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| Vintage running photo (Read 650 times) |
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posted: 2/15/2008 at 6:22 PM |
| awesome photo! |
Quit being so damn serious!
When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change. |
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posted: 2/15/2008 at 8:00 PM |
makes me feel like going out for a run  |
sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology (joe slovo)
The race for excellence has no finish line- so technically, it's more like a death march.
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posted: 2/15/2008 at 9:06 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. |
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posted: 2/15/2008 at 10:29 PM |
| Look how lean everyone is in that picture, foreground and background....things have really changed drastically from the WW2 era onward. |
| formerly known as GravelRd, but I've changed to an earnest, running milk bottle. That little guy looks like he's truckin. |
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posted: 2/16/2008 at 12:24 PM |
| 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. |
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posted: 2/16/2008 at 1:19 PM
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posted: 2/16/2008 at 2:22 PM |
| So virile ! |
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posted: 2/20/2008 at 7:57 PM |
| Quote from milerBonnie on 2/16/2008 at 12:24 PM: 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. |
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posted: 2/21/2008 at 3:52 AM |
| Quote from MilkTruck on 2/15/2008 at 10:29 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. |
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posted: 2/21/2008 at 4:16 AM |
| Quote from MikeJA89 on 2/21/2008 at 3:52 AM: 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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posted: 2/21/2008 at 4:23 AM |
| Quote from milerBonnie on 2/16/2008 at 12:24 PM: 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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posted: 2/21/2008 at 11:23 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. |
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