Getting back in the swing of things today I was reading some sites I frequent and I
ran (no pun intended) across this very cute story from Carribean Track Life On Line. Everyone wants to know what’s the secret to the fast Jamaicans, well this high school track athlete says she has figured it out.. Here I thought it was the Jerk Chicken,peas and rice , escovitch, The Pork Pit Resturant in Montego Bay and all that darn sand and warm water… Well I guess I was wrong : – )
Check out the article below
Young Athlete Finds Secret to Jamaica’s Sprinting Success
by Anthony Gayle,
A young female student athlete and member of a dominant New York City high school track and field team is vacationing in Jamaica , the land of her birth. A family member with whom she’s staying arranged for her to continue her track training there, by signing her up with one of the premier track clubs in the island.
At the end of her first day of training the teen called me quite excited and almost out of breath as if she had just run a sub-60 for the 400m. After I was able to coax her to relative calmness, she exclaimed: “Coach, guess what? I have found out the secret why Jamaicans are such great sprinters!”
“Really,” I said. “That would be great, because as far as I know, that’s a question that has been perplexing many people, including some very great sports minds.” I continued to tell her that if she truly had that answer, she would also be fulfilling the scripture, when it says in part, “That which was hidden from the wise and prudent, is now revealed to the babe and suckling.”
But the young athlete hit back: “Coach I am not joking I am very serious, and guess what? I have met several gold medal winners and other athletes who have represented Jamaica . I am even training with some of them; how cool is that?” Read the rest of the story here
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