Middle Tennessee State University - Midlander Yearbook (Murfreesboro, TN)

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RUNNING It ' s just a feeling. I can ' t really de- scribe the way I feel when I run . . . there ' s a kind of threshold when the pain goes away, and I feel like I could run all day. When it ' s over I ' m drained but there ' s a kind of feeling of accomplish- ment. Not everybody can finish a ten mile run. Just try to drive around campus when the weather warms. Runners of all shapes and sizes on the sidewalks, in the road, on grassy road shoulders. They run for many differing reasons: to get in shape, to stay in sh ape, to meet new peo- ple but the overriding reason seems to be to feel good. No, good is too mild a term for the seasoned runner to use. Great seems to capture the feeling more accu- rately. To sum running up in one word is simple enough: feeling. Describing the feeling is harder to do. Sure, great is the simple way out but runners describe this feeling in terms ranging from mild euphoria to an escape from reality. It just depneds on the experience of the individual runner. Dedication is needed to be a runner. The runner must brave any kind of weather. Just like the mailman of Amer- ica the runner is not stopped by rain, snow, sleet or gloom of night. Leg cramps, blisters and other physical ail- ments may hamper the runner, but liber- al amounts of Ben-Gay and a slower pace seem to get aching muscles back in shape. The road beckons again. It looks easy, but most drop out after one week. To those that remain, the feel- ing and experience remains never grow- ing old. At times, a runner has to force himself into his running shoes and out the front door. If nothing else, there ' s always that feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment. In these days of mechanized comfort, those feelings aren ' t easy to come by.

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Everyone loves a parade, especially if your a part of it MTSU ' s Homecoming parade was no exception. Excitement filled the air in prep- aration for the annual parade down Main Street. All along the parade route citizens lined the •itreefs to view the parade. Happy expressions could be seen not only on the faces of the children watching, but also on the faces of the adults. The greatest c-juymen; t f the parade was not watching it, but being a part of it. The pictures tell the real story of what it was like in the 1980 Homecoming parade. Above: MTSU ' s Band of Blue lead the parade down Main Street. Left: BOOT ' EM MTSU deplicted well the theme of the pan ' ■ -- season.

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