Did you run track?

[_dave_]

Ran my first marathon 2 years ago at age 51 and ran 3:49, died on the last 6 miles.

Also did my first marathon in 3:49 2.5 years ago but age 41 at the time. My best marathon so far was on the day that we should have beaten PSU. Finished 3:25 that day and then hours later watched the game in the hotel on my iPad. I'll be running my first 50K this coming August on a beautiful but very difficult course.

 

[RUBlueLot]

CBA - I was on the C team

400 - 62
800 - 2:06
Mile - 4:42

 

[PRH_RU]

Morris Hill's has had some great track and field teams over the years.

Coach O'Leary did the runners and Coach Niclerio "helped out" and taugh technique for the field guys. Coach Nic actually helped out on both Rutgers and team USA field teams. Man knows his stuff.

I went out for track junior yrs after the team graduated it's top throwers the year before. Steped right into the shotgun and disc. Can not remember disc number but it was in the mid 140s. Shotgun PB senior year was like 54 and change. I couldn't get the technique down so I more often then not just muscled it out.

 

[silent willie]

I ran for Rutgers in the 90's. Got me a letter, too. :)

 

[HollywoodRUFan]

All high school times.
16:59 5K at Garrett Mtn
49.9 400
55.5 400 IH
1:57.5 800
4:30 1600

 

[Ruthinking]

Some pretty impressive times here.

I ran at Livingston HS in the 70's. We had very little coaching and we're always outclassed by Morris Hills and Parsippany distance runners. I was able to run a 4:42 mile on a cinder track. I thought about running at Rutgers but found my true love in rowing on the crew team.

(What would a 4:42 mile equate to in the 1600?)

 

[koleszar]

I was a weight man as we called it. Like others, football players generally did track. Our weight guys were good and went undefeated a couple years in a row. Our coach was very good and we lifted a lot. As for me I truly sucked. I was the third best discuss guy got some 3rds and just barely qualified for my letter. My PB was like 118 ft., shot put I will not reveal it was awful.

 

[RUBand]

Ran the 2 mile, 1 mile, without success, tried the 440, did ok (55.4 PB), was getting a few thirds. Cross country was more fun (basketball was my main interest, ran to build up my legs, get into shape).

 

[SkilletHead2]

50' in shot
120' in discus

Once beat RU in freshman track in the hammer throw!

Didn't really come into my own until the past half dozen years. I am currently NZ masters champion in the hammer throw and silver medalist in the discus (had a winning throw on my last attempt and foot fouled by about 1/8 of an inch -- couldn't believe they actually called it). That is, for my age group (65-69). Also silver in the shot.

When I was a frosh at Princeton, the captain of the track team was a guy named Steven Weed. Anybody remember that name? (Nice guy.)

 

[1stand3rd]

Ran HS track and cross country in mid-70's, then with the Shore AC into the mid 80's.
I loved running the summer series at Lake Takanassee.

1m - 4:30
2m - 10:17
5k - 16:45
5m - 28:12
10k - 34:54
15k - 52:50
1/2 Marathon - 1:17:19

 

[newell138]

Some pretty impressive times here.

I ran at Livingston HS in the 70's. We had very little coaching and we're always outclassed by Morris Hills and Parsippany distance runners. I was able to run a 4:42 mile on a cinder track. I thought about running at Rutgers but found my true love in rowing on the crew team.

(What would a 4:42 mile equate to in the 1600?)

about a 4:44

 

[knights1212]

Jack O'Leary grew up just 2 blocks from me in Linden. We were good friends. I think I was 1 year older than him. He went to Essex Catholic and than Villanova where he was on a National X_C winning team. I have not seen him in quite a few years but he had a great coaching career.

 

[Scarlet dollar]

Shotput for Highland Park 1968-70. At 50', I was third man on our small group2 school!! One kid was over 60', and my best friend was at 55'. We swept every dual meet, and went 1-2-5 in the county meet. All about the coaching.

 

[RU76COOK]

I ran cross country as a junior & senior on the very first team that Linden ever had. We were the 12th best team in NJ my senior year. LHS has never come close again to what our senior year team accomplished in only our 2nd year of having a team. Four of our top 8 runners became cross country coaches. I played baseball in my junior & senior years in the spring and we did not have a winter track team. I ran 13:20 for X_C which was 2.5 miles at that time. In college I ran 20:31 for 4 miles. My twin brother and I had half scholarships our last 2 years and were the first two X-C runners in the history of Bellarmine College in Louisville, Ky. to ever earn 4 varsity letters. We both became high school coaches. My twin coached Trinity H.S. in Louisville and is in Kentucky's State Coaches Hall of Fame for both Baseball & Cross Country. He passed away from cancer in 1998. I coached X-C for 36 years at Edison H.S. and was indicted into the New Jersey State Coaches Hall of Fame (NJSIAA) in 2002 at the Pines. We both had a better coaching career than running. I only tried the NYC Marathon once and ran 3:27.49 with very little training. I know I could have broken 3 hours but at Edison I was the head coach for both the boys and the girls teams and I did not want to train with my runners as I would be neglecting the other runners on my frosh and JV teams and the girls varsity if I trained with the boys. I was coach for everyone. My training was done usually at 9:00-10:00 PM for any marathon training. Now I am 71 and I only walk a lot.

