KCgeezer wrote:
Coyote Montane wrote:
KC yes DIII and was a 'jog on' runner at that. I did field events (PV and LJ) as sophomore and not very well and didn't run track after that, and never XC. But at the end of my senior year took up jogging (Dr. Kenneth Cooper 3X a week for 20-25 minutes) to get out of gym class for my last trimester of school. Did some summer track meets for fun, but ran sprints and tried hurdles a couple times. On to college the XC coach spotted me jogging a 3 miler around campus and tried to convince me to joint the team, and I said no way--but did plan on running track for 440 y and 440 H. That didn't last long and by end of my freshman year was a (rather slow) miler. Ran 4 years of XC and 3 of track in college, but much did better on the longer road events in the off season (10K-20K).
And that's my story.
Well, I gotta own my story, but of course I envy your college career. I walked on the high school XC team and in the course of three months went from JV to third on the team, and we were runners-up in state, but here’s the thing. My coach didn’t coach. A runner on the team put together the workouts and gave them to coach, who was an English teacher looking for a little extra pay. (I learned this at our last reunion.) So of course I was not prepared for college and didn’t even try (it’s a D1 school). Had I known that walking on I could’ve had a good experience anyway, and who knows, maybe with more than three months of training I could make the team eventually ... oh well. At least I have this time, running is a joy, and winning is fun, as you know!
Thanks for the thought. Other than having the opportunity my college career wasn't anything that great. Time of transition at our school, and we had different 4 coaches in the 3 seasons that I ran track. And the only one that knew anything about middle distance and distance running left in the first month of outdoor my freshman year. So I overtrained, did too much speedwork. College PRs were 2:05 for 800, 4:31 mile, 9:43, 2 mile, 16:14 5K. But as I mentioned, did better on the roads and ran sub 33 for 10K during the summers. I was really burned out at the end and it took about a year and a half to even approach the times I had run in college. Then it got better.