Uncico wrote:
This team is in my region and they won state last year... Wtf are they doing with a 330 pound anchor? They have plenty of athletes to choose from!
-Uncico Coleman 😘
Looks like a JV meet nevermind
-Uncico Coleman 😘
Uncico wrote:
This team is in my region and they won state last year... Wtf are they doing with a 330 pound anchor? They have plenty of athletes to choose from!
-Uncico Coleman 😘
Looks like a JV meet nevermind
-Uncico Coleman 😘
Rojo, you should not be glorifying this. Unless he takes action now, this fellow is doomed to hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and early death.
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Uncico wrote:
This team is in my region and they won state last year... Wtf are they doing with a 330 pound anchor? They have plenty of athletes to choose from!
-Uncico Coleman 😘
Was it a "weight man's relay" or "big man's relay" where they have the throwers and/or guys over 200 lbs run it? That's been a tradition in some track meets for at least 40 years.
"My BigBoys represented in that 4x1 @clark_damone @king__cedd @welch_58 @kardellt62 !Thats a lot of lbs moving !other schools cheated"
Sounds like that's what it was but the other team stuck a non-big-guy in there.
Stating the obvious wrote:
Dang it, I posted this over a day ago as a "Fat Man Relay" and got to replies and buried deep in the message board.
It brought back great memories of high school track dual meets where we distance runners would challenge the field guys to run the last event of the meet as a 4x440, often just after we finished the 2 mile. We would actually do this as part of the meet's last event, as I recall.
It was always hysterical because even if they were fast they would fall apart the last 100 of each leg.
It was also fun because we had to every time convince them to field a team, like Lucy talking Charlie Brown into kicking the football (excuse my dated references). They weren't the brightest bulbs on the team, so we would drop casual comments before the meet about how well they were running their sprints in practice and build up to a challenge.
They never won of course.
We called it the Fat Man Relay, this is prob not politically correct.
Why 4x4? You could have made it a little more fair with a 4x1
mo miles bro wrote:
he still slow and fat
re:"he still slow and fat"
He looks like a lineman to me and didn't look too bad for someone 330 pounds. Btw, I once watched a 4x1, weigh throwers versus distance runners, the weight throwers won.
Good for him. He's moving faster than more than 90+% of hs students. Most people don't realize how technical being a lineman is. He'll prolly make more $$$ than everyone in this thread combined.
The guy is a total bad ass and way faster at sprinting than I am. Just watching him blast down that home straight is inspiring to me. Good on him for helping his team in what is a non specialist event for him.
Anyone get his split time and able to ballpark convert it to a regular 100m?
Moe's Tavern wrote:
They need to try him out in the shot put. Size plus explosive speed could make for a 70+ performer.
Yes, I am sure that a 330-lb sophomore who plays football has never considered putting the shot and none of his coaches thought of it either. He is definitely a 70+foot undiscovered performer.
Give us some more wisdom please.
Moe's Tavern wrote:
They need to try him out in the shot put. Size plus explosive speed could make for a 70+ performer.
See the comment below where someone posted his profile on athletic.net...he's a shot putter. Not great marks now, but definitely huge potential there with good power and size.
Why does the article make a big deal about this kid anchoring the 4x100?...it is clearly a throwers relay...fat guys running is the entire point of the relay. If this was the regular 4x100 at a big meet that would be more noteworthy if they still placed second.
HardLoper wrote:
Stating the obvious wrote:Dang it, I posted this over a day ago as a "Fat Man Relay" and got to replies and buried deep in the message board.
It brought back great memories of high school track dual meets where we distance runners would challenge the field guys to run the last event of the meet as a 4x440, often just after we finished the 2 mile. We would actually do this as part of the meet's last event, as I recall.
It was always hysterical because even if they were fast they would fall apart the last 100 of each leg.
It was also fun because we had to every time convince them to field a team, like Lucy talking Charlie Brown into kicking the football (excuse my dated references). They weren't the brightest bulbs on the team, so we would drop casual comments before the meet about how well they were running their sprints in practice and build up to a challenge.
They never won of course.
We called it the Fat Man Relay, this is prob not politically correct.
Why 4x4? You could have made it a little more fair with a 4x1
Who said anything about fair? ;-)
But to be fair, they threw a few things, fancy themselves as sprinters and we just got done with the two, so at least it appeared reasonable.
Also the mile relay was always the last event so we could shoot our wad.
He's not so bad.
Much more impressive than watching a distance dweeb throw the shot.
/thread
Old Yeller wrote:
In high school there was one relay meet each year that had a weightman's 4x100. It was fun to watch, plus the throwers loved doing it each year.
Exactly this! Common back in the day in southern Louisiana.
You can tell from the other legs this was not a competitive relay. Big dude in red on far straight away.
So much hate on these forums! He ran pretty fast for his size IMO... Faster than I expected. Not everyone is a 10.xx guy in high school, some people are just having fun.
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