Chances are if you play baseball, you've dreamed of playing in the World Series. Well, for three local baseball players, that dream's about to come true — kind of.
The Edmonton Cubs, who play in the Edmonton Little League, will be heading to South Carolina this week to play in the Little League U16 World Series from July 28 to Aug. 4 where they will represent as Team Canada.
The opportunity to play south of the border comes is a first for the Cubs and comes on the heels of a successful performance at the U16 Canadian Championship on July 22 (which the Cubs' hosted) when the team best Team Atlantic 13-4 to win the championship in the seventh inning.
Among those playing on the team are three boys who spent time under the banner of the Parkland Twins. Justin Davidchuk, 14, is a rookie player for the Cubs that plays second base, followed by Daniel Simmonds, a jack of all trades according to the coaching staff, who plays third base, shortstop and pitcher as well as Hayden Rhody, a pitcher and outfielder with the Cubs.
Over the past three years, the team has consistently found their way to the nationals, but this is the first time that they've managed to bring home the gold during those nationals. Assistant coach Shane Jones said their recent success was built on the last three years of play.
The boys were ecstatic to have won and earned themselves a trip to the United States, according to Jones, who said the team is also pleased that after a week of baseball they've walked away with no injuries.
Looking towards the World Series, Jones said the team not just aiming to do well, they're aiming to win.
The Cubs will play Italy in their first game of the series this Saturday.


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Transportation for an Aging Population: Promoting Mobility and Equity for Low-Income Seniors
This study explores the travel patterns, needs, and mobility problems faced by diverse low-income, inner-city older adults in Los Angeles in order to identify solutions to their mobility challenges. The study draws information from: (1) a systematic literature review of the travel patterns of older adults; (2) a review of municipal policies and services geared toward older adult mobility in six cities; (3) a quantitative analysis of the mobility patterns of older adults in California using the California Household Travel Survey; and (4) empirical work with 81 older adults residing in and around Los Angeles' inner-city Westlake neighborhood, who participated in focus groups, interviews, and walkabouts around their neighborhood.
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ANASTASIA LOUKAITOU-SIDERIS, PH.D.
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is Associate Provost for Academic Planning at UCLA, Associate Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and Professor of Urban Planning. Her area of specialization is urban design, physical and land use planning. She has served as a consultant to the Transportation Research Board, Federal Highway Administration, Southern California Association of Governments, South Bay Cities Council of Government, Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative, Mineta Transportation Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Greek government, and many municipal governments on issues of urban design, land use and transportation. Her research has been supported by the US and California Departments of Transportation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mineta Transportation Institute, the Haynes Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, the Gilbert Foundation, the Archstone Foundation, the California Community Foundation, and the AARP. She has published more than 100 articles and chapters and has co-authored or co-edited five books: Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form (UC Press 1998); Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities (Temple University Press 2006); Sidewalks: Conflict and Negotiation over Public Space; Companion to Urban Design (MIT Press 2009); and The Informal American City: Beyond Taco Trucks and Day Labor (MIT Press 2014).
MARTIN WACHS, PH.D.
Martin Wachs is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Civil & Environmental Engineering and of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directed the Institute of Transportation Studies. He earlier spent 25 years at UCLA, where he was Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning for eleven years. After retiring from the University, Wachs became the Director of the Transportation, Space, and Technology Program at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica. He is semi-retired, teaching courses and conducting research at UCLA in transportation policy and working on transportation policy projects at RAND. He is a Research Associate of the Mineta Transportation Center. Professor Wachs published in 1979 the first comprehensive study of elderly suburbanization and their travel patterns and needs, entitled: Transportation for the Elderly: Changing Lifestyles, Changing Needs. Since then he has continued to conduct research and publish works on aging and travel. With funding from the American Association of Retired People he currently is researching travel by poor, ethnically diverse inner city elderly. And in another project he is researching the role of mobility and access in decisions by the elderly to remain in the workforce after "normal" retirement age.
LENÉ LEVY-STORMS
Lené Levy-Storms is an Associate Professor in the Luskin School of Public Affairs, Department of Social Welfare and the Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, UCLA. She holds degrees in public health and biostatistics. Dr. Levy-Storms research interests focus on the role of social support networks on the health of older adults. She has also studied the relationships in community-based settings among minority elders, focusing on their chronic health needs. Most recently, she has focused on health communication and behavior change among older adults and their caregivers in institutional long-term care settings.
