Describe Your Running Career (So Far) In One Hundred Words Or Less.

poor jesse wrote:

7th grade 5:39 mile

8th grade 5:02 mile

injured

10th grade 4:44 mile, 10:10 3200

injured

finally hit puberty, but get injured again before I can display new stength

quit running all toghether

10 years later start trying to run again

Injured yet again

Trying to run still...have never run more than 20 miles in a week my entire life, but hope to soon. One of these days...

There must be a reason for these injuries, poor jesse. I see it in your remarks. There must be a different approach that you can take.

Junior Champion, World Record Holder, then I started hanging out at Lets Run. Since then, I've become slower, bitter, and smugger. 18 more months of this and I'll be insufferable.

runamook wrote:

cheesemakers kick some butt.

Go Mooks, Go Cowapa, Go Fishermen!

I just suck

Skuj wrote:

poor jesse wrote:

7th grade 5:39 mile

8th grade 5:02 mile

injured

10th grade 4:44 mile, 10:10 3200

injured

finally hit puberty, but get injured again before I can display new strength

quit running all together

10 years later start trying to run again

Injured yet again

Trying to run still...have never run more than 20 miles in a week my entire life, but hope to soon. One of these days...

There must be a reason for these injuries, poor jesse. I see it in your remarks. There must be a different approach that you can take.

I have a leg length discrepancy of about a half inch that has been troublesome over the years, causing me problems in my hip, lower back, and hamstring. But even when the trouble spots are in check, I seem to breakdown anyway. I've tried to give up running for good a couple times, but I can't do it, maybe because it feels so natural when I am running; it feels like something I'm supposed to do, but yet I've never been able to accomplish a damn thing doing it. ..and probably never will. So it goes.

always very talented.

in 8th grade: 400m-54.7

800m-2:06 off of running twice a week and raced in flats.

-Went to high school and trained with sprinters 1st 2 years

Frosh prs

400m-51.5

800m-1:58

Soph Prs

400m-49.9

800m-1:53

Coach thought i have potential to be 1:48 and 47 guy by senior year, so moves me up to distance junior year. Increase my mileage and intensity of workouts and get tibia stres fractures in both legs. Haven't run in 3 weeks with 2 weeks left until sectionals

4xstatechamp highschool. Discovered fun in college. Left college. Quit running. Quit smoking. Started running. Made it to the top. Got hurt. Found fun again.

lotsa miles

lotsa fun

lotsa injuries

now i'm done

Reading this, it seems incredibly corny...but it is in fact the most honest thing I've said about my running in a long time. Take it as you will...

As a teenager, running was free.

Improvement came easy and the flowers of freedom blossomed.

The winds of expectation and pressure began to blow, and the flowers were uprooted. The freedom and fun once bountiful...was gone. Occasionally, the pedals of the past would blow by me fingers, reminding me of past feelings about this sport. I ran now because I had for so long, and it was expected, the love, gone. University comes, and with it the sunshine of promise. Expectations there, but I now use them to water my flowers. The injury drought now strikes my garden...off and on for months, destroying my love for running and replacing it with frustration and heartache. The drought has destoryed my garden now and now frustration runs rampant. I now have no desire to run and will not until that desire returns. I have salvaged some seeds of the past, and know deep down, I will want to sow them once again...someday.

poor jesse wrote:

I have a leg length discrepancy of about a half inch that has been troublesome over the years, causing me problems in my hip, lower back, and hamstring. But even when the trouble spots are in check, I seem to breakdown anyway. .

Jesse, I had the same problem and didn't run for 18 years. More than likely, the leg length discrepency is caused by a tight psoas muscle. This will cause all of the symptoms you are having. Go here and start doing the sink stretch. I started doing this stretch every day and never had another problem with my back.

woulda coulda shoulda...had all the talent and none of desire when I was younger. pissed away the best years of my life while at school by doing the bare minimum.

then I found the motivation and lost the talent. ran 100 plus mile weeks w/ nothing to show for it. now I slug around at half the speed and half the miles just to keep the beer belly to a mimimum.

but other than that, running has been the best thing that has ever happened to me.

My career???

nil

same as it ever was ... one foot in front of the other ... fart after 5 minutes ... collapse on the sofa after i finish ... sleep

who needs 10 when they can sum it up in one

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Miler. 4:17 at 17; 4:44 at 44.

Not faster because of beer, sex, and little sleep in high school; beer, drugs and little sleep in college; kids, work, and little sleep now.

Did great things a junior. National Champion. Broke records. Had very pushy parents who argued with my coaches and made my running miserable. Quit as soon as I could be independent and enjoyed a normal life. Now I have rediscovered the joy of running for myself and I actually like being a little competitive. The difference is now I don't think my life will end if I have a bad race. :-)

Fat, hated running, anorexic, lost weight, started running in 10th grade, loved running, healthy again but was unknowingly running on a stress fracture, got faster, went to college to run, stress fracture diagnosed, rested, started too much too soon, injured, kept going, injured, depressed and fat, rested, tried again, injured, quit team, rested, now fat and slow, but running at least running some, hoping and praying that some day I will overcome this damn chronic stress reaction and run to my potential, meanwhile living vicariously through other letsrunners.

athleticsfreak wrote:

pain, mud, killer hills,hard track reps with coach shouting me on,cold winter morning runs,dedication, loneliness -- need i go on?

Yet i still go back for more and train 85 miles per week and been a member of local club for last 14 years- its my life!

What's your club?

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