Do professional runners have groupies?!?

Of course they do! There is always the local group you follow to local races and that cute local runner...yep been there!

I always assumed, in groups from HSI to the Nike Farm, Team, that the men and women were doing each other, keeping it "in house."

At least it's the men and women keeping it "in house". The Santa Monica team kept it in house too, 'cept there were no women involved...

At the 1986 Division II Cross Country Nationals, held in Riverside, CA, my team stayed at a hotel where some unknown hair band (Poison) was also staying. They had groupies, we did not...

What kind of girls are going to want to have sex with a bunch of skinny, scrawny runners? Runners wish they had groupies. The closest thing runners get to having sex is whacking off to a porn video.

You bet. One Keg(professional groupie) and the CU crowd.

In Steve Scott's The Miler I am pretty sure he mentions some track groupies. Thing is I read it a while ago, so I can't remember anything definite. Anyone else remember that or am I just thinking about that one female runner he spent a lot of time with?

in europe, scott said track is "culture" as opposed to just another sport like it is in the US. so yes, there are track groupies, but in europe because of the sport's popularity and attraction to foreign athletes. the girl you're referring to (scott's infidel acquaintance) was not a track groupie though (scott's groupie), just a female athlete who also toured europe.

scott also described he and john walker's search for these track groupies and all night partying, a way to relax rather than being along and thinking about his next race. ironically, that was his desmise in the 84' and 88' olympics when he stayed alone the night before both finals.

on a side note, if you've read the olympian by brian granville, the main character ike low speaks about these type of womanizing outings. now that i think of it, the book reads parallel to scott's track career/infidelity before it even happened!

Old Timer wrote:

At the 1986 Division II Cross Country Nationals, held in Riverside, CA, my team stayed at a hotel where some unknown hair band (Poison) was also staying. They had groupies, we did not...

Uh, we were there as well.

Let's just say this: Being a successful athlete, even a runner, can be parlayed into a better social life.

Old Timer wrote:

At the 1986 Division II Cross Country Nationals, held in Riverside, CA, my team stayed at a hotel where some unknown hair band (Poison) was also staying. They had groupies, we did not...

By the way, I must be older than you, how can you possibly be an Old Timer? Shoot, I still feel like a kid.

I was with Cal Poly Pomona (yeah, we stayed at a hotel near the course instead of driving the, uh, 30 miles!). What school were you with? How did you finish?

I know for a fact that each winter on teh US indoor circut the black sprinters would pick teh new white stud US Pole vaulter and spend the summer banging him. The old vets woudl laugh as they saw his meet performance drop all summer as he had weak legs from all the screwing.

Approaching the last year of my 30's. 2005 I hit the big 40!

I like to use "Old Timer" since my/our hey day was in the 80's. In those days, there were no heart rate monitors, THG, or EPO. Steve Scott, Cram and Ovett. We all thought Tom Byers was cool because he could break 4 and have long hair. Texas A&M was a distance powerhouse, Rodney DeHaven won a NCAA D2 meet, and title IX hadn't screwed over all the track/cross country programs. Arnold was the Terminator, not the Governor, and Eddie Murphy used to say the "F" word, not be Dr. Doolittle. Of course, we also had Wham! and Kajagoogoo.... yeeesh!

I'm still trudging along, running about 25 miles a week. Last year I ran a 4:43 mile, which was my PR when I was 15, so running just as fast 25 years later is something to feel good about.

Nursing a calf strain right now, but getting ready for a October marathon with an old team mate (a tune-up sub-3:00), and hoping to run sub-2:35 next year at Austin.

You're also reading the boards... are you still running?

I was with Edinboro, I placed seventh (3rd American)

I was 24 at the time so I am a bit older than you.

I do train and race.

good luck with your running and racing Old Timer.

You'll break that 2:35 if you train with it in mind!

Maybe we will run into each other at a race.

platt

Groupies for runners, that is hillarious. Do mom and dads count?

17th place at age 21. Warm day, as I recollect. Funny thing I remember was at the beginning of the season, our coach took us out to preview the course. I had been drinking a ton of Kamakzes the night before. That was my first experience of running with a hang-over and/or still drunk!

After I won the Bangkok Marathon in 2002, I had tons of autograph requests, but I could not get a date or even a phone number out of any of the female spectators, volunteers or other runners. It was f***ing horrible.

jason

That is f***ing horrible. Sounds like my whole week - besides the autograph part or winning anything. I did get up to 270 km per hour on the Autobahn though. That should be good for something.