MADELINE BROZEN
Madeline Brozen is the Deputy Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She holds a Masters of Urban Planning from UCLA. Her research focuses on complete streets and open space, bicycling, and older adult mobility patterns. She has conducted research on open streets events, design innovations in the right of way, and travel behavior. She has received two National Planning Achievement Awards for Best Practice from the American Planning Association and a Federal Highway Administration Exemplary Human Environment Initiative award.
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Tournament favorites Team Liquid have suffered yet another upset at the StarLadder Berlin Major, this time at the hands of CIS upcomers Avangar. The North American juggernauts were also upset by domestic rivals NRG just yesterday.
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Ready to leave the San Juan Islands. West Beach Resort Pier on Orcas Island.
Just a quick update on the last week. We left Orcas Island in the San Juans and headed for Neah Bay on the tip of the Olympic Peninsula. The ride was pretty easy up to that point. Monday we headed out to make the "Big Left Turn". We were escorted out by a dozen or so humpback whales feeding on the bait fish in the tide rips. It felt like they where waving us out, although I'm sure they were just busy getting their breakfasts.
The tide rips made a pretty rough entrance to the ocean. It felt like we were in a washing machine for the first few hours. After turning South, we had steadily building seas for the next 40 hours or so. The forecast was for 4-5 foot seas from the Northwest and 10-15 knot winds. We had the forecast winds to start with but the winds built to 25+ knots and the seas gradually built to 8 foot primary swells from the North and the Northwest and some 2-3 foot wind waves (chop) thrown in just for fun. It was a bumpy ride. After several attempts to find a sail configuration that would hold up with all of the twisting, we whisker poled out our Genoa and reefed it down to about one third. That seemed to ease the motion slightly and gave us an extra knot of speed.
We found out what items on the boat weren't firmly secured pretty quickly. Everything has it's point of release. Mac got 2 cups of water square in the face when Sonni set a measuring cup down for one second to open the pot lid…sorry Mac but at least it was the cold water and not the boiling. We did manage to get some good sleep between our 3 hour shifts and LUEGO took great care of us. We never felt scared or in danger, just lots of motion. Okay, one particular roll sent Sonni's stomach flipping and brought some pretty colorful words from her mouth. Luego would crest a wave, then slide to the left as she began to surf down the other side, the surfing motion creates a rolling of the boat and then a counter roll 1-3 times to get back in place. And repeat, then repeat again, add the next wave direction, and you guessed it…Repeat Again. After hours of this it does seem like your boat takes on a personality.
At midnight on the second day I downloaded the latest forecast and for the first time the conditions were forecast to improve. As soon as I finished reading the forecast, the seas began to calm and the winds let up. We took down our sail (the wind was too light to keep it open) and motored the rest of the way to Coos Bay, OR. We reached the Coos Bay river bar at about 9:30am yesterday and were met by a bank of fog (the soup style) and a Coast Guard watch boat. After tying up to the dock and grabbing a bite to eat (the fried and salty kind of course), we immediately took a nap, a shower, a couple beers at the local pub, and went to bed.
Entrance to the Coos Bay river bar. Visibility 100 feet.
Today we'll fix some loose bolts on our Hydrovane (self steering) and head off for Crescent City, CA tonight to arrive in the daylight tomorrow. If you haven't heard of a self steering wind vane, (ours is Hydrovane brand, there are several) it has turned out to be the most valuable piece of equipment we added. It did at least 95 percent of the steering on the way here and allowed us some much needed rest. It is an absolutely brilliant piece of engineering. We're currently searching for a name for him/her, it's our third crew member and better at steering than either of us… please send ideas?!
Our Hydrovane hard at work!
Wow!! Glad to hear you are officially on your way and safe. I know about the swells etc but not on a sail like yours.
Enjoy and please be careful and wise. Thinking about you.
Good Morning Pam, It's a beautiful morning in Crescent City, CA. We're going to take a few days rest and let the dogs run on the beach.
"steady Eddy" – keeping you on track.
