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General Discussion => Other Discussions => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: z80man on March 06, 2011, 01:49:18 am
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I was wondering if anyone here participates in any sports at their schools. This thread is for discussing any sports that you do and some of your memories from there. It is not for starting a war on which sport is better. And as a note to Americans, remember that this is an international site so for the sake of simplicity please refer to soccer as football and football as American football.
For me I do distance running. In the fall I do cross country and in the spring I do track. In fact today I had my first track meet of the season and set 2 PR's (personal record) In the 1600 meter race (about a mile) I ran a 5:20 and in the 4x800 meter relay I ran a 2:28 for my leg of the race. In cross country our races are 3 miles (just under 5km) and are on various terrain including hills, mud, and sand. My PR for that is 18:40 which I am just about to set in the picture below. I'm hoping that next year my team wins the league championship.
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/xcfc.jpg)
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i'm a swimmer/runner. I'm not in high school yet and since I just transfered to the school I'm in I can't join athletics. I hope to be able to compete with my school in high school. I used to swim competitively and i have a few good/bad memories from that.
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@z80man is it a picture of you btw? Or is it just an example to show the sport?
I personally don't do sports anymore, although I do walk a whole lot when I am at work outside. Back when I went to school I liked football and hockey, although I mostly played at school since most of my friends didn't do much sport outside school.
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I fence.
I used to do cross-country and track, but quit after realizing that I was horrible at both.
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i am also going on a 100 mile 7 day canoeing High Adventure trip with my boy scout troop this summer. w will be going through the wilderness without seeing anyone else for day. I really have to get in shape for this. there will be a lot of heavy carrying things between lakes in Minnesota/Canada.
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@z80man is it a picture of you btw? Or is it just an example to show the sport?
I personally don't do sports anymore, although I do walk a whole lot when I am at work outside. Back when I went to school I liked football and hockey, although I mostly played at school since most of my friends didn't do much sport outside school.
Yes that is s picture of me about to finish a cross country race. After running a race you feel like you almost killed yourself. That's why I look so pale in the picture. And I probably won't do any sports outside of high school. I might compete on a college team, but you have to be really good to make those. Otherwise I will just run in various 5k's, 10k's and marathons after I graduate.
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Ah ok thanks for clarifying :D. And I absolutely hated running. They made us run during 25 minutes at school and it was hectic. X.x
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I've enjoyed playing various sports, but not on any school team. I always signed up for gym classes though, even if they weren't mandatory. I did basketball,football,tennis, volleyball, badminton and others. I also did weight lifting from junior high to high school every year.
As of now I jog 2.5-3 miles 5 days a week. Gotta keep fit right? I'm going join a gym soon so I can lifting weights again and go swimming (I love to swim :D) .
My brother's actually a very fast runner. His mile run time was in the low 5 min mark as well. My best that was timed was about 7:20. Not really sure what I could do today as I do longer distance, and more for the exercise than anything, but I'd wager I could do faster.
*edit* caught speeling mistakes :P
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For me, I am not very active at all.
The only "sport" I participate in is bowling about every other week...
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Football (soccer) all the way!
Table-tennis and regular tennis also. ;) pretty much any game using rackets, actually
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His mile run time was in the low 5 min mark as well. My best that was timed was about 7:20.
Lucky. My best mile time is about 12:18.
I don't do sports, though I used to be in a bowling league back when I lived in Germany. I attended 2 youth championships and placed 17th in one of them.
