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OT: what a way to spend Saturday morning

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titanmiller

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...voluntary Cross Country practice at 8:30.
8 Miles in ~54 minuets sure feels good, I guess that puts next Saturday at 9 Miles in 1 hour.
We have a very good team this year, and not a senior on either the boys or girls squad. We won our first meet Thursday with prospects of the same for the next two. Next year is going to be real exciting; we may become a serious force to be reckoned with.

Link to newspaper article
 
Ahhh, Cross Country. I ran it my Freshman year in High School. I wasn't the fastest by far, but the sense of camraderie
was great, and I have just gotten in touch with a couple of members from our team (I'm 40 now 🙂 ). Enjoy the
time, and the great health benefits later in life (It's amazing when your doctor looks at you at your 40th checkup
and says, "Were you a runner?")

 
Okay - stop making me feel like a big fat lazy computer nerd!!!!! 😉

Seriously tho... Good luck with the CC team! 😀
 
My 3rd grader starts cross country at her school next week. Don't think they'll start off at very long distances but it's cool she wants to do this (along with cheerleading). Maybe she'll inspire me to keep my jogging up (haven't run in 10 days now :frown: )
 
Originally posted by: titanmiller
...voluntary Cross Country practice at 8:30.
8 Miles in ~54 minuets sure feels good, I guess that puts next Saturday at 9 Miles in 1 hour.
We have a very good team this year, and not a senior on either the boys or girls squad. We won our first meet Thursday with prospects of the same for the next two. Next year is going to be real exciting; we may become a serious force to be reckoned with.

Link to newspaper article
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My God that's flying, that's not Cross Country running as I remember it, that's Marathon full out sprint running.

I've been running on a Treadmill for 2 months now, 3.1 miles everyday at 3.9 MPH. Feel better but no visible changes yet.


 
I really do enjoy it, even though at times the workouts seem insane (22 * 400M (72 seconds) with 60 seconds break between). Between the boys and girls teams we have close to 40 runners, nearly double past years, and it is amazing what a great bunch of people they all are. If you take a random sample of 40 high school students, chances are you will find many that do drugs and drink. As far as I know, no body on the CC team does either (you can just tell those who do, plus I know these people well), that just shows you what a great group they are. The list of good traits just keeps going on.
 
My saturday morning began the same way they have for the last 25+ years - a brisk run (today only 5 miles) and an hour in the gym.
My afternoon was 18 holes of golf 😀

It's funny how I used to enjoy the run and the gym more than the golf.....now it is the other way around 😀
 
Sounds like you had a healthier Saturday morning than I did, Titan. Good luck with your CC. 🙂

I spent three hours walking around an antique show (tractors, old restored engines and cars, etc.) taking pictures; then I came home and sat in front of the computer for a few hours finishing an install of Gentoo Linux that I've been working on in VMWare. In between there somewhere I drove up to the church to run a soundcheck for a class that's putting on a play tomorrow. I still feel like I've wasted a lot of time. 🙁
 
Could be worse, i started today with a brisk 4.5 hour drive from Northeast PA to near Annapolis, MD to pick up a rear axle for a 57 thunderbird, followed by a more sedate 6 hour drive back due to traffic. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: jliechty
Sounds like you had a healthier Saturday morning than I did, Titan. Good luck with your CC. 🙂

I spent three hours walking around an antique show (tractors, old restored engines and cars, etc.) taking pictures; then I came home and sat in front of the computer for a few hours
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The funny thing is, thats what I did last Saturday. Except it lasted more like 8 hours, over 500 antique tractors (including many steam tractors) and close to 1000 small gas engines, cars and countless other things. The thing I wanted to see the most was the antique tractor pull, but unfortunantly (fortunantly for our crops) it rained several days prior and it could not occur.
Probably the most interesting thing I saw was a demonstration of a water ram also know as a hydrolic ram. It can pump water hundreds of feet high with out any energy being added.
 
Originally posted by: titanmiller
The funny thing is, thats what I did last Saturday. Except it lasted more like 8 hours, over 500 antique tractors (including many steam tractors) and close to 1000 small gas engines, cars and countless other things. The thing I wanted to see the most was the antique tractor pull, but unfortunantly (fortunantly for our crops) it rained several days prior and it could not occur.
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Hmm, well you've got to remember that this was in small town Indiana, so this show probably had about that many antique tractors, but maybe 100 small and miniature engines, and I didn't go over to the car part, so I don't know how many they had there.
Probably the most interesting thing I saw was a demonstration of a water ram also know as a hydrolic ram. It can pump water hundreds of feet high with out any energy being added.
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No hydraulic rams at this show, but I did see one at the state fair earlier last month. They're cool, though the efficiency factor is relatively low (worse than reverse osmosis units, though there isn't much of a comparison between the two). 🙂
 
8 miles in 54 minutes? Good lord that's fast! I'm an avid XC runner, on my fourth year (sophomore in college right now), and I would love to be able to run that fast. I'm pretty slow, especially for a college team, but I just run cause I like it so much.

I was supposed to race today, but couldn't due to the fact that I haven't had a physical yet. So instead, I watched my girlfriend's team race, and my gf came in first for JV girls!!!!! Woohoo! She's my hero 😀
 
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