Good to hear you are in California. Enjoy!
Horace. Love the pics and updates. Is SF next stop after Cresent City?
Awesome pics! Wow you're already 2/3 the way to San Fran. I'm sooo excited for you!!!!
I vote for "Natalie". A small token of thanks for letting you copy my homework.
JK, love the blog and safe sailing!
Hi Michele, Horace is a great name! Yes, we're headed for SF tomorrow. If the weather holds we'll make it sometime Friday. If not, we'll duck in to Fort Bragg.
I like Eddy! My middle name!
Ha! You have a very valid point! That deserves some very thorough consideration!
You could call her NS (pronounced En-nis) for North Star….don't all sailors who followed the stars use it? Wow, your stories are fabulous, well written, and very entertaining….knowing you will be careful….keeping you in our thoughts and prayers. What a glorious adventure!
What an exciting time for you both. Nothing better than living your dreams. I know you've done a lot of work to get to this point. Very proud of you both. Stay safe and enjoy every minute of it!
Thanks Don! Great to hear from you!
Hi Gail, Great to hear from you! That's a great name. Oddly, I've been staring at the North Star staring out the back of the boat to tell if we're still on course (it's too cold to stand at the helm all night). Thanks for the nice words. We'll try to keep it up! Heading for a WWII museum in a bit. We'll send pictures. And yes, the barf count is still at zero on our boat. Our friends haven't been so lucky. Thanks Scopalomine patches!


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by Middle Ground Journal | October 22, 2014 · 3:39 AM
Archaeology Field School in Trempealeau — The North Star Reports, sponsored by The Middle Ground Journal. By Lee Bongey
(Flint-knapping with deer antler)
Hello, my name is Lee and I am an Anthropology and Linguistics double major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I have just begun my third week of an archaeology field school in Trempealeau, Wisconsin. We have been excavating a Native American platform mound to learn about a group of people that archaeologists call Middle Mississippians. Middle Mississippian culture flourished in their home city of Cahokia (located by modern-day St. Louis, Missouri) from 1050-1250 C.E. Middle Mississippians traveled from Cahokia almost 530 miles up the Mississippi River to Trempealeau, so what we're hoping to find out through the excavations in Trempealeau is why the Middle Mississippians came and why they left.
(Pottery sherd)
I have never been on an archaeology dig before, so it's fascinating to see the procedures involved when excavating. We dig in a very systematic manner, squaring off areas to dig in and removing centimeters of soil at a time with a shovel or trowel. We then sift the dirt through sifting screens, so we can look for artifacts as the dirt passes through the wire mesh. While we often find more recent artifacts such as nails, glass, or animal bone, it's always very rewarding to find a Native American artifact that is over one thousand years old. The kinds of artifacts we find are usually flakes that result from flint-knapping, which is a tool-making technique where you hit a rock in a certain way to break it to create the tool. We also find pottery sherds, tools, and burnt rock (which indicate that a hearth was there). We don't find any human remains when we dig because the platform mound was not created for the purposes of burying the dead; rather it probably served as an elevated foundation for a temple or perhaps an elite ruler's house. The platform mounds are created by dumping thousands of basketfuls of soil on top of each other.
(Digging & Sifting)
Beyond the artifacts, a good deal of archaeology is based off of stratigraphy, or looking at soil layers, colors, and textures. By analyzing the soil's coloration, you can see where a wall or house post used to be. I have had no formal experiences with archaeology prior to this field school, so I found all of this to be very interesting. It's also different from my initial ideas as to what archaeology would be like. While I previously had notions of digging in a remote location unattached from society, in actuality our dig site is the middle of the town of Trempealeau in someone's front yard. It often seems as though archaeology and ancient history are very detached from people today, so it's fascinating to me that we could be living right on top of what used to be someone's home.
I learn something new every day when we dig. So far, the excavations have been tiring, but incredible! I'm looking forward to more!
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La Serra de la Bona Mossa és una serra situada entre els termes municipals de Baix Pallars (antic terme de Peramea) i Soriguera (antic terme d'Estac), a la comarca del Pallars Sobirà.