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CC
Tennis
Track
Pole-Vaulting (pr is 10)
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Does Starcraft count as a sport? In South Korea they play tournaments in stadiums like major sport leagues. ;D
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Oh, I also play Math, I'm a "Mathlete" :P
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Oh, I also play Math, I'm a "Mathlete" :P
This is me too
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I thought I'd bump this with an update. Two days ago I decided to time my run. I did my usual 2.5 miles. The total time was 20:10. This ends up being an average of 4:02 per lap (it's a half mile track) or 8:04 per mile. Yesterday I upped my pace a bit and ran 2.5 miles in 19:10. This cut of 12 seconds per lap average or 24 seconds per mile. Average lap time comes to 3:50, or 7:40 per mile. With these numbers I'm certain I could blow my old mile time of 7:20 out of the water. :) I'm going to give it a try today if it doesn't rain. I'm aiming for about 6 mins, but we'll see how it goes. :)
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I think my best mile time was 6:12 or so. But now it would probably be like 6:30 or 40 due to a few weeks of not constantly running :P
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i'm a swimmer/runner. I'm not in high school yet and since I just transfered to the school I'm in I can't join athletics. I hope to be able to compete with my school in high school. I used to swim competitively and i have a few good/bad memories from that.
Another swimmer :D/me high fives
yes, I swim competitively. My best event is the 100 yard butterfly, pr 59.13 seconds. Other events I do well in are the 100 freestyle (54.8), 100 back (1:04.72), and the 200 Individual Medley (50 yards each of fly, back, breaststroke, and freestyle. pr; 2;16:48)
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I haven't swum competitively for about 2 years. My best time was 38.?? in 50 meter freestyle and 48.?? 50m breaststroke
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*Update* Well I got around to doing a benchmark for my mile this past Thursday. I managed to complete a mile in 5:57. Hooray! My back was giving me some trouble when i started running, so I wasn't able to go as fast as I liked at first, but I tried to make up for it a bit later on in the lap. It did throw my pacing off though. I may do this every couple of weeks just to see where I'm at. Since I surpassed my goal of 6 mins or less, I'm aiming for 5:30 next. :)
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*Update* Well I got around to doing a benchmark for my mile this past Thursday. I managed to complete a mile in 5:57. Hooray! My back was giving me some trouble when i started running, so I wasn't able to go as fast as I liked at first, but I tried to make up for it a bit later on in the lap. It did throw my pacing off though. I may do this every couple of weeks just to see where I'm at. Since I surpassed my goal of 6 mins or less, I'm aiming for 5:30 next. :)
Bump. :)
Holy cow, that's amazing! My best time is 6:27.
I do some table tennis, which I'm fairly good at, and some tennis, which I suck at. I also do marching band, and used to run, but I had to drop it to accomodate band. I also do Tae Kwon Do (black belt, 2nd degree), and am a mathlete :)
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I am on my schools wrestling team, so I wrestle.
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I do karate しょーだんーほ, track (5:28 mile) , pole-vault, tennis, chess (it's a sport), Cross country, academic team (sport?).
Is Tae Kwon Do fun? It is an offensive martial arts correct?
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I do karate しょーだんーほ, track (5:28 mile) , pole-vault, tennis, chess (it's a sport), Cross country, academic team (sport?).
Is Tae Kwon Do fun? It is an offensive martial arts correct?
Yeah, I do enjoy it. My sister takes karate, and they seem rather similar.
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Well I feel lame only doing one sport.
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Marching Band ftw! I play marching snare :)
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oh ya, I marched the bassoon before my teacher started hating me.
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^ did you really ? I play bassoon and am very aware of how impractical it is to try and march such a beast.
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That deserves a +1 for playing bassoon and calling it a beast :D
Love them. I made a hand rest (wood) , instead of paying $15, so I made it loop a little so i could hold it up easier. Had a neck strap, but it made it too hard to breath.
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really? that's pretty cool. did you get to march in any parades/shows?
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I take taekwondo too. I'm now at the second degree level. And since this thread got reinstated I've set a new personal record for the mile. On my last track race of the year at league prelims I ran a 4:59 shattering the 5 minute barrier ;D
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Marching Band ftw! I play marching snare :)
Urgh, a drumliner :P
Im on the marimba this year :)
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really? that's pretty cool. did you get to march in any parades/shows?
our school football games. I don't march during marching season :P
@z80man.
