Funny things parents yell to their kids in a meet

Damn Cornell

"YOU HAVE 400 TO GO!!!!!!!!"

....and you've just passed mile 2 of a 5K.

My favorite bad thing was last year at state. Just before her son was about to go to the starting line: "You better not get 70th again. We didn't come all the way over here to see you get 70th again."

He showed her. He dropped down and finished in 82nd.

One time in a meet, I was leading the race, and it was a mile. There was 300 meters left and my Coach said, "I know you got hair on your peaches! You got the biggest dick out there! Now go prove it!" I ended up tripping and falling on my dick with 20 meters left. I think I proved that I had the biggest dick.

The best thing that was ever yelled to me in an XC race was "Stop feeling sorry for yourself!"

One day in a track duel meet 2-mile in HS I was jogging behind a competitor when his teammate yelled "He's tired, he's about to die, break him!" A few seconds later I said to my competitor, completely normally and full of breath "Actually, don't listen to your teammate, I'm not tired at all." In retrospect it was a pretty demoralizing thing for me to do.

somali pirate wrote:

I like to yell to my guy that the other guy is starting to fade. Sometimes, I like to yell it when he is farther away than the guy I am talking about. Is this in poor taste?

"Fade" isn't that bad. If you change it to die or something then it's a bit distasteful.

And make sure the kid is actually fading. Sometimes when I'm chilling if I hear something like that said to a guy near me I just gun it and completely destroy the kid.

I am a coach and the two best I have heard at a meet. "Run like you stole something"

"Run like a dog is chasing you"

Flagpole wrote:

Saw this recently...a mother said this to her son:

"Pull up your skirt Nancy!"

Okay, I LOLed.

This thread reminds me of a story that my college housemate told about the (one and only) xc meet his mom went to when he was in high school. He ran pretty well (as he did in most of his high school meets) but never really heard his mom during the race.

When he got out of the chute and met up with her, he found out that she couldn't cheer because she had spent almost the whole race crying. "They made you run up those HILLS!"

81runner wrote:

I am a coach and the two best I have heard at a meet. "Run like you stole something"

"Run like a dog is chasing you"

I'm going to use these at the next meet I watch. I love yelling dumb but slightly motivating phrases.

Flying Tiger wrote:

81runner wrote:

I am a coach and the two best I have heard at a meet. "Run like you stole something"

"Run like a dog is chasing you"

I'm going to use these at the next meet I watch. I love yelling dumb but slightly motivating phrases.

Here's one: Yelled by the redneck third base coach to his batter in PONY baseball."Get athletic!" We yelled that to my son at regionals last week....he was amused.

This reminds me of the state 800 my senior year. I finished just 2 tenths of a second ahead of the runner up and the announcer was yelling over the PA: "What a finish! Holy man, woman, and child did that put 'em in the aisles!"

Knew a coach that would tell his kids just before they entered the box to race " Hurry back". I doubt it helped.

Some parent, while I was wearing my bright blue Adizero Manas:

"The kid in the blue shoes is looking weak! ...Those are nice blue shoes though."

this is sooo obvious wrote:

You have absolutely no idea which runner "wants it more". Some people race gutsy, some intelligently. Some people wear their emotions on their shoulders, while others are more reserved. You have no idea what a runner is doing in practice everyday, which would be a better indicator of who wants is more.

Spoken like someone who got out-kicked often and was mentally weak at the end of races.

"Put on your big girl pants and start RACING!"

Coach to his daughter at state XC. She was psyched out and moping, and I don't think what he said helped. Not even a little.

This was a good one.

The Ghair Beneath the Chair wrote:

I heard someone (coach or parent, I don't know) yell at a kid in a HS DMR "Kill yourself!" as he went by. I understood what the message was, but it still sounded hilarious out of context.

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categorically wrote:

Unless you have a split or place to relay the appropriate cheer is always "Go [name]!"

My old teammates and I use to spend our easy runs thinking of the most awkward things to say. My favorite was "Have courage!"

Austin1505 wrote:

One time in a meet, I was leading the race, and it was a mile. There was 300 meters left and my Coach said, "I know you got hair on your peaches! You got the biggest dick out there! Now go prove it!" I ended up tripping and falling on my dick with 20 meters left. I think I proved that I had the biggest dick.

Did your coach go on to become the defensive coordinator at Penn State?

This Judge Adams guy used to yell at his daughter "Run faster or I'll whip you with my belt!".

Not so amusing when the video came out.