Unit 5: Selection Vocabulary 5

The race consists of five loops on a course that’s been officially listed at twenty miles, but is probably more like twenty-six. The moral of this slanted truth is that standard metrics are irrelevant. The moral of a lot of Barkley’s slanted truths is that standard metrics are irrelevant.

They bring camouflage tents and orange hunting vests and skeptical girlfriends and acclimated wives and tiny travel towels and tiny dogs.

He speaks to “his runners” with comfort and fondness, as if they are a batch of wayward sons turned feral for each year at the flick of his lighter.

The sheer ferocity of the effort implies that the effort is somehow worth it.

This is benevolence as surprise, evidence of a grace beyond the self that has, of course, come from the self—the same self that loaded the fanny pack hours before, whose role has been obscured by bone-weary delusion, turned other by the sheer fact of the body losing its own mind.

Rachel’s charge was equal parts aggressive and precise, and the ball flew where she’d hoped it would go—downfield to her teammate, who sprinted to the goal and scored.

Rachel’s dad, a lawyer-turned- entrepreneur who founded the tech company TouchSuite, always wanted his daughter to achieve her very best, and then surpass it.

In a series of painstaking negotiations and adjustments, Rachel devised equipment with thicker netting, superior steel, and cheaper prices than existing lacrosse products.

Shark Tank gives nascent entrepreneurs a chance to pitch their business ideas to venture capitalists in hopes of obtaining new investments.

By 2016, Gladiator Lacrosse was bringing in over $1 million in revenue annually, prompting Florida’s governor to recognize Rachel in his 2016 State of the State Address.