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| What's the nicest thing anyone has said about your running? (Read 1891 times) |
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posted: 8/24/2008 at 7:19 PM
modified: 8/24/2008 at 7:20 PM |
Just in the past week a guy I graduated HS with posted this on my Facebook:
A thousand running miles?!?!? Where was that in HIGH SCHOOL!? We could have used you in x-country girl!
I messaged him back to tell him that I am far too slow to have ever run XC and that I would have brought the team average down (we were ranked #1 to #3 in the state for our class pretty much every year I was in HS. One of my classmates was #26 in the nation going into the olympic marathon trials and still has the school record in the 2 mile).
But he asked me how many of our former XC runners are still running, much less training for marathons. He has a good point. I think out nationally ranked marathoner classmate and I may be the only 2 females out of our class of ~60 who are still running high mileage.
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Kirsten
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.: 2008 Goals :.
• Run 1500 miles
• October 5 - 1st marathon - Milwaukee Lakefront - in my home state of WI
• PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k
• 1st trail race |
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posted: 8/24/2008 at 8:04 PM |
After a meeting I was talking with a few collegues of mine, and the talk came to physical fittnes.
And then one of them (she's playing tennis, but I admit she's in a not so good condition) said: 'But you, you're doing a real sport'.
Yes, she was talking about me, who didn't do any sport apart from cycling and walking/hiking, and only started running when I was already 43!
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posted: 8/24/2008 at 8:29 PM |
| Quote from zoom-zoom on 8/24/2008 at 7:19 PM:
But he asked me how many of our former XC runners are still running, much less training for marathons.
This is the only possible reason I've thought about going back for a HS reunion (25 years next year). It is amazing how bad many people look like in their early 40's when they don't stay in shape.
And you're a youngster Zoomie  |
I ran a mile and I liked it, liked it, liked it.
dgb2n@yahoo.com
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posted: 8/24/2008 at 9:12 PM |
Quote from dgb2n on 8/24/2008 at 8:29 PM:This is the only possible reason I've thought about going back for a HS reunion (25 years next year). It is amazing how bad many people look like in their early 40's when they don't stay in shape. And you're a youngster Zoomie
My 20 is in 3 years...last Summer I ran into one of our particularly talented XC runners from HS. I NEVER would have recognized her had my mom not pointed her out to me. She's probably 30-40#s heavier than she was in HS. Not that I can talk, as I'm easily 20#s heavier, too...but she's no longer active, which I found kind of surprising.
I am looking forward to our next reunion, in no small part because I want to "show off." At our 10 year I was 7 months post-partum and weighed at least 60#s more than I did at graduation. I don't even look like the same person, now. Heck, I think I look younger (I certainly FEEL younger). |
Kirsten
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.: 2008 Goals :.
• Run 1500 miles
• October 5 - 1st marathon - Milwaukee Lakefront - in my home state of WI
• PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k
• 1st trail race |
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posted: 8/24/2008 at 9:25 PM |
| Girl I've been running with, the two of us passed these two ladies walking and they said, "We hope to run like the two of you some day!" Totally made my week!! |
Pain is temporary...quitting lasts forever.
-Lance Armstrong
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PR marathon in 2009
PR half marathon in 2009 |
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posted: 8/24/2008 at 11:50 PM |
I overheard My 17 year old son trying to describe me to one of his friends I've never met. It went something like this... "You know when you pull an all-nighter playing XBox 360 and that lady runs by your house really fast at that freakishly early hour? That's my mom"
Not the nicest thing I've ever heard, but I liked the fact that he thinks I run fast. I also LOVE that he recognizes that my running is completely outside the norm for all of his friend's parents. They think it's kind of cool. Not cool enough to be want to run with me... that's fine, too. |
| 2008 Goal: Baystate HM <2:00:00 I did it! |
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posted: 8/25/2008 at 11:56 AM |
| My husband tells me that my running form makes me look like I'm floating... I 'guess' that's a good thing. |
Modified FIRST follower & triathlon addict
5K PR- 26:23 (August '08)
10K PR: 54:27 (October '08)
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, never let it fade away....
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posted: 8/25/2008 at 1:07 PM |
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E-mail: JakeKnight2002@aol.com
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posted: 8/25/2008 at 1:32 PM |
| When I was discussing the Olympic marathon runners, I said to my fiance that their pace is faster than my sprints! She said that's how she feels about my running compared to hers. It put things in perspective (but also made me feel a little guilty). |
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 12:58 AM |
| I would have to say the nicest thing anyone has ever said about my running is that it was inspiring enough to them to start. Seriously, 4 people at my office are taking a run to walk class because they said that they are inspired by my running. I don't think there's anything better than that. |
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 6:29 PM
modified: 8/28/2008 at 6:30 PM |
| It was actually said here, at RA. |
a vagabond,..highway-beater; a rolling stone, one that does nought but runne here and there.
~Cotgrave, Randle A dictionarie of the French and English tongues, 1611
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 7:08 PM |
During my first 50 mile race at about 46 miles after the temperature had topped 97 degrees, I staggered through an intersection of trails through which I would have to return before finishing the race and heard from the ladies running the aid station... "you're gonna get laid when you get back here!", to which I muttered, "well, maybe, but you two are gonna hafta do all the work!". I was only mildly dissapointed to have them put a scratchy, plastic lei oround my neck upon my return...
OK, the best think I have ever heard about my running? Has to be "I couldn't have finished this race without you" coming from a fairly new runner finishing her first marathon! Doesn't get any better than tears of joy and gratitude, I don't care who you are! |
| "I was now a baby-burping, farting, too cold, too hot, not hungry-stripped to my core, a simple, frail consciousness." - R Claridge during '08 Leadville 100 |
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 7:37 PM |
Quote from zoom-zoom on 5/19/2008 at 8:58 PM:The lone female looked bored. 
I have never yet seen a "goth" female who didn't look bored.
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| I don't know how to cut down a Christmas tree. When I look at it, I hope that it just falls down. - Sally Brown |
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 7:41 PM |
| Quote from leftylogan on 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.
I'm fifty and I feel the same way. I got ogled by a 40 something woman the other day.
Mostly, they're just glad I'm leaving.
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 8:46 PM |
| Quote from Craig S on 8/28/2008 at 7:41 PM: I'm fifty and I feel the same way. I got ogled by a 40 something woman the other day.
Mostly, they're just glad I'm leaving.
It is possible I've been oggled but I pretty much figure most women are just keeping an eye to make sure I keep moving and don't run off to hide behind some tree or something.
Quote from dg12 on 5/14/2008 at 5:50 PM:How can a fatboy like you run so fast?
I have gotten that one though. I'm probably one of the few people on this site who had to make a tough descision in high school between trying out for the football team as a linebacker or trying out for cross country. I fugured the football team was very good so I'd go the cross country route since they were not as good. Little did I know some whipper snapper named Jerry Schumacher was joining the team that year. That guy... he's now coaching Olympians for Nike with Alberto Salazer. And I'm... well... not. |
| I don't know how to cut down a Christmas tree. When I look at it, I hope that it just falls down. - Sally Brown |
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