Running with the Buffaloes : A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team

by Chris Lear

• ISBN13: 9781585743285
• ISBN10: 1585743283
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

A celebration of sports that follows the University of Colorado cross country team during one unforgettable NCAA season.

Author Biography

Chris Lear, New Jersey's fastest high school miler in the 1990s, attended Princeton University, where he earned All-Ivy, All-East, and All-America honors and was a two-time cross country captain. He lives in Boulder, Colorado

Table of Contents

The 1998 U of C Cross Country Team	xiii
Introduction	1	(4)
94 Day to Lawrence	5	(4)
Like Ten Pounds of Shit in a Five-Pound Bag	9	(3)
The Unspoken Agreement	12	(7)
The Day of Truth	19	(4)
Fuck This Shit	23	(1)
The Plan	24	(5)
Monster Island	29	(6)
Rest...Finally	35	(1)
Short Specificity	36	(3)
You Need the Melon	39	(1)
Res Severa Verum Gaudia	40	(1)
The Right Stuff	41	(1)
Time to Work	42	(2)
So Many Gouchers	44	(1)
St. Crispin's Day	45	(3)
Bluebirds	48	(1)
Oh, Goucher!	49	(2)
Seasonal Affective Disorder	51	(2)
The Tank	53	(1)
The Miracle Doctor	54	(2)
AT	56	(2)
The Arapahoe Invitational	58	(2)
Vengeance Is a Very Useful Tool	60	(4)
Casualties	64	(8)
It's My Last One, Bitch!	72	(3)
Flagstaff Again	75	(2)
More Trouble	77	(1)
Strength Kills	78	(2)
Ponce Has His Day	80	(7)
Money in the Bank	87	(2)
The Dam	89	(3)
Recovery	92	(4)
They All Want to Be You	96	(6)
Forty. Four Zero. Forty	102	(3)
Step It Up	105	(2)
Edge City Blues	107	(1)
We Believe in Our Fitness	108	(4)
Bluebirds	112	(1)
Death March	113	(2)
Milers	115	(2)
Without Limits	117	(1)
Percolation	118	(2)
Shakeout	120	(3)
Unleash the Lions	123	(6)
Mags	129	(2)
Welcome, Captains Reese and Burroughs	131	(3)
It's in God's Hands	134	(3)
Biding Time	137	(7)
A Day of Rest---for Some	144	(4)
Black Monday	148	(2)
A Struggle to Understand	150	(5)
Progress	155	(2)
Impressions from Afar	157	(3)
Memories	160	(1)
Tornado Coming---PFB'S!	161	(6)
Into the Sun	167	(3)
Slattery, I Think You're Full of Shit	170	(1)
No Doubt About It	171	(3)
Welcome to Anaerobia	174	(2)
Changing of the Guard	176	(1)
Who Is Friedberg?	177	(3)
One More Victim	180	(1)
Musings	181	(2)
Let It Rain	183	(5)
How Good Are We?	188	(1)
Remember, We're Buffaloes	189	(3)
The 1998 Big 12 Cross Country Championship	192	(4)
Back to Work	196	(1)
Master Blaster	197	(3)
Skeleton Dreams	200	(2)
Down	202	(3)
Another Casualty	205	(3)
Punchdrunk Fighters	208	(3)
Call to Arms	211	(2)
Edge City Is a Scary Place	213	(1)
I'm No Wildlife Expert	214	(2)
Earning Their Shot	216	(5)
Fired Up!!	221	(5)
Anyone Like Duck?	226	(3)
Priorities	229	(1)
The Hay's in the Barn	230	(3)
Time Crawling	233	(2)
Lawrence, Here We Come	235	(2)
A Push From Above	237	(2)
The 1998 Men's NCAA Cross Country Championship	239	(13)
The Show Is Over	252	(3)
Epilogue	255	(3)
Postscript	258