Pack of Werewolves Team Thread (TAN) (Page 23)

I hated running track in HS.  Even though I did it.  those 8 laps were so friggin' dull.

And they hurt like a mother...  And I wasn't that fast. 

By the end of HS, I was primarily a high jumper (did it for a year in college too) and a triple jumper with the occasional 400m hurdles thrown in for good measure.  If you want to know absolute torture do those.  Sprint and entire lap AND jump over 10 hurdles in the process. I must have been out of my ever lovin mind.

Heh.

I once signed up for the steeplechase (only way I qualified to go to an invitational meet).  It was my first, last, and only attempt at such a thing.

6 laps around, with something like 5-6....well, they were the height of a high hurdle, but they were 4x4s for the cross beam, and they were bolted into the ground.  The one had a water pit behind it, too (it was about 4-5 ft long).

I never did hurdles.  I was short and skinny, and not talented with the leg strength to jump like that.  So I did a lot of boosting with my hands.  I only slipped on the one.  Have a nice faded scar on my left shin from where I banged it and drug it across the edge of said 4x4.

Good times, good times. 

I actually love the track because that can only mean one thing for me: Intervals

I don't do them often enough mostly because I have been focusing on running economy for about the past year.

Nothing like running fast until you puke on the track to make you truely appreciate marathon pace

5k's make me puke as it is....

I haven't done intervals in years. Give me some nice big hills any day to run up and down.

Yeah, thanks, but no thanks!  I'll stick with jumping backwards over a bar set at about 6'8". 

HA!  I see you are still having a hard time talking about it. 

Dear lord.  That reminds me of a workout I did in college.  And I was only a high jumper (still trying to get me to do the darn hurdles though).  Some kind of friggen pyramid.  4 x50, 3x100, 2x200, 1x400 then back down.  All at race speed. All with less than 1 minute rest in between.  Coach was a nut.  EVERYONE lost their lunch that day.  No exception.

I hated the actual track in HS. 

I played soccer but we had a date with the track the first week of practice every year.  Coach would say, 'Don't bring your cleats.  Just your running shoes'. 

We would do those stupid runs where you would run in a line and the guy at the end would sprint to front.  Problem is we had this really fast guy on the team that would always go ahead and be a PITA to catch.

Ladders....  I hate ladders...  They work, but it sounds like your coach was determined to grind everyone into the dirt that day.

It worked.  Fortunatley we didn't have a meet that week. 

They aren't anything special but my feet like them.  This is my fourth pair.

Hey, in the end, that is the important thing. (The Feet and legs like them)

Nice... good morning

Nice job

Well, the weather is finally cooling off, it's supposed to be low 60s this weekend.

Sweet. 

Nice.

Woke up this morning to 63 degrees... finally!  Temps still in the mid to upper 70's but no humidity.