What is the best compliment you ever received as a runner

I think my favorite was when my strength coach told me he wish he had my hamstrings. (I'm a female 800m runner so it was only a little creepy)

SJW Princess wrote:

It's kinda funny (though not in a funny way!!) that most of the so called "compliments" being posted here are actually men being happy they've been sexually objectified.

No wonder the women in this country are having such problems with this mindset #metoo

Some, sure, but for most it is the beauty of the physical animal. And in quick time it flies away. Let's bring down the house. #allofus

To an Athlete Dying Young

A. E. Housman

The time you won your town the race

We chaired you through the market-place;

Man and boy stood cheering by,

And home we brought you shoulder-high.

Today, the road all runners come,

Shoulder-high we bring you home,

And set you at your threshold down,

Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away

From fields where glory does not stay,

And early though the laurel grows

It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut

Cannot see the record cut,

And silence sounds no worse than cheers

After earth has stopped the ears.

Now you will not swell the rout

Of lads that wore their honours out,

Runners whom renown outran

And the name died before the man.

So set, before its echoes fade,

The fleet foot on the sill of shade,

And hold to the low lintel up

The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head

Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,

And find unwithered on its curls

The garland briefer than a girl’s

I can't sort out which among the myriad of grateful smiles among the ladies every spring when I run with my shirt off is "best". Maybe the black girls who go "DaaaYYUUUMMMM!!"

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.

You guys are a bunch of rookies don't post until you know a little letsrun history.

Also, nobody will ever match the leg speed velocity of Bekele.

Senior year of high school, '75. Weekly indoor Dual County league meet at the Wayland Field House. All 8 teams in the league were there, paired into 4 simultaneous dual meets, every week. So much fun! A pressure cooker.

Ran from the front in the mile with my teammate Tim Robinson - a better athlete than I, but that day I beat him 4:35.1 to 4:36.0. After the race, Al Salazar said to me, "That was smooth, Steve". You coulda knocked me over with a feather.

“Run forest, run”

I’ve never been compared to anyone so fast before

Pen island wrote:

“Run forest, run”

I’ve never been compared to anyone so fast before

Forest Whitaker?

Now, Gump, he was fast and had endurance. A g-d genius.

"That is unheard of (other guy "yep")" "You looked like you were floating" "hardcore!" "OMg that guy is crazy" "look it's the real Forrest Gump"

Some comments I remember winning a road 5k barefoot and the marshal at the end after out kicking 2nd "did you just burn your shoes off"

I can think of two of the best things that have ever happened to me during running.

1) Our conference/region/arguably the state in high school was dominated by this one team, and after finishing the race (as they don't usually have much competition) to hear one of them whisper to a team mate "Yo, that kid just broke 16" was the most satisfying thing. Nothing is better than being recognized by people you wish to beat more than anything.

2) "That 12 year old sure moves fast." I don't know quite how to take this, as I was 16... but hey, I'm officially fast for a 12 year old so that's great!

“There is no one you can’t catch.”

I didn’t know the person but I had ran against them at a couple meets before and I’m two really big ones I can from behind to win so that’s how I got that reaction. Felt nice.

After finishing a workout on the junior college track.

Them: You make running look easy.

Me: It is never easy. If you're doing it right; it hurts or is a struggle every time.

Random conversation with elite older runner.

Him: If you put the work in and train smart, you might be able to do something special.

I was a late comer to the sport. I knew that meant not for fame or money but achieving relatively rare PRs in the general population. It's been my motivation ever since.

“That mother f&#kers on crack-cocaine!”

It was midnight. Raining. Low 40’s. I was shirtless and in split-shorts. Guys were outside bar smoking. They sang me the Rocky theme song as I approached. One said the above statement to the other-it was only through fortunate accoustics of the building that I heard them.

“You should just have (S.O. Who was a practicing veterinarian) check your shoulder,, because you’re a goddamned stallion!”

Non-Italian Stallion wrote:

“You should just have (S.O. Who was a practicing veterinarian) check your shoulder,, because you’re a goddamned stallion!”

"Welcome to Walmart"

Non-Italian Stallion wrote:

“You should just have (S.O. Who was a practicing veterinarian) check your shoulder,, because you’re a goddamned stallion!”

This is how you know they're The One.

789 wrote:

looks like you have a small baby tucked in your pants...

I'm sorry.

Either when some black kids at my school used to call me Kenyan or the head coach of my rival school told me he was glad I was graduating after my senior year.

"She said you have a nice pooper!"

"Wow, Mr. P!"

When I was in my 40s a couple of high school girls showed up on my doorstep, rang the bell, and sat on my steps.

Then when I walked out to answer the door they quickly sprinted off the steps. But they were on the steps long

enough for me to get a good look at their whale tails! WOW!!!

Another time I got angry because I heard a girl yell out while I was running. As I was running back to see who said it one of

the dudes at the party said the girl only said, "nice package," and meant it as a compliment!