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TOP TEN WAYS TO TELL YOU'RE AN OLD RUNNER

      10.  You can remember when Nike Waffle Trainers were the latest thing.

        9.  You consider metric distances new-fangled.

          8.  You fondly recall the days when you only got a race t-shirt if and when you finished a race.  It had to be earned.

         7.  Bicycles had no more than ten gears.

        6.  You remember when lanes on the track were marked with temporary lines of powdered chalk.

        5.  You remember when cross training meant jumping fences or hedges to escape mean dogs.

        4.  You think a Nordic-Trak is where Lasse Viren raced.

        3.  You've been chased by twelve generations of rottweilers.

        2.  You learned all the words to Ray Stevens' "Jogger" from an 8-track.

        1.  You haven't PR'ed since 1973.


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