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    Ryan tugro is a senior at Phoenixville Area Track and Field. He says running is one of the toughest sports in the world. It's a sport based on time, ticking of the clock, a race with one's competition.

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    Ryan tugro is a senior at Phoenixville Area Track and Field. He says running is one of the toughest sports in the world. It's a sport based on time, ticking of the clock, a race with one's competition.

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    Page 4 ECHO l Thursday, May 28, 2009

    The enjoyable, painful and dreadful art of running


    By RYAN TIGRO of running. another brutal workout, but we runners find themselves gasp- mate challenge. Out on the
    Grade 12 Good all know what it yields. The ing, reaching for any amount of track there is nowhere to hide,
    The best men I have ever Phoenixville Area Track and oxygen to take in. The intervals no bench to sit on, no substitu-
    “Five minutes and forty sec- met, I have met through my Field team has been undefeat- on the track burn the muscles tion, and no time out. Track
    onds. Wow,” you say as you re- running experiences. My best ed for five consecutive seasons all over the body. Once your and Field is all in the numbers,
    alize you’ve clipped your first friends and my greatest rivals and as seniors, the responsibili- veins begin pumping the lactic plain as the black and white
    mile thirty seconds off pace are what have pushed me to ty of a sixth year falls on me and acid, the acidic feeling brought paper right underneath your
    and nine more miles to go. The better times and bettering my- my friends. about by using more oxygen nose. Runners are always com-
    words struggle out and breath self over the years. Competi- Bad than your body can produce, paring themselves to their con-
    fills in the cracks of the broken tively running has helped me It is easy for those who play you have no option but to run temporary and historical rivals
    syllables. None the less there is learn valuable life lessons: pa- other sports say running is some more. as well as their performances of
    a strange sense of satisfaction tience, self-discipline, reward easy; all it is one leg in front of Running is also one of the the past. You can run a 4:30
    and disgust that comes along and punishment, and solidari- the other faster than walking. most unique sports. A sport mile but some guy two counties
    with being faster than you have ty. I enjoy seeing myself im- However, running is tough. I based on time, the ticking of over runs a 4:25. In football
    ever been before. The enjoy- prove and going to practice to would even go as far to say it is the clock, a race not only with and basketball, you can be the
    ment, the pain, and the dread meet up with my friends as we one of the toughest sports one’s competition but also
    are all wrapped up in the sport are about to endeavor yet around. Day in and day out themselves presents the ulti-
    See RUNNING, Page 5

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