Last Saturday morning, I ventured out to Newport, to compete in the 2007 America Insurance Breakers Marathon. I felt well prepared for this 26.2 mile race and I was rearing to go. At the request of the race director I started the marathon two hours earlier than the others at 6 a.m. Starting so early the roads were still slick with the soaking rains of the night before. This made the first few miles really slippery and took away from my...

Students who work weekends hold a variety of jobs: running the cash register at a convenience store or the concession stand in a movie theater, stocking shelves in a department store or a supermarket, working in the kitchen in a fast food restaurant or the daycare at the local fitness club. Nate Tompkins ’06 of Bristol, Rhode Island. Champlain’s Nate Tompkins ’06 helps Jason Pisano train for wheelchair marathons. “I’m the way he...

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The word friend has many different definitions, but my definition of friend changed 14 years ago. It was 1993, and I was a sophomore at the University of Connecticut. I posted an add for personal care attendants at the beginning of the semester around campus. I received many responses and I had hired a handful of aides but one stood out from the rest; his name was Randy Spellman. It was an early fall evening and Randy came over to my dorm...

Over the past two weeks, I have competed in two of the best road races that Rhode Island has to offer, the St. Mary’s 5.5-Miler in Cranston and the Blessing of the Fleet 10 Mile Road Race in Narragansett. Both of these races are very well organized and draw quality athletes from New England and beyond. On Saturday, July 21st, I competed in the St. Mary’ Race. This was the first road race I had entered in two months, although I have been...