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Show r THE Wednesday, July 19, 1978 Page 12 By Doc Murdock If weekends were made for running (as they say in jogging circles) then Park City fell into step this weekend. With two big running events, the Ride and Tie one-horsetwo-runners race and the Annual Twilight four-mile run, Park City hosted a couple of thousand people who came to run or watch others run. Running. The sport is becoming an addiction to many. No equipment is needed except a good pair of running shoes: just pick a direction and take off. Roadside cows and horses, peaceful in their summer green field munchies, stare at you as you trot by. Motorists swear at you from their belching beasts as they are forced to slow (they fear your power to involve them in automobile homicide). Farmers and road maintainance crews speak of excess energy, imply that you should find a harder job. Running. To the uninitiated it can't seem like much fun: out there on the road, hot shining blacktop or cold shining rain, putting down the miles in your book of body perfection one step at a time. To the runner it's a sky high high. A time of release. Time flows onto a stopwatch clock. The body functions as it was meant to. Besides, the runner expects to live forever, as long as heshe keeps running. I watched the Ride and Tie. Saw that the runner could keep pounding out the up and downhill miles in the 90 degree heat but the horses needed rest, cooling down. In the end it was the horse's ability to keep up with two alternating runners that determined the race. The runner, a thinking, self-aware individual could go on but the vet held the horse at each checkpoint until recovered. Then the second runner could ride, and try to catch the other runner. Many crossed the finish line running, pulling the exhausted horse along. Saturday evening a thousand, or who knows how many, showed up at the high school to run in the Annual Twilight Race. Four miles around Park Meadow?s, mostly flat, elbow to elbow, wave to the folks on the front porches. It was a group expurging of the loneliness of the long distance runner. Every morning at 7:00 a.m. the cows may stare at a solitary jogger, but that night I joined a thousand to talk and laugh as we ran, to put down a stopwatch time for a four-mile run in the company of others. I managed a 32, w?hich is four eight-minute miles; got beat by some hundreds in better shape but finished ahead of some hundreds more. OK for this time, try harder to run every day from now on, try again next race. After the race most sat on the cool grass and talked and waited for the official results. No hurry to get home, just feeling good and waiting to see who won the individual classes. While we waited we did what runners always do: told running stories. Let me repeat a couple that were told that evening. All true, all amazing. The story about the Australian who decided to come to America to demonstrate some long distance running Australian style. He figured he could run across Death Valley. No different, really, than the hot outback down under. In addition to his regular training, he ran for a few-hours few-hours every day on a treadmill in a room overheated by sunlamps. He calculated how often he would have to stop to cool down and how much water he would need to drink. When he was ready he got on a plane and came to the hot California desert. Followed by a big Winnebago he ran in two hour intervals. The Winnebago had a refrigerator and in the refrigerator he kept twenty pairs of running shoes. He wore them all out, melted them down. Every two hours he would leap into a bathtub full of ice water the Winnebago had it's advantages. He ran clear across Death Valley and back. In the summer. How hot does it get in Death Valley in the summer? 160? 180? He followed up that run with a race with the sun across the Grand Canyon. From the south rim down to the Colorado River and then up to the north rim. Then he turned around and retraced the same route: down again and up-again, up-again, a total of 44 miles and a cummulative change in vertical elevation of 20,000 feet all in one summer day. The tourists make the trip to the bottom and back (one half the distance) in two days riding on burros. Then he went back to Australia, a vacation well spent. Another favorite story was told. In the southern part of Mexico there lives a tribe of Indians known (phonetically) as the Tarahamara. A very carefree tribe, this: they set aside 185 days per year for celebrating and for various festivities.One of the events for which they are best known is their week-long game of running kickball. Fortified by copious amounts of a white and frothy ideally brewed beer (for replacement of body liquids and for crazed motivation) they set off on a several hundred mile run. Kicking along a wooden ball across plains and through valleys and over mountains, they keep the ball rollling at all times, all the way across the breadth of their lands. As the rolling ball enters each new community new groups of lads run out to prove their macho through seeing how far they can keep running and kicking and drinking beer. Rut don't get the idea that it's a males only local spor' MVr ! iM or baseball; it's a community actioe in which every child and grandmother turns out to follow the bouncing ball as far as they can. At one of the Olympic Games Mexico decided to enter a couple of the best of these Indian kickballers in the marathon. The two Indians ran the whole race side by side, barefoot and they finished very well in the top ten. But after the race they were dismayed. Because no one there spoke their language they had failed to realize that it was a 26-mile race. They could not believe that such a big race could be so short. Had they known, they said, they would have run much faster. There were several other running stories told as we sat on the lawn in the gathering darkness. But I can't remember them all. They all carried the same message: running can be heroic or just a lonely and painful test of self; it can be a way of life or a way to get out of the house for an hour ; it can be sport or solitude, conditioning or contemplation. Whatever it means to anyone else, running is important to those who run. When I run, I smile. Whatever else happens that day, whatever else is coming down in my life, running is time out from it all. If you see me on the road and it's hot and muggy, the cows are staring and the cars are whizzing by, don't worry about me it's where I want to be. Trivia Test i ft v. I - I , , ' Angie Mellot Last week's Trivia Test was won by Angie Mellot. Angie correctly identified the Drifters as the singing artists who recorded "Up on the Roof ; " Fred and Ethel Mertz as the neighbors in "I Love Lucy;" and 89 cents a pound as the price of pork roast. Angie's retention of these vital facts has won her a free lunch compliments of the Corner Store. To win your free lunch, be the first person to provide the answers to the following important questions. Entries must be made in person at The Newspaper office, located at 419 Main Street, before Monday at 5 p.m. This week's questions are: 1. "Lonely Teardrops" was a bit hit for what rock and roll artist? 2. What was the name of Sky King's airplane? 3. What's the new name of the Holiday Inn as reported in last week's paper? Ideas For etter Living by Dr. M. Ford McBride In times of crises all of us need support to help us deal effectively with problems confronting us. Unfortunately Unfortunate-ly many of us rely on crutches that are temporary and artificial. Overpowered by shock and bewilderment because of a serious problem, people desensitize de-sensitize themselves by denial deni-al alcohol or by using up and down drugs. These artificial crutches are used to evade reality, and prevent the expression of feelings and thoughts. To escape the problem they also avoid the settings thai remind them of what was lost and what may lie ahead. An important part of living is dealing with adversity realistically. A series of constructive steps is suggested sug-gested by various psychologists psycholo-gists that I would like to hare with you. One. Face up to it. Express your (ears and concerns. The biggest block to dealing with problems is an inability to confront inner feelings hones! ho-nes! ly. Two objectify problem. . . :, (!!': 'M-mt what is me uouoie.' 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