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21 years ago 01/03/2003 10:58am EST

re: Bubba1

7th and 8th grade field day.This was a last day of school event and included a 1 mile run on the track.I had skipped school and was walking down the alley behind the track smoking a Marlboro when I saw all these jocks on the track.A few of em yelled some shit at me so I flipped em off and then got the impluse of racing em.So I carefully put out my half smoked cig and trotted on over.I asked the "coach" who mainly was into bb but also was the track coached if I could run the race.He hesitated then said sure why not.So in my shit kickers and levis I won by a very LARGE margin.No one said shit.I left relite my half smoked smoke and went on about my business.Never really got into running till I was an old man.

21 years ago 01/03/2003 3:55pm EST

re: poor white trash

Last year I lost a bunch of weight over teh summer. I started lifting weights around the middle of the school year (junior in hs) and would then run a little bit afterwards. I began running more and more after lifting and then joined the track team at the urgance of family(my aunt was a really good runner, all american and whatnot). I did decent in spring track, but went hardcore with cross country this fall. I was the best person on my team and made states:) I now plan to keep running in college:)

poor white trash wrote:
7th and 8th grade field day.This was a last day of school event and included a 1 mile run on the track.I had skipped school and was walking down the alley behind the track smoking a Marlboro when I saw all these jocks on the track.A few of em yelled some shit at me so I flipped em off and then got the impluse of racing em.So I carefully put out my half smoked cig and trotted on over.I asked the "coach" who mainly was into bb but also was the track coached if I could run the race.He hesitated then said sure why not.So in my shit kickers and levis I won by a very LARGE margin.No one said shit.I left relite my half smoked smoke and went on about my business.Never really got into running till I was an old man.

21 years ago 01/03/2003 4:56pm EST

re: Farrell

I was doing the whole running cross country and playing soccer at the same time as a sophmore in HS. My club soccer team finished the season with a dismall 2-22-3 record with about 6 people showing up to practice and 11 if we were lucky to the games. My cross country team went on to win league, win section, and place second in the state by one point and I was fourth man. Needless to say I am very competitive and the choice was easy. I have since only focused on running and even turned down an invite to try out for the state team after making the district one.

21 years ago 01/05/2003 4:21pm EST

re: Bubba1

I wanted to go out for football in 7th grade, but as I am 5'9" and 135 now in my 20s, you can imagine how spindly I was when I was a pre-teen. So my mom said to me, "Why don't you go out for cross country instead?" I did, got a medal at the first meet, and the rest is history. Thanks, Mom.

21 years ago 01/05/2003 4:44pm EST

re: Jon "The Baptist"

I was a bully who always had people running away from me. Now I catch them, then beat the shit out of them.

Any further questions?

21 years ago 01/06/2003 12:33am EST

re: Bubba1

I know this is before most of yuo where even a tingling in your fathers loins, in 1967 I was a 119 pound football player in high school. The football coach was the track coach. So football players had to run track. I ran 100 yards, 220 yards and the 440. 2 years later I was running

6 mile races on the track. And was all conference in XC. Even then I had already ballooned in weight to 132 lbs. So goes the battle to keep my weight at racing limit. Plus girls ran track and XC they didn't play football but I have

been called a girl on many occasion.

21 years ago 01/06/2003 2:06pm EST

re: Bubba1

I ran. I liked it. The end.

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