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| What's the nicest thing anyone has said about your running? (Read 1032 times) |
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posted: 5/9/2008 at 11:11 PM |
Since I am only 14 I consider it a compliment when I run past somebody or they drive by in their car they just stare.
What is the nicest thing anyone has said about your running. |
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1 mile 7:45
5k 29:32
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posted: 5/9/2008 at 11:16 PM |
A year or more ago I was running on a path that goes by some nice condos. There was a woman walking with her groceries (from the store across the street) towards the condos (where I assume she must live). She smiled and said "I'm so proud of you." I have no idea who she was, but it really made my day. I'm guessing she'd seen me pass a few times before.  |
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posted: 5/9/2008 at 11:22 PM |
A Boy Scout parent looked at me, smiled, and said, "Keep running." He's the quiet type, so it was a big compliment!
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posted: 5/9/2008 at 11:51 PM |
Well -as your fourteen - I'm sure you'll soon be getting the "hoots" and "hollars" when you go running with your team. As we always got those in high school - cars honk too.
The coach for the guys team once said good job to me. Which in reality doesn't sound like much but A) he used my name and B) he rarely says anything to the girls on the team (guys and girls teams trained separately in hs and had different coaches).
Last week I finished a run on the track and was stretching - and this amazing little old lady was walking by and she said "you go out there and kick some butt". Love little old ladies - they are the happiest people on the planet. |
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posted: 5/9/2008 at 11:58 PM |
hmmmm.....some one on here called me fast  |
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2008 Goals 5K<24 (PR 24:03) 10K <50 48:3349:52,HM < 1:50 (1:46:011:47:42 1:54:36) M<4:00 (4:02:53)
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posted: 5/10/2008 at 12:00 AM
modified: 5/10/2008 at 12:10 AM |
A few days ago I went out running with my black running skirt, a pink tank top and my cool black shades. Before I left I looked in the mirror and thought, "wow, you look cute". Now, I don't think that of myself very often, I'm usually very critical of myself. On my run I had a truckload full of guys honk and lean out the window waving at me. I usually stick my nose up at that, but that day I waved back with a big smile  It made me feel really good!
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posted: 5/10/2008 at 12:04 AM |
I was running the 3 mile loop around the lake by my house and the 3rd time I lapped this lady (she was walking) she said wow your fast!
And one of the guys in my running club said I should really consider trying to go out with the 3:40 or 3:30 pace group for my up coming marathon. I think that is crazy but I took it as a huge compliment.
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Cleveland Marathon < 3:59:59 3:38:48- sub 22:00 5k
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- Have more fun = run more
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posted: 5/10/2008 at 12:33 AM |
This just happened the other night but where DH and I were running, there were a TON of folks out walking, enjoying the lovely early summer evening, and I was stopped after my run, and during a cool down walk and one of the ladies stopped me and asked " Girl how many laps did you just run?" ( we were running on a local track near the house) and i replied " I did not count the laps, my GPS watch keeps track, but it was 4 miles"..... She Looks at me and says " Damn Girl, You Looked GOOD out there, you made that look so easy!!" I replied- Well Thanks! she says again, " That will be ME someday". I chuckled and said " That is what I said just about 1 year ago......" and She smiled and walked on....
How Cool is that? That to me was a real compliment that to mere mortals on the street, I looked relaxed, and make running look easy... If they only knew the long and gratifying road to that point.... 
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posted: 5/10/2008 at 1:05 AM |
| Quote from rockintrax on 5/9/2008 at 11:51 PM: Well -as your fourteen - I'm sure you'll soon be getting the "hoots" and "hollars" when you go running with your team. As we always got those in high school - cars honk too.
The coach for the guys team once said good job to me. Which in reality doesn't sound like much but A) he used my name and B) he rarely says anything to the girls on the team (guys and girls teams trained separately in hs and had different coaches).
Last week I finished a run on the track and was stretching - and this amazing little old lady was walking by and she said "you go out there and kick some butt". Love little old ladies - they are the happiest people on the planet.
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“If you dig it, do it. If you really dig it, do it twice.” - Jim Croce
Lazy Runners
PR's
2/3 mile 4:59
1 mile 7:45
5k 29:32
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posted: 5/10/2008 at 1:44 AM
modified: 5/10/2008 at 1:45 AM |
I heard a cyclist approaching last Sunday, just as the trail narrows, I stepped to the side and waved him through. He said, "Thank you, keep up the good work. "
No, I have gotten, 'you're fast' , 'your legs are hot' 'you rock the hiulls' etc, but this 'stranger's' comments during a tough long run meant a lot.
Oh, also, I got lot of 'Go Canada' during my marathon in Colombus last year. ( I had a Canadian flag running shirt on) That meant a lot too. |
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The real marathon is the training you do to get there.
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posted: 5/10/2008 at 3:33 AM |
It was October or November, 1990, a couple weeks before or after the NYC Marathon. I was 22, living in NYC at the time, probably running 20 MPW or so, having started running in the fall of 1989. I was starting to toy with the idea that I would train to run the marathon the next year (this was before the marathon boom brought on by TnT and the like).
I was doing intervals on a loop in a park near my apartment in Brooklyn. This guy ran by on the sidewalk at the edge of the park, and yelled out to me: "You'll be running it next year!" and gave me a fist pump. In the context, it was clear he meant the marathon. How'd he know?!?!? Definitely one of the nicest things anyone ever said to me while running.
(btw, I did get a number for the next year, and trained up to where I had done an 18-mile run. Then I could no longer ignore the mounting injury tally and, well, serious pain. I never have done a marathon. Yet.) |
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posted: 5/10/2008 at 4:00 AM |
| From my DW- "I'm proud of you !" both for my weight loss ( 40# )and the fact that I'm out running (C25K right now Week 7). |
Goal:weigh 180# BMI 28- lower that to healthy range to 155-160# (work in progress)
5K PR:27:14 June 28,2008- first race (3rd in age group)
10K PR: in training
HM PR: just a fleeting thought right now
26.2 PR: maybe in 2 years? |
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posted: 5/10/2008 at 4:05 AM |
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posted: 5/10/2008 at 6:37 AM |
I certainly get heckled more than I get words of support, but a few moments stick out.
On the South side of Chicago, I used to always run by this basketball court where kids were playing a pickup game. The first few times, they whistled or yelled stuff. Eventually, one of them started running with this really exaggerated stride next to me. I've had this happen before--people think you're going a lot slower than you are. I was probably going 5:50 pace at the time (I always kick it up a notch in hostile territory). Anyway, the kid was totally gassed by the end of the block. When I passed them on the way home, they all clapped. After that, they called me "the runner man," and always cheered when I went by.
Another time, I was going on a run with a sub-4 minute miler. A few miles in, he asked, "do you always run this fast?" This was a bit of an ego boost, though it's clear that he was from the school of "easy on the easy days." I know another 4 minute guy who almost never runs slow enough for me to train with him.
Finally, I get lots of non-runners who think that I'm training for the Olympics. Obviously, this says more about their understanding of the sport than it does about my running. |
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posted: 5/10/2008 at 12:16 PM |
| I was training for my two mile pt test and running a few laps around a lake in a park, and afterwards this guy comes up and randomly sais "Wow, good job, I wish I could do that!" And gave me a congratulatory wave or something. He was really nice, and the first time someone said something positive about my running. |
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