RunningAHEAD - Topic: Vintage running photo

Figbash

posted: 2/15/2008 at 12:22 PM

Check out this cool vintage photo. You won't find any Nike's here! Start of a 1927 440 yard dash Tom

evryday

posted: 2/15/2008 at 1:22 PM

awesome photo!

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posted: 2/15/2008 at 2:35 PM

Nice find.

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Duncan

posted: 2/15/2008 at 3:00 PM

makes me feel like going out for a run Smile

dantethedog

posted: 2/15/2008 at 4:06 PM

Great photo. I'm impressed with how fit that group looks. Thanks for introducing me to the site. I'll be browsing photos for a while.

milktruck

an amazing likeness

posted: 2/15/2008 at 5:29 PM

Look how lean everyone is in that picture, foreground and background....things have really changed drastically from the WW2 era onward.

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milerBonnie

posted: 2/16/2008 at 7:24 AM

I had the same question as the commenter below, where is the stagger start if it is a 440? It certainly looks intense enough to be a 440. Anyway, interesting photo. I've always wondered what it would be like to run on a dirt track.

urbansix

posted: 2/16/2008 at 8:13 AM

I got lost in the site....

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JohnnyDx

Into the wild

posted: 2/16/2008 at 8:19 AM
modified: 2/16/2008 at 8:20 AM

Thanks for the new wallpaper for my desktop.. Big grin

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Anya_

posted: 2/16/2008 at 9:22 AM

So virile !

- Anya

Alex Meyer

posted: 2/20/2008 at 2:57 PM

Quote from milerBonnie on 2/16/2008 at 7:24 AM:

I had the same question as the commenter below, where is the stagger start if it is a 440? It certainly looks intense enough to be a 440. Anyway, interesting photo. I've always wondered what it would be like to run on a dirt track.

Running on a dirt track is tough. My high school still has one and it is much slower than the new rubberized tracks. But, it does make for good training because it is lower impact.

MikeJA89

posted: 2/20/2008 at 10:52 PM

Quote from milktruck on 2/15/2008 at 5:29 PM:

Look how lean everyone is in that picture, foreground and background....things have really changed drastically from the WW2 era onward.

Well of course the runners are lean and how many fat people are going to go to a track meet. But yes I get your point of there being more fat people now than then.

Len

Damn Yankee

posted: 2/20/2008 at 11:16 PM

Quote from MikeJA89 on 2/20/2008 at 10:52 PM:

Well of course the runners are lean and how many fat people are going to go to a track meet. But yes I get your point of there being more fat people now than then.

I think Gravel was referring to the fact that these guys are less muscular than current quarter milers tend to be..

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ajaxinacan

posted: 2/20/2008 at 11:23 PM

Quote from milerBonnie on 2/16/2008 at 7:24 AM:

Anyway, interesting photo. I've always wondered what it would be like to run on a dirt track.

Great photograph. Thanks. I also wonder about the stagger start. One of our track meets was held down the road in Byers, Colorado, which at that time had a dirt track. It ain't what it's cracked up to be. In my experience, though, the great runners were great no matter what the surface.

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evryday

posted: 2/21/2008 at 6:23 AM

The stagger start wasn't discovered until several years later. Rumor has it that a race director looking to change things up a bit, staggered upon it. Hence the name.

Quit being so damn serious! When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change. "Ya just gotta let it go." OM

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