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A couple of years ago I was out running and I passed some guys playing on the basketball courts down the street from my house, one of the guys yelled over to me..."WHY ARE YOU RUNNING?? You look like you're in good shape, you can stop running now!"...I just smiled, and kept on running. One other time while I was running at my daughter's soccer practice, I was doing the loop around the field over and over again. I kept passing an elderly man walking, after passing him several times the next time I came around he started to laugh and said "Hey, can I have some of your energy?". He was very sweet. I told him that I would love to give him some of my energy!

Retired men are always the most supportive. I see a lot of the same old guys out on their bikes and they are always friendly and wave. I don't get all that many "comments," but lots of 'good mornings'. k

a couple years ago I had a 3 mile loop I liked to run and I was doing 5 laps that particular day. Towards the end of the loop on my first lap I notice a guy coming out to get his paper with a cup of coffee in hand and I say good morning as I pass and continue on....lap two I notice the same guy is going to wash his car today...he is getting out his hose and bucket....lap three he is actually washing the car...lap 4 I notice him start shaking his head when I pass. I couldn't help but laugh to myself. I am thinking he thinks I am a nut job. On the final lap the guy had started cutting his lawn...as he sees me coming up the hill towards his house he gets off his tractor walks to the street and informs me that he is just "to damn tired to finish his lawn after watching me run all morning". He said he was going to make his son finish up and told me he didn't want to see me again lol(he was being funny). I let him know I was on my last lap. Over the years I have seen this guy from time to time but what makes me the happiest is when I see him running by my house when he gets off work. I ran into the same guy at lowes about 6 months after this incident and he let me know he started walking 5 days week and was looking forward to the day he found me running past his house so he could join me. Have to love running.

a couple years ago I had a 3 mile loop I liked to run and I was doing 5 laps that particular day. Towards the end of the loop on my first lap I notice a guy coming out to get his paper with a cup of coffee in hand and I say good morning as I pass and continue on....lap two I notice the same guy is going to wash his car today...he is getting out his hose and bucket....lap three he is actually washing the car...lap 4 I notice him start shaking his head when I pass. I couldn't help but laugh to myself. I am thinking he thinks I am a nut job. On the final lap the guy had started cutting his lawn...as he sees me coming up the hill towards his house he gets off his tractor walks to the street and informs me that he is just "to damn tired to finish his lawn after watching me run all morning". He said he was going to make his son finish up and told me he didn't want to see me again lol(he was being funny). I let him know I was on my last lap. Over the years I have seen this guy from time to time but what makes me the happiest is when I see him running by my house when he gets off work. I ran into the same guy at lowes about 6 months after this incident and he let me know he started walking 5 days week and was looking forward to the day he found me running past his house so he could join me. Have to love running.

what a great story. Very cool.

Back in HS. I was out on a run with 2 other team mates. These guys were both around 6'4" and weighed not much more than 150 a piece. We referred to them as "11". Anyway, near the end of the run, we approach 2 grade school kids, probably 4th graders or so. As we get closer, one of them says "What are looking at you skinny little bitch?" All we could do was laugh at the time, but I'm afraid to think what that kid is up to these days.

When I was in high school, we'd stop and let the middle school kids pass by any time we saw them out on the fields. As they ran by, we'd all start making race car zooming noises ("neeeyooommmhhh" or something like that) as each one passed. Then a few years later those kids would be in high school and would do the same thing to the new middle school kids.

I was on vacation this summer in Charleston. It was really hot. I passed a old man on one leg. I came around again and he said "You can do it." I thoughth, damn straight - I can do it.

I was running on a bike path recently, when a Pop Warner football practice was breaking up. The Lance wannabe's fly on the path, so you have to look both ways if you are crossing it. A dad grabbed his kid and hustled him across, then said to me "you were moving so fast I thought you were on a bike". That brought a smile to my face. During my last Applefest HM, a couple of runners were slowly gaining ground on me. They pulled even, then slowly pulled away. The guy says "c'mon let's go" and the gal picks up the pace but protests with a "WTF"? He says to her "I can't stand heavy breathers".