TheBanyanTree: vineyard race

[Julie Anna Teague]

Ha!  This is fabulous!  I am going to print it out and frame it with 
the race photo!

Julie

Quoting NancyIee at aol.com:

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>
> In a message dated 8/29/2011 12:05:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jateague at indiana.edu writes:
>
> I ran a  5 mile race at the local Creekbend Vineyard on Saturday. It was
> very hot  and there was one stinking hill after another.
>
>
> They say that victory comes with pain?
> That winning hurts more than loss?
> Thou muscles ache, the lungs afire
> You wish that you had rid a hoss.
>
> Yet is not sweet the prize of wine?
> The flush of pride, you did your best.
> The fresh clear air, the friends you met
> the lovely feeling of evening rest.
>
> Hills and dust will not defeat
> the heart withstanding all the stress
> nor sting of wasp nor weary bones
> you won the race and nothing less.
>
>
>
> Nance
>




Julie

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<I~ love to run
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