By BOB PADECKY
The Press Democrat
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 6:10 p.m.
Cloverdale’s Sarah Sumpter won the Big West Conference’s cross country championships last Saturday at Riverside. In the 26 years that the Big West has been staging women’s cross country, Sumpter is only the second freshman to win the conference title.
OK, good, so much for the simple stuff. That’s going to be the least complicated paragraph you’ll read for the rest of this column.
But, come on, putting one foot in front of the other, how complicated can that be? Ah, but this is Sarah Sumpter we’re talking about here. If she keeps up her current pace of here-there-nowhere-everywhere, by the time she’s 30 her story will have as many pages as a Manhattan phone book and more plot lines than a Russian novel. There’s at least 30 minutes of a made-for-TV movie already done.
To start? Might as well start with the image, one more vivid.
“It was like I was standing inside a building,” said the CIF’s Division IV 2007 cross country champion, “and looking outside and seeing all the runners go past me. It was like I was trapped inside the building and couldn’t get out. I can’t really describe the depth of my frustration.”
To read the rest of the article, go to the following link:
Sarah Sumpter running, and living, better than ever
2 comments:
I am so happy to see her running well. I was so inspired by how much she was running in high school and how much she improved to run with some of the best in the nation (many of whom started out very fast).
It is great to see that she is back into the running scene and tearing it up at UC Davis. Good luck to her!
"If she keeps up her current pace of here-there-nowhere-everywhere, by the time she’s 30 her story will have as many pages as a Manhattan phone book and more plot lines than a Russian novel. There’s at least 30 minutes of a made-for-TV movie already done."
Can the Press Democrat hire some decent writers for once? This is almost as bad as the Petaluma article with the wolverine. I think it's great that they're giving press to runners (a lot more than most local papers), but can they write an article without this awkward, melodramatic style?
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