Random Story Thread

[MarqET]

Okay, I got to thinking, why limit story time to just brummond_smith? No disrespect, but I'm positive people have some great stories of their own. I guess you can say this is a mix between the random picture thread and the story tyme thread. So if anybody has any good stories, don't hesitate to share. Everybody loves story time.

Just Bot'l

[Uppi 707]

8th grade I was running down my road and I saw Malachi Cate run by, and he went Dannyyyy! I laughed and said Hi. Then I kept running and there stretching his calves on a poll was the one and only Nick Schaefer. I knew who he was but at the time I never had had a conversation with him. I felt like a dick because I had running shorts on and he had basketball shorts on. I remember being like god, why can't I be that fast! Then a few days later I read the local paper and sure enough...Nick Schaefer qualifies for state in the 1600! I was like OMG what a stud. Rombough and Mal did too but that was expected.

[rombough11]

My freshman year we had a track meet in Seymour (near Green Bay). I forget to bring my windpants with me, so I just wore my jeans over my shorts. It was pretty cold out that day, so we were allowed to take our clothes off when we got up to the start line. With my back to the crowd, I bend over to pull my pants off, and the shorts came with! Luckily, they were the old ones with no briefs, so I was lucky enough to still have my underwear covering my butt, no pun intended.

[ninjacc]

Me and my friend were runnin out in the country at like 10PM. A guy, who by the way was quite inebriated, started burnin out at a stop sign. He was like HEY U KIDS!!!(in the drunk mubblin) and he was quite aways away so he must have really yelled, he comes flyin by and i mean flyin. We jump in the ditch to get away. U must be thinkin wimps, but then he goes one house down and turns around and now were think @#$! He flies past again but while were hidin in the ditch he finally gets bored and drives away........o summer runnin aint it a blast!!!!!!!

[Soup Nazi]

Okay, I got to thinking, why limit story time to just brummond_smith?Learn how to spell you moron. I'm sure it's really hard to just copy and paste his last name from the thread. That underline_space thing really looks intelligent as well.

[Bambi_eyes]

Well, when I went to the Midwest Footlocker this last fall, I was in the registration room right before it closed and saw Megan Kaltenbach in there. The next day when I was warming up in front of the start, she was running with her sister and the other girls from Smokey Hill. Anyway, while I was running out, they were running in and Megan stops in front of me and says, "Has anyone ever told you that you are so cute and adorable?" I said, "yes". Then she said, "Well, I am just one more person to tell you."
Then she ran off.

I've heard alot about her and I thought it was nice that she would stop and pay a compliment like that, when there is all these masses of people from all over the midwest there and hardly anyone knows me.

[Lef Runner]

Soup_Nasti, lay off MarqET a little bit. Some one once yelled they had sex with my girlfriend while i was running. He probly did. :(

[The house 123]

soup nazi whats with all the hatred? You are not cool and im sure you have no friends if you need to yell at someone for spelling incorrectly on dyestat. Now lets end all this hateration and lets all get along...and remember JUST BOT"L
MEHHHHH!!! :eek:

[MarqET]

Learn how to spell you moron. I'm sure it's really hard to just copy and paste his last name from the thread. That underline_space thing really looks intelligent as well.

Well_I'm_sorry_soup_nazi._I_didn't_know_they_made_ jerks_like_you_anymore._People_like_you_don't_know _how_to_drop_the_little_things.

[Hall_@ss1088]

Once I was odd man out and had to freeball, only to crunch a nut at the finish line. Frosh year. 04. Made me a man.

[Uppi 707]

I have a story about school! It is kind of running related. For the past week in typing class now I have been told I am no longer allowed on the internet during class because I constantly read dyestat. Then I decided to stretch for my meet today, and aparently I am distracting others! (girls were checking me out :) ) I am just kidding about the girls checking me out part :( .

[tomfoolery]

what?

[Uppi 707]

In short I am not allowed to do anything that has anything to do with running in my 5th hour typing class because my teacher is anti-physical activity.

[Hall_@ss1088]

Great flippin' story. Girls check me out because my middle name's Robin.

[Lef Runner]

Hall tells the worst stories this side of the mississippi. Dont read his posts.

[dylan5309]

Yes, I also believe I spend almost all of my time in computer class on Dyestat.

[mD159]

I am in computer class right now, and just a few minutes ago my teacher saw me dyestating, but he didnt really care. I do it daily.

[PuppyKicker]

I am mD's teacher, and it is true what he says. He is on dyestat everyday in my class. I don't blame him, computer class is really f'ing boring and I'd rather mess around on dyestat than teach anyday.

[Uppi 707]

I have a story about work. I bet a few people have had crappy bosses, and has stories about it. This is one of mine.....

I work at Jolly Roger's Pizzaria. It is pretty much a Bar/Restaurant. I wash dishes there, and happen to have the biggest dick of a manager imaginable. I actually shouldn't complain I work about one night a week, and recently earned a 14 dollar and 26 cent paycheck. The thing with my boss is that he likes to ream you out a lot. He is not very nice to me and never has been. Well, the same day that Schaef got his leg cramp I had to work, and I was pretty tired because it was a harder workout for me. So during work I couldn't really wash dishes that fast. My boss then decides to yell, "Uphoff your slow, get your ass moving!" I quickly shot back, "Ok....." Then, for no reason he said something about me being skinny. I don't know if any other distance runners are like this but I just don't like getting made fun of because I am skinny. It just pisses me off because I work hard at being "Lean" and running fast. I shouldn't have to take crap about being skinny. Anyways, after my boss yelled at me for being skinny (which had nothing to do with washing dishes) I decided to see how slow I could go. I had dishes beyond dishes stacked up waiting to be washed. I had the owner yelling at me because they didn't have enough cups for all the people there. So my boss told me to go home. Thus, my $14.26 paycheck.