Nice!
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Drumline! :w00t: and I guess pit is ok... :)
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5-8 hours standing and walking(no rest nor seat down(yeah, build up your stamina and endurance pretty quick)) at a job. 4 hours of running a week. 10 hours of math a week. 15 hours of chess. 10 hours of language learning. 2 hours of being irritated.
If you all seriously want to break your time record in track or whatever. Try get a lowly job part time as a custodian at a mall or construction worker (drilling and digging) working without rest. In a month, running feel like a breeze. Also, working in these fields makes your brain easily learning from books too. You feel tired but you are focused and slightly increase your brain power absorption.
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I am a swimmer.
i'm a swimmer/runner. I'm not in high school yet and since I just transfered to the school I'm in I can't join athletics. I hope to be able to compete with my school in high school. I used to swim competitively and i have a few good/bad memories from that.
Another swimmer :D/me high fives
yes, I swim competitively. My best event is the 100 yard butterfly, pr 59.13 seconds. Other events I do well in are the 100 freestyle (54.8), 100 back (1:04.72), and the 200 Individual Medley (50 yards each of fly, back, breaststroke, and freestyle. pr; 2;16:48)
Wow, I wish I went a 54! Is that yards or meters? The best I go is about 57 in the 100 free.
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*Update* Well I got around to doing a benchmark for my mile this past Thursday. I managed to complete a mile in 5:57. Hooray! My back was giving me some trouble when i started running, so I wasn't able to go as fast as I liked at first, but I tried to make up for it a bit later on in the lap. It did throw my pacing off though. I may do this every couple of weeks just to see where I'm at. Since I surpassed my goal of 6 mins or less, I'm aiming for 5:30 next. :)
Bump. :)
Holy cow, that's amazing! My best time is 6:27.
I do some table tennis, which I'm fairly good at, and some tennis, which I suck at. I also do marching band, and used to run, but I had to drop it to accomodate band. I also do Tae Kwon Do (black belt, 2nd degree), and am a mathlete :)
Thanks! ;D I backed off on running for a bit, I really need to get back doing it again. =)
@Z80man: Nice time bro!
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I thought I might as well revive this topic since we have been discussing sports on IRC. I'm a swimmer and I used to run, but I don't compete or run much anymore.
Now for the bragging part(Though I'm not sure how good some of these are) :P
100 breaststroke 1:22.71
100 freestyle about 1:08
50 freestyle 0:29.00
50 breaststroke 0:35.97
100 backstroke about 1:37 I'm not great at it. I hate back
My coach says I could take 6 seconds off my breast time by fixing my turns and working a little on my stroke. I also could do with a little more stamina to take that 100 free time down.
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Hmm.... sports.
I played soccer in 7th grade, but I hated it.
Yup.... that's about it :P
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I once played soccer (I was never good at it, though). I did swimming when I was younger because the elementary school had everybody swim on Friday's. I was never allowed to do Track or Cross Country (or any other sports after elementary school-- my parents always said "no"). However, two years ago in a phys-ed course for cross training, I brought my mile time down to 2 miles in just under 10 minutes. Let's just say that I am very tall with very long legs ^^ Now I cannot even run a mile without tiring out XD
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I once played soccer (I was never good at it, though). I did swimming when I was younger because the elementary school had everybody swim on Friday's. I was never allowed to do Track or Cross Country (or any other sports after elementary school-- my parents always said "no"). However, two years ago in a phys-ed course for cross training, I brought my mile time down to 2 miles in just under 10 minutes. Let's just say that I am very tall with very long legs ^^ Now I cannot even run a mile without tiring out XD
umm... it's like you just looked at my sports-related history and copied it directly XD
i got 2 miles in just under 10 minutes during soccer practice, though, not phys-ed, and the swimming was at the YMCA
I thought I might as well revive this topic since we have been discussing sports on IRC. I'm a swimmer and I used to run, but I don't compete or run much anymore.
