“I believe I’m going to end up in the Olympics,” Robinson, 25, said. “I don’t know how I’m going to get there. But I guess if the mountain were smooth, you wouldn’t be able to climb it.”
This sprinter is 6 feet 4 inches and runs remarkably fast and weighs 210 pounds, 40 pounds more than most of the guys competing for the olympics.
Introduction: “Hey, y’all. My name’s Dallas Robinson. I’m really nobody. I’m a 6-foot-4, 210-pound white guy that lives in Kentucky. I train myself. A lot like everybody else, when I got out of college, I went and started working. For a year, I was miserable. I wasn’t doing what the Lord created me to do, and that’s run.”
Rough Childhood - Robinson lived what he called a troubled childhood after his parents divorced. A series of stepfathers moved his mother and her four children around the country. They ended up in Richmond, Ky., his mother married to a man who put up fencing for a living. Robinson declined to discuss his upbringing in further detail.
Whats his thing? - I don’t have the straightest smile, the straightest nose. I’m not the smartest guy in the world. But my legs move fast. That’s one of my gifts that I feel I can share with Kentucky, with my friends at S&S Tire, something that would hopefully make my family proud. It’s the only thing I have to give back right now.
How his goals changed? - Robinson started last summer with the hope of qualifying to run the 100 meters at the United States Olympic trials this June, which meant being among the top 32 sprinters who run under 10.28 seconds. After his first race, he upgraded that goal to making the finals. After his times this winter, he said, he hopes to make the Olympic team.
Some lessons for life from Robinson's coach:
“How come when we’re kids we want to be astronauts and firefighters and Indian chiefs, and then when we turn 20 years old we give up on our dreams?” Young said. “Dallas is a good example of a guy who’s still trying to be an astronaut.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/sports/othersports/06sprinter.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2
Sunday, March 16, 2008
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