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Article Source: The Denver Post
Written by - Claire Martin - July 6th, 2009
This man discovered his inner talent in his 70s
The first time Ed Maruna competed in the world duathlon trials, he was 78, and he took sixth place.
"I was happy to be there, happy to represent the United States," said Maruna, an Arvada grandfather who won the national title that year in his age group, 75 to 79. "I was just happy to finish."
Maruna, 80, never planned on becoming a duathlete. His son, Dean, a duathlete and triathlete who coaches other competitors in Boulder, persuaded him to try a race — a 10-kilometer run, 40 kilometers on a bicycle, followed by a 5-kilometer run.
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Article Source: Runner's World
Written by - Christopher Percy Collier - June 2009
As runners propel themselves forward, some measure of discomfort is normal (provided it's not a sign of a serious issue; see "Stop Right There," below). Muscles burn. Joints ache. Exhaustion sets in. However, research suggests that our pain threshold is not set at an unmovable level—that the mind can, to some extent, control it. "When I tell an athlete that they can adjust their pain level by using mental techniques, they're amazed," says Raymond J. Petras, Ph. D., a sports psychologist in Scottsdale, Arizona. "They often find that their performance increases dramatically." The following mental tricks—recommended by sports psychologists and used by elite runners—will help you redefine your limits.
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Article Source: The Daily Camera
Written by - Laura Snider - May 24th, 2009
Boulder High International Running Club participates in 10K
BOULDER, Colo. — Pauline Santino is hard to catch. Just when you think you've caught up to her, she lowers her head, leans forward into her stride and sprints out another hundred feet, leaving other runners behind.
Santino, one of the "Lost Girls of Sudan," will join 17 of her Boulder High classmates to run Monday's Bolder Boulder 10-kilometer race. For many in the group of culturally diverse students -- whose families have roots in countries such as Ecuador, Iran and Mexico -- finishing the race will mark the longest distance they've ever run.
And for these kids, all of whom have been identified as "at risk" for one reason or another -- a language barrier or a learning disability, for example -- running into the stadium and around Folsom Field at the end of the race will also mark the achievement of a goal that, even two weeks ago, seemed dauntingly hard.
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Article Source: Rocky Mountain Sports
Written by - Bob Babbitt - May 2009
It is one thing to be competitive in your sport of choice. It is another to be the very best, the one with the target on your back. In basketball, LeBron James comes to mind. Whenever another team lines up to face the Cavaliers, James is the athlete they know they have to contend with. Our list includes those athletes who are at the pinnacle of their sport, the ones all the others have to think about whenever they go to the line. Endurance all the way...
Craig Alexander
Chrissie Wellington
Oscar Pistorius
Taylor Phinney
Shalane Flanagan
Ryan Hall
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Article Source: USA Today
Written by - Ray Glier - May 19th, 2009
ATLANTA — Two weeks before he was to begin a cross-country bike ride to benefit soldiers who have suffered catastrophic injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan, Matthew Sanchez put a face with a cause. He stood next to Dillon Cannon in the gym at Shepherd Center, and they compared scars on their necks.
Sanchez's scar resembled a closed zipper, a mark of surgery to repair his spinal column after a near-fatal high school football injury Aug. 20, 2004. Cannon showed off the exit wound from a sniper's bullet he took Dec. 29, 2006, in Baqubah, Iraq.
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Steps for Positive Observation
STEP 1: Recognize
What we are conditioned to experience... Where does the belief come from? Your belief or someone else's belief?
STEP 2: Realize
A positive outlook is a choice... You are always at choice. Example: Are you a smoker or someone who chooses to smoke?
STEP 3: Quantify
The positive and productive potential found within... You are and always have been total potential... Grab it... Grow it!
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