[Hall_@ss1088]

Pssssh. Smooth...

Who cares what some greasy, fatso who peels onions and eats pepperoni at the Jolly Rogers' says. Big whoop..."You"re skinny" oooooh. He's fat...probably can't get laid without flippin' down the bills to some sleazy, coked-out girl he found on Honeysuckle in Neenah, Wisconsin (Yeah, that's right...that ghetto a few blocks away from the Dairy Queen)! No reason to sacrifice getting paid as much as you could have.

If it really bothers you, slash his tires or have some biker from the bar part of the restaurant spit tobacco into his coffee or something...you know...beat him to death with a block of mozzerella if you have to ;) ...just don't compromise the bread.

Money is god...I learned that when I got my car.

[Uppi 707]

Thanks for the advice Hall, I'll keep that in mind next time I work.

[Hall_@ss1088]

:cool:I aim to please.

[Bambi_eyes]

Last year I had a really bad sinus cold. I was stuffed up and had a hard time breathing. We normally run a 4K but we had a 5K race. It was at 4 pm and really hot. Before the race, I took a few Advil and some Suddafed. About a mile into the race I started dry heaving. I didn't think I was going to make it. When I went into the chute everything was getting blurry. After, I could barely stand up and staggered around and was very out of it. My speech was so slurred and I was incoherent. People would come over to me and I'ld tell them to go away. Then I started to vomit. It was really projecting too. To cool down I dumped water on my head, but then my shirt was wet, so I took it off. For some girls this would not be unusual but, I would normally NEVER do anything like that, but I was really out of it. I was still standing at the finish and the boys are starting to cross the finish line. My mom didn't want any of the boys from my school to see me without my top on. My coach came over, and in her sweet voice she says, "how about if you put on your warm up jacket? Here lets put on your jacket." By then I was starting to feel a little better. It took me over an hour to get my mind back. When I got home my pee color was pretty bright yellow.

A few days later I went to the doctor and he told me that Suddafed is really bad to take when you have a cold because all it does is dry you up. I was thinking, I guess I should of known that a few days ago! Now, I work really hard before races to make sure I don't get dehydrated!!

[Hall_@ss1088]

I remember this one time where i destroyed Bambi Eyes' softy !Ultimate Frisbee! team, then, in an act of complete remorse for wasting my precious time with their puny throws, she asked me to forgive her and to also give her my autograph when I finished. I would have, however I was too busy admiring Bad Boys Two with the homeboys from Beloit Memorial...she never got that autograph...and I appologize for giving no appology either...

[Bambi_eyes]

You must have me confused with someone else, because I did not ask you for your autograph and I did not ask for no forgiveness. What is that all about?

However, my ultimate frisbee team was really bad, and then with me on the team that did not help either, I am worthless at it!

[Hall_@ss1088]

I was joking...i tihnk i was actually on your team...man was that Bad Boys II movie watching session we had awful...everytime something happened like all the flippin' Boscobel kids would yell, "w00t! w00t!" and whatnot.

whatnot.

[MarqET]

On the subject of hydration...

A couple weeks into last years cross country season, we were scheduled to run at East Troy. This was kind of a big deal for me because this was my second varsity race (our team has a lot of depth) and East Troy is my home town, so i had to race well in my homeland. I wanted to do the best I could, so i drank a ton of water before we even baorded the bus for the 45 minute ride down. I drank a full 32 oz nalgene before we were even halfway there. Once we reached Mukwonago, I could hardly sit still because I had to pee so bad. Once we got off the freeway, the roads got a lot choppier, so the bus was bouncing up and down constantly. The next dozen miles were excruciating. I was getting really anxious and fidgety trying to ignore my bladder. By the time we got to the course, i was running up and down the isles of the bus in agony. The damn bus kept on stopping on this long driveway thing to the parking lot so it took almost twice as long to get to a stop. I couldn't wait that long so i jumped out the back of the bus before it was parked, threw my stuff on the grass somewhere, and I sprinted 100 yards to the forest and relieved myself. I swear I peed for at least two minutes.

Yes, i ran a PR that day, so hydration does work

[merkelmachine]

Ok, here is a pretty good rando story:

This story takes place during footlocker '03. A group of about 15 teammates and I took the trip to kenosha for the race. None of us ran too well be we did learn a very important lesson, and we definitley learned what three things don't go together well...you will figure those things out later. (Any other Menomonites that were here can fill in some other parts of the story, such as "Come sail away in the car", Lifeguard andrew in the pool, cracker barrel, ect.)

On with the story:

We had a pretty uneventful drive down there and ate at durangos, party pizzas are VERY key. After eating we went back to our hotel in Racine. We had about 5 rooms for all of us and we only had a few people who were racing to do well, so they all went to one room and laid low. The rest of us split up into different rooms and hit the pool and hot tub. Lesson #1: Sitting in a hottub for 2+ hours while drinking zero water before a race is a very bad idea. It makes you very dehydrated. The pool closed at 9:30 and we all cleared out. After that a few of us decided that we wanted to get some ice cream. Anyone who went to flcc two years ago knows how cold it was (this night it was about 20 degrees with 30 mph winds) will realize how dumb this next part is: About four of us ran three blocks in shorts/zubaz to a gas station down the road (in racine). Once we got back to the hotel we started on our ice cream. Lesson #2: Ice cream doesn't count as water the night before the race and does not cure dehydration. Four of us (Me, two other guys, and a girl) sat in our room and ate our ice cream, meanwhile the room next door had about 7 people in it and was being very noisy. The time was about 11:30.

