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Show Page C2 P Thursday, September 1 5, 1994 The Park Record P Section C The Race: A mountain bike hill climb. Rolling Mass start. 1 700 foot elevation gain over 5 miles. Start at City Park, end at Guardsman Pass. The same outrageous course as always. Registration: Pickup registration forms at First Security Bank, Cole Sport, Jans Mountain Outfitters, White Pine Touring and Deer Valley ticket offices in Park City and many bike shops in Salt Lake. Preregistration cost is $ 1 0 and closes September Sep-tember 2 1st. Same-day registration cost is $ 1 5 and closes at 9:30 a.m. Make checks payable to Mountain Trails Foundation. Send to Tour Des Suds, PO Box 754, Park City, UT 84060. For more information contact con-tact Tim Henney, 649-4035. All proceeds benefit the Mountain Trails Foundation, a nonprofit trails advocacy group. Saturday, September IW1 Ml: ! y , , j,,.,,,, ), , . , nn.nni n 89th Annual Tour Pes Suds To Tour Is Human Helmets Required - An event for all ages and abilities Ride Reponsibly . . . Keep Trails Open The Tour Des Suds is part of the First Security Bank 1 994 summer series of Park City events. Sponsored by: (fa ttley Cycles mountain ah m)l f$ ThePrudential Coleman Real Estate HOMESTEAD Ifi till $ A DEER VALLEY' RESORT M Q Q NT I H Th Mountain Bill SpacMIM How We've Grown... and we would like to introduce ourselves -flhrflP 1' 1 1 4 J-h.5& V ' With a full service offset printing shop Oi J ' j j , Vym I the latest in high-tech graphics and pre-press equipment ' r 1" a complete array of binding services and newspaper printing for any need. . . Wave Publishing is your printing headquarters and you don't have to visit ours, we pick up and deliver, FREE! Wave Publishing, with over 100 years of experience, is the solution solu-tion to all your printing needs. 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But how can last Saturday's Michigan-Notre Dame game possibly be topped? It can't. For starters, you've got two powerhouses. Yes, that will happen later this season (the aforementioned Gators versus Florida State, for instance). Then, you've got a bazillion people crammed into Notre Dame's home stadium (OK, more like 57,000 spectators, but it sure seemed like more) and ten bazillion more watching on television. It was only the second week of the season and already, people at soccer games were asking about the score of "the game." And everyone knew what game they were talking about. Most importantly, you've got a mano a mano showdown at quarterback: the much-heralded much-heralded Ron Powlus of the Irish and much-overlooked much-overlooked Todd Collins of the Wolverines. Powlus is the latest in a long string of saviours of the Notre Dame honor, an awful lot of pressure for a teenager to handle, no doubt. Collins is the man who labors in the shadow of the injured running back Tyrone Wheatley. Hollywood's script, and the television commentators, had Powlus leading the Irish in a last-minute drive to win the game. And they nearly got it. Never mind that a long kickoff return cut the distance needed to under half a field. Or that a kinda . . questionable pass interference call put Notre Dame on the doorstep. In the end, Powlus did get Notre Dame into the endzone and into the lead, thanks to an amazing catch under the goal posts. But Notre Dame allowed Collins 46 seconds in which to get his team into field goal position. And he did just that. A 42- ' yard field goal by Remy Hamilton with six ; seconds to go gave Michigan the win and left the Irish faithful fearful for their national rating. An interesting statistic pulled out by NBC near the end of the game (before Powlus rallied Notre Dame to regain the lead, albeit for less a minute) showed that in years that Notre Dame has ; lost to Michigan, they've either finished the season unranked or as high as No. 13. And. as we all know, he who forgets the past is doomed to relive it. Fortunately for Lou Holtz and Notre Dame, Todd Collins' performance on Saturday will remind them all too well of the past. nDrojpsIhioits by Warren Pretorius Head tennis professional - PC Racquet Club Mental Toughness "But McEnroe does iLu" When talking about mental toughness training, I am often posed with the question: "But McEnroe loses his cool, throws tantrums and rackets, and he wins. Why not me?" Without getting into the negative impact on the sport by the antics of McEnroe, Connors and Nastase, exactly why is it that these players can blow their cool and still play such high level tennis? First of all, McEnroe, Connors and Nastase were the exceptions rather than the rule. Most of us lose our temper on the court, lose our focus, and then lose the match. Mental toughness and focus are synonymous. Mac and the gang had an . exceptional ability to recover focus immediately after blowing up. How many times did we see McEnroe question a line call, scream at the umpire, break a racket, and then come right back and play his best point of the match. Recovery. Most players on the other hand, lose their cool over an error, and then dwell on that error. They lose their focus and then dig an even deeper hole for themselves, missing two or three points because of "that stupid volley I hit in the net," or because "I got hooked on that last line call." The key to mental toughness is: Focus on only the next point, regardless of what happened on the last. Thinking too far ahead is as detrimental to focus as is dwelling on past errors. Mentally tough players think about one point at a time. Have you ever been 5-2 up in the first set and started thinking about the second set, or even about winning the match, only to have your opponent stage a comeback? Top players add something to this point- by-point focus: Positive preplay or imagery, where they play out the point in A their mind before striking the first ball. This concept is certainly not a unique ona. Successful pole vaulters, high jumpers, ski racers, to name but a few, all play out their, ' motions mentally before carrying them out physically. t Imagery works because the imagination is innately positive when you picture,' yourself serving and volleying, how many times do you imagine a double- fault? Hopefully, not often. Don't confuse this with the more common thought process: "Ad out: : Now don't double fault!" .: : ,: Positive preplay in tennis would be '. : : something like this (add color and graphics : ' back home): "First serve, reach up, hit down the middle, close in, punch first volley : cross-court..." Don't preplay too many shots: two or three is enough. If you lose your cool in a match, work on recovery ASAP. Take a few extra seconds between points to regain composure. I You have absolutely no control over " points that have already been played they; are history. You do have the power to affect : what happens on the next point. : Down The Lines Fall junior session is currently underway. " Some spaces are still available. Fees will be j pro-rated. Register at the Front Desk. j Active Styles fall league begins Oct. 3. , All adult NTRP levels. Registration deadline: Sept. 15. : Bartender's Cup, Sept. 26-0ct. 1. Draw party is Friday, Sept. 23, 5:30 p.m., at the : Yarrow. PCWGA 18-hole group results The Park City Women's Golf Association 1 8-hole group competition on Tuesday, Sept. 6 was cut short due tor rain. Using the Stableford System, the winners of the day's play over nine holes were: ' A FLIGHT Gross 1st Bette Logefeil 12 Net 1st Marlcne Niemann 18 B FLIGHT Gross 1st Donna Erickson Net 1st IlsaLeonhart C FLIGHT : Gross I 4 1st Julie McKay Net ' : 18 1st Bonnie Novelle 20 - Next time you tell yourself that your high-cholesterol diet and smoking are no one's business but your own, think about the people who love you. To learn more, contact your nearest American Heart Association. You can help prevent heart disease. We can tell you how. American Heart Association |