Normal guy who knows grammar wrote:
flvmmox wrote:
i've ran
This is never correct.
Grammar cop, meet grammar judge, jury and executioner.
The preterite is the regular past participle in modern English. Irregular forms are archaic holdovers, doomed to extinction, nothing "correct" about them.
You'd do better challenging the contraction of "I have," but we all know that wasn't what you meant.
Don’t remember mine.
We only ran one cross country course and could guess within maybe 20 seconds.
Normal guy who knows grammar wrote:
flvmmox wrote:
i've ran
This is never correct.
I always find it unusual that people correct spelling and grammar on a message board. Why do they take on the role of a teacher? Do they want to be a teacher in real life but never did it - a kind of frustrated dream? So instead of correctly children they take the time to correct posters? Why would you think to do that? Do they care about people and want to help? It seems like it. I imagine them sitting there with a little red pen smiling and reading what we've written with a quizzical expression.
I remember running 11.9 in the 100m and 2:11 in the 800m around 16 years old. I think 1500m was around 5 minutes and 5km was around 18-something. I got more involved in other sports from then until University.
This was in Ireland so smaller pool and I won a few meets at 800m and 1500m at that pace, even though not actually fast even nationally. Came 5th out of 8 in a 3000m steeplechase provincially once.
Had not the foggiest idea how to train and fitness was just from playing a range of sports. Coaches were generally just teachers who liked sports very much but rarely deep history in it. I probably couldn't even have told you what was a good time for anything over 200m. I enjoyed it though, and think there's plenty left on the table for time improvements in late 20s and 30s though I mainly run road races >5km and never track meets now.
They Haunt Me wrote:
I remember my middle school PRs. I remember what I ran in a 100m dash in my last junior Olympics.
I remember losing a race during "field day" in 5th grade...though I don't remember -or even think- they timed us.
These things haunt me, frankly. I kinda wish I WOULD forget. They are all like ex gfs or something and what they leave me feeling is...less than stellar.
I remember two of my middle school races quite clearly (but forgot the times for both), and only remember one of my middle school PRs (but I can barely remember how that race went).
1:49.84 - 800m Freshmen National Record - Cooper Lutkenhaus (check this kick out!!)
Jakob on Oly 1500- “Walk in the park if I don’t get injured or sick”
Emma Coburn to miss Olympic Trials after breaking ankle in Suzhou
VALBY has graduated (w/ honors) from Florida, will she go to grad school??
Men who run twice a day and the women who love/put up with them