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#22 ·
After a 5K race, I had a woman come up to me and ask what my finish time was. I told her, and she said "I was trying to catch up to you but I couldn't do it". <img alt="smile.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/smile.gif"> My finish time is still my current PR at 29:42. Slow compared to many runners, I will always be a mid-back packer but she made me feel like a winner with that comment.
 
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I'll never forget, a couple of years back I was running the neighborhood and some young guys drove by. They came back by a second time and the passenger leaned way out of the window and yelled, "Hey... do you go to East Lake (High)"? I thought... oh how he would be embarrassed if he knew I was old enough to be his mother!
 
#27 ·
After running at the local HS track last summer a woman asked if I was training for a race and said that my legs looked nice. I was excited to be recognized as a runner since I'd only been running for a few months at that point. Later my boyfriend told me he thought she was hitting on me...<img alt="uhoh2.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/uhoh2.gif"><br><br>
My boyfriend honks if he drives by me on a run, does that count?
 
#28 ·
hehe, that's funny. <img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif"><br><br>
I've had a few people call out to me that I'm "brave" while I ran in cold temperatures. It always adds a bit of spring to my step. <img alt="smile.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/smile.gif">
 
#29 ·
On morning runs we always pass this other runner (an older guy who I swear is out there at 7AM every single day) and say hi. One day he stopped and had a nice conversation with us. He just told us to keep it up. <img alt="smile.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/smile.gif">
 
#30 ·
When I was on a 20-miler, at a crossing a guy on an old bike asked me how much I was running. I said 20 miles, and didn't get a response. Just a stare. By the time it went green, he muttered something like he couldn't even bike that far.<br><br>
After the Chicago Marathon, on a hot day, a guy in my neighborhood told me I shouldn't run in that weather... what, I don't watch the news? I told him I was just heading back home, around the corner. He was relieved. I was just finishing 16 miles....
 
#32 ·
I get honks from guys all the time when I run in certain areas.<br><br>
I'd been running about 3 months, getting my runs in on the 1/2 mile industrial park where I work during my lunch break. generally the same cars and trucks drove past on a regular basis. Once a guy stopped and asked me how much weight I had lost.
 
#34 ·
I would call this an insult because being a diehard Buckeye fan, I don't like the guy, but I was told a few times that I look like Tom Brady. Then the kid proceeded to follow me on his bike and tell me over and over how I really really look like him. A few weeks later I was out for a walk with my wife and the kid was playing accross the street and started yelling "MR. BRADY, MR BRADY" Kelli decided that this running thing I've been trying to get her to do might not be such a bad idea and we picked up the pace.<br>
Ok, so I guess that one's kind of scary...<br><br>
Probably the best one I can remember was at the county meet Freshman year in high school. I was in the process of passing a guy from another team and he said "you're just a freshman right? heck of a runner." Don't know why but that one kind of stuck with me.
 
#35 ·
I was running on a cold day last week when someone started to honk their horn. I looked and waved because they were waving. Fastfoward to later that night when I met some friends out for drinks. One of my friends started calling me Jack Frost! She explained the kiddies she nannies for saw me running and started to call me Jack Frost because my goatee was frozen with huge ice chunks!<br><br>
Maybe not the nicest thing but still pretty dang funny.
 
#37 ·
Wow! You guys encounter nice people on your runs. When I do get comments they’re usually yelled from people in cars saying something like “Get the hell off the road jackass!”<br><br>
Dan
 
#39 ·
Once, when running at the local lake, a couple men on bikes rode along side, and one said "We've voted you 'nicest hair' at the lake today."<br><br>
That was strange.<br><br>
Another time, I was passing an elderly man walking, and he said "boy, you sure are quiet!" I took that as a compliment because, in my mind, I was huffing and puffing loudly!
 
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