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…, it was as if everyone in Bradenton was waiting at this intersection and someone had filled it with unpleasant surroundings. I noticed speeding drivers having no regard for runners taking their usual Saturday jog, discarding half smoked cigarette butts into a deteriorated…

…Syndrome influences our society a lot. Many coaches are not properly trained and take a lot of time off a runner's season that could have been avoided. Also, many people are not educated about shin splints and do misdiagnose their problem. These examples…

…. Many fundamental needs were only available from blockade-runners' escapades. The blockade runners were fast ships that brought in the Confederacy's coffee, tea, guns, clothing, cooking utensils, even medicine from overseas. As a result, costs of most goods…

…. Although the DH may add runs to a team and length to a game, it takes away from the purity of the grand old game. Stealing bases and advancing runners can make for a shorter game while the AL style can cause long, drawn out games. Although these happenings…

…in the glory of youth than to rest too long on ones laurels, only to see those laurels wither. The setting seems to be at the funeral of a young champion runner. The speaker reflects back on how lucky the young athlete was to have died when he did, instead…

…includes dog "booties" for the dogs' feet, and a six foot long 28 pound tobaggan. One tobaggan, made by North Star is called the "Ferrari " of dogsleds. More than one sled is used. As the land gets flatter and icier, a new sled with flat runners…

…in 1972. It was in this year that NIKE convinced Olympic marathon runners to wear NIKE sneakers for their Olympic event. Later, NIKE was able to brag that their sneakers won four of the top seven places in this event. The following year, NIKE designed…

…. There were two outs and a runner on third base. Before Pat pitched that next ball I knew every player on our team told themselves that they would do whatever it took to get that next out. So when the ball was pitched and hit to Andy the third baseman, he…

…work (both as an actor and a writer/director) would see an emergent pattern of loyalty to family above all else. "A man turns his back on his family, well, he just ain't no good," opines narrator Joe Roberts in Penn's debut film The Indian Runner (though…

…at Pheidippides, the Athenian runner who was send to Sparta asking help for the battle of Marathon. Herodotus states that "The Spartans, though move by the appeal, and willing to send help to Athens, were unable to send it promptly because they did not wish to break…