Did anyone out there ever run to school???

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disagree wrote:

runxc08 wrote:

Shots thanks for illustrating a great point, if we work hard and make a commitement then talent isnt the only factor. He obviously didnt have much talent but turned himself into a great runner.

the guy running 5:04 for the mile as a freshman doesnt necessarily show that he doesnt have any talent. it could show that he was a little runt or was just in terrible shape. hell, i ran the mile in 5:30 my freshman year and the half-mile in 2:07 my sophomore year and got my times down to 432 and 1:55 my senior year. clearly not in the same league as 4:08...i'm just saying talent can blossom quickly after puberty.

I partly disagree with the above statement. I think if you were to survey all the high school who ran times that fast or faster (their aren't many) you would find that 95 % of them broke 5 minutes in the 1600m in their freshman year. Shots improved by almost a minute in four years which is pretty impressive. A lot of times being an accomplished runner can just come along with lots of hard work and not giving a f*ck what opinions your peers hold (even that of other runners).

Back to the original issue of this thread:

No, I never ran to school, but I grew up in a small town in Oklahoma. My high school coach BEGGED us to run to school a few days a week. (This was a great guy. Seriously.) He worked it out with the (basic a-hole) football coach so we could use the showers in the football locker room in the mornings. I don't know what football is like where you grew up, but in freakin' Oklahoma - geez, I can't believe our coach pulled that off.

I ran to and from school on a very regular basis from my 8th grade through 12th grade years. I lived 7 miles from school all on dirt roads, and my mom was a teacher at my high school so she would just take my books and clothes for me.

In retrospect, I guess I got the idea from reading about the Kenyans, but I also remember that I was looking for some way to get in a lot of miles while also participating in football during junior high (I was highly influenced by reading Lydiard's Run to the Top and was convinced I needed to run a lot of miles).

I would run 7 miles to school, shower, eat breakfast in the school cafeteria, go to school all day (lift weights during P.E.), go to football practice after school, and then run home. On the weekends I put in a very regular 20+ miler (from September '96 to March '97 I ran 20 miles or further 23 times and averaged 81 miles per week with a high of 113 miles) and ran a 25 miler 3 times. I usually ran these 20+ milers over hills at 8:00-8:30 pace.

At the time I was just a skinny little runt (4'10" 80 lbs) who had a lot of time on his hands and didn't know any better. I definitely remember going for a few 15 milers that winter against my parents' will cause it was freakin' cold out (-10 degrees or so without the windchill).

I would recommend running to school to anyone who is so inclined.

I used to run/walk to school fairly often, depended on the buses which weren't very reliable. Sometimes ran it with friends. It's around 5 miles. Biking is common around here. Around six of my colleagues bike in to work.

K-1st grade: I walked 2 blocks to school

2-6th grade: I walked/skipped/jogged or biked 1/2 mile to school.

7-8th grade: Rode my bike 1 mile to school.

9-12 grade: Rode my bike 1.2 miles to school, often racing cars, kids on mopeds on the way there

college: walked/jogged/ran 1-2 miles to classes several times a day, probably totaling an extra 5-6 miles a day on top of my training mileage.

Coaching at my old high school: ran the 1.2 miles there and back, sometimes taking the long way, plus run with the kids, plus my own runs

grad school: walked/ran 1/4 mile first year, ran/biked 2-3 miles after that.

I'm lucky that I generally don't get smelly during workouts. (Once in a month long mountaineering expedition, we were comparing sock smells and everyone was saying that they were going to burn theirs along with their underwear when they got back, but my socks didn't smell at all. Admittedly our noses were tuned differently by then). But I don't see that really being an issue with other people too. I had lots of gym classes in jr. high and high school in early morning periods and no one ever took showers except to rinse off after a swim.

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Wake up, run, eat, shower, drive to school

Leave your books in your locker at night and

1.get there early and do your work

or

2.do your homework right after school

That's a lot of miles. What are your times and accomplishments? Where did you go to college? At my school the football players didn't have to take PE.

Kip Keino ran 5:49 as a 16 year old-good thing no one told him he didn't have what it takes.

In elementary school, I regularaly ran home from school...all two blocks.

I walked to school. Had to save my energy for kickball.

I'm impressed.

you all idiots...

I ran to school and I looked really cool! Especially when you don't have to run to school you IDIOTS! what are you accomplishing what you could do after school during practice?? People who run to school are morons!! We don't live in 3rd world countries we its required to run to school you dumbasses. Look at the Kenyans, they run to school mostly cause they don't have cars and when they become good runners they BUY cars and drive to go workout! AGAIN what are you accomplishing by running to school? Why not just save you energy and get a good workout after school. IDIOTS!

It's in addition to practice, a concept you possibly don't understand going by the content of that last post.

I would like to run to and from school, it would be a really great way to get your training in efficiently.

ie. if i ran home from school i would have finished school and finished training by 4:00. The way it is, i get home from school on the bus at 4:00, start training at 5:00 and get home from training at 6-6:30 so it takes up alot more time)

the only thing stopping me is 6km of road, maybe if i could take a nice bush trail or something to school it would be different.

ive ran home from school once, never to school.

It's too bad those losers have to be so critical. They should keep their negative opinions to themselves.

If you could work out a way to get your books to school, the clothes could be kept there in advance.

I don't know your situation, could a parent or neighbor drop your stuff off at the main office? Something like that.

Unless your school is full if insecure losers, like those guys telling how gay it will be to run to school, then no one will make fun of you.

The kids at my school who run out of season are noticed and praised by the general student body.

Distance runners go out in the winter, sprinters and throwers practice in the preseason and kids talk about how they must love their sport.

Every kid is not a loser, I happen to have a lot of faith in the young people of this country. You sound like someone to be proud of.

Ran to school and home everyday from April thru June in the 8th grade. About 5 miles total. Had no choice, I threw an m80 out the schoolbus window and it blew back in and landed on the pile of books in my lap. My hearing returned to normal sometime in mid May!

It was a bitch because I would go to the busstop until my dad drove by and then I'd run like hell to get to school on time. Afternoons were "recovery runs".

This was in the early 60's.

16 years after graduating from high school I still see old classmates who remember me as the guy who ran to school. The chicks used to like to watch my leg muscles as a arrived at school. I think some of the guys did too.