People who never ran in HS cross country or track, have you ever regretted it?

Well David you probably wouldn't have even made the team. By your own admission you are not a good runner and have no talent.

fun things to do in high school that are not cross country

- join a cooler sport

- go to parties and do drugs

- be a drama/band kid dork, they look like they have fun all the time

- get good grades and enjoy being the smartest

- go on your phone for the whole day and ignore everyone

- post undeserving accusations about your teachers/classmates on social media and get your cheeto-girl friends in on it

- be a creep and hit the line of every vsco girl in school

- be a class clown ?

that's all i got

Except that I ruined my life by not doing a HS sport. I will never know what it will be like.

Thats my biggest regret.......not going out for XC.........My track coach kept asking me to go out for XC,..............I was a Pole Vaulter........I should have...I had a GF in HS and didn't want to part with her......I think I would have been good.........In the Army I did a mile in 5:30 on a gravel track with combat boots............Got back running at 28 and did ok.......cheers.......

pdx dude wrote:

Thats my biggest regret.......not going out for XC.........My track coach kept asking me to go out for XC,..............I was a Pole Vaulter........I should have...I had a GF in HS and didn't want to part with her......I think I would have been good.........In the Army I did a mile in 5:30 on a gravel track with combat boots............Got back running at 28 and did ok.......cheers.......

Not doing sports in HS can literally ruin the rest of your life. You will never know what you missed. You will never compete in college. You will never get to college for free. You will never make strong friendships.There are so many effects from not doing sports in HS, it is staggering.

im in multiple sports david and i can assure you that the friendships i have now arent going to last past high school. i can tell you that you arent missing much. the mediocrity of my cross country team disappoints me all the time.

dont act like cross country couldve gotten you to college free either. scholarships are rare for cross country. there arent any joe schmos walking onto high school teams getting scholarships. you need good genes, which you dont have. you also need good attitude, which you dont have.

choking on my own saliva reading your reddit posts btw

Dude, it's not going to ruin the rest of your life. Hardly anyone gets to go to college for free from running. I have a ton of fun doing XC and track, and they are memories that I'll cherish forever, but I'm not competing in college, and I'm doing well enough in my classes to get scholarship money from that. You can still make strong friendships without doing a sport; my closest friends don't run.

In summation: It won't singlehandedly ruin your life, almost no one competes in college, even fewer get a scholarship to run, and less than that get to go for free. You can still form strong friendships, even with people on the team.

If you really want to, you can run now, and maybe walk on your freshman or sophomore year of college.

david45 wrote:

pdx dude wrote:

Thats my biggest regret.......not going out for XC.........My track coach kept asking me to go out for XC,..............I was a Pole Vaulter........I should have...I had a GF in HS and didn't want to part with her......I think I would have been good.........In the Army I did a mile in 5:30 on a gravel track with combat boots............Got back running at 28 and did ok.......cheers.......

Not doing sports in HS can literally ruin the rest of your life. You will never know what you missed. You will never compete in college. You will never get to college for free. You will never make strong friendships.There are so many effects from not doing sports in HS, it is staggering.

lolwut I would say at least half my graduating class didn't do hs sports and they seem to be doing just fine. The music kids, drama kids, arts kids enjoyed their ECs just as much as the athletes enjoyed theirs. I was a multi-sport, multi EC (music, student council, etc.) athlete in HS, but my friend group was separate from all of my ECs.

thiscupisnthalffull wrote:

david45 wrote:

Not doing sports in HS can literally ruin the rest of your life. You will never know what you missed. You will never compete in college. You will never get to college for free. You will never make strong friendships.There are so many effects from not doing sports in HS, it is staggering.

lolwut I would say at least half my graduating class didn't do hs sports and they seem to be doing just fine. The music kids, drama kids, arts kids enjoyed their ECs just as much as the athletes enjoyed theirs. I was a multi-sport, multi EC (music, student council, etc.) athlete in HS, but my friend group was separate from all of my ECs.

I did almost no extracurriculars I liked in HS

david45 wrote:

Except that I ruined my life by not doing a HS sport. I will never know what it will be like.

Climb to summit of Mount Olympus. Climb to summit of Mount Atlas. Climb to summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Surf in Great White Shark infested waters off coast of South Africa. Run with the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. All five are more impressive when conversing with people than if a guy made varsity high school XC team.

david45 wrote:

thiscupisnthalffull wrote:

lolwut I would say at least half my graduating class didn't do hs sports and they seem to be doing just fine. The music kids, drama kids, arts kids enjoyed their ECs just as much as the athletes enjoyed theirs. I was a multi-sport, multi EC (music, student council, etc.) athlete in HS, but my friend group was separate from all of my ECs.

I did almost no extracurriculars I liked in HS

Well then you should join the moving the goalposts team in college, since you enjoy doing that and you excel at it too.

thiscupisnthalffull wrote:

david45 wrote:

I did almost no extracurriculars I liked in HS

Well then you should join the moving the goalposts team in college, since you enjoy doing that and you excel at it too.

How am I moving the goal posts?

I never even considered running in HS because I thought running sucked. Honestly, running kind of does suck, but I like the competition aspect of it and it becomes more difficult to stay involved in team sports during adulthood. I played another sport in HS. I really wanted to play basketball, but I got cut from the team freshman year and never played for the team in HS (to be fair, I was the shortest kid trying out at the time, but by the time I graduated I would have been the tallest on the team). Now I play basketball 1-2 days a week and I’m better than anyone on my HS basketball team. I always loved playing sports and games because they are fun and I love playing the game.

It doesn’t sound like you actually even like doing anything like sports based on your own experiences, but rather you have an odd fantasy that it’s kewl to play sports. Do something that you like doing for sh!t’s sake. If you like running then do it, bit if you don’t like it don’t do it. I would plead that you stop spamming LRC for the attention that you desperately crave, but maybe that’s what you like. Maybe spamming on the internet is your thing.

You have been telling us that you got cut. Now you say you have regrets for not going out. Keep the story straight. You can't regret getting cut.

New Queen wrote:

You have been telling us that you got cut. Now you say you have regrets for not going out. Keep the story straight. You can't regret getting cut.

I am saying I regret not making the team.

Regret not running XC or track in high school? It's been almost 25 years and I can say absolutely not.

Am I "slow" because of this? Probably. Do I care? Nope.

Unlike most of the people I've come across that ran XC/Track in high school, I actually enjoy running..and it's probably because I started later. A lot of them just complain about how their bodies are wrecked and how something always hurts or how they can't enjoy running because they have to run slower and used to be so much faster.

I enjoyed hanging out with my friends and for the last 2 years of high school, I worked probably 25 hours a week. I wasn't "blessed" to be in a family with a ton of money, so it was nice to be able to go into college with some spending money.

When I was in high school, pretty much everyone made fun of everyone. The XC/track team got made fun of, the band geeks got made fun of, the AV club got made fun, the crew team, the people who had to work jobs, etc.

You're looking at your life retrospectively and playing the "Woulda Coulda Shoulda Game". Stop. You'll just drive yourself nuts. You didn't run XC/Track and got cut. Whopdee-damn-do, it's not the end of the world. Everyone in life has things they could have done differently and who knows how life would have turned out. Be happy with where you are. If you're not happy with where you are, change it...whatever it is that is not making you happy.

Except not running in HS also means not running in college