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more about #running more comments → AzureTexan: This takes me back to my days of running the 800 meters for Project Runway High, even after I'd transferred from Big Brother Rice. #running more » 100percentinjuryrate: Those sunglasses are not school colors. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!! #running more » Tracy Ham and Eggs: Sadly, I actually know a high school sports reporter in Maryland who would cum in his pants over this story #running more » MarkKelsosMigraine: Is anyone else concerned about Gourmet Spud? I think he hates me. Has he said anything to anybody about me? #running more » Fogg: I used to be a huge track/XC guy back in HS (I have my virginity to prove it). #running more » SteveJeltzFan: But the NFHS then voted to bar runners from wearing visible undergarments of more than one color ..and white is the absence of all color...so, loopho... more » Weed Against Speed: Earlier: Improper Stitching Costs Cross Country Team A Title Boy, do I know how that feels. And so does everyone else on my high school competitive s... more » Pedro Cuatrocinco: Even worse is the mandated MPSSAA rep who yells "WHAT ARE YOU RUNNING FROM?" at the mile marker. #running more » Phintastic: Steve Smith, the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association interpreter for the National Federation of Track and Cross Country Rules. I g... more » MattinglysSideburns: "I used to be a huge track mark/Ecstacy guy back in HS (I have the washed up career to prove it)". - Edward Furlong #running more » SayChowdaFrenchie: Correction: The runner's hair from Towson is the most important sporting issue of our age. #running more » ScientificMapp: "Your cross country uniform is supposed to say that 'I'm from high school XYZ" I actually went to High School YYZ. Classes stopped and started at r... more » badhatharry: So everybody's pissed about the stitching, but are cool with some guy inspecting high school kids' underwear? I'm just saying, you need priorities. #... more » NordoftheBlings: The rule has good intentions. Improper stitching can lead to tabloid covers of MuMu'd Kirstie Alley. #running more » MattinglysSideburns: The Hereford boys dominated the Baltimore County championship yesterday. Pffft...they only won because the best runner in Baltimore, Stringer Bell, i... more » -
#highschoolsports
Thread Color On Running Shorts Is The Most Important Sporting Issue Of Our Age
I don't know if any post I've written for this site has generated more public feedback than the controversial tale of the disqualified runner with white thread in his shorts. You people really care about high school cross country. More » -
#highschoolsports
Improper Stitching Costs Cross Country Team A Title
There are dumb rule violations and then there are dumb rules being violated, and I'm not sure if I've heard of any regulation stupider than the one that cost a Baltimore high school a county cross country championship. More » -
#crazypeople
Sore Hamstrings? Get Your Legs Amputated!
Ultra-marathon runners have terrible problems with their toenails, so some choose to get them permanently removed. Or! And I'm just throwing this out there....don't run 150-mile foot races? [NYTimes] -
#running
Marathoners Never Trained (Get It?) For This
Simon Sawe had a commanding lead entering the final stretch of the Des Moines Marathon, when he was held up by a passing train. That's when the runner in 2nd caught up. Then the runner in 3rd... More » -
#running
As If Skirt Chasing Wasn't Competitive Enough Already
A "5k race series bringing fitness, beer and flirting together," in which the women get a 3-minute head start and the men take off in pursuit, is called — yes, the SkirtChaser5K. Paging Jezebel. [RandBall] -
#running
Run For Your Life At The Baltimore Marathon!
Today's Baltimore Marathon route passed with one block of 13 different crime scenes where city residents were murdered in 2009. Alphonce Yatich from Kenya and Iulia Arkhipova from Kyrgyzstan were the only survivors. [Baltimore Sun via Bob's Blitz] -
#running
Fascists Sponsoring Marathons Now, Apparently
By the time you wake up tomorrow, you might be the winner of Milwaukee's Lakefront Marathon. Because every time they declare a victor, they turn around and get disqualified. More » -
#duan
Jerry Johncock Jury-rigs Johnson While Jogging
A runner may be disqualified from winning his age group at a marathon this weekend, because he got illegal assistance from a spectator. And by "assistance," I mean a urinary catheter that he used to drain the main vein mid-race. More » -
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#bostonmarathon
Boston Marathon Winners Shockingly Not From Boston
Ethiopia's Deriba Merga (he's the guy) and Kenya's Salina Kosgei (the woman) won the Boston Marathon today. An American finished third! How cute! (That's second place writhing in agony on the ground, FYI.) [AP; Star-Tribune] -
#running
An Alcohol-Free Bay To Breakers? What?
Event sponsor ING, San Francisco Police decide to ban alcohol at this year's Bay to Breakers run in San Francisco. So, what's the point, now? [Sports Rubbish] -
#whimsy
Donuts And Erin Andrews Shall Sustain Them
Hunter Pless, 21, is the letter 'R' as he and his friends spelled out 'Erin Andrews' during the Krispy Kreme Challenge charity run at North Carolina State on Saturday. [WRAL]
