I got an A or an A+ on the paper. I do still have it, but the fact that you're dragging up this thread one and a half years later makes me think you're aspiring to plagiarism.
I got an A or an A+ on the paper. I do still have it, but the fact that you're dragging up this thread one and a half years later makes me think you're aspiring to plagiarism.
I want to read it too! e-mail runnertodd21@yahoo.com
i enjoyed your thread and would also like to read the final paper. definately not interested in plagarizing, as i'm many years beyond HS. temporunner2004@yahoo.com
I just read this thread for the first time and it was only when i read your recent post did i realise this was anything other than a new thread. Before that i was very much enjoying your writing style, ISO_OAR. It's a refreshing change to see people contributing grammatically well written posts on here. (Not that good grammar is necessary on a message board, but it's still pleasing to read such contributions.)
I'd very much enjoy reading your whole 'Once a Runner' paper if you could mail it to me at:
And as i'm 34, you need not feel i'm about to plagarise your work!
All the best with your own running.
Many thanks in advance,
John
I also just saw this post for the first time and enjoyed the discussion and information here if there is a chance to get the finished work that would be great... Just click on my name for the email address.
Thanks hope your running is going well.
Could you send me a copy? Big fan of the book and would love to read your analysis.
Dude, ISO_OAR, you're "famous" a year and a half later. You were out of your time! This is wierd, huh? Who would've thunk?
You guys will have to wait until I go home for Thanksgiving as I don't have the paper on my computer at school.
ISO_OAR 1.5 Years Later wrote:
I got an A or an A+ on the paper. I do still have it, but the fact that you're dragging up this thread one and a half years later makes me think you're aspiring to plagiarism.
That's funny, ISO. I'm a 30 year old high school teacher and cross country/track coach and have no desire to plagiarize anything of yours or anyone else. Just thought you had some good ideas on some earlier posts in this thread and would like to see the finished product.
You're reading OAR for AP? While I like the idea of encouraging reading that has personal meaning, I don't know how an analysis of this text will help you on the AP test.
It is one of the greatest starts to a book because when he walks around the track replaying his race strategy in his mind - it just strikes an aged distance runner to the core. I thought I was walking with him - I thought it was me.
Ashenfelter, this was a final term paper after we had already finished the AP Exam. In any case my teacher taught an English class, not a test prep course. Most of the class still got a 5 on the exam (even me).
Drunkenhyena, I can send you the paper around Thanksgiving if you're still interested. I don't know any 30 year olds who would dub themselves "Drunkenhyena" though, hence my suspicion. Sounds more like a name a 12 year old would find "wicked cool."
old thread up from the dead . . . classic. i too read this now for the first time. as a lifetime runner and author, i love reading peoples writings about running-related topics. cant you post your paper to a website. you re in college now, throw that thing up on your webspace.
the people want to read it . . .
ISO_OAR wrote:
Ashenfelter, this was a final term paper after we had already finished the AP Exam. In any case my teacher taught an English class, not a test prep course. Most of the class still got a 5 on the exam (even me).
Drunkenhyena, I can send you the paper around Thanksgiving if you're still interested. I don't know any 30 year olds who would dub themselves "Drunkenhyena" though, hence my suspicion. Sounds more like a name a 12 year old would find "wicked cool."
Old nick-name from the college days...it's not like I sign my checks with that name, ISO. :)
Anyway, my email is
drunkenhyena@yahoo.comif you want to send it to me. Thanks.
Can anyone provide the Bowling quote that somebody praised on the first page of this thread? ...I read all the way through searching for that quote but didn't see it.
Thanks!
I am an English teacher and coach....Once a Runner is required reading to be on the team!
I would like to take a look at it if you don't mind.
thanks,
Thomas Hensley
Klein High School
ISO_OAR if you get a chance, please do mail a copy of your Once a Runner paper across. It'd be great to read it.
Thanks,
JL(peekay797@hotmail.com)
"And too there were questions: What did he eat? Did he believe in isometrics? Isotonics? Ice and heat? How about aerobics, est, ESP, STP? What did he have to say about yoga, yogurt, Yogi Berra? What was his pulse rate, his blood pressure, his time for 100-yard dash? What was the secret, they wanted to know; in a thousand different ways they wanted to know The Secret. And not one of them was prepared, truly prepared to believe that it had not so much to do with chemicals and zippy mental tricks as with that most unprofound and sometimes heart-rending process of removing, molecule by molecule, the very tough rubber that comprised the bottoms of his training shoes. The Trial of Miles, Miles of Trials. How could they be expected to understand that?" - Once a Runner by John L. Parker, Jr
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Ashenfelter, this was a final term paper after we had already finished the AP Exam. In any case my teacher taught an English class, not a test prep course. Most of the class still got a 5 on the exam (even me).
Drunkenhyena, I can send you the paper around Thanksgiving if you're still interested. I don't know any 30 year olds who would dub themselves "Drunkenhyena" though, hence my suspicion. Sounds more like a name a 12 year old would find "wicked cool."
Please e-mail me a copy, as well. Had my english teacher in highschool offered me a bit more freedom with assignments, I would have used this book, too.
can you post it on this thread instead of sending it out to everyones emails?