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REVIEWS - Team Apparel 2010
Here’s our annual snapshot of apparel options for your cross country and track & field teams. There are technical fabrics available at a variety of price levels, and the options for personalizing the gear range from custom screenprinted graphics to the nearly infinite possibilities available with sublimation.
Michigan Runner of the Year 2008: Hank Risley
By Charles Douglas McEwen - Hank Risley, who began running just three years ago at age 37, considers himself a late bloomer when it comes to competitive sports.
“I never really played any sports in high school,” Risley said. “Back then, I never would have imagined that I would be running marathons and 50Ks.” (He has run about a dozen marathons and three 50Ks.)
Ian's Innards: Deceived
I’m gnawing on the knowledge that I have been burnt, and I’m learning things that I should’ve already learnt. -Gordon Gano-Violent Femmes - The absurdity of the moment was set aglow as he turned in irritation, acutely aware of my impending approach.
Ian's Innards: Voice
Either it’ll move me
or it’ll move right through me;
fully, completely.
Gordon Downie-The Tragically Hip
Ian's Innards: Living the Dream
I’m a chicken hawk, huntin’ for a chicken.
Get paranoid when you hear my glock clickin’.
B Real-Cypress Hill
My wife recently underwent a full frenzied political lecture, fueled by the hammering hands of a good friend of ours, warning that change is not to be believed. Hearing of this Bush blooded insight sent me careening through my own American experience.
Ian's Innards
Ian Forsyth, the 1997 Michigan Runner of the Year, is a 1996 graduate of the University of Michigan, where he was a member of the 1995 NCAA champion distance medly relay team. A native of London, Ontario, Forsyth is a two-time member of Team Canada and resides in Ann Arbor with his wife Jessica and three daughters.
The Pursuit of Purpose
(By Nicholas A. Stanko) Mile after mile, his pursuit lies within. Day after day as the clock ticks, his stride increases: some days light, others heavy. The time alone provides space for thought on varying topics: some simple, some complex, some worthless, others worthy.




