TRACK AND FIELD SEASON PREVIEW:Teams going the distance (Burbank Leader)
It looks as if the local track and field teams will have strong representation this season in the middle- and long-distance events.
Categories: long-distance Tags: field-teams, long-distance, middle, season, strong-representation, the-local
The Blog of a Lifetime: Long Distance Relationships
Long Distance Relationships. We've been friends for something like ten years. The plan was to all live in the same place. Go to the same church. Maybe someday live on the same street and meet in the middle for coffee while the kids rode ...
Categories: long-distance Tags: all-live, been-friends, distance, kids, kids-rode, like-ten, middle, someday-live, the-middle, the-same
Other Sports: Willis in for the long haul (sportal.com.au)
Beijing Olympic 1500m silver medalist Nick Willis refuses to bow to the continuing dominance of African athletes in the middle distance events in which he plys his craft on the world stage.
Categories: long-distance Tags: 1500m-silver, beijing-olympic, continuing, craft, distance-events, middle, olympic, the-continuing, the-middle, the-world, willis, world
Riff: 32. The tyranny of long distance
32. The tyranny of long distance . “Truck drivers are mad, you know?” the middle European twang readily apparent. “I used to drive a truck, from Dapto to Adelaide. Stupid things we did in them days.” Wry shrug. “Didn't have much choice, ...
Categories: long-distance Tags: adelaide-stupid, adsense-advertising, articles-attraction, breath, european, internet, long-distance, make-it-work, middle, relationships, the-middle, trout, twang-readily, you-know
Buying a Youth Trap Shotgun
- the distance from the middle of the butt (recoil pad) to the trigger. ... A stock that is too long may catch under the arm pit, or drag on the lower shoulder....Trap guns tend to have longer barrels than field guns to create a tighter pattern at longer distances, and will have a higher comb than field guns so that the sight p icture is better....
Categories: long-distance Tags: are-gone, butt, distance, distance-run, field-guns, from-the-middle, higher-comb, long-time, middle, recoil-pad, sight, trigger, used-reconciliation
Virginia Ironside’s Dilemmas: Will we be able to cope with living together in middle age?
Virginia Ironside’s Dilemmas: Will we be able to cope with living together in middle age?
Dear Virginia, My partner and I have both been married before, and for the last five years we’ve lived apart, visiting each other regularly. This arrangement has been perfect, but now that my partner’s salary has been cut drastically and I’m having to work fewer days a week, we’ve decided to pool our resources and move in together. As his house is bigger, I’m selling my flat. But we’re both …
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Categories: long-distance Tags: able, cope, dilemmas, Ironside’s, living, middle, together, virginia
Springfield proposing new middle, high school building
Springfield proposing new middle, high school building
LAKEMORE — A new school building may be built for middle and high school students in the Springfield Local Schools District.
Read more on West Side Leader & South Side News Leader
Categories: long-distance Tags: building, high, middle, proposing, school, springfield
America’s Middle Distance Running Disaster at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
Unless our middle distance runners develop some genuine desire and belief that they can actually beat foreign runners, we are always going to be over-hyped and under-performed. ... We will never be the lead dog in the pack, we will always be looking at someone else’s backside, and Iditarod is a long race....
Categories: long-distance Tags: beat-foreign, genuine-desire, going-out, iditarod, middle, slim, someone-else, the-lead, the-pack, will-never
10th Day of Christmas
Watch in awe as I clear this river in a single bound!” And so he commenced to get a long running start, intending to pole-vault across the river. ... But suddenly, mid-leap, it became startled by the immense distance between it and its beloved ground –...
Categories: long-distance Tags: across-the-river, became-startled, genuine-desire, going-out, immense, long-running, middle, river, single-bound, someone-else, the-immense, the-lead, the-pack, will-never
12/31/09 Update
After having started riding again the middle of last year (2008) following a long layoff, I completed the PCH Rando SR series (200, 300, 400, 600K) last winter/spring. ... Earned the RUSA R-12 and 5000K distance awards. And did 5 double centuries....
Categories: long-distance Tags: distance, from-last, from-the-work, having-started, last-winter, long-layoff, middle, pch, regular-updates, seemingly-loudly, take-note, the-distance, the-middle