Friday, December 14, 2012

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.

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