Tag: cross country

And They’re Off!

Oct 20, 2024

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by

Ben East

in Family, Government Studies, Non-Fiction, NPS, Politics, Running, Virginia, War

I headed down off the knoll and onto the course, tracking my son’s progress along fields of long-buried soldiers and lost, dud ordnance, gamely chasing a PR in the glory of his youth.
Little League IV: ‘Glory’

Mar 25, 2018

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by

Ben East

in About, Sports

There was nothing like pole vault. Our equipment was flawed: old fiberglass poles with no give. Coach knew nothing about it and left us to our own devices. Half a dozen guys tried. Sprint hard as we might, the pole didn’t budge. We climbed it like pillaging savages. Between stints climbing the pole—8 feet, 9…