Not too much happened for a while, we were just sitting in our room and were hanging out. We all got to bed about 2:30 in the morning. We kept on talking and making jokes. Then at 3:30 we heard a knock at the door. We thought it was just a few of the other kids being dickweeds, so we ignored it at first. Then about 10 seconds later they knocked again, followed by "Open up, this is Racine police!" So one of our guys got up and answered the door, and sure enough, two Racine police officers were at the door. After they were talking for a while I got up to see if I could do anything to make them go away. The police were there because some "noise complaints" have been reported. They also couldn't grasp why some of our stuff was in other rooms, and that we had a large group. Finally our third guy got up to talk to the police, and then they asked how many people were in the room, so we called the girl over to the door. The officer quickly made the remark: "three guys and one girl eh? Wheres the booze?"

After that it took a few minutes to convince the officers that we havent been drinking or getting high, the officers were about to leave with one of the guys information and said: "If we hear anything else, this guy is taking the fall." Then for some reason, I passed out and hit my head on the wall. I woke up about 5 seconds later, with two flashlights pointed at my face. The cops were getting really worried now..."Is he alright? Does he do this often? Do you want us to call the rescue crew?" Now the cops had to see the adult in charge, so we called across the hall to get them up. In that room we had a kid from Russia and he has a funny accent. He picked up the phone and hung up immediatley, we tried a few more times, but they didn't answer the phone. We showed the officers their room and they knocked on the door. The russian kid got up and answered the door with a friendly: "What the f-... hello officer"

Eventually our chaperone got over to our room and was asked to make sure I was alright. He was pretty pissed that he had to get up at 3:30, so he walked over and grabbed my hand and took my pulse for 3 seconds. He concluded that I would be fine and told the officers that I would get checked out at the race tomarrow and then went back to bed. The officers left, not worried at all about the noise complaints and wished us luck on the race.

The three things we learned don't go together well:
1. sitting in a hot tub for two hours
2. ice cream
3. Cops at your door at 3:30 in the morning

The next day at the race, I ran about 15 seconds off my PR, not bad for the night before.

*I guess I passed out because I locked my knees and it cut down circulation to my brain, me being nervous didn't help at all either.

[Lef Runner]

Merkel...you have a mullet and wear zubas?

[merkelmachine]

Hell yeah, I had to cut my mullet after cross, but I'm doing my best to have it back by june. Zubaz might be the coolest pants ever, if anyone has any that they want to sell me, they should let me know.

[Sean Olson]

MULLETS RULE!!!!! Bring back the '80s!!1one!!!

[MarqET]

I was in psychology today taking a quiz when a sudden and terrifying urge to urinate arose (meet that afternoon, had to hydrate). I couldn't concentrate and I'm sure I failed the quiz. But that's alright, I ran a PR.

[mjtran]

Back at the end of my senior year (WAY BACK), one of my best friends "Haus" (not to be confused with "THE HOUSE") made it to state in the 800.

Since he was the only distance runner (and one of only 3 kids) who qualified for state, our coach just let the two of us workout alone that last week before state.

Before '02, RFHS did not have its own track, so we used UW-RF's. And before '99, UWRF's track was ASPHALT.

After doing our track workout, we decided to give Haus' turbo-charged '88 Dodge Colt a workout, too! Haus drove onto the track and positioned The Colt on the start line.

With me timing, we rolled a 26-second 400m, which would've been faster if we didn't have to brake hard before the line to keep from crashing through the fence at the end of the home stretch!

[Mark_WAHale]

One day, I quit track. A week later, there was some anger and Erik Wagner and Jay Huber quit track. Yesterday I read the paper and saw that my former team scored only 11 points. I laughed.

[TRocket]

Did you quit track for any particular reason Mark?

[Mark_WAHale]

Edit: I'll send you a pm, I really shouldn't be broadcasting this to everyone

[oldaberunner]

So on Friday we had team pictures for track. Since this is late APRIL, the weather usually would not be much of a factor, unless it rained. But, alas, this is Wisconsin. The high on Friday was a pretty cold 50 degrees- without wind chill. And the wind was apparently feeling strong that day and thus was blowing about 30 mph, straight- no gusts, and thus everyone was absolutely freezing. I think it was the first time our entire team had their warm-ups on before pictures. The photographer must have felt like he was at a meet. "Sweats off, sweats off, we have to take this picture!" And then later on during our run it was SNOWING! Only in Wisconsin.

[Bambi_eyes]

Zubaz might be the coolest pants ever

What is Zubaz?

Merkel, your FL story was funny!

[Hall_@ss1088]

Good race, Melissa...you made up a ton of ground in the second half.

