teenage wasteland wrote:
The overweight dad who claims to have run a 4:30 mile in high school, but he doesn't run now because of his knees. Every cross country meet ever has had that dad in attendance.
This is me! Don’t scoff - it will be you too someday.
Flagpole and a thread on running, call me speechless.
knowsbetter wrote:
Flagpole, what do you say/yell @ cross meets?
"Let's go Hannah!" even if there isn't anyone I know named Hannah in the race.
For a guy's race, it's "Let's go Zach!" Same reasoning.
Tribe wrote:
A real man wrote:
Drop the hammer!
This reminds me of a great HS parent story. We decided to get t shirts printed For some reason we thought a cool slogan would be "Put down the hammer". Unfortunately the mom in charge of printing the shirts recognized a flaw in our vocabulary and changed to "Put the hammer down". Subtle difference but I'll never forget the coach that saw me warming up in my shirt. He looks at me and says, "it's ok son, just put the hammer down, back slowly away from the hammer, no-one needs to get hurt today".
Not sure if you are still around, but I am sure that YOU were the one who had the phrase wrong.
The clique decked out as if they are sponsored by Nike, Oakley etc
Kids wearing brand new shoes
Basketball shorts
Military haircuts
Confusing chute tape that zig-zags back and forth and sometimes leads to a dead end.
Guys that take off, then crater like Cheptegei
A couple of my teammates and I would finish a race and then go over to the finishing line to watch the slower runners finish, clap slowly and say "Alright, let's finish it up".
I only say stuff like-
looking good
looking smooth
way to go
teenage wasteland wrote:
The overweight dad who claims to have run a 4:30 mile in high school, but he doesn't run now because of his knees. Every cross country meet ever has had that dad in attendance.
My standard line is "30 years and 60 pounds ago I was a D1 scholarship distance runner." People often ask "Really? What happened?!" I respond that I got to a point when I preferred to stop for beers after work instead of going home to train. Other fat dads relates to that.
I’ll tell you what I never saw: other runners in front of me since I was the greatest ever at all levels.
I’m guessing that Flagpole Willy never got this movie made.
But just in case his good friend is still working on it ; T-shirt “Our sport is your sport’s punishment”, coach yelling “you’re having the race of your life” and the runner next to you responding in a calm voice, “really?!?”, “you guys couldn’t beat the first 5 drunks stumbling out of the local bar!”