Is he a phony? Real Mormons are not allowed to have facial hair.
Jared Ward profile on how he went from a JV HSer to the Olympics: ‘“If God wants me to run, then I’m going to run."
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DirtyT wrote:
Reason Jared Ward went from JV to Olympian: Americans suck at the Marathon.
This is the closest thing to the real answer. -
Salvitore Stitchmo wrote:
my 2c wrote:
I don't think you understand the psychology of this correctly.
It's not that you offload the responsibility for failure to someone else. The point is that your running - win, lose, of draw - is in the service of some higher purpose outside yourself. Steve Magness has written about this. It may not be God, it may be just your country or school or something else, but having an external higher purpose is common to many of the most successful athletes.
If you think it is that simple, then you don't understand basic human psychology my friend and especially that of an elite runner.
Oh, there's quite a bit more to it than that, but you really should read Magness. He's studied it in the context of athlete athletics and sketches it all out pretty clearly. Read Peak Performance, or the blog posts leading up to it. -
fake brigham follower wrote:Is he a phony? Real Mormons are not allowed to have facial hair.
I'm not sure if he's a real Mormon either.
https://byucougars.com/athlete/m-cross-country/82914/Ed-Eyestone -
Just Thinking wrote:
fake brigham follower wrote:Is he a phony? Real Mormons are not allowed to have facial hair.
I'm not sure if he's a real Mormon either.
https://byucougars.com/athlete/m-cross-country/82914/Ed-Eyestone
He is a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. -
I guess God didn’t want him to make a second Olympic team
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asdfsadf wrote:
Just Thinking wrote:
fake brigham follower wrote:Is he a phony? Real Mormons are not allowed to have facial hair.
I'm not sure if he's a real Mormon either.
https://byucougars.com/athlete/m-cross-country/82914/Ed-Eyestone
He is a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
My bad. I guess it was over your head and you didn't catch the sarcasm. I was referencing his profile pic which shows Ed with a moustache just like Jared Ward. Yes, Ed is a devout LDS member and even served a two year church mission in Spain.
