The line for the port-o-potty could stretch down half the course
The line for the port-o-potty could stretch down half the course
When the local screen printer announces that they are out of Prefontaine quotes to put on the back of tshirts
It's the state meet, and you've never seen a larger conglomerate of nice butts.
There's more footballs than people with spikes.
Iseethisone wrote:
There's more footballs than people with spikes.
or frisbees
when the starter has to shoot the gun twice for every race
Mike Mahon is in the house.
When an entire team is wearing both basketball shorts and basketball shoes
- Runners collapse at the finish line
- Coaches or team captains lead warm-up routines which are about 30 years old (lots of static stretching)
- Just after you thought everybody had gone by, there are 1-2 slow stragglers alternating walking and jogging by themselves (usually one of them is quite large)
- The majority of runners start off at 15-flat pace, but nobody breaks 17:30
- The same two sets of parents actually show up to watch every race, with one of them bringing a dog on a leash, and the other having small children running around completely oblvious to the fact that their older sibling is in the race
- When the temperature is less than 60 deg F, many runners are in full length tights
- Coaches yell strategy that none of their runners can possibly follow (e.g., yelling to a runner that is clearly exhausted and is moving at 7min mile pace and getting slow, "You've got to get up there! Don't let him get away from you!" Although this is similar at the college level, just with athletes moving much faster)
- Some kid walking with his hand holding his side stitch
- Parents think the girl who just destroyed the field with a 19:51 is "amazing" and bound for the Olympics
- Coaches talking about how their freshman girl who beat many of the seniors is going to win states a few years down the road
At least one person always brings their dog.
when the jr. boys team are wearing bun huggers
dork hs guys wearing their shorts over their tights.
the only awards are t-shirts for the top-3.
when there are more footballs than XC shoes.
when the course is either just some made up random path or is 90% on tree-covered trails.
when all but maybe 10% of the field runs their mid-race fastest on the 1-3 "major" hills before slowing right to a jog.
(This one is more track than XC) when 90% of the people there are treating it as a social meanwhile the other 10% are napping and/or show up 1 hour before their race.
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the only awards are t-shirts for the top-3.
You guys get awards at a XC meet?!?
when there are more footballs than XC shoes.
Seems like that would be a sign you're at a football practice rather than a XC meet.
when the course is either just some made up random path or is 90% on tree-covered trails.
You've just described the very best race courses.
punkin chunkin wrote:
dork hs guys wearing their shorts over their tights.
Or worse, their tights over their shorts.
when you see 2 or 3 male runners peeing together in the bushes behind the portajohns
nerwin wrote:
when you see 2 or 3 male runners peeing together in the bushes behind the portajohns
That happens at every race at every level and includes women as well.
When half your team is crying five minutes before the start of the race.
you run a 2.85 "5k"
1.) Neither team cools down
2.) The first 400m is run in 70 sec and the winner runs 20:30
3.) The officials demand to start early so they can get out of there.
4.) The parents think the boy or girl who won in 18:45 or 21:00 is one of the best in the state, until they don't even qualify.
5.) Stupid coaches care way way too much about them.
6.) the winner gets disqualified for cheering on the last place finisher, his friend, for trying to break his goal of 30 mins. because he was "pacing." that one always makes me smile.
At a good team
1.) Parents are wondering why the kid who broke 16:00 last week at an invitational is chilling in third place... until he runs the last 200m in 27 secs and wins easily in 18:00. Then they still wonder why he didn't run that fast.
2.) The same parents are wondering why that kid is doing a workout after the race.
3.) Some parents are wondering why the top few kids aren't racing. Yet the team still sweeps.