"I wanna know what his underwear smells like!" This was from my coach freshman year of highschool. he told me not to pass the kid for 7 laps but to sit right behind him the entire race. I did exactly as he said and won the race.
"I wanna know what his underwear smells like!" This was from my coach freshman year of highschool. he told me not to pass the kid for 7 laps but to sit right behind him the entire race. I did exactly as he said and won the race.
35 years ago (or so) I remember an ol' boy hollering "Nice hustle" to me as I came around a tree heading for the finish line. Hustle is much admired in basketball and baseball, but I'd never heard it in referrence to cross-country.
Morton Phalange wrote:
The Gray Zone wrote:My coach's favorite words of encouragement were "Balls Out!"
Don't know what the girls' coach said.
"LIPS OUT!!!" or "NIPS OUT!!!" ??
Let the labia fly!
it wasnt a parent but anyways....
it was our conference meet in college, and it was really cold and windy like mid 20s and we still had to do the 4*4. our team was in the hunt for the title but we had to win the relay and we would win by just a few points.
it was close when i got the baton, and the time in the lead for points just on my heels. a teammate yelled "you got this, he is the slowest leg man crush him"....now this super motivated me because their team had already qualified for nationals earlier in the year and we still hadnt. in my mind was he was on my back the whole time and then hitting the home stretch my coach came and yelled "slowest leg huh? you just destroyed him!! now lets make nationals" and i finished up with my fastest split ever...and we made nationals. sometimes words can inspire you to great things
Run down the hill
Stop feeling sorry for yourself
Suck it up
Dammit Alex
I was winning a large meet...with 200m to go started getting that tight locking up feeling. Right then my dad yells, "don't lock up! DON'T LOCK UP!" You know what my body did? It LOCKED up a lot worse off then before. the last 50m was a death march and I barely made it. I ended up 2nd because of that. My mom also use to scream GOOOOOOOO as loud as possible when I was winning by a minute. I could hear her in the stands at track meets. I always cringed! So annoying...
A father yells to his son
"Pick it up or drop out"
We had a pretty good XC coach at my high school but just like most coaches and parents he would say pointless things during races similar to whats already been written in this thread.
At one meet I was walking around with him during a varsity race to help take splits. One of our varsity guys who had been really struggling during the season was having another pretty bad race by his standards. Our coach sees him and starts angrily yelling the usual nonsense, things like "PICK IT UP", "YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS", "CATCH UP WITH THE OTHER GUYS". Suddenly, a kid from another team who was running just in front of my struggling teammate turns his head and yells at my coach "SHUT THE F$%# UP MAN HE'S TRYING". I wanted to laugh my ass off but didn't want to piss off the coach, so I sat there with a dumb look on my face while my coach stood back completely dumbfounded and then calmly walked away as if nothing had happened.
"MOOOOOOVVVVEEEE!!!!!"
I was on a fairly crappy team in high school, but we definitely had a "family" type atmosphere. For example, we held a time trial every year at a local park and all the parents would bring food and whatnot and it ended up turning into a sort of community event/potluck thing, concluding with our team time trial. I ran like 16:40 and beat 2nd place by about a minute and a half, so most of the gathered adults (this was in the deep south, so not a big running community) thought I was God.
So anyways, after watching this at our first "real" meet the next week, I'm in 20th place or so and running at PR pace through two miles yet the whole time every parent of a teammate was gasping and saying "What are you doing so far back?" or "Why aren't you winning?" or (worst of all) "What's wrong with you?". Thanks guys.
I remember my teammate in HS had a horrible state meet his sophomore year. His relay had DQ'd in the medley and the 4x8 finished one place out of the medals. He missed out on the 200m finals too.
He is getting all his gear together to leave the meet and his dad is helping. His dad says "have you got your medals?.. Oh yeah you didn't get any"
hearing ur mom scream "Come on! pick up the pace! keep going!" 20 seconds into a 5k...
I think the two funniest things I've heard from parents or coaches occurred at the same meet. The first was a coach yelling at the final leg of his DMR
"Alright, now Switch and Go! Switch and Go! Switch and Go!"
needless to say our anchor leg destroyed theirs by running the last 200 meters in about 26 seconds.
The second, later that day, was a dad yelling at his daughter in the 1600. He yelled "Get into sports mode!!!!" he yelled this repeatedly. Our team mocked this guy the entire meet. Dirty looks were exchanged.
Hate to change the sports genre (but this one IS funny). I was at a college football game and the home team was playing their biggest rival. One of the rival's players got hurt and the stadium got real quiet. And then out of nowhere, a guy yells, "SHOOT HIM LIKE A HORSE!!!" Funniest (and most disturbing) thing I have ever heard at a game.
Several years ago I was at a XC meet in the San Antonio area. During the girls race one of the parents, who was an acquaintance of mine was at the mile mark or so when his daughter came running by.....much further back than she should have been. As she was slowly moving up the hill, which was very rocky, her dad was yelling things to her. Normal stuff, like, drive your arms, work the hill, drive hard. But as she got closer he yelled, "what the hell is wrong!?". To which she replied, "DAD, MY F#*KING SHOE FELL OFF!".
I guess I am guilty of saying a lot of these dumb things.
Some of things I say are "Start moving up" "You look good" "stay relaxed". I am now just figuring out I didn't help my son run 1 second faster.
I promise I will be more careful of what I yell the next time.
One of the weirdest things I ever saw at a high school track meet was this marine drill sergeant-like coach standing along the fence at the start of the homestretch. He was whistling all these strange bird-like warbling noises. It was in a distance event, the 3200 I think. A kid from another school told me this guy always did this and that each warble or whistle was some sort of secret code to his runners. The guys on this other team then got along the fence, of course, and all started whistling. Coach scowls at them and keeps on warbling. Weird. I think his team came in last place in the meet.
At my schools annual invitational, while approaching the 2nd mile of the 5k my moms screams at the top of her lungs: "Stick the metal to the pedal!!" rather than saying the correct phrase: "Stick the pedal to the metal." Silly mom got so excited her words got all mixed up.
Be careful Roo dear, don't fall too fast.
This kid who was out for the season decided to be team manager and he would yell stuff like "run like you stole something" and "come on your a machine, pass this guy up". He was kind of scummy but seeing him on the sideline always cheered me up. One open race, this girl who was an arab and wearing a head scarf is in first place and my friend yells to the second place runner "go and catch her, do it for your country!!"