Racing a baseball player

anonymous wrote:

athletics fan and runner wrote:

(11 laps per mile) and I ended up lapping him several times. I ran something like 10:45 and won and he simply could not believe that my slow ass had whupped him. I think that he ran about 15 or 16 minutes and I do remember he came in last.

This wouldnt be the Arhur Ashe Center by chance, would it?

No.

My sophomore year of college after track season I challenged my good friend on the bike team to an uphill race, which I think was nearly 1 mile. We both kind of took it as a joke and were talking shit back and forth to each other. The race was an asphalt road that winds around the hill to the top and it starts on a pretty steep grade. The first 400 meters are steep so we start off and I am just dusting him. Needless to say, I forget that the middle of this "hilly" road is actually a flat semi-downhill 600m stretch, and he puts about 2 minutes on me. I stumbled across the finish at the top and saw him blissfully chatting with some girls, giving me the thumbs up. THat bastard.

Only reason I asked about the Arthur Ashe Center was because in Richmond, VA, theres a semi-pro ball park right next to it. The Center has an indoor track that is 11 laps per mile. Sounded as if it might be it, but alas, it is not.

ha this thread reminds me of a conversation at dinner tonight in the dining hall. My friend and I were talking and he said that he has never broken 60 in the 400 (run 2:01 so he obviously can) and this girl sitting next to him challenges him to a race (she's split a 56.9). Ha I really hope they race, it would be a really good one to watch, I dunno who would win. in the end she was talking shit, but he doesn't really want to race in case he gets beat.

I once dated an 800 meter runner. She could outsprint me which I found annoying and amusing at times. I could run a hell of a lot longer than her and at times I would nurse her through a 5 mile run for the second half of a ten miler only to have her take off with 300 meters to go. She beat me everytime.

My specialty was the 10,000 and the steeple but I can not sprint for a damn.

at the summer camp i worked at, we had a track and field camp for a week.

the guys i worked with were mostly ex football players...and for the most part we just did sprints, everyone knew I was training for xc in the fall.

So this BIG guy challenges me to a 200. I always thought I had decent sprint speed, but he DUSTED me...I mean it wasn't even close. I find out later he's one of those freak of nature jacked up football players that can run a 4.4 40 and jump close to his height in vertical.

Still, pretty embarrassing because everyone there knew at the time I run xc and track in college