Reading Response 5

Born to Run

Ann Trason, a thirty-three-year-old community-college science teacher form California. The only people to ever spot her in a race was either her husband or a liar. Ann started her races so fast, it was like watching superman change into his superhero suit. Ann ran track in high school but didn’t like “hamstering” around an artificial oval and gave up track in college to study biochemistry. She ran to get rid or lower her stress levels during and after college. In one Saturday Ann fifty-five miles and she did it for fun! Her friends would tall her that she wasn’t addicted to drugs but to endorphins. Ann’s first road/trail race was the American River 50-Mile Endurance Run, it was a hot, hilly and hazardous course. After forty-seven miles of trail-running, you hit a one-thousand-foot climb for the last three miles. Her first race conditions were not the best, temperatures hitting sauna levers and she didn’t realize that carrying a water bottle with her would’ve a smart idea. After her first race she went on to become the female champion of the Wester States 100 and she did this fourteen times over  a span of three decades. She made “Lance Armstrong look like a flash in the pan.” Ann went crazy for racing, during a period in her career she ran a race every other month for four year and she got faster with each race. By 1994 she knew her time had come to win the Leadville Trial.

Reading Response 6

Born to Run

 In the book, as of right now, a few of the Tarahumara tribes men are running races outside their villages still. John Fisher thought that if he brought Indians from different tribes that they would attack each and you use their anger to beat each other, but what he didn’t realize was that racing other tribes actually brought friendship between the tribes. The tribesmen are running in the Leadville ultra-marathon again; this time though they are racing against Ann Trason, a professional ultra-marathon runner, who’s goals are to win the Leadville this time around and the only people in her way are the Tarahumara. When the Tarahumara show up for the race John Fisher allows no one to talk to or touch the men. He had gotten the men a local shoe sponsor so that they could make a little money. Before the race started the men put their bright yellow trail “boots” on and got lined up for the race, but this time instead of being the back they moved and started I in the front. At 13.5 miles there was an aid station and the Tarahumara veered off into a parking to take off their shoes and put on their sandals to finish the race in. At mile 40 Ann had gotten in front of the Tarahumara and had done so in record pace, she made it to mile 40 in under six hours. Also, at  mile 40 all the runners have to check their pulse and weight because shedding too much weight this early on in the race means a serious case of dehydration. While getting their medical exams Ann looked over to Martimano, one of the tribesmen, and gave him a rude remark. She was the first ever to have bad sportsmanship during the race and it was very appaling.  

                                                      

Inspiration

"With Me"

I don't want this moment to ever end,
Where everything's nothing without you.
I'd wait here forever just to, to see you smile,
'Cause it's true, I am nothing without you.

Through it all, I've made my mistakes.
I stumble and fall, but I mean these words.

I want you to know,
With everything I won't let this go.
These words are my heart and soul.
I'll hold on to this moment, you know,
As I bleed my heart out to show,
And I won't let go.

Thoughts read, unspoken, forever in vow,
And pieces of memories fall to the ground.
I know what I didn't have, so I won't let this go,
'Cause it's true, I am nothing without you.

All the streets, where I walked alone,
With nowhere to go, have come to an end.

I want you to know,
With everything I won't let this go.
These words are my heart and soul.
I'll hold on to this moment, you know,
As I bleed my heart out to show,
And I won't let go.

In front of your eyes, it falls from the skies,
When you don't know what you're looking to find.
In front of your eyes, it falls from the skies,
When you just never know what you will find.

I don't want this moment to ever end,
Where everything's nothing without you.

I want you to know,
With everything I won't let this go.
These words are my heart and soul.
I'll hold on to this moment, you know,
As I bleed my heart out to show,
And I won't let go.

I want you to know,
With everything I won't let this go.
These words are my heart and soul.
I'll hold on to this moment, you know,
As I bleed my heart out to show,
And I won't let go.

This song inspires me to always enjoy and make the best out of the moments I have with your loved ones. It reminds me that nothing ever lasts forever so I always have to make the best out of things. It shows you in a way that your loved ones are the people who are going to make you happy and get you through life. It also helps you realize that you shouldn't forget your loved ones because they'll always be in you heart and mind.
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