Ocky Clark

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Tennoe, Mariam T.; Henssonow, Susan F.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Octavius ("Ocky") Rene Clark was born November 14, 1960 in Sanford, Florida. He grew-up on his grandparent''s farm in Bookertown, named after Booker T. Washington. Clark would interject Booker T. Washington''s words of nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work into every aspect of his life. He was given the nickname Ocky by one of his favorite aunts. Clark began competitive running at Sanford Seminole High School as a 3200 meter runner. With times of 4:23.8 in the Mile, 1:57 for 800 meters and 47 splits on the 4x400 relay he was the top runner in his school. After high school Clark attended Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas briefly, but then dropped out and joined the Navy on October 9, 1979 in downtown Ottawa, Kansas. After basic training in Great Lakes, Illinois he was assigned to the USS Enterprise which was dry docked in Bremerton, Washington. It was in Bremerton where Clark began to study the training methods of Arthur Lydiard. At the Inter-Service champions held at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland Clark clocked 1:51.65 at 800 meters.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 68
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9786131224218
• ISBN-10: 6131224218
• Artikelnr.: 30036635