I pay a lot of lip service to not caring about medals. Tied in to that, I don't really save my bibs... or do I?
I was going through an old filing cabinet this weekend, and I came across a most peculiar cache:
Bibs. Loads of them. Loads and loads of them. Dating from 2002-2003.
And other stuff! Like... the back of this bib:
(Do as I say, not as I do, and do NOT try this at home.)
And what's that in the background of my stress fracture bib? Why, it's Frank Shorter's signature, of course! Two different bibs autographed by my heartthrob, Frank Shorter:
And one by AlbertoSaladbar Salazar:
And Jackie Joyner Kersee, even, looking all '90s:
And, lest you think that last weekend's victory was an anomaly, here's proof that it wasn't:
That is a printout (whose direction I don't know how to rectify) of the time I took 2nd in my age group. At a local 5k, yes. And sober, too!
I think the take home message here is quite obvious: I've always had the tendency to race frequently. And J-Jo-Ke needs a new haircut.
I was going through an old filing cabinet this weekend, and I came across a most peculiar cache:
Bibs. Loads of them. Loads and loads of them. Dating from 2002-2003.
And other stuff! Like... the back of this bib:
(Do as I say, not as I do, and do NOT try this at home.)
And what's that in the background of my stress fracture bib? Why, it's Frank Shorter's signature, of course! Two different bibs autographed by my heartthrob, Frank Shorter:
And one by Alberto
And Jackie Joyner Kersee, even, looking all '90s:
And, lest you think that last weekend's victory was an anomaly, here's proof that it wasn't:
That is a printout (whose direction I don't know how to rectify) of the time I took 2nd in my age group. At a local 5k, yes. And sober, too!
I think the take home message here is quite obvious: I've always had the tendency to race frequently. And J-Jo-Ke needs a new haircut.
Not one, but two Frank Shorters? And Saladbar? AND you were racing with a stress fracture but wrote about it on your emergency contact? You're kind of a running big deal.
ReplyDeleteI love this post. Love love love it. In part because I ran so many of these races with you. But mostly because I had no idea that you wrote the stress fracture note.
ReplyDeleteI actually thought about your stress fracture yesterday and how it served as a great example of my strategy for Sunday. My hamstring is healing nicely, thanks to generously administered NSAIDs. I remembered that you were told once that you could take up to 20 Advil in 24 hours before the dosage became toxic strain on your liver. Do you think I'll need that many to get through 30K? How much confidence do we have in my liver?
I'm going to do a light jog tomorrow and if all goes well...we will be running Around the Bay on Sunday! Wooohoooooo!
I am too sentimental to not trash my bibs... but they are one of the only things I keep.
ReplyDeleteWere you going to write about the Shorter write-up in RW? I vaguely remember you writing about that.
"I have a stress fracture in my tibia" ?????
ReplyDeleteYou may be a marathon maniac if....you ran a marathon with a stress fracture and felt the need to write that on your bib in case you REALLY got hurt?