[Mark_WAHale]

I have a fl03 story, not quite as good as merkel's, but interesting enough. Well I was running in the junior-senior race that year, and a couple weeks or so when they posted the list on the website, I saw my bib number was 777. I thought this was a sign that it'd be my best race ever, so I went back on my diet and upped the training. Race day comes and going up the first hill, some idiot, probably from illinois, stepped on the back of my shoe. My heel popped out, and I found I had to kinda curl my toes to keep the shoe on my foot. I was thinking that this was wasting too much of my energy and this was supposed to be my best race ever so by the 1200m or so, I decided it'd be easier to go shoeless and grabbed it to throw to my friends (it was a $100 pair of shoes, not leaving it behind). I soon found that was the stupidest thing ever. First I noticed I had no traction at all in the slippery mud. Then I noticed that parts of the course are gravel, and that it really hurts to run barefoot on it. But that problem didn't last long, as the mud was so cold that before long my foot was completly numb. As I crossed the finish line, I saw my time was like 18:40, really far from the best race ever. Too make things worse, the kid in front of me (Ryan Ehlmann of St Peters, MO) was puking in the chute, so I had to hop in shame.

[REOfan]

What is Zubaz?

Zubaz ****ing rule! i have a pair of "detroit lions zubaz" and i wear them all the time...ok maybe not all the time. Zubaz look like this:

http://www.badfads.com/images/zubaz01.jpg

They come in all different colors. Mine are blue/gray/white.

Mullets ****ing rule too. Only in Menomonie can you wear zubas, sport a greasy mullet, have POWERBARS shaved on the sides of your head, and still FIT IN!

[Brumund-Smith]

Tran, that was a sweet story...but stop putting ideas in my head.

[mc]

hannah and i can shave a wild set of powerbars. and we can cut just gorgeous mullets as well.

[MarqET]

Edit: I'll send you a pm, I really shouldn't be broadcasting this to everyone

Im sure people in here wouldn't care why you quit the team. I'm sure it had something to do with Paul Moran though. please, share with us...

[The house 123]

Paul Moran is such a piiiiiiiiiimp. He gets all the chicks in West Allis.

[MarqET]

Oh, on the topic of wisconsin lutheran...

So some of our guys were running on the menomonee river parkway last winter when they were ambushed by a tribe of lutheran kids near 60th street. They chased our guys to Hawley Rd and continued to asault them with snowballs. Our guys got them to stop and eventually they agreed to settle this the next day at 3:45 at jacobus park (our 4 mile turn around). The news of this spread like wildfire through our locker room and amongst our running community (which im pretty sure is the largest in the state). They had no idea what they were getting themselves into.

The next day at school, everybody was saying "3:45, the final crusade", stuff like that. Our coaches were in full support and I think even some of our priests supported us. Us seniors drew out elaborate battle plans to trap these protestants at Jacobus Park. We had three attack forces: one attacking from the open field in the middle of the park (designed to take the blunt of the wisco assault), another attacking from these steep forested hills on the west side of the park, and the final attack from behind the bathroom building (the bulk of our attack). It was the perfect ambush technique.

We got to the park a half hour early to set up our attack force of sixty some guys (compared to their dozen guys). I was hiding in the forest on the west side when they arrived. Their plan was to scale the hills and rain snowballs down on us catholics with a water balloon launcher. They didn't even make it to the stairs. Once they got to the forest, about 20 guys came charging out behind trees and stopped them dead in their tracks. They turned to run while the other attack force of 40-some guys drove them out of the park. They managed to mount a weak defense as we drove them along the parkway. We were driving them back so fast that they almost ran straight into 68th street (one of the busiest streets that we run by) and were feet away from being hit by speedin' cars.

The next half hour or so was one of chaos and unorganized slaying as we continued our assault. Half their forces fled from the battle, but about six stayed to fight. We (about two dozen guys) chased the remaining few about a mile and a half around city blocks, through backstreets, across busy intersections, and through school yards. This massacre continued until they cross the river and finally surrendered. It was finally over, a truly epic battle. We later became friends.

Bottom line -- Don't mess with Catholics...Especially Catholic runners from Marquette

[Kschneider87]

This is the conversation I had with my 2 year old brother when I got home from my meet on Saturday:
Jack: “good job runnin’ Kellie”
Me: “thank you jack, are you going to be a runner some day?”
Jack: “uh huh!”
Me: “are you going to run really really fast?”
Jack: “yep!”
Me: “are you going to run xc and track and do the mile and two mile?”
Jack: “sure!”
Me: “are you going to be the next Solinsky, Culver, or Rombough?”
Jack: “yea!”
I then started laughing and he began running “laps” around the kitchen and living room…it was pretty awesome

[liz6987]

I can't wait until that kid breaks all the records......he's going to be such a good runner.

[TRocket]

Hey Kellie,
My bro went to homecoming with you a few years back. He was so lucky ;)

[Kschneider87]

TRocket--that wasn't me, that was one of my team mates who went to homecoming with your brother

[TRocket]

What is going on... :confused: I am extremely confused. Oh...Alaina. Sorry that was quite dumb of me :rolleyes:

[Kschneider87]

now ya got it right! lol...no big deal

[merkelmachine]

Alright, this story has two parts. The first part takes place around the beginning of December.

There were a bunch of us from ECM, Menomonie, and RF all hanging out in Menomonie on a Saturday night. The entire story of the night could be told by somebody else (Shooter or Joel). Anyway, we ended up at a pizza place at 2:30 in the morning in downtown Menomonie, it was the only place open (the bars just closed) so it was packed with drunks. We found the only open table in the enitre place near the back wall. We were having a great time watching all the drunks when suddenly somebody yells: "Jimmy just got a girls phone number!!! Yeah Jimmy!!!" The entire place went nuts everyone started chanting "Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy..." Then another drunk starts up a USA chant a few seconds later the whole place was chanting "USA, USA, USA..." That was pretty nutty. In the midst of all this, a random drunk guy took a big bite out of a fake plant on one of the tables, a bite of pizza, then Drank a bottle of the red pepper on the tables. After that while trying to chew it, he stumbled over to the table next to his and spit it all over that table. It was about then that we decided to leave...we gave Jimmy a slice of pizza on the way out and congradulated him. We thought we had seen the last of him...

