all the damn running
all the damn running
anyone regret finding this forum?
oldhalfmileguy wrote:
For 4 years i beat this one guy like a borrowed mule, he would talk trash and i would toy with him, turn and smile at him ...
What a bunch of selfserving BS. After reading that I hope that guy make a $1M a year and has a hot wife and you're working at wal mart and living with mom.
I regret not actually training hard in high school. I would do just enough to make varsity and that was it. Never did summer mileage, never went that extra mile. Pretty much never went over 40 miles a week back than. I'd like to think that I could have been good.
I had redshirted my 4th year of college, but had managed to get into good shape by the end of may (although not peak, so i decided to take the year as a redshirt). I ran an 800 in sabout 1:51 for the last race of the regular season and decided to keep training into june and find some races.
Got into the next decent race i could find a few weeks later, felt rusty after not racing for a while, but still ran a 1:49 for 4th or 5th (only a few tenths off my PR). i pulled up well after the race and felt fine. There was a second good race in the area 2 days later. the friend I was staying with tried to get me to stay and run it, but I decided I was tired of racing for the season and did the 8 hr drive home. The next season i had a career ending injury - that was my last ever 800. Wish I would have run one more, maybe today I'd be a 1:47-1:48 guy. Guess I'll never know now...
oldhalfmileguy wrote:
For 4 years i beat this one guy like a borrowed mule, he would talk trash and i would toy with him, turn and smile at him just as i started my kick. i Turned our "races"into workouts sprinting hard then easing up so he would catch me then take off again, he was a total jerk
Really? HE was the jerk???? You sound like a total duchebag.
I regret getting addicted on Letsrun and taking stuff I read on here seriously.
I would have taken the longer view of training. I trained and raced after college. I had the 45 hour per week job and 3 kids with the wife. I managed to train 70-90 miles per week and ran 10 marathons between 2:21 and 2:27 between the ages of 20 and 36. I wish I had made the decision to do a long slow 6-8 year build up to 120-140 per week. I think I had a 2:15-2:17 in me.
In the whole scheme of life, probably not that big a deal. But, I think most of us probably feel like we never got everything out of ourselves. In retrospect, I had a full and balanced life at that time. Hard to do it all though, and maybe I did do it all. Had I done the 120-140's, I may have regret that too.
Life's too short to have regrets about something I love doing.
The one regret is not having the self discipline to be as great as I could have been, and having the tenacity to be dedicated to working hard and smart.
regret running marathons while still a teen, now into my 20's i am getting injured quite often when i never use to, i cant say its the marathons for sure but very likely ...trying to do to much when i had plenty of years to do it....learn from my mistake!!! if you are young and want to run the longer stuff evade the temptation and wait!!!!!!!!!! your body will thank you when you get older and trust me you will end up running a faster time when your older anyway as you get more strength speed etc..
After 30 years of recreational distance running starting when I graduated from college to age 51 and spanning one marriage and raising 3 kids till adulthood plus a second life with new significant other, our 7 year old and seeing a stepdaughter through h.s. and college graduation, my main regrets are that:
(1) There aren't enough hours in the day to give each child 2 hours a day of undivided attention, your spouse 2 hours a day of quality time, your job 8-10 hours a day of dedication to succeed, an hour a day give or take of chores, and an hour and a half to 2 of running a few days a week.
(2) That being said, I regret the successes in some areas of my life having come at the expense of inadequacies in other areas, and the seesaw balance keeps shifting to rebalance things every so often...
(3) For several years while kids were young, worked 50 to 60 hours per week more often than not...got ahead but the ex- grew a tough attitude and the kids didn't get enough organized learning and nurturing
(4) For several years while kids were older, worked out 12-15 hours a week, running, lifting, swimming and running races for 7 months of the year...improved my PRs every year but strengthened the resolve until the day of my first all-day ultra training run the ex- finally moved out
(5) For both relationships, it seems that my SO's just keep getting heavier and heavier and none of the running I do has any bearing on the spouse's interest in working out...In my present relationship it seems if I don't come home from work precisely by 5:30pm every day, she just gives up on working out and has not been able to lose 50 pounds of baby fat since she got pregnant 9 years ago
I regret skipping my morning runs in college more than anything.
I'd be a much, much better runner right out of college if I had consistantly done my 5+10's as oppossed to sleeping in and turning them into a 12 miler.
To anyone starting out in college, my best advice is consistency is probably right behind talent in terms of importance in success.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this already but the thing I most regret is not backing off in the past when I was heading toward injury. Being stupid and chasing arbitrary mpw goals without deference to listening to my body.
Other than that, just that I never did XC in highschool.
I regret not banging all the fat chicks who always came onto me. I think they totally like real skinny guys.
Staying on with my college program all four years. Went to the school for the education, so that was a good thing, and it's where my parents wanted me to stay. But our team was dysfunctional group that had either talented prima donnas and/or semi-to-quite lazy runners who wouldn't train in the off season. Put up with a lot of put downs and back stabbing for way too long. Fortunately after moving on things got a lot better, but I did waste a few years with them.
Je ne regret rien.
smoking cigarettes.
In this one 3 km race in grade 10 I was about 100 meters infront of the next guy and was about to finish with a 9:20 3km. To celebrate, I wipped "it" out and started twirling it. I was kicked of the track team and couldn't run again until college.
In this one 3 km race in grade 10 I was about 100 meters infront of the next guy and was about to finish with a 9:20 3km. To celebrate, I wipped "it" out and started twirling it. I was kicked of the track team and couldn't run again until college.