But when coach wasn't watching a lot of people didn't do anything. So my first impression that everyone was as dedicated as I was shot down. As we had more practices more and more people showed up late and didn't do much. By the end of the year people just acted as if they didn't care and the .
practices were really unorganized. A lot of that was the coach's fault and I came to the conclusion that he really didn't care that much about track because he was the head football .
coach also. So the things that I had heard about track being as important as football at my high school was not the case. It only got worse at the track meets.
My first year of track meets was a real learning experience. I remember myself warming up before the meets in the beginning of the season and as I looked around none of the other throwers except a select few were warming up. I kind of felt out of place but I kept warming up and got ready to throw. Then the man who was running the shot put called all the throwers over to go through the rules to get the throwing started. My name was called to go throw as I looked around I noticed people messing around and not focusing but that did not really bother me. I ended throwing fairly well. The rest of the season was like that for me. Usually when I would get done throwing I would go and watch the rest of my teammates compete. That was an ugly site no one was focused and they looked as if they were there for the social reasons not to compete.
My second year of track I was injured so I didn't get to compete but I still went to practice and worked out and trained. I watched a lot of practice and it was the same thing people messing around and not getting anything done. I ended up going to some of our home meets to help out. I talked to some of the other competitors while I was working and they had really bad attitudes but some of them were from really good teams, yes teams.
Some of the greatest racing I've ever seen is on the short tracks. ... This track has been known as the World's Fastest Half-Mile Track (even though it's .533 miles long), with speeds between 135-145 miles per hour. This track is a concrete track, while the aprons and pits are asphalt. ... At this track there's also a middle and a high line. ... Bristol is by far the more exciting race track, in my opinion. ...
The Controversy of Tracking The idea of "tracking" came about in the beginning of the 20th century, and has been surrounded by much controversy. According to James Rosenbaum, "tracking refers to any practice which creates homogeneous classed stratified on the basis of achievement or career goals. ... There are many different types of tracking in different grades ranging from kindergarten to secondary education. ... There are many different views on whether tracking is a positive advantage in the schooling structures or that it is a negative disadvantage that needs to be reversed. . Society i...
When the threat is internal, it's hard to track, so we deal with it as it arises. ... We need a method of tracking possible threats to the U.S.'... General was to have created the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force (Bush). ... The problem lies with the INS's inability to keep track of address changes (Sperry). ... Who tracks the immigrants in the U.S. under student visas? ...
New eye tracking techniques improve realism of aircraft simulators A simulated flight environment for pilot training may soon be made more realistic through the use of eye-tracking technology developed by researchers at the University of Toronto's Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IMBE). ... Their eye-tracker can record and analyze accurately up to 500 eye positions per second. ... Eizenman believes that "these improvements make our eye-tracker very effective in monitoring ...
In the book Tracks by Louise Erdrich, Fleur is presented as a strong, powerful person who has to face several problems. ... She was able to transform herself into animals and in dreams she was able to track animals so that when she woke she could hunt them. ... Another thing that made her a mythical figure was that she could track animals in her sleep and when she wakes she could hurt the animal. ...
State Track There I was after a whole year of hard work . ... It was the first day of the state track meet and as all of the teams were setting up their team camps of all types and sizes. The coaches walking their laps around the track to check the track for things out of place and to discuss their plans for the day. ... My team-mate in the event threw the shot the best that he has ever thrown in his track career which made him excited and filled with joy. ... As I was doing this a track official came up to me and told me that I could not be on the field unless I had an event going on at...
Track Versus Cross Country "Runners, get set! ... The many running events in track have varied distances. ... Eight full laps around the track make the longest event, the 3200 meter dash. ... As in track, women and men run different distances in cross country. ... Track takes place during the spring months of the year. ...
In Jeannie Oakes" Tracking: Can Schools Take a Different Route?, she states, "Track level differences get produced as teachers and students interact at school.aE The competition many students feel academically is hard and furious. ... This is the reason that tracking comes about in schools. ... "Tracking is both a response to significant differences among students and an ongoing contribution to those differences,aE everyone knows their strengths and weaknesses and need not be reminded of them by being placed, by someone else, into an ability group. ...
Welcome to what it feels like being a track star. ... Track has made me stronger, physically and mentally. ... Track continues to be a positive impact in my life. The reality of Track is a painful reality. ... Track and Field has given me so much in life. ...