[merkelmachine]

This part of the story just happened on saturday after a dance we had (pseudo-prom, since our juniors decided to put it on a boat). The dance just ended and a bunch of us were hungry, so we went to Jeff n Jims pizza. It was about 11:30, so it wasn't too busy. A few tables were filled, and the occational group of drunks stopped by to use the bathroom and buy pizza by the slice. One of these groups came stumbling in after a few minutes, and who else walked in? Our friend Jimmy!!! He was looking pretty drunk as usual, sporting a marker moustache drawn on him when he was passed out, and a green shirt with the message: "I love my grandma" printed on the front of it. Then one of the kids sitting with us yells out, "I love my grandma too!!!"

Jimmy responds with a "Your grandma...is good...IN THE SAC!!! Oh!!! You got served!!!" Served indeed, more like Jimmied. Then after a few seconds, he challenged our table. His bet was simple. He bet us $5 that he had smaller nipples than anyone else on our table. We quickly scrounged up all of our change (probably about $2.50) and told him it was $5. The bet was on. We nominated our table to be represented by Brian (BUK) Uher-Coch. His nipples are the smallest on our team. We though we just made $5. We were up first. Brian lifted his shirt, but Jimmy looked unphased. Jimmy unveiled his nipples and produced one that was probably half the size of a penny...no joke. Jimmy scooped up the change piled on our table and stumbled out of the restaurant. [G]OWNED!!!

We really need to get Jimmy's phone number, he seems like a fun guy.

[birk]

Shortslef dated a hooters girl...

[Mark_WAHale]

Im sure people in here wouldn't care why you quit the team. I'm sure it had something to do with Paul Moran though. please, share with us...

I sense some jealousy towards our Greater Metro Conference 3200 champ

[Lef Runner]

http://img248.echo.cx/img248/786/rachel17dx.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
Guilty as charged :D

[Uppi 707]

Lef Runner you did not date her! You are a liar! You probably wrote the caption on the bottom left of the picture.

[Hall_@ss1088]

Why? Do you have that picture up in your room, Uppi?

[Lef Runner]

Your loss.

[MarqET]

that picture doesn't help if you're trying to check dyestat during school

but it's a nice pic

[Uppi 707]

I just cant believe it...she is absolutly gorgeous. If you are telling the truth you deserve some props Lef Runner.

[Hall_@ss1088]

Just one of the many Godesses of Janesville, WI.

[The house 123]

I sense some jealousy towards our Greater Metro Conference 3200 champ

3200 champ who ran a 10:20. Mark you quit track, why you still up in herrrr?

[birk]

Shorty speaks only of the truth...we actually met her last summer and she confirmed....and yes, they're real.

[Mark_WAHale]

3200 champ who ran a 10:20. Mark you quit track, why you still up in herrrr?

He ran a 10:10, your guy was the one that ran 10:20. And I may have quit track, but I still run, and I was still there to see Paul win ;) .

[MarqET]

Even if he did, he's the only guy on your team that can beat us. We have about seven more guys who can beat your number two, not to mention guys on JV who never get the chance to run varsity because of our depth. I don't remember the 3200 indoor, all I remember is the GMC cross country meet.

[Mark_WAHale]

Even if he did, he's the only guy on your team that can beat us. We have about seven more guys who can beat your number two, not to mention guys on JV who never get the chance to run varsity because of our depth. I don't remember the 3200 indoor, all I remember is the GMC cross country meet.

There's was no comparison between the teams, you were talking about Paul, I defended him. I could defend our team now, but there was no reason to bring up a Hale vs Marq thing in the first place so I'll just leave it at that.

[behrman]

Merkel, or anyone who was at ECM relays and saw that incident, tell about how the guy got [g]owned by the starting blocks.

[merkelmachine]

Aight, this happened last night at old abe relays:

It occured at the beginning of the 1600 medley relay (200, 200, 400, 800). The gun had just gone off and the people holding the blocks were getting up. The person in lane 2 went to pick up the blocks and in doing so, he swung them into lane one and started moving to the infield. There was one key thing he forgot though...the person running in lane one. The runner in lane one got juiced in the face with a set of blocks and fell over, the blockholder fell on top of the kid that got [g]owned, but the entire time, the person who got jacked by the blocks held onto the baton. Thats what i call team dedication. I'm not really sure what happened to the kid that got hit, a fat lip for sure. If anyone knows what schools were involved and what happened to the kid, they should post it here.

[Sean Olson]

Merkel, or anyone who was at ECM relays and saw that incident, tell about how the guy got [g]owned by the starting blocks.

Well I did not see it personally but I heard about it, here is how I understand it... It was during the 1600 Medly (200,200,400,800) and the kid holding the blocks for the kid in lane 2 quickly picked up the starting blocks and picked them up high in the air, at the same time he lifted the blocks the sprinter in lane 1 came flying right into the Blocks and was hit in the face, I think the kid was out for 5-10 minutes. I herad it was pretty scary.

[MarqET]

Ouch...so what happened after that, did the race stop? did the next leg run back, pick up the batton, and finish where he left off? did the block hurler get arrested? if so, when is his court date? why isn't this in the news? what's your favorite color? is the guy in the hospital? i need more details!

