What made Steve Clam so good?

You’ll never know as Steve trained in a highly clamdestine manner!

Sair wrote:

My favourite thing about long-distance runners is their ability to get so much mileage out of such things. Keep going!

Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but to me this is the worst part of this message board. I read the posts and not one made me laugh. It is utterly pathetic to see such failed attempts at humor. Really just cringe worthy stuff folks.

Verej wrote:

Sair wrote:

My favourite thing about long-distance runners is their ability to get so much mileage out of such things. Keep going!

Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but to me this is the worst part of this message board. I read the posts and not one made me laugh. It is utterly pathetic to see such failed attempts at humor. Really just cringe worthy stuff folks.

Not even one make you chuckle? Sure, most were pretty lame but some were kinda funny. You must have checked your sense of humor at the door.

Verej wrote:

Sair wrote:

My favourite thing about long-distance runners is their ability to get so much mileage out of such things. Keep going!

Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but to me this is the worst part of this message board. I read the posts and not one made me laugh. It is utterly pathetic to see such failed attempts at humor. Really just cringe worthy stuff folks.

As his former training partner I know the souper recipe of his sole success. Although this may sound fishy one thing I know for sure were that his spikes were so pointed we called them winkle pickers!

When we trained along the beach at South Shields we would sit in the rock pools as they made perfect ice baths then would stretch out like starfish on the sand afterwards which helped a lot.

He cod run so fast in deep water too as and won many Gold medals shaped as fish hence why they got their name gold fish.

Also his dad worked in coalfish mines as this was our northern heritage so he became strong carrying these on his back for Tempo runs.

Hope this helps

Vince ?

Verej wrote:

Sair wrote:

My favourite thing about long-distance runners is their ability to get so much mileage out of such things. Keep going!

Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but to me this is the worst part of this message board. I read the posts and not one made me laugh. It is utterly pathetic to see such failed attempts at humor. Really just cringe worthy stuff folks.

Sally Vix wrote:

Verej wrote:

Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but to me this is the worst part of this message board. I read the posts and not one made me laugh. It is utterly pathetic to see such failed attempts at humor. Really just cringe worthy stuff folks.

Not even one make you chuckle? Sure, most were pretty lame but some were kinda funny. You must have checked your sense of humor at the door.

Not even one chuckle. In fairness, I am not a chuckler. I mostly felt a consolidation of disappointment in the human race. Just horribly unfunny.

Verej wrote:

Sally Vix wrote:

Not even one make you chuckle? Sure, most were pretty lame but some were kinda funny. You must have checked your sense of humor at the door.

Not even one chuckle. In fairness, I am not a chuckler. I mostly felt a consolidation of disappointment in the human race. Just horribly unfunny.

Sounds like someone’s clamoring for a friend

Clamoring for a friend? Now THAT is funny. Well done.

Meticulous with his drills.

A Skips

B Skips

Sea Skips

Mud Skippers emphasizing dorsalflexion

Did I buy some Fila flats from you in the late 90s in Whitley Bay? You said I'd run as fast as Tergat, but I was a good 15 minutes slower.

As payback, I think I skinned you in the Sherman Cup. In your defence, you wore several layers and were clearly turning out for the fourth best club in the North East.

Fishy fishy wrote:

It all started on the shores of whales island in the fall of 1960, a young crustacean by the name of Steve clam washed up onto the bay and begin a shellfish pursuit of athletic greatness. He rose above the tide of salty scalawags who tried to dredge him down. His ability to leave whaling foes in his wake, floundering across the track while Clam breezed by! The “Jarrow arrowhead shark” had the ability to avoid pier-pressure which led to an undulating jet stream of medals.

I fact checked this on Wikipedia and damn it’s pretty accurate!

malmo wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

The OP is Japanese.

Steve Cram: "My name isn't Clam, Mr Smart, its Clam."

Maxwell Smart: "Oh I see, its Clam."

https://youtu.be/ftgAG3Vnif8

Racist!

He used to frequent this place:

https://d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net/wp/wp-content/images/familyguy-drunkenclam-700x327.jpg

Steve Clam was often chased by Steve Crabb

Had always had a solid base and peaked right in season

I hear that his kick in the final fathoms of the world clam-pion'ships' was always a sight to sea, and a cause for much shell-ebration.

Fluid stride. 5 time champ of the Grunion Run.