Té una elevació màxima de 1.180,6 metres, amb l'extrem sud-oriental a l'alçada del punt quilomètric 290 de la carretera N-260. El nou traçat d'aquesta carretera travessa la Serra de la Bona Mossa pel Túnel de Costoia, mentre que el traçat vell anava a cercar l'extrem de llevant de la serra, a toca de la Noguera Ribagorçana. Als peus de la serra, ran del riu, hi ha el Tros de la Borda. Pel costat sud-occidental de la serra davalla el Barranc de l'Espital d'Erta. L'extrem nord-oest és, alhora, el punt superior de la serra, al Tossal Gros.

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Walter Cooper Dendy
Walter Cooper Dendy (1794–1871) was an English surgeon and writer.
Dendy was born on 1 Oct 1794 to Stephen Cooper Dendy and Marianne Dubbins at or near Horsham in Sussex.[1] After an apprenticeship in that locality he came to London about 1811, and entered himself as a student at Guy's and St. Thomas's hospitals.
He became a member of the College of Surgeons in 1814, and commenced practice in Stamford Street, Blackfriars, changing his residence soon after to 6 Great Eastcheap. He was chosen a fellow of the Medical Society of London, and became president. He was an admirable speaker.
Dendy was not a mere surgeon; he was conspicuous for cultivated taste and polished manners. He published a poem of much merit entitled 'Zone,' and the 'Philosophy of Mystery,' 1841, a treatise on dreams, spectral illusions, and other imperfect manifestations of the mind. He held some peculiar religious views, but his mind was too much imbued with enthusiasm for him to be a materialist. He was the author of many books, and contributed largely to medical journals, and was the writer of some remarkable papers in the 'Psychological Journal.' He was an admirable draughtsman, and illustrated his own works. His last efforts with his pencil were some sketches of the scenes described by the poet Cowper in the neighbourhood of Olney and Weston Underwood. For a long period he acted as senior surgeon to the Royal Infirmary for Children in the Waterloo Road. He was nominated a fellow of the Anthropological Society of London on 2 April 1867, and on 3 Nov. 1868 read a paper on 'Anthropogenesis' before the society, which contained a trenchant attack on the Darwinian doctrines. He was retired in his habits, and, with the exception of attending the annual dinner of the Medical Society and the biennial festival of the students of Guy's Hospital, he seldom appeared at any convivial meetings of the profession.
Having retired from practice, he occupied his time in the reading-room of the British Museum, where his eccentric costume made him a well-known character. After a short illness he died at 25 Suffolk Street, Haymarket, London, on 10 Dec. 1871, aged 77.
His book On the Phenomena of Dreams, and Other Transient Illusions (1832), was an early work that attempted to find medical explanations for dreams and psychical experiences.[2]
A Treatise on the Cutaneous Diseases incidental to Childhood (1827)
On the Phenomena of Dreams and other Transient Illusions (1832)
The Book of the Nursery (1833)
Practical Remarks on the Diseases of the Skin (1837, 2nd ed. 1854)
Philosophy of Mystery (1841, 2nd ed. 1845)
Hints on Health and Diseases of the Skin (1843, 2nd ed. 1846)
Monograph I. On the Cerebral Diseases of Children (1848)
Wonders displayed by the Human Body in the Endurance of Injury. From the Portfolio of Delta (1848.
Portraits of the Diseases of the Scalp (1849)
The varieties of Pock delineated and described (1853)
Psyche, a Discourse on the Birth and Pilgrimage of Thought (1853)
The Beautiful Islets of Britaine (1857, 2nd ed. 1860)
The Islets of the Channel (1858)
The Wild Hebrides (1859)
A Gleam of the Spirit Mystery (1861)
Legends of the Lintel and the Ley (1863)
^ "Walter Cooper Dendy". Ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
^ "On the Phenomena of Dreams, and Other Transient Illusions". Cambridge University Press.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Dendy, Walter Cooper". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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SPOILER WARNING: Some spoilers for Assassination Nation below.
Assassination Nation—the modern indie interpretation of the Salem Witch Trials that took Sundance by storm before heading to San Diego Comic-Con's Hall H and then to the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival—is more than just your average thriller. The film serves as a social commentary about modern womanhood. When a small town (aptly named Salem) is hit with a massive data leak, all hell breaks loose. Secrets are revealed, relationships are ruined, and most of all, women are brutally shamed.
