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[Proud violent zealot]

Gosh, that sounds like a terrible race experience X(. I wish I could help but I can't because I'm not in college yet. Speaking of spikes, I also have a question for you guys...how long do spikes last? Should I get a bunch at once or is one set good enough to last a while?

[Proud violent zealot]

Hey guys! Do you have any inspirational, funny, or clever running quotes! Post them here and I'll put them up in the front!

[Unicowrn]

Gosh, that sounds like a terrible race experience X(. I wish I could help but I can't because I'm not in college yet. Speaking of spikes, I also have a question for you guys...how long do spikes last? Should I get a bunch at once or is one set good enough to last a while?

Um I'm kind of obsessed with spikes so I buy a new pair of Nike Zoom Victories every season (it's really bad...) but I have friends who run fine in spikes that are three or four years old (like, the shoes).
If you mean the actual metal screw-in spikes, though, I usually only change mine once every four or five races during running season. I'm a distance runner, though. My sprinter friends change their spikes a lot more often.

[Unicowrn]

Hey guys! Do you have any inspirational, funny, or clever running quotes! Post them here and I'll put them up in the front!

Oh my goshhh my coach gives the best advice. The day she ran a marathon and gave my team a speech inspirational enough to make us all cry, I ran my season PR and my friend finally got her varsity letter, which she had been trying to do for two years xD

[kitykitywldchld]

Quotes, you ask for?? Lol, on our XC team we have quite a bit. One that I can think of off the top of my head is, "Real athletes run, everyone else is just playing games."
Oh, another is, "Pain is weakness leaving your body."
Haha, I love the XC running quotes so much. Lol, have you seen the ones about being sexy but instread being 'xc' or 'sexc'? They're usually on the back of shirts.

[Proud violent zealot]

Gosh, that sounds like a terrible race experience X(. I wish I could help but I can't because I'm not in college yet. Speaking of spikes, I also have a question for you guys...how long do spikes last? Should I get a bunch at once or is one set good enough to last a while?

Um I'm kind of obsessed with spikes so I buy a new pair of Nike Zoom Victories every season (it's really bad...) but I have friends who run fine in spikes that are three or four years old (like, the shoes).
If you mean the actual metal screw-in spikes, though, I usually only change mine once every four or five races during running season. I'm a distance runner, though. My sprinter friends change their spikes a lot more often.

Thanks! I'm a distance runner too, but I also do the 4x400. I did mean the metal screw in spikes.

@rainbowjack
hahaha yes, I did see the SeXC one XD

[Unicowrn]

I looked up runner pick-up lines...

"You run faster than my nose in allergy season!" LOL
"Are you tired? Because you have been running through my mind all day!"

[Unicowrn]

I was also MVP for varsity girls which I didn't expect at the beginning of the season O_o.

That's so funny... the same thing happened to me my freshman year. My time (for a 5K) went from a 30something in September to a 23:30. I run 21s now, and I want to break 21 so bad!!
I still can't enter races, though... still healing from costochondritis. I haven't been able to train for 6 weeks >.>

[kitykitywldchld]

@Unicowrn: Haha, love the runner pick-up lines...

Do you guys design shirts for your team? Like sweats.

@Unicowrn: that sounds terrible! 6 weeks of no training??! I'll pass on that... There was a girl on my team who had that planter thing going on in her feet, and she missed running for 6months.../: Hopefully you're going to keep running when you get better?

[Proud violent zealot]

Haha one of my teammates is a state champion for XC and his training is so intense the coaches make him take 2 moths off after every season so his body can heal. He absolutely hates it.