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    of the power and performance to the runners. The runners must take the balance diet and cannot skip anyone of the meals

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    three-minutes-forty-three-point-thirteen seconds. Running is a sport that many people across the world participate in. Whether they are on the track team or just out for a morning jog, people enjoy it greatly. Running can be an amusing exercise. Runners can also benefit immensely from engaging in this activity. This finally teaches life skills. Everybody should participate in running. First, running can be a fun activity in many ways. If one is able to join a running team or club, it creates a much

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    relay team winning is put in my hands. I am one fourth of a group that is dependent on me going out there and giving it 110%, a team that is counting on me to help place in our division. My mouth feels sticky and wet and dry, as I gawk at all the runners who just finished and are scratching through the surface, gasping for air. I drag myself out onto the track with quick and short steps; my feet having a mind of their own as mine is somewhere reminding myself “Do good, don’t give up. Run fast, live

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    the doors, and we stepped off the bus and claimed our camp area. The atmosphere at the course was awesome. Music blared to be heard from all over the course. The sun shined brightly from the sky, and I could feel its heat in my under armor gear. Runners, fans, coaches, and officials strolled around everywhere. It was like you could smell the intensity. “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” came on, and for me, it was like the magic switch I’d

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    I knew that meant we would only have a six runners on the team, so the six runners had to do good. I started to push harder to hold off the two runners closing in on me, but we were nearing a long uphill and they hadn’t pushed as hard to keep up so on the hill they battled past me. I was clawing for every breath I could get, and pushing as hard as I could to keep others behind me, but there was one more runner gaining on me. I knew I couldn’t’ let him beat me I had to beat him

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    “Runners on your mark! Set!” BOOM! Went the gun. Sprinting, the runners advance. I saw the parade of runners before my eyes. Even though I was just behind them, they seemed so far away. All I could hear was cheers from the fences chanting your name until she tripped me. There was a dead silence. No one knew she tripped me, but I did. My face smashed right against the pavement. She tripped me. The Lane 4 runner tripped me. I couldn’t believe it. Coaches running over towards me. But before

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    An accomplished Alaska high school coach is taking the reins of the Lane Community College cross country program this fall. Those are just figurative reins, of course, unlike the literal reins Bill Steyer has held in the past as a competitive sled dog musher. Steyer finished the Iditarod Trail sled dog race in 2005, covering close to 1,000 miles in a little more than 12 days. Although the Iditarod is the more prominent event, Steyer said his personal highlight as a musher was a fifth-place finish

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    morning. It’s kind of an alarm clock when it goes off in the morning”. “I can imagine”. “Well, you know tomorrow morning would be a perfect time to see if he is fit enough to be a runner Ethan”. “You think so?” “Yea”. “Well, it’s settled, tomorrow morning you’ll take the runner test”. “What do I need to become a runner?” “Well first you need to pass a test” “What’s the test?” “The test is an obstacle course. It gives sort of an idea of how well you’ll do in the maze”. Ethan then showed Cameron to

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    Over sixty-five million people in the United States are runners. Of these runners, only a few can call themselves ultramarathoners. Any race longer than 26.2 miles is an ultramarathon. Whether someone is a weekend jogger or a fully committed ultramarathoner, they can learn from the example of the Raramuri. The Raramuri are a nomadic Native American tribe in the Copper Canyons of Mexico. Their entire culture revolves solely around running. The natives travel on foot from Chihuahua, Mexico to the Copper

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    Thomas and the keeper of the runners, Minho, go into the maze during the day. On their way back to the glade the walls began to shut and the monsters called grievers came out. Thomas ended up saving Minho and becoming the keeper of the runners. Eventually, every glader stampeded into the maze and got to the end. The few that survived jumped off a cliff into the griever hole. They cracked

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