Rather than accepting their fate, when Lily (Odessa Young), Bex (Nef), Sarah (Suki Waterhouse), and Em (Abra) land in the centre of the storm, "we find these four girls breaking out of those paradigms and taking their narrative into their own hands," Nef described—and that's when things get really bloody.
Here's more from Nef on modern womanhood and what she hopes audiences get out of Assassination Nation.
MTV News: First, how do you define womanhood in a way that fits with the modern perception?
Hari Nef: As soon as you define womanhood you make a generalization that is doomed to exclude some women or other. I question what womanhood means every day and I'm constantly pushing myself to evolve my conception of womanhood because there are so many different kinds of women, so many different kinds of experiences, and I don't think they can be encapsulated into a single pithy definition.
Lately there's been a tendency to divide women into categories: white cis, women of color, trans women, etc. Something I found really interesting about this movie is that all the women are together and that's kind of the power of it.
I believe looking at feminism intersectionally is essential for building sympathy—and in other cases, empathy—for the experiences of women who are not like you and to understand their experiences and to understand how their experiences differ from your experiences or her experiences. However, the things that oppress women through all these different intersections, come more or less from the same place, they just manifest themselves in different ways. In this film, we're able to see the unified source of vitriol, righteousness, and hatred that targets these women in a variety of ways. We have to understand our differences as women but seek strength in our unity.
I think something that this film does well, too, is to recognize that trauma is trauma and doesn't try to say any one experience is better or worse.
There's no hierarchy here. These girls are trying to survive the night by any means necessary. I think even Em and Sarah, Suki and Abra's characters, we have that brief shot of their mother being targeted in the grocery store parking lot for sleeping with another woman's husband, so those two girls are also implicated in some sort of sexual moral impropriety. These things happen.
I also want to talk about your character. After the first leak with the mayor, Bex says, essentially, 'He wouldn't mourn my death, so why should I mourn his?' It's tough because that's true, but there's also this idea of whether we have to be empathetic to move forward. What do you think about that kind of apathy?
When Bex is saying that, she is speaking from a place of deep pain and deep trauma living in a town whose mayor does not acknowledge her humanity. In fact, he questions and denies it, and that is a hostile environment for a young girl. And we see her at the end, she is given the choice to strike back at her assailant, to kill the person who wished death on her and, spoiler alert, she chooses to spare his life, and that encapsulates the message of this film. It's not about turning the other cheek; it's about digging somewhere deep down and finding empathy for the people who hate you, breaking the cycle of hatred and vitriol, and if a conversation is impossible, walking away.
She understands that Johnny (Cody Christian) isn't this person. He's a person acting in this environment and he's just a kid, and she's just a kid, and I don't think Bex wants the conscience of killing somebody hanging over her for the rest of her life, so she chooses the less juicy, gritty, satisfying option cinematically for a moment that, when I was thinking about it, she could have for the rest of her life. That takes true strength.
It humanized that whole scene.
Well, at the Toronto screening the whole crowd was screaming, "Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!" And I understand the entertainment value of that, but that's the world we're living in. And I was so grateful to that Toronto audience for their enthusiasm and for the standing ovation they gave us, but it kind of shows what kind of world we're living in where even when we have the opportunity to break the cycle of hatred and of vitriol, when we're given the choice, people want to see someone strike back, and I don't necessarily think that that makes anything right.
Right, it's hard to be productive when you just want to kill each other.
It'll never end. It'll never end that way.
So what was the reaction when they saw Bex walk away?
They went, "Ooh," and then there was a moment of silence. And I hoped people were thinking. I hope this movie makes people think. I hope they have fun. I hope we deliver some of those moments where it's like, "Yeah!" You know, when, spoiler alert, Lily hits the guy in the face with the shovel, and when she shoots the officer who's trying to shoot her, when she slices open Daddy's (Joel McHale) throat. Those are those moments where we can really take some nasty satisfaction with what's going on—but those are the deaths of people who wanted to kill those girls. Bex kills. She kills the assailant in the pool. What choice does she have? But when you have the choice, that's another question.
