Im Pretty Fast (racing)

[CBFryman]

just not in my vehicle

I just got back from districts in cross country and our team placed to go to Regionals!
Sure we got 8 out of 8 for teams that go to regionals but you have no idea what kind of crappy shape our team was in (including myself) at the begining of this season.
I beat my personal best for the 5k by nearly 2min.
2 thursdays ago i ran a 22:18 5k but was comming off of illness, this morning i ran a 20:34 with energy to spare.
im hoping to break into the 19:XX's this comming saturday (regionals).

Just thought id share.

For thoes that dont know how far 5 kilometers is, its 3.125mi...so 20:34 is 3 6:35 miles consecutively... sure a 6:35 isnt at all fast but it gets a lot herder when you are in a pack of over 100 runners on dirt with hills and soft sand and roots and mudd excetera...

Im hoping to bring my 5k down into the 17:XX's by districts next year and maybe land myself a partial scholarship to a 4yr university since my unweighted GPA as of now is 3.150 on a 4.0 scale and weighted is higher considering of my 13 current credits 3 are honors which count as 1.5 a regular credit for weighted GPA and i have 2 more honors classes this year and will be taking AP and perhaps dual enrollment next year (AP and dual enrollemnt count as 2 normal credits, unless they change the standards in florida). i also scored the equivelant of a 1340 on the PSAT my freshman year, and then after that they stopped putting equvilants on the PSAT scores but i scored like a 136* on the PSAT my sophomore year. i am planning on signing up to take the SAT at the end of this school year so i get some more algebra II knowledge in me (maybe we will start learning about stuff i dont already know or havent already learned in physics I honors) and am hoping for a 1300-1400ish.

[RACER D12]

My school has a pretty good X-country team. We won states I think. This kid in my school runs like a 4 or 3 min mile. I think thats crazy. I think all you X-country people are crazy though I mean I dont think I could stay motivated that long. I mean running the length of the football field tires me out enough. Good luck though next week.

[-The Stig-]

6:35 for a mile is pretty good. Back in the day, I think my best mile run was around the same. But that's my best 'sprint'. Your ass is doing it for long as hell, screw that shit. hahah.

Good luck mang.

[CBFryman]

Thanks for the good wishes.


Redneck, stick to driving
I can brake 5's in the mile if i really try but most of hte time i get like mid-low5's. 5 years ago (i think, maybe 6) our school was state runner up and won state in track...though i doubt we will even go to state this year things are looking good for next year as we are only loosing 2 seniors.

my XC coach wants me to try a marathon...i told her (nicely) to shove it... a 5k is fine but not 26.1mi. plus to train for a marathon would slow my progress for hte 5k and since 5k is what is ran at all HS meets and a lot of college meets that is what i will train for (that and since i play soccer you rarely run mroe than 10k in one game, and that is one hard ass game).

[93rollaracer]

Congrats...my personal best for one mile was 5:33 (after that it was ALL down hill) when I was in REALLY good shape. College (and the booze that goes along with it) tends to fuck that up. Keep that shit up.

[street_racer_00]

Are you strictly X-country, or do you track also? If so, which events?

[nissanfanatic]

My best for the mile was like 6:59.....


5k, I think I did like 29min.lol I lost a shitload of weight doing cross country. I sucked balls at it. But IDK, it was fun. First course I ever ran all the way through was our 4.5mile course. Towards the end of the season, my legs started randomly hurting, so I quit.... But W/E.

[TheStang00]

congrats. my best mile was 6:01. but im a sprinter, i run the 40 in less than 4.5 seconds.

[-The Stig-]

Originally Posted by CBFryman

Redneck, stick to driving
I can brake 5's in the mile if i really try but most of hte time i get like mid-low5's.

My problem is I'm pretty short, with short legs 5'7". So, I have to work harder to go as fast as somebody who's say 6ft tall. I'm pretty agile though, but just not the fastest runner.

In car terms, it's like I'm stuck in 1st gear only. I max out way fast! hahah.

[CBFryman]

redneck, shortness is no excuse, im 5'5'' and i get beat by kids i could rest my elbow on the top of their head.

i started track freshman year was going to do the 1600 and 3200 (1mi and 2mi) but i wasnt fast enough in the 1600 for the first event to keep up with the copetition (there where faster people on my team) and i had to quit because of grades before i could run a 3200.
i was also planning on doing long jump but thye never even got the sant pits cleaned out at our school before i had to quit.

my 40 is like a 5.1 on grass any maybe a 4.9 on a rubber track w/ spikes.

so yes, i am strictly XC as track is more short distance centered which i am not as good at. ofcourse i also play soccer.

TheStang00, do you run track or did you? if so do you jsut do the 40, and 100 and so on or do you take 400's, your 400 is like the standard at my school (as opposed to the mile or the 40), my fastest 400 is 64 sec i think, but there are sprinters at my school that can lay it down in around or even less than 50sec on a good day.

you do any feild events such as pole vault or high jump, a lot of our sprinters do well on the high jump (takes good fast twitch muscle to do both so it makes sence as long as you learn the technique)?

[CBFryman]

oh but redneck,
even though you are what? out of college? so you probably dont really care , i used to use that excuse too untill i started streching more and practiced opening up my stride, now going 3mph faster takes 3/4 the energy because i opened my stride up, side effects are accadently walking faster...lol
my friends are always saying "slow the f*** down, you'd think you where running a marathon" or "why the hell are you walking so fast" even though to me im just walking comfertably.

[-The Stig-]

I walk fast as it is, my mom and I are the same... we just walk pretty fast. Infact at work I always out pace my coworker who just strolls along.

I get frustrated cause I have to wait for his ass to hurry up.

But basically, I was never a fast runner... which is why I didn't do track. Although, I was in football for the off season in highschool for one year. I still wasn't fast, but talk about motivation to get your ass moving when you've got a 230lb black dude screaming down your back side going "I'mma get you cracka!".

I left the team before the season started, the Coach wasn't sane. Kinda kookoo. So I said nuts to this and left.

[street_racer_00]

I played soccer for almost 10 years...I was only a better than average sprinter and an average distance runner...it's all about mad ball handling skillz.

[TheStang00]

no i never did track or XC. I've played soccer since i was 4... and id like to think im pretty good. reason i gave a 40 as an example is thats because thats what people in sports like football etc use. ive only run one timed 400 in my entire life and it was 61 sec. but that was during the offseason and i was in horrible shape too... But yeah the football coaches at my high school used to love me when i was working with the football team for like 6 months, i was the starting running back and i hadnt ever played football b4... lol. but i ended up pissing them off pretty good when i quite right b4 the season to play soccer.

[-The Stig-]

Originally Posted by street_racer_00

...it's all about mad ball handling skillz.