Plus I looked Relaxed wrote:
Nice leg speed velocity
That would've stopped me dead in my tracks. As in, I'd pause the timer on my watch and walk over the guy/girl and explained that speed and velocity are synonyms.
Plus I looked Relaxed wrote:
Nice leg speed velocity
That would've stopped me dead in my tracks. As in, I'd pause the timer on my watch and walk over the guy/girl and explained that speed and velocity are synonyms.
From a coach, "that was the gutsiest race I've ever seen."
While racing a 25k as part of marathon training, I was in the upper third of the pack of so. Passed a family of a dad and two kids-- kids both under appx. 8 years' old-- looking for wife/mom. They had the usual sign, pom pons, sport drink, etc.
As I passed them, the little girl asked, "Is Mommy coming?" Dad replied, "No-- these are the fast runners."
WandaFish wrote:
As in, I'd pause the timer on my watch and walk over the guy/girl and explained that speed and velocity are synonyms.
But they aren't...
A girl told me I had nicer legs than she did
'You aren't nearly as dumb as you look.'
"You run like an elegant gazelle."
"It looks like you're flying when you run, I swear I never saw your feet touch the ground. It was so cool."
"Are you Wonder Woman or something?"
Urban school kids working the water stop of a marathon near mile 20. "Daym, he look smoove!"
Cross fit couple at the high school track doing some kind of workout in the infield. I'm doing 200s with my high school son. The jacked woman asks me between reps "How old are you?"
vector vs. scalar wrote:
WandaFish wrote:
As in, I'd pause the timer on my watch and walk over the guy/girl and explained that speed and velocity are synonyms.
But they aren't...
Oh but they are in this context. I doubt the complimenter in question was assessing the runner's perceived speed in the context of the angle from which he approached and/or applied trigonometry to compare his distance vs. his displacement for the purpose of a precise shoutout. And even if he/she were, then saying "nice speed velocity" would be equivalent to saying, say, "nice scalar vector."
My running app calculates both. The neighbor past whose window I run every day doesn't.
Some years back, I was in our dressing rooms ready to go out on a training run, when a few of my colleagues came in finishing a run accompanied by one of our Olympic distance runners who had met them at the park gates about 6 miles away. The Olympian was running back to those gates and asked if I’d like to join him. Naturally I said yes and off we went. Afterwards I heard my club mates burst into laughter as we went off as the Olympian was known never to run other that very fast in all training runs. As I found out as, despite being normally (back then) able to break 25min for 5 miles, I really had to grit my teeth and run at racing pace just to hang on. As we neared the gates, he turned to my, and viewing my somewhat stocky frame said: “You run well, what are you - a rugby player?”
My high school xc coach (after winning a race), whispers to me with all the parents around, "you kicked his ass"
"I came"
1. At a somewhat large track meet and I overheard another team's coach mention me by name, telling his runner "Just try to stick on him and hold on."
2. At US Championships to watch a friend of mine compete, getting my run for the day in near the venue, car full of girls drives by and I hear "Damn, I'm rooting for him." I was happier that they thought I was competing than anything else.
Nice job old man. You could probably make our JV team (D3 girls). Yes it's dropped to that!
WandaFish wrote:
Plus I looked Relaxed wrote:
Nice leg speed velocity
That would've stopped me dead in my tracks. As in, I'd pause the timer on my watch and walk over the guy/girl and explained that speed and velocity are synonyms.
Lol speed and velocity are synonyms? That's the first I heard of that. One is a scalar, and the other a vector. I do agree that 'speed velocity' is meaningless, however.
100m wrote:
WandaFish wrote:
That would've stopped me dead in my tracks. As in, I'd pause the timer on my watch and walk over the guy/girl and explained that speed and velocity are synonyms.
Lol speed and velocity are synonyms? That's the first I heard of that. One is a scalar, and the other a vector. I do agree that 'speed velocity' is meaningless, however.
Yep, read down the thread. I clarified to another ooh-I’ve-had-high-school-physics hand raiser that yes, they were synonymous in that particular context and that “speed” cannot by a qualifier for “velocity”.
Thanks for playing.
Two contenders for me:
Coach of an opposing team approaches me after winning a 600M race wire-to-wire and says, "I wish I could teach my runners to run like that." I reply, "What do you mean?" He responds, "You run unafraid."
I return to my high school the year after graduating to watch a meet and bump into a former teammate. He whines that his mom never comes to watch him run anymore and adds that she only came to meets to watch me run.
I won a local half marathon in upstate new york and this really hot girl was volunteeeing at the race. The next day we were sitting next to each other at a peruvian music concert and she said,
"I didn't know I was sitting next to Steve Prefontaine."
Bullet_Proof wrote:
I won a local half marathon in upstate new york and this really hot girl was volunteeeing at the race. The next day we were sitting next to each other at a peruvian music concert and she said,
"I didn't know I was sitting next to Steve Prefontaine."
Women/Girls/Some Guys:
Best opener ever.
Though I doubt that is true, what is true is a coworker at a local all-comers meet forgot his jock and depended on his liner to keep the junk in place.
About 50 m into the 100 the big guy poked out to say hello world. I'd like to say he won by a head but he was a little short.