!” Drew grabbed his girlfriend by the wrist, pulling her back towards him. “Rumi we don’t—we don’t have the money.” Drew found himself lowering his voice as people passed by them.

The open day was a real success with lots of positive feedback received from the community both about the open day and the radio station more generally. There were a wide range of activities