Welcome back to my blog detailing my research of the Limits of Human Endurance! I am sad to report that this is the last blog that I will be producing. I am also disappointed to report that I do not think that I will be able to run my treadmill test as I had planned, but will further analyze my own, already-completed runs and several other runners and one basketball player. I am convinced that what allowed our friend, Walter Bond, to make it through the adversity and push the limits of human endurance was his positive attitude and hard work ethic. As stated in the background blog about him, Walter asked his trainer to carry him to the bike and tape his cast to the pedal. The amount of fierce tenacity, self-belief, and love for his sport that Walter possessed gave him the strength to keep pushing and never give up. Not only did the man achieve his dreams, he also surpassed them in becoming the first ever un-drafted, rookie, free-agent, in the his...
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Welcome back to my blog, The Limits of Human Endurance! I am sad to say that our time together is running short, and my project is coming to an end. I am also sad to report that I have fallen short of my goals thus far, as my stress fracture has prevented me from running for the last month and a half. My physical therapy is going well, and I have been able to run one mile a day for the last 2 days. I am hopeful that I will be able to run my treadmill test still, however my time may not be as fast as I had hoped for. However, I am confident that I will be able to run at at least a 4:5X mile and hope to run a 4:45 mile. I believe that I will be able to train enough in the next few weeks to make this possible. Due to the level of effort I put into planning the test, I am going to work very hard in the next week to study a few athletes that have proven their guts and pure tenacity, as I have fallen behind in that area of my study. In this next week, I plan to study Steve...
Welcome back to my blog, "The Limits of Human Endurance," your favorite blog detailing, well, the limits that the human body is restrained by when performing amazing athletic feats. Today, I will be telling the little-known story of Walter Bond, former NCAA basketball player from the University of Minnesota and NBA player for Dallas Mavericks, Utah Jazz, and Detroit Pistons. The story that made Walter such an inspiration did not begin until the end of his college basketball career. After several stellar seasons at the high school level, Walter earned a scholarship to the University of Minnesota and played decent over the first three years of his NCAA career. In the first three years, Walter scored 239 points total and had a FG% of .52. These stats were not too shabby, however, were just low enough to be overlooked by the NBA. The first game of Walter's senior year after putting in hours more of hard work in the last off-season and being in the best shape of his life,...
Welcome back to your favorite blog detailing "The Limits of Human Endurance," by yours truly, Chase Drange! I have realized that due to my injury (a stress fracture of the fibula, which prevented my running at the MHSA State Cross Country Championships), I need to prepare for the possibility that I may not be able to complete my endurance treadmill test. This would be catastrophic to my research, as nearly 75% of my work thus far has been in preparation for my self-test. Due to this, I have decided that I need to begin to study athletes that have pushed the limits of human endurance in their own respective sports and in this theorize what advantages they had over other competitors. Next week, I am going to research one of my favorite athletes of all-time. Surprisingly, to both the audience and myself, the athlete in which I will detail was not a runner, but his story has never failed to intrigue and inspire me. The story of Walter Bond, a basketball player who never ...