Congratulations on a great career and induction the the HOF.

 

[32prosper]

4th in nj in the javelin

 

[beaced]

Discus also goes from 1.6kg to 2.0kg.

Sorry, but I am an Old School American. Ounces and pounds. Inches ,feet and yards.NOT LITERS,METERS AND PETERS(Let the rest of the World adjust to us)

 

[JoeRU0304]

I just played football and rowed in HS but always had great respect for track and field. My friend Anthony ran CC and ran Winter and Spring track. He spent 2 years trying to get me to join Winter track. My older brother was an All-NNJIL/ All-County football player at RB/S and also All-County/ All-Conference wrestler, so Ant figured I was fast too...little did he know there was a reason that at 5'6", 155-160 I was a lineman. In sprinting events you probably could have timed me with a sun dial and I while I had decent strength for my weight, I probably wasn't going to really challenge the 250 pounders who dominated our throwing events at the time either.

 

[rubaseball78]

I never ran track so don't have any times but was fast enough to be courtesy runner for the catcher when I wasn't pitching. My younger daughter was timed in 2.6 seconds home to first (60 ft) and 9.6 seconds home to home (80 yards but not in a straight line).

 

[RU848789]

Sorry, but I am an Old School American. Ounces and pounds. Inches ,feet and yards.NOT LITERS,METERS AND PETERS(Let the rest of the World adjust to us)

You do realize how archaic and obtuse the English system is, don't you? For anyone in a technical field, the SI (metric) system is 1000X better. Although I still prefer mph for speed and inches for snowfall.

 

[REDRICH65]

Started spring '61 doing sprints and javelin 'cause my best buds were on track team. After not placing in first 3 duel meets, quit track and was welcomed back on baseball team where I played CF, batted cleanup and finished senior yr with .322 ba and 14 stolen bases. Would never have earned a track letter.

 

[Veiox]

Unfortunately, I abandoned track when I went to Montville for HS. I suffered from sever's disease in 7th and 8th and had enough by the end of JHS.

My PRs are for 8th grade:

LJ 17-1
TJ 36-4
HJ 5-2
110H 16.42
400 58.2

 

[saran]

Threw discus until sophomore year. I only did it to get a third letter and then retired (football and swimming were other two). I always regretted that even though I only reached 125 feet or so. Track & field is a cool team to be on.

 

[mychaljohn]

I'm haunted by the Almosts.

100m: 11.7
LJ: 6.05m (almost 20')
SP: 13.7m (almost 45')
HJ: 1.97m (2 almosts: 6.5 feet and my height)
400m: 54.1
110H: 15.8
Discus: 45m (almost 150')
PV: 12'6"
Javelin: 53m (is 173' some kind of milestone?)
1500m: 4:48

Funny story. One of my kids had a kindergarten project to measure things all around the house, including family members. I clock in at 6'4 1/2". I immediately say, "No way! Measure me again!" Several more measurements all get me just under 6'5".

So as the family is having fun with the idea that Dad is "deflating," my older son, knowing that it's always bothered me that I never jumped my actual height, points out that I can finally say that I jumped my height...to which the middle son notes that "Dad only jumped his shriveled height."

 

[mikershoein]

400 m- 52
800 m - 2:05

I ran against Syracuse and later Cleveland brown WR Kevin Johnson in the 400 at the Camden relays, needless to say my coach put the wrong time on my entry card to race in his heat( think he ran a 49 that day in 1990)

 

[Scarlet Craig]

After reading the thread on Melton's track results earlier, I thought it would be interesting to see how many of us ran track in high school or college and if any of its were any good. So, if you ran, threw, or jumped, post your best times here.

My bests:
100 - 11.1
200 - 22.4
400 - 51.0

For one season but I mostly napped in the pole vault pit.

 

[RUTGERZ_R00LZ]

I was really small, but I could out-run bullies that wanted to beat me up. So I went out for track my freshman year in HS. They had a need for low hurdlers. At 5'0" the low hurdles was like a high jump. No times to report.

 

[BLewis1968]

I was really small, but I could out-run bullies that wanted to beat me up. So I went out for track my freshman year in HS. They had a need for low hurdlers. At 5'0" the low hurdles was like a high jump. No times to report.

A low center of gravity is great for the 200/leaning the turns. Just ask Reggie Smith! (21.3 at Seton Hall Prep in '85; can't remember what his times were at RU).