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Back to your parent's basement wrote:

[quote]gonna die soon wrote:

masters running is a joke. "ooo we can't beat the young guys anymore so lets make our own division that they aren't allowed in so we still feel like superior to everyone"[/quoted

Ed Whitlock would catch you around midway through a marathon, beat you in an arm wrestle, make love to your girlfriend better than you ever could, then carry on to crush you by about 30 minutes.

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UCI XC wrote:

I ran a 61 at Penn Relays on a 50-59 4x4 team and got smoked by two guys on my third (slowest) leg alone. I'm a distance runner with decent speed, but when I was asked to be on the team, I thought they were kidding until I realized that it was 50+, not masters. I'd have thought that a 61 would be respectable for 50, but next to those guys it just made me look silly. The anchor-leg guys were running in the low 50s.

Several guys on my team can break their age in the 400, but they all place regularly in Masters Nationals and Worlds, so, yeah, that's not easy.

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