1969: Can we run all the way around this field? Let's try. Hey we did. Betcha can't do it 10 times. Hey we did. I love running. I'm a runner. 1974: 400m. 1975: 800m. 1976: 1500m. Late 70s early 80s: Longer and longer. Marathon. 1984: Coe. He Rules. Screw the Marathon. I'm a 1500m man. 1500m PR every year from 1976 to 1990. Canadian Forces kindly sends me around the world on 12 trips for running. 2001 injury. Will I run again? I did. Slower but still happy. Found letsrun. Discuss.
Who needs 100 when you can sum it up in 10:
"I came, I saw, I ran, I conquered, I retired."
6th grade: 1600m: 8:32
7th grade: 1600m: 5:40
8th grade: 1600m: 5:16
9th grade: XC: 3 miles: 18:52 Track: 400m: 61 800m: 2:16 1600m: 4:56 3200m: 10:35
10th grade: XC: 3 miles: 16:13 5000m: 17:17 Track: 400m: 57.8 800m: 2:10 1600m: 4:33 3200m: 10:02
11th grade: XC: 5000m: 16:48 4800m: 15:49 Track: injured.
you are so gay.
Started running.
Faster than some, slower than some.
Started training.
Faster than some, slower than some.
Still running.
Still faster than some, still slower than some.
"Should've run more miles. Should've run doubles. Shoulda coulda woulda don't mean a damn thing."
Ran sorta fast.
Coulda ran faster with more miles.
Ran more miles, got hurt.
Still hurt.
Fun
Carnivore 69 wrote:
Ran sorta fast.
Coulda ran faster with more miles.
Ran more miles, got hurt.
Still hurt.
Funny, that's my story.
9th grade, didn't do XC but owned in the pe mile with low-6 minute miles. 9th grade track started at 6:09 got down to 5:46, 10th grade XC started at 18:37, didn't get faster cause I'm a head case. 10th grade track, 5:15, 2:19, early in season, again I'm a head case, so I got slower throughout the season. 11th grade- not there yet, but lets hope I work on my head over the summer and run sub-17, and sub-4:50-2:10.
coulda ran faster if I wasn't a party animal
Liked running as a kid, but o good at it. Broke 11 minutes in the mile. Then 10. Tried out for cross country, ran a 23:23 5k. Improved to a 20:00 average sophomore year, then stopped improving for rest of high school. Graduate high school. Get fat. Start running again. Get skinny. 31 minute 5 mile. Try out for college running. Fail. Still running. 40-50 mpw.
manager for hs track team, title 9, I'm going out for boys xc! tabori finds me and I get guts. get scholarship to oregon. run fast, play hard, then burn out. jog for 10 years. make comeback. run marathons and roads until achilles cries. Get inspired by a gutsy kid who outkicks me. start coaching. Keep going so I can walk my talk. cheesemakers kick some butt.
HS XC 4 yrs, pr 17:15
HS Track 3 yrs, pr 2flat 800m
Stopped running to gain weight & two great kids
The weight had to go, for the sake of myself & the kids
5k 3 weeks later scared me; 25 minutes
25k 8 months later depressed me; 2:10
Detroit Marathon 2001 about 14 months into it encouraged me: 3:23
Have since done 3 Chicagos and a Twin Cities, pr’d 2:59:00 at Chitown
Have since pr’d at the 25k around 1:40:30
Registered: Grand Island Trail Marathon July 28
Coach my kids in youth track
It’s been good & enjoyable
Fast, Faster, Whooohoo!, INJURY, Fast, Faster, Thyroid?, Test coming, MASTER OF THE RUNNING WORLD bitches.
Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
Needed a sport to break out of nerd-dom. Track had no ball, and no cuts. XC helped track. 24 years later, still plugging away. Never super fast, but that's not what it's all about. Now I coach kids who are better than I ever was or will be. And I still don't cut.
pain, mud, killer hills,hard track reps with coach shouting me on,cold winter morning runs,dedication, loneliness -- need i go on?
Yet i still go back for more and train 85 miles per week and been a member of local club for last 14 years- its my life!
In 6th grade I won the gym mile in 5:59. Slowly progressed but consistently. (th grade best freshman but nothign special at all. in 10th grade wanted to be better anfd compete. Became a decent runner within the county. Summer of 11th grade decided I wanted to be a top runner in the state. 11th grade doing it, but want to be best in state...to be continued
i was always the best man