Going out for the team

“I started spring track last Thursday, for the first time. I?ve ran XC (cross country) since freshman year, but I have always been either to lazy or afraid that the coaches will kill me. Every one in my school calls the head coach Hitler because of the way she coaches, and the other 3 coaches are Hitler?s SS, that just gives you an idea how tough it is. However, I?m just thinking to my self that these are the coaches that are going to make something of me, and not just let the team widdle (sp?) away to a bunch of lazy fat kids. Every day we run at lest 6 miles, and on Saturdays we run, and lift weights from eight am to one pm. I hope and pray I get a Varsity letter because for XC we don?t go by the point system and in track we do, so I will feel like I really did earn it if I get one in track. I don?t know what my event will be but I think it will be in longer distance. So my main point of this thread is to tell you all where I have disappeared to, and so you know that I haven?t left you for good, but I just wont be able to post as much.


BTW did you guys hear about the kid that died on the track at Bergen Catholic High school in Bergen county NJ?


Well if you didn?t, the kid had a heart attack as they where running off campuses and he just fell and no one notice he was gone for a few minutes.”

“Good for you Ice Tea. Stick with it and good luck getting your Varsity letter.”

“I hope I get one, or at lest stronger.”

“Go for it! Good luck!”

“Good luck, T! I lettered in XC in high school and was always pissed that we didn't have a track team...”

“Hope you don't get a heart attack out there Tea. Keep a low profile around old man Hitler but run your butt off. You'll do fine.”

“Tell em to give you a letter "I". For "ICE MAN"!”

“Six miles a day, holy 5hit!!! I was a sprinter and our workouts used to consist of interval training. Started jogging a mile to warm up. Then, as the distances got shorter and you got more tired, you were supposed to run faster.

From the mile, then we'd do a half mile, then a few quarter miles, then the 220s and then the 110s. You had to be blazing fast by then--fast as you could be at the end of a workout.

Hey, I'm (errrrrr.. I WAS) a sprinter. I could hardly handle anything over a mile. A mile did me in. Alas, it was a good sprinter workout. We had a good team. The letter jacket hangs in the closet in memory, full of clanky medals, including a couple from state.

And, tea, don't be confused by those YARDS and QUARTERS and things!!! lol!!! Have a great time and go for it. Pleasant memories here of barfing a hot dog during one track meet (a home meet to boot), having the baton fly onto the football field during a relay handoff (and we just quit running then, much to our coach's dismay. We soon found out just how we SHOULD HAVE handled it -- and it wasn't to QUIT! lol) and our assistant coach outrunning a patrolman who surely would have picked him up for speeding (a few of us went to federation meet)..... oh yeah, and the great feeling of kicking some ass -- even when running as assigned in the outside lane AFTER the staggered start had been made up in a sprint relay. One record still stands, over 20 years later.

Nuf said.........have fun and go for it, Ice Tea!”

“Long distance rules! Be as conscious of your body from moment to moment as you possibly can. You will even come to appreciate, (not to be confused with like), the aches and pains. And when you get out of school, continue to run. Running, (especially long distance), is something you can enjoy for a llifetime.”

“Now dunadan, son, you go on out and run down some Jayhawks and Wildcats. I hear they're RIPE for the picking!!! Moooooooohahahahahaha!!!”

“Liz, my warm up is 1 1/2 miles as of yesterday but that is subject to change. Then we did 10, 300, and right after that we did a 2 mile cool down.

That was yesterday (the 4th day of practice)”