http://www.runningland.com/2005/02/04/million-baby/ wisdom and tripe from a lifetime runner Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:31:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.runningland.com/2005/02/04/million-baby/#comment-1052 songs of experience » “Saint Ralph” … love and guts. Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:21:17 +0000 http://www.runningland.com/2005/02/04/million-baby/#comment-1052 [...] When I grew up to become a runner and a coach, I watched movies-with-jocks like some junkie needing an inspiration drug. I rented any video I could find that had the struggling-athlete theme: Bang the Drum Slowly, Running Brave (of course, another Robbie Benson gem!), Breaking Away, Hoosiers, Hoop Dreams, Chariots of Fire, On the Waterfront, a Carolina Women’s Soccer documentary, all the Pre movies, Bud Greenspan Olympic films, The Arthur Ashe story, A Sebastian Coe training video (I played the scene with his road 800’s, with his father/coach following in the car - “Are you ready, Seb?!” - over and over and over), Children of Nature, Endurance, Bull Durham, The Natural, and - recently - Million Dollar Baby, etc.! [...] [...] When I grew up to become a runner and a coach, I watched movies-with-jocks like some junkie needing an inspiration drug. I rented any video I could find that had the struggling-athlete theme: Bang the Drum Slowly, Running Brave (of course, another Robbie Benson gem!), Breaking Away, Hoosiers, Hoop Dreams, Chariots of Fire, On the Waterfront, a Carolina Women’s Soccer documentary, all the Pre movies, Bud Greenspan Olympic films, The Arthur Ashe story, A Sebastian Coe training video (I played the scene with his road 800’s, with his father/coach following in the car - “Are you ready, Seb?!” - over and over and over), Children of Nature, Endurance, Bull Durham, The Natural, and - recently - Million Dollar Baby, etc.! [...]

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