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Burnin' Daylight
Cruel to be Kind - 1979
Hershey sponsored a youth track and field completion in Rhode Island. Each state region had a qualifying heat, and if you finished first in the local qualifiers you made the regional meet, at which you got a special participant t-shirt, in green with brown lettering, which was highly socially desirable in my junior high school.
Fashion was so important then. I had red stripe Nike trainers and a blue and yellow Nike windbreaker, which I thought was very stylish.
The Hershey qualifiers were held in the summer, at the Narragansett high school track. A lot of kids tried the 100, so I did not qualify, but I signed up for all the distances, so I had more races. The 200 didn’t go well, but when I was at the start of the 400 I started singing Cruel to be Kind to myself, and I crossed the finish line first, qualifying for the state meet and the all important green t-shirt.
My song in the 1600 heat was the Doobie Brothers, What A Fool Believes. I was in the lead, singing along, four times around the track, but I faded badly during the last lap and finished third.
The day of the state meet I had a high fever and Amma refused to drive me to Providence. I never got the t-shirt, and I switched to tennis in high school.
Hershey sponsored a youth track and field completion in Rhode Island. Each state region had a qualifying heat, and if you finished first in the local qualifiers you made the regional meet, at which you got a special participant t-shirt, in green with brown lettering, which was highly socially desirable in my junior high school.
Fashion was so important then. I had red stripe Nike trainers and a blue and yellow Nike windbreaker, which I thought was very stylish.
The Hershey qualifiers were held in the summer, at the Narragansett high school track. A lot of kids tried the 100, so I did not qualify, but I signed up for all the distances, so I had more races. The 200 didn’t go well, but when I was at the start of the 400 I started singing Cruel to be Kind to myself, and I crossed the finish line first, qualifying for the state meet and the all important green t-shirt.
My song in the 1600 heat was the Doobie Brothers, What A Fool Believes. I was in the lead, singing along, four times around the track, but I faded badly during the last lap and finished third.
The day of the state meet I had a high fever and Amma refused to drive me to Providence. I never got the t-shirt, and I switched to tennis in high school.
