I have a similar story from the early 60s at Ohio Wesleyan. We were coming in from an easy road run down a slight grade into town running on the road near the curb. We were cruising at a really good clip when I noticed a Cadillac at a side street about to turn right (we were coming from his right). His eyes were looking left since he knew there was no traffic coming in his lane from the right. Just as we got to him he decided to make his turn and that's when the fun began. I should have been a stunt man, because I hit the top of his long Cadillac hood on my butt, slammed by palms as hard as I could on the hood, leaving some neat impressions, and sliding off the other side continued on never missing a stride. He slammed on his breaks, cleaned the shit out of his pants and didn't move for the longest time. Mean while we just continued on like nothing was wrong. What a great feeling. Moral of story - look both ways before you pull out.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randy Treadway Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Why on the street? - car tromping: "Once a Runner" Well I was in the group that it happened to, and "did it", in 1976 in Troy, Alabama. I suspect that, given enough stories of drunk people swerving at runners, runners have picked up on the 'revenge' angle, and done it (running over a car or pickup trick) whenever they have the opportunity, as justifiable. After so many years, I don't remember who in the group I was running with came up with the idea and said "hey, there's the guy- let's run right over his truck". In my memory, it was pretty much a spontaneous reaction when we saw him sitting at the stop light. So it's probable actually happened several (or many) times. Who knows- maybe Batchelor and Shorter were the first. Give them credit among distance runner lore for paving new ground, like Dick Fosbury. As a matter of fact, give it a name like the Fosbury Flop- "we caught the guy at the next intersection and Batchelored him". You'll have to explain to young runners what "getting Batchelored" means. RT RT On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:38:22 -0400 Geoff Pietsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Parker told the story of Shorter and > Bacheler in both non-fiction > and fiction ("Once a Runner") versions, as I > recall. No spikes though, just > running shoes - and red necks. That really > happened, to the best of my > recollection, and all the other versions have > followed from it. Geoff > > > >From: ghill > >Reply-To: ghill > >To: track list > >Subject: Re: t-and-f: Why on the street? > >Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:01:46 -0700 > > > >there's also a story, probably apocryphal, of > Shorter and Bacheler running > >in spikes on a golf course and some guy pulled > a car in front of them (not > >sure how the car was on the course, hence the > apoc. nature), and supposedly > >they ran right over the hood and left a score > of spike holes. > > > > > From: "nad wilson" > > > Reply-To: "nad wilson" > > > Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:16:59 +0000 > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: t-and-f: Why on the street? > > > > > > sounds like something slinger sanchez did. > > > > > > > > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>> and a few miles later on the > > >> outskirts of town, we came up to an > intersection where the > > >> same guy was waiting for the light to > change, and our entire > > >> group ran right up over the top of his > pickup, the last guy > > >> stomping extra hard on his hood. > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Join the world's largest e-mail service > with MSN Hotmail. > > > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: > http://mobile.msn.com > >