[Bambi_eyes]

This is an awkard moment story. This happened last year during the track season. I was in the weight room icing my quads. There was also one of the guys in the room. Now, this guy's nickname is The Big Man. He is 6'7" and about 280 lbs and a really nice guy. One time he grabbed me by the shoulder to talk to me in the hall and his hand is about as big as my back. Anyway, he was icing his shoulder with a big bag of ice. We were chatting while icing. After I finished icing I got down to do some stretches our trainer had told me to do. He started saying, "go Melissa, work those muscles like you never done before." He was cheering me on and I thought it was funny and was laughing. Then, all of a sudden he takes his big ice bag off his shoulder and drops it on his "you know what". He lets out a loud painful yelp! I was like oh boy, what do I do???? I could tell he was in a lot of pain, but what could I do? So, I said, I've got to go run and ran out.

It seemed like a scene from a real dumb movie. I didn't go back in and ice the rest of the season, I was glad I didn't see him for a while. Now, when I talk to him its all cool.

[mjtran]

Merkel, or anyone who was at ECM relays and saw that incident, tell about how the guy got [g]owned by the starting blocks.

A key cause to the incident was the fact that it was a 1600 med relay. Because it led off with a 200, the stagger was HUGE: since the 2nd 200 leg cuts right at the start, the start stagger they use is for the 2, not the 4. Thus, the starter was WAY across the infield. The result was that the dude who got smoked did not hear the gun!

So when everyone left right at the gun, the dude in lane 1 went much later. That, plus the fact that the stagger was so huge made the block-holder in lane 2 not realize there was a runner still in lane one.

Lane one dude launched out of the blocks and with head-down and still emerging from his start, absolutely SMOKED the holder walking off the track!

[MarqET]

I went to watch a track meet at East Troy today. I wasn't expecting much, I just planned on watching the end of the 3200 and watch Manke dominate. But when I got there, she was on the shoulder of a Waukesha West girl (I think it was Laura Koch because that's what people were yelling) and West girls are known for being tough to beat. So with about one lap left, Koch was still in the lead. But with 200 to go, Manke turns it on and pulls away by 10m or so. But around the final turn, the West girl starts to close the gap. Manke held her off and ended up running an 11:18. It was an awesome race.

But what was really amazing was after the race was over. The West girl collapsed on the infield once she crossed the finish line. Manke went over, stood her up, and supported her until her coaches came over, while she too was exhausted from her race. It just shows not only what kind of person she is, but what kind of people distance runners are. You'll rarely see football players coming to the aid of opposing team members. It's truly a remarkable sport.

[hlammer]

hannah and i can shave a wild set of powerbars. and we can cut just gorgeous mullets as well.

oh yes we can!! we're pretty much professionals. so.. if you want a mullet, let us know.

[rombough11]

Today we were on our way home from our County meet. About five minutes into the trip back to New London, a freshmen couple are making out. The bus driver pulls over, and points out to one of the coaches that they are making out. The coach tells them to save it for a date, and everyone else on the bus is laughing because we had many reasons to believe that the driver wasn't straight.

[Dennys_is_Better]

was it everyones favorite new london freshman Dan Uphoff?

[Uppi 707]

We were not making out! We just kissed!!!!!! My tongue never left my mouth.

[g0uads]

Must be a skanky chick if they'd make out with a smelly guy right after a track meet. Either that or her name was marissa...

[Uppi 707]

Must be a skanky chick if they'd make out with a smelly guy right after a track meet. Either that or her name was marissa...

She is not skanky at all. And we didnt make out!

[Dennys_is_Better]

We were not making out! We just kissed!!!!!! My tongue never left my mouth.
Get some balls Uphoff.

[400coureurfille]

Ouch...so what happened after that, did the race stop? did the next leg run back, pick up the batton, and finish where he left off? did the block hurler get arrested? if so, when is his court date? why isn't this in the news? what's your favorite color? is the guy in the hospital? i need more details!
yeah, i saw the whole thing, and it was really scary. i think the guy in the race was from chippewa, and the block holder from memorial. when the runner hit the block holder, he pretty much flipped over, and it looked like he got smacked right in the face with the blocks. luckily the memorial trainer was right there talking to some ppl (but he had his back to the whole situation, so he didn't see it right away) so i ran over and got him to talk to the guy. surprisingly nobody stopped the race, i think maybe because the official didn't see it, but it was only about 20-25 meters from the start, so you'd think they would have stopped. after he got hit, the runner just kind of lay on the ground in pain, holding his face. beyond that, i'm not sure what happened...

[Hall_@ss1088]

One of our hurdlers at the Cougar Relays fell down and his bone popped out of his skin...it was pretty gross.

[mc]

Must be a skanky chick if they'd make out with a smelly guy right after a track meet. Either that or her name was marissa...

Hey now!

[g0uads]

Hey now!

you know i love you :cool:

[Bambi_eyes]

We were not making out! We just kissed!!!!!! My tongue never left my mouth.


Well, on our team, any physical contact is not allowed. A few years ago we had a few couples that would hang on each other at track meets. Then we got a talken to! Once we get on the bus until we get off, we are representing our school and team, so no PDA!! The girls and boys ride in separate busses too. This is not a problem for me, but it sure is tough for some of the kids that are in track to be with their boyfriend/girlfriend :confused:

[Hall_@ss1088]

Psssssssh!!!! Liar! I saw your tent at the Watertown Invite...you guys be runnin' a love shack up there in Baraboo.

