Race in Stratford Park (Bullock Creek invite)

[Sir_Krahn]

Well I had another race today. My goal today was to get first and get a time of 16:47. But as you can tell, you can't win them all. I got second with a time of 17:05, I was a bit angry but I was still glad that my time improved from my last race. What is worse is that I broke my racing shoes for good and now need to buy new ones. The inserts that hold the spikes in place bent on me and it forced my spikes to a different angle. That then caused me to run off balance and I kept on kicking myself on accident. It really sucked bad.

[d'artangan]

I too hope to one day run the 50 yd dash in under 17 seconds. Yukka, Yukka, Yukka.

For real. What distance are we talking about and are there obstacles?

Old Don Out

[Sir_Krahn]

the race is only 3.1 miles and the only type of obstacles you would encounter would be a steep hill. I am going to get into a five mile steeple chase soon though and that race has obstacles like hay bails and walls stuff like that. I am so excited for that one!

[SGRock]

In the "Steeplechase" do you have people riding on your back?

Great time amigo. I wanted to do Cross Country but Dad gave me the genes for football.

[d'artangan]

I ran cross country in HS. Our homne course was in the woods, and we actually had rocks and downed trees and a stream to cross. They held the Illinois State Championship there the third year our school existed. It was a shorter course than your 3.1 (2.5), but if you finished in under 18 you were doing good. For the State Meet, we added a half mile to it by runnig out of the woods and doing three quarters of a lap on the track around the football field.

[Brad]

I was a sprinter and pole vaulter - for me a long race was 400 yards - never did have the wind to race over distance...

[Batgirl]

I suffer in anything less than 3000m. I prefer long distance to sprinting any day.