What is the dumbest question you have ever been asked regarding cross country or just distance running in general?

Badger Run-

That would certainly meet my qualifications. But I love to see it done on the Track. I'd love to see one of those guys that they get to bring the mile thru the 800 in 1:55-1:57 for the purpose of allowing people to break 4 minutes, just decide to keep going. You know the vast majority of those guys are 1:54 800 meter guys, I'd just like to see what would happen if one of them kept going for it.

Ex-Thrower wrote:

Badger Run-

That would certainly meet my qualifications. But I love to see it done on the Track. I'd love to see one of those guys that they get to bring the mile thru the 800 in 1:55-1:57 for the purpose of allowing people to break 4 minutes, just decide to keep going. You know the vast majority of those guys are 1:54 800 meter guys, I'd just like to see what would happen if one of them kept going for it.

Agreed

I'm a 28 low 8K runner. One of my meathead football friends always asks me "Why didn't you win?" I try to explain it to him and he just says "You should just start out sprinting and keep going!"

Saying good night to a group of friends, I had a 10km to run the next morning. So of course it comes out:

them "what kind of time do you think you'll run?"

me "Just under 40 minutes or so, 39 low if it goes well"

them "Why don't you go for 36?"

someone else "Ya, why don't you go for 35, or just run faster and try to hit 34? What'll it take to win it again?"

I wish it were that easy...

Jason Rexing is no average runner, he has a huge fan base here on lets run

"What sport dat be?"

"But if you ran that 5:17 in gym class, why can't you run like 17 minutes for one of your three-mile races?"

One time, after doing a 10-miler in the rain, we approached the gym to dry off and stretch and a few girls were loitering around the door. "Do y'all swim?" they asked. "No, this is cross-country." We were wearing shoes, half of us had on shirts, had run all the way up to the gym, were waiting for our coach and the JV kids who were across the parking lot, were talking about ten miles and they STILL thought we were swimmers. The closest pool to my high school is THREE MILES AWAY. I love my school.

And finally, "Why don't you just race in trail-running shoes? They only weigh, like, a pound each. None of those tiny little spikes that you wear."

As a frosh at Ship, Walker (our cross coach) once told me that our bus driver, George (who used to drive the same bus to every Ship meet) once asked him a really funny question. At the first meet that he ever drove the team to (a cross meet at Bloomsburg), the bus driver asked Walk..."so how does this cross country thing work? They just shoot a gun and the runners take off on some course?"

Walk said, "yeah, pretty much. First one to the finish is the winner."

Bus driver looks back at Walker and (in a dead serious tone) asks, "So, can I follow the lead runner in the bus on the course so I see him finish?"

Classic...

Hoovis

"How do you get injured? Do you fall down?"

biggie smalls wrote:

"Do you have to wear such small shorts when you run?"

Hey, i used to get the exact same thing at H.S gym class. All the WuTang ankle long short wearing homeboys that are "2kewl4skool" used to make calls about short shorts (that i actually used to think were too long as they did not come upto my hips at the side).

"Geeze put on some longer shorts, your scaring away the kiddies" - WuTang Homeboy

"Wow, no wonder, with legs like that you should be showing them off every chance you get" - hottie that was sticking up for me, i was loving it ;)

Ex-Thrower wrote:

That's a classic Pedro. Obviously from my name, I'm not a runner but an avid Track Fan. Just once (and I would pay good money to see this) I would love to see the pacemaker just go for it. I would love to see the lactic acid buildup, the proverbial brick wall and tons of weight strapped to the back look. Plus, it would put to rest that little belief in my mind that somewhere, somehow at sometime, some dude is just gonna take off and pull the race of his life out of his ass.

Tom Byers, 1981 Oslo 1500m.

He was on 3:32 pace, and had a huge lead. The rest of the field, Steve Ovett included, was hearing his splits and thought that they were their own, and thought that Byers was running ridiculously too fast. At around 1200m, Byers looks bck and saw how much distance he had on everyone else, so he went for it. By the time Ovett realized that Byers was on pace, he kicked hard but couldn't catch him.

It was the first loss for Ovett since the Olympics and snapped his streak.

at the stadium in rio waiting for the 5,000 meters at the university rio de janeiro games, this guy came up to me and asked me wich direction we would run at the track, because he didn't know, he had just start running 1 month ago. i told him the right way to go, and running with NO spikes, wearing a trainning shoes, he won in 14'44.( i finished in 5th in 15'19) later he became one of the best brazilian runner,a 2'10 marathoner,and 1'02 half marathoner,his name arthur de freitas, i think he doesn't run anymore.This happened 16 years ago.

Muito interesante.Aquel homen ter muito talento pra atletismo.

Eu quizer saber, e posivel treinar bom en Brazil. Eu esteve uma volta em Brazil (1994) no Nordeste (Salvador, Lencois, Senhor do Bomfim, Feira da Santana, Paolo Afonso) - mais en aquel lugar, nao ter muita gente que gosta fazer atletismo.

Eu so do Canada, trabalho com os meninhos da rua en muitos paises. Eu gosto aprender e falar Portugues.

Por favor, rapaz, voce scriber o seu adres do e-mail.

Obrigado. Ate logo.

Run1024, I know exactly what you're talking about, haha.

"Are you still running?"

"How far was that marathon you ran?"

runnnnnnnnnin wrote:

idk, but i hate when i'm just about to go running (a 13 miler at 5:50 pace), and people say, "So you're going jogging"

I know what you mean. The other day, I was running 10 miles at 4:38 pace and someone looked at me cock-eyed.

What? I run all my easy runs in the high 4s.

Canadian, you're full of shite. No one does 10 mile training runs at 4:38 pace. If you're talking pace/km, then give your distance in kms.

I know, no one consistently does 13-mile runs in 5:50 apiece either. Well, I'm sure someone does, but sure as hell not on this continent. Consider that Bob Kennedy did his ten mile runs at six-minute pace.

I hear LetRun.com is a great place for advice..