Now for the bragging part(Though I'm not sure how good some of these are) :P
100 breaststroke 1:22.71
100 freestyle about 1:08
50 freestyle 0:29.00
50 breaststroke 0:35.97
100 backstroke about 1:37 I'm not great at it. I hate back
My coach says I could take 6 seconds off my breast time by fixing my turns and working a little on my stroke. I also could do with a little more stamina to take that 100 free time down.
how the heck do so many people freestyle faster than they breaststroke? that kick is worthless (for me, at least).
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I thought I might as well revive this topic since we have been discussing sports on IRC. I'm a swimmer and I used to run, but I don't compete or run much anymore.
Now for the bragging part(Though I'm not sure how good some of these are) :P
100 breaststroke 1:22.71
100 freestyle about 1:08
50 freestyle 0:29.00
50 breaststroke 0:35.97
100 backstroke about 1:37 I'm not great at it. I hate back
My coach says I could take 6 seconds off my breast time by fixing my turns and working a little on my stroke. I also could do with a little more stamina to take that 100 free time down.
Another swimmer here! I'm retired now (not swimming actively right now, and probably won't because college is D1 and varsity is too good) but some of my times are were
100 free: 52.9
50 free: 23.9
100 fly: 56.8
100 back: 1:01.4
200 fly: 2:05.6
200 IM: 2:09
400 IM: 4:39
100 breast: 1:14
Hey, you're pretty good at breaststroke :O no seriously, relative to your other times 1:22 and :35 is really good. i bet if you worked hard on it you could get really good. (I never was a great breastroker :( )
For the 100 free, the biggest piece of advice I have is BREATHE ON THE FIRST 50! I could've done much better in my last few meets and probably gotten under 52 but I would always jump in and be like YEAH I FEEL AWESOME and breathe like 4 times in the first 50 and go out like a :25 then get tired and come back a :28 :(
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Another swimmer here! I'm retired now (not swimming actively right now, and probably won't because college is D1 and varsity is too good) but some of my times are were
100 free: 52.9
50 free: 23.9
100 fly: 56.8
100 back: 1:01.4
200 fly: 2:05.6
200 IM: 2:09
400 IM: 4:39
100 breast: 1:14
Hey, you're pretty good at breaststroke :O no seriously, relative to your other times 1:22 and :35 is really good. i bet if you worked hard on it you could get really good. (I never was a great breastroker :( )
:O Those are great times. Your better than pretty much everyone at my school at freestyle. You also do good at back and fly. We don't have 200 fly or a 400 im so I can't compare on that.
23 is the best time that people get at our meets for free, and everyone thinks they are absurdly fast.
Thanks on the breaststroke. I hope I can get even better. I spend most of my time in practise on it and endurance.
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My best event relatively is the 200 fly, I qualified for my state junior olympics with that time :D I'm OK at free I think, I went that 23 once in a relay but never went under 24 again haha.
Know who's absurdly fast? This kid. High schooler, WTF
This video also is quite amazing/funny:
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We had one swimmer at a meet last week that swam the 500 free as butterfly(He got 4th place). It turns out that actually is within the rules. I'm not sure what his time was, but it was 6 min or less. The whole crowd gave him a standing ovation.
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Know who's absurdly fast? This kid. High schooler, WTF
Was that a tool-assisted speedrun and/or was he using Action Replay codes? :P
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Wait, in the second video, is that actually allowed (swimming underwater the whole way)? If so, I could totally do that o.o I can swim the distance of a pool under water, plus a little extra :D
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Wait, in the second video, is that actually allowed (swimming underwater the whole way)? If so, I could totally do that o.o I can swim the distance of a pool under water, plus a little extra :D
I can do a 25 like that, but I'm not sure if I could do a 50. I don't have any 50m pools though to practice on.