[MarqET]

We don't have to worry about anybody doin' stuff like that at my school :D


Probably because we don't have girls :( life's a bitch...

[Hall_@ss1088]

We don't have to worry about anybody doin' stuff like that at my school :D

What does your mom have to say about you lying, Marqet?

[Bambi_eyes]

Psssssssh!!!! Liar! I saw your tent at the Watertown Invite...you guys be runnin' a love shack up there in Baraboo.

Hey Chris, that was funny! Speaking of love shack, that is one of my favorite songs. My freshman year, I listened to Love Shack on repeat for over an hour before CC sectionals. :eek: I guess I over did it, I didn't run so good. :(

[liz6987]

So yesterday, at the SEC relay meet, our DMR was warming up and just chatting with the other runners. My teammate was talking to a girl from Bradford about their best times for the 400. My teammate said she ran a 63 this season so far, and then the girl from Bradford commented that she runs a 52 . So apparently, she's the fastest runner in the state and is breaking the state record. The race begins, and my teammate proceeds to [g]own her. :rolleyes:

[Uppi 707]

Ok, this story is ongoing. We are having a fiesta in spanish, and it is worth ten points to bring in a food item or something. Well I have all this juice at home that I need to get rid of so I figure I'll bring that. This morning though I was busy getting everything I need for the track meet tonight that I forgot all about the juice. Now, I get to school and I walk by my Spanish teacher and she says Daniel (spanish accent) did you bring the juice? I just said, ummm yeah I had my mom put it in the freezer in the kitchen (my mom is a lunch lady). So I'm thinking well I will just have my mom give me some of the school's juice. Wrong, at lunch I ask her for the juice and she says No because I shouldn't have forgotten! So now I am in typing and I have no frigen juice! On top of that I have a bad grade in spanish and i can't afford to lose the points! Well class ends in about three minutes now, so now I get caught in a lie, have no juice for la fiesta, and I have a crapload of juice at home that is going to expire shortly! Lifes a Bitch!

[rombough11]

"Hey Rombough! Do you have any juice?"

I'm sure that didn't sound right to anyone passing through the halls.

[Dennys_is_Better]

yeah i wonder what happened too danny boy and his juice.....

[Uppi 707]

I bought someone elses juice. It worked out well other then I was severly ripped off.

[WaukWestRunner]

Heres a story that I thought was pretty funny when it happened because it showed the true stupidity of some coaches.

Tim Hedtke and I were doing streching and strides for the 800 at a meet like last week and we all know that just before the 800 is the 200. Well, for the
200 cheap schools need the people in the mid-field to sit down so they can see the gun. It was about 3 heats into an 8 heat 200 race and Tim and I had gotten the routine down. We would sit and wait for the gun then once it was fired we would stand up and do a stride then come back to where our stuff was and do some more streching. Well there was a really power driven girl (daughter of a timer obviously and excited about the job) she would yell at guys every time the gun was about to go off to get them to sit down. Well there were some guys (i wont mention what team) and they wouldnt sit down when she told them. So, Tim and I being good citizens together yelled "Sit down." Tim though decided to add some force and add "It's not that hard...(quieter)morons!". Well there coach was there and saw this happening. He proceeded with "Don't yell at my boys." and not to be corrected Tim replied "They weren't sitting down." The coach just turned very flustered and trudged off.

Needless to say, we shouldn't have had to "yell" at his team, if he was doing his job.

[Kschneider87]

In my anatomy and physiology class we are doing this nutrition lab, and we had to record our diet for 3 days and record all the calories, fat grams, ect. Our teacher told us that for the girls it should be around 2,000 calories a day, and for the boys about 2,800. So I recorded mine and ended up having rediculously high numbers for my calorie intake:

Day 1: 3,210 calories
Day 2: 2,889 calories
Day 3: 3,350 calories

When I asked my teacher a question about the calculations we had to do for it she asked what my calorie intake was for the three days, I told her and she sorta glared at me and said, "that seems like an unusually large amount of calories...are you sure you added correctly?" and in embarrassment..I had to tell her that yes, it was completely accurate. I think she was slightly disgusted by me at that point.

[behrman]

We did the same thing in my gym Class, on the one day that I measured my calories, I ate 5400. I just chose one day and It's the amount I normally eat.

[MarqET]

That's because (hopefully) you run everyday, your body needs to burn somehting off. That's why your calorie intake has to be higher than normal people's. Your teacher should've probably gone over stuff like that.

[Kschneider87]

wow! 5,400...that is amazing!

[Kschneider87]

MarqET: That's because (hopefully) you run everyday, your body needs to burn somehting off. That's why your calorie intake has to be higher than normal people's. Your teacher should've probably gone over stuff like that.
yes, I do run every day
and yes, she did go over it, but she was still pretty shocked that it was that much higher.

[behrman]

The other day in Focus (our school's name for homeroom type thing) my teacher handed me what I presumed was a recruitment letter or somethign similar. But it was for a scouting agency. Basically it said that I should have been contacted by at least 45-60 D1 and D2 schools by now and if not, I have been over looked. (I havn't been contacted yet and I have only recieved one letter from a D1 school) I immideately knew it was a scam for me to pay money so they can spam me with more mail. I kept reading for fun and it came to some testimonial type things that pointed out athletes in WI that have done this and it made sure to note that they are already one step ahead of me. I was reading and noticed none of the names really until I saw Schaef's name. I was laughing when I saw that. I was just wondering how that is going for you Schaef? Have you been spammed by a million people yet and how much did it cost? Or maybe I'm wrong and its actually helpful, It just looked like a scam to me.