That's a moment for humanity. It's not self-defence at that point, it's mercy.
Along those same lines, what's amazing to me is that this story was written and directed by a man, and it's really powerful to see that level of self-awareness.
I think it shows that these kind of collaborations are possible and that the creative teams of films or television don't have to be stratified along gender or identity lines for optics in order to be effective. Sam [Levinson] knew his responsibility as the director of this film and he opened up his process to us and took cues from us to guide this film in a direction that was ethical, believable, and felt true not only to life but to us, and from day one he made himself available and he let us improvise, he let us question the script, he let us question him. We had conversations; they weren't always easy, but they always led us in a direction of—here's that word again—empathy and understanding, and it's possible to make these films with people who are not like the people in the films. It just has to be done in a certain way. I haven't met very many people like Sam who are willing to surrender this rigid auteuristic vision and do something more collaborative, but as Lily says toward the end of the film, "Not all men," right?
Do you think that collaboration made it better?
If Sam hadn't been open to our voices and collaboration, I definitely don't think I would be as proud as I truly am to stand by this film.
What about this film makes you proud to stand by it?
It's an urgent, provocative social commentary disguised as a genre film that anyone can enjoy. The thrills of the film are a doorway into the heavier themes, and that is the future of quality filmmaking. It's been stratified so long around these prestige indies and these big-budget blockbusters, and I feel like this film kind of weaves those two worlds together in a way that fascinates and thrills me.


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Becky Wade, author of Run the World, on tour July 2016
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About Run the World
• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (July 5, 2016)
From elite marathoner and Olympic hopeful Becky Wade comes the story of her year-long exploration of diverse global running communities from England to Ethiopia—9 countries, 72 host families, and over 3,500 miles of running—investigating unique cultural approaches to the sport and revealing the secrets to the success of runners all over the world.
Fresh off a successful collegiate running career—with multiple NCAA All-American honors and two Olympic Trials qualifying marks to her name—Becky Wade was no stranger to international competition. But after years spent safely sticking to the training methods she knew, Becky was curious about how her counterparts in other countries approached the sport to which she'd dedicated over half of her life. So in 2012, as a recipient of the Watson Fellowship, she packed four pairs of running shoes, cleared her schedule for the year, and took off on a journey to infiltrate diverse running communities around the world. What she encountered far exceeded her expectations and changed her outlook into the sport she loved.
Over the next twelve months—visiting 9 countries with unique and storied running histories, logging over 3,500 miles running over trails, tracks, sidewalks, and dirt roads—Becky explored the varied approaches of runners across the globe. Whether riding shotgun around the streets of London with Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt, climbing for an hour at daybreak to the top of Ethiopia's Mount Entoto just to start her daily run, or getting lost jogging through the bustling streets of Tokyo, Becky's unexpected adventures, keen insights, and landscape descriptions take the reader into the heartbeat of distance running around the world.
Upon her return to the United States, she incorporated elements of the training styles she'd sampled into her own program, and her competitive career skyrocketed. When she made her marathon debut in 2013, winning the race in a blazing 2:30, she became the third-fastest woman marathoner under the age of 25 in U.S. history, qualifying for the 2016 Olympic Trials and landing a professional sponsorship from Asics.
From the feel-based approach to running that she learned from the Kenyans, to the grueling uphill workouts she adopted from the Swiss, to the injury-recovery methods she learned from the Japanese, Becky shares the secrets to success from runners and coaches around the world. The story of one athlete's fascinating journey, Run the World is also a call to change the way we approach the world's most natural and inclusive sport.
Photo by Deborah Kellogg
About Becky Wade
Becky Wade is a professional long-distance runner who competes for Asics. At Rice University she was a four-time All-American and the winner of the Joyce Pounds Hardy Award, Rice's highest athletic honor, and the Conference USA honoree for the NCAA Woman of the Year award. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Rice with a triple major in history, psychology, and sociology, Becky traveled the world on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and visited 22 countries to explore long-distance running cultures.
In her 26.2-mile debut in December 2013, Becky won the California International Marathon, qualifying for the 2016 Olympic Trials. Currently, she is fulfilling her dream of running professionally and chasing Olympic aspirations, while coaching and working part-time at a shelter for homeless youth.
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