How fast were your parents?

If they didn't run track what did they do?
My dad ran a 11:something (I ran that my first time and I always rub it in his face) two mile and played soccer and my mom did nothing.

my dad was a hurdler so were a little different. however i got him into running and he is improving his 5k rapidly.

my dad did track, he sprinted and was the fastest in the school, BUT he thought it was dumb and quit. So he use to coach tennis and he did football

my mom did nothing because they didnt have it where she lived and she has really bad knees.

my dad was a pretty good swimmer.
and my mom was a pom-pomer and she twirled the baton for band, lol.

RUNxxWILD07 wrote:my dad was a pretty good swimmer.
and my mom was a pom-pomer and she twirled the baton for band, lol.

my mom did that too.. lol arent they cool ?

My dads friend convinced my dad to do a 5k one day in college and he ended up running sub 17 off no training. He ran one recently though and ran like 26.

my dad was a geek, never played sports.

my mom never played sports, now she's overweight.

Neither of my parents ran in high school or ever. I think they were both skiers and I'm pretty sure that was it.
My mom actually did just run a 42 minute 5k.
I use this as an excuse as to why I suck.

AudienceOfOne wrote:my dad was a geek, never played sports.

my mom never played sports, now she's overweight.

i still have some talent though, so i guess it's possible to be good w/o good parents.

baby got track wrote:Neither of my parents ran in high school or ever. I think they were both skiers and I'm pretty sure that was it.
My mom actually did just run a 42 minute 5k.
I use this as an excuse as to why I suck.

is it possible to "run" 14 minute miles?

My mom was a basketball/Softball player. She was the center on the girls high school basketball team, and center at a crappy D3 college for basketball. She was the catcher for my high school team and was all state her senior year. She played D3 softball too, and was the only girl on the team to get a hit when they played their only D1 college ever (Providence, lol) so she was decent.

My dad pretty much did the weight lifting thing and that was it athletically. He got pretty jacked when he was in college, but he had to work his way through college, so he didn't really have time for sports.

My dad quoted me a 7:00 mile from high school, and my mom said she hated running and always ran really slow when she had to for basketball and stuff.

So neither of them participated in Track/XC, but my mom was a pretty good athlete.

My Uncle was a pretty successful runner though. He didn't start running until college, and never ran competitively, but he ran like a 2:50 marathon, which I thought was pretty badass.

Aside from that though, my family wasn't huge into sports, I've got a couple decent basketball players for relatives, but other runners.

AudienceOfOne wrote:

baby got track wrote:Neither of my parents ran in high school or ever. I think they were both skiers and I'm pretty sure that was it.
My mom actually did just run a 42 minute 5k.
I use this as an excuse as to why I suck.

is it possible to "run" 14 minute miles?

No, not really, but I'm not going to challenge her when she says she ran it haha

AudienceOfOne wrote:

AudienceOfOne wrote:my dad was a geek, never played sports.

my mom never played sports, now she's overweight.

i still have some talent though, so i guess it's possible to be good w/o good parents.

Of course it is. Ever seen Alan webbs mom?

HXC_Runner2012 wrote:

AudienceOfOne wrote:

AudienceOfOne wrote:my dad was a geek, never played sports.

my mom never played sports, now she's overweight.

i still have some talent though, so i guess it's possible to be good w/o good parents.

Of course it is. Ever seen Alan webbs mom?

yea lol. i think his dad was an athlete though.

since everyone is going into detail:
my dad was a good hurdler in like junior high but he quit and pursued his good sport, wrestling. he was very good at that and im not sure but i think he mightve been top 10 in state at one point.
my uncle on my dads was an amazing swimmer. his son is now swimming at some college and transfering to D1 UND but i dont think he'll keep swimming.
my mom was a cheerleader. she lived in a hicktown though. shes a lil overweight but its not her fault its like a gull bladder problem or something.
he side of the family was horrible when it came to sports.

now that i think of it on my dads side i got some talent.

Genes skip a generation. So it really comes from your Grand Parents.

P2 wrote: shes a lil overweight but its not her fault its like a gull bladder problem or something.

It's never their fault.

And when you have a gallbladder problem, youre supposed to eat as little fat as possible.

my grandparents didn't do anything, my grandma was a cheerleader i think though.

shit, my grandparents sucked. all of them. except i think my grandpa on my dads was a good 440 and 880 runner back in his day but now he has heart problems and diabetes. he used to be a little overweight but hes on jenny craig and has lost more than 30 pounds in these 2 short months.

Running With Scissors wrote:Genes skip a generation. So it really comes from your Grand Parents.

not all the time.

My grandma used to be like a professional rollerblader or something. Idk much about my grandpa but I know he played tennis all his life.

how am I suppose to know what my g-parents did ??

well I guess my grandpapa is in his 70's and he still "runs" like 3 miles a day, and kayaks etc.. I guess he might have been athletic. no idea about anyother grandparents.

baby got track wrote:professional rollerblader

QFE

One of my grandfathers was in the Airforce, the other was a degenerate drinker. One of my grandmothers was a nurse, the other a mail woman.

one of my grandpas was in the vietnam war, so he must have been in some kind of shape.