[Bambi_eyes]

One of the things I love about running is the people who encourage and support me.

There is a couple that live across the street from me and after cc and then track season, they will send me a card congratulating me on my season. The other day I went for a run, they were out doing some yard work and when I ran by, they both stopped working and started clapping for me. It was kind of funny, but sweet too.

This past winter, another neighbor, saw me at Wal-mart, she said, "I keep telling my boys that they need to keep the sidewalk shovelled because Melissa needs it cleared so she can run!"

These are just a couple of the stories, but I really appreciate their support and it makes me happy! :)

[JMegs13]

A few weeks ago i was on a run (still inseason) and our team was just going along, nice easy community run pace until a school bus came by. before we knew it, we were assaulted with an aerial attack of ballpoint pens, one hitting my friend in the worst of areas. just wondering if anyone has any other stories just as bad or ( :eek: ) worse about things thrown at them on runs.

[TMNRunner]

I want to hear some more stories. I can't think of anything right now.
bump

[TMNRunner]

I just went running in hiking boots. It was true x-c. Across the field through the mud and snow and water. Yeah. I think my legs are bleeding a little from the snow though.

Anyway this one time when I was probably in 1st grade I was feeding apples to this mule we had. Now, it had been worked with a little so I decided it would be a good idea to go for a little ride. I got the thing to come close enough to the fence at which point I proceeded to jump off the fence and onto its back. The thing took off like a bull with gas and went straight to the other end of the pen. I was starting to lose my grip and it was about to turn so I jumped off and caught the fence again, saving myself from death. That's about it for now..

[XC-Htown-Aaron]

Today I was running and towards the end of my run this group of skaters/stoners started throwing snowballs at me! Luckily they sucked at throwing and missed every single throw (about 10 of them) before i got out of reach. Why do people have to hate? I always have something said to me when i run. Im guessing this happens to other ppl too??

[TMNRunner]

Today I was running and towards the end of my run this group of skaters/stoners started throwing snowballs at me! Luckily they sucked at throwing and missed every single throw (about 10 of them) before i got out of reach. Why do people have to hate? I always have something said to me when i run. Im guessing this happens to other ppl too??

I would've attacked them. It would be devastating to their gang status once word got out they got beat up by a kid in short shorts.

[Shocka4ever]

The other day in Focus (our school's name for homeroom type thing) my teacher handed me what I presumed was a recruitment letter or somethign similar. But it was for a scouting agency. Basically it said that I should have been contacted by at least 45-60 D1 and D2 schools by now and if not, I have been over looked. (I havn't been contacted yet and I have only recieved one letter from a D1 school) I immideately knew it was a scam for me to pay money so they can spam me with more mail. I kept reading for fun and it came to some testimonial type things that pointed out athletes in WI that have done this and it made sure to note that they are already one step ahead of me. I was reading and noticed none of the names really until I saw Schaef's name. I was laughing when I saw that. I was just wondering how that is going for you Schaef? Have you been spammed by a million people yet and how much did it cost? Or maybe I'm wrong and its actually helpful, It just looked like a scam to me.

bumped cuz it worked okay for shaef since hes running d1 now...

[TMNRunner]

I would tell a story about practice today but it might be inappropriate.

[TMNRunner]

So I ordered some spikes from "Average Joe's". I check back a few days later and it says the order is cancelled. Guess what I wasn't too happy so I sent them an e-mail and they give me this bunch of crap.
Dearest Honey TMNRunner,
I am sorry for the inconvenience. Any order placed with "Average Joe's" is shipped upon availability. At the time you placed the order we did have the item available, however there is a chance that we can sell out of an item before we fulfill all of our orders. If there were women placing the same order as you prior or after you during the day, then we have to fulfill those orders first. This is the reason why we may sell out of an item after the order has already been placed.

Love and regret,
Ivana

Guess what Ivana you're a sicko sexist freak. Why the heck are women buying my spikes anyway? For crying out loud give me my flippin' spikes before I stick a shoe up your nose and pull it out your belly button-And that's impossible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S.Average Joe's is Finish Line

[TMNRunner]

we were supposed to do threshold type stuff today about 40 min

so we decide to go down this trail cuz its gravel and its pretty mushy

so we get to the end where we should be turning around and this soph kid says he has to go to the bathroom


i tell him to go in the woods but no he says we can just go to the first house cuz his aunt lives there or something

well guess what theyre not home

then he says we have to go one more down

so we're waiting and he comes back out and says he knows a shortcut


so i pondered on this for awhile and i figured why not...he said there was a trail so i was hoping there wouldnt be too much mud and water

so we start going across this pasture and we start to realize theres cow pies EVERYWHERE and water and mud

and the situation didnt look too good...so i said no lets turn around....

so then he says we'll have to go around

so we run the other way and go thru this slush and water and our feet are completely soaked by now

and he says the trails right over there

i look and i say THATS NO TRAIL it's a flippin river

he thought it was funny


so i said lets go back to the road

and i was gonna just go across this field but then i realized the mud was about a foot deep so now i have mud everywhere

so we go back another way and get back on the road and then the kid says we should go left cuz its shorter

now i was going pretty wild and i didnt think about this
i realized we were actually going farther rather than shorter

and so we finally got back

after running down the highway and people screaming at us and trying to run us over
And coach was like 'what the heck were you guys doing all that time?'
'We took a wrong turn.'
Moral of the story is: Never I mean NEVER listen to underclassmen.