Banditting a track workout?

Do you plan on asking if you can hop in, or are you just gonna hop in the middle of a repeat? Cheating if you ask, awesome if you don't.

I know when they start. Im just going to be warmed up and on the track. when they get ready to start. im just going to jump in behind them.

let us know how it went. haha

Sorry guys. They saw me creeping towards them and asked if I wanted to join. So I didnt really have to bandit. They did 3200, 1600 jog recovery, 1600.

They went all went 9:40. I went 9:51.

their times for the 1600 were 4:26,4:29, 4:35, 4:39. I went 4:30.

PS: They were SUPPOSED to run 4:40 for the 1600.

This reminded me of a super cool day that I hadn't thought of for quite a while. In the summer of 1994 I was doing an internship at Iowa State University, and staying in an apartment near the track. I'd recently quit college track at a little college, and was running a little on and off, but I didn't have anyone to run with in Ames. So one day I was walking home from dinner at Taco Bell (possibly smoking a cigarette), and this guy jogged by holding spikes. I was excited to see someone I might be able to do a workout with, so I jogged over and asked what kind of workout he was doing. He said 8x1000 in 2:45, so I immediately knew he was from the (then great) ISU cross country team.

So I asked if I could come run with them if I promised to stay out of their way. He wasn't too enthusiastic, but said I could. So I ran and got my running shoes and went to the track. The guy turned out to be Ian Robinson, and Jonah Koech, John Kihonge and I bunch of other guys I hadn't heard of showed up shortly. So, these near-world-class guys lined up in spikes, and I lined up next to them, and we took off. They ran their first one in like 2:46, and I busted my ass to stay close and finished in like 2:48. And Jonah Koech sort of chuckled (he was by far the friendliest of all of them) and said, "you just ran 2:46 (sic) in flats, man! That's pretty good!"

It went downhill from there-- I made it through 800 of the next one in like 2:08 and dropped out, sat one out, ran one in like 3:01... But when it was over we all did the cooldown together, and Koech chatted with me the whole time, asking about what running I'd done, what my internship was for, etc. The whole time, Robinson was like, "get this guy out of here." Anyways it was awesome, and inspired a little mini-comeback for me. I saw Koech a couple more times that summer, and he was always super friendly. We even talked about going for a run sometime, but we never did. That fall they won NCAA cross country.

So that's my workout bandit story.

That was probably the best thing I've read all day on this godforsaken hellhole of a message board. Thanks for posting that.

+1

good story

That was cool. Thanks for sharing. Possibly smoking a grit! I f'ng love it.

Glad I started this thread to hear that.

Love this- thanks for posting.

Thanks-- that makes wish I had some other good running stories!

Dude, your like, total overuse of the word "like" makes you, like, look like an idiot

Overuse of like wrote:

Dude, your like, total overuse of the word "like" makes you, like, look like an idiot

Your overuse of being a dick makes you look like a dick.

he said like, like, 5 times in 3 paragraphs. i feel like, ive seen, like, much worse. he was like, using it instead of like saying "about a 2:46" or instead of like, "robinson was probably thinking to himself 'my, i wish this guy would, like, leave us alone'". i mean, like, it could be a lot worse man. like, lighten up man, like yeah. what are you, like the grammar like police?

like.

(thats more likes than rick santorums facebook page....mawphucka.)

Your post made me giggle myself silly. It's funny 'cause it's true. :)