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Chronicles of The Wanna Be Track Star (PART 2)

I went to San Jose for July 4th weekend to visit family. Long story short, I got involved in verbal fisticuffs with my father and kid brother about who is the fastest sprinter! My father leads us all to this track at a local high school. The entire family is out there. I pull up to the school and lil bro and pops are already on the track warming up. I get out and look for the entrance and have no luck. I ask and am told "you gotta hop the fence! We are trespassing!! Hop over!"

Wait, WHAT???

So I hop the fence, which is a good ten feet high. I start doing my warm up around the track. After one lap they start huffing and puffing for me to hurry up. "We need to get this over with so we can get out of here before the cops come!!!"

Wait, WHAT????

So now I'm afraid because I know what happens when you get on the track without warming up. So I get on the line between my pops and my brother. My uncle is at the finish line holding his arms up.

READY, SET, GO!!!

I'm out son!! I got out so fast, I looked back to see my competitors behind me. My brother is about 6'4". His long legs are turning over and he is keeping up, but they are moving pretty slow! My dad was just simply off to a poor start! Ha!!! I'm out! Look at me! Hahaaaa!!! Now its time to really take off and turn it on. Let's show these suckas what I've been learning out there on the track with my coach.

I make moves to go into the next gear and POP!!!!! My hamstring!!! Ahhhh!!!!! It was like my tire blew out! I veered to the right and fell completely off of the track! My pops makes it about 25 more meters and looks like he is running out of gas and then he pulls up!!! He is limping now down the track.

My brother jogs through the finish line laughing with his hands up. He is the only one to finish the race. How crazy is that? Well that is not the crazy part. The crazy part is picturing the two injured dudes trying to hop back over the 10 foot fence!!!

Well it was sheer comedy to say the least (and keep this blog entry short). We have already set the date for a rematch in December. I will be ready then. I'm rehabbing my hamstring right now. I asked my coach if he thought I was delusional. Should I hang up my spikes? Am I tripping? Should I find a new hobby? He keeps it real, so I was relieved to hear him say, "Doc you are a sprinter. You can do it. You have a tremendous amount of fast twitch muscle!!! You just were not race ready and you didn't get a good warm up!"

So its back to the drawing board.