This song and this minus the heels could be part of a racewalker’s soundtrack!

1. What’s a DQ?

2. Of COURSE racewalking and powerwalking are the same thing.

3.  I hate having knees that hyperextend, it’s such a disadvantage when it comes to staying legal!

4. Coach, can you show me how to lift more?

5. I love chafing!

6. I love large potholes!

7. My calf muscles are so small

8. YES! I got a call for bent knee!

9. Who’s Maria Michta?

10. There’s never any good racewalkers from Long Island.

11. I never knew racewalking was an Olympic sport!

12. No, racewalking doesn’t hurt…

13. yeah, it hurts much less pushing hard racewalking  than when I’m pushing hard running…

14. I’ve NEVER seen a yellow paddle

15. What does the squiggly mean?

16. My nonathlete friends ALWAYS keep up with me walking places.

17. No, my friends never yell at me for walking too fast…

18. No, of course I don’t have a meet… nor a club team meeting… yeah… I have a life… of course I’ll be there, why wouldn’t I be?

19. I didn’t PR, but i don’t care!

20. Random strangers NEVER think my racewalking looks funny.

21. My calves and hamstrings hurting? LOL! I’ve never had pain in them!

22. My shins feel amazing today!

speedyhobbit:

That hilarious moment when you get yelled at for walking too fast in the Queens College library!

speedyhobbit:

If the video works, here’s me racewalking at St. Augestine College in/near Raleigh, North Carolina! Best time since high school in 1500m racewalk woooo!! I WILL WILL WILL make my high school self look slow. Determined to.

And why yes I know racewalking looks silly haha. “Shake shake shake….”

WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE!

Ohhh my life

And my high school English teacher to me and Trisha in 11th grade: “Keep wiggling! Keep wiggling like good little hookers!”

The way I got involved in racewalking was actually me and my friend Trish making fun of it in high school and mocking what it looked like and my high school coach deciding i looked like I had potential and making me…. race it. My tenth grade self was horrified. I then raced it. managed not to come in last, though my form and time were both awful. For some reason decided to race it again, started just as awkwardly my second race… and then things clicked… a little… in the second race… enough to make me close the gap and then pass someone a bit over half a lap ahead of me. Next thing I’d won a novice meet. Next thing I knew after that, I’d qualified for Divisionals… and then just barely missed placing! 

Did I mention I was a  lazy little twat in tenth grade? Anyhoo, decided to do summer training… and just one year later, I’d broken the school record I’d once thought impossibly fast… by 40 seconds! I was shocked!

And, yeah, let’s just say I don’t mock the event anymore… though must confess, it does look funny, HAHA!

therings:

Or you know…WALKING.

Yes everyone, for those of you with the ability to walk, you too could become an Olympian. What’s Racewalking you ask? It’s walking really fast. But wait? How is that different from Running? Well, Wikipedia has your answer:

“it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times.”

(Via Erofit)

I know what you’re thinking. You’re all, “Whatever, it would be so easy to cheat at that.” NOPE you know why? Because in Racewalking there are Judges. That’s right. Judges. And they follow your ass around and hand out RED CARDS and they will crush your Racewalking dreams by disqualifying you for bad form.

A judge could also “caution” a competitor that he or she is in danger of losing form by showing a paddle that indicates either losing contact or bent knees.

Turns out disqualifications are a pretty common part of the sport, because as I would imagine it’s wicked difficult to NOT BEND your knees when you’re walking. Poor Jane Saville was apparently disqualified in front of her home crowd at the Sydney Olympics with the gold medal in sight. That sucks.

Which brings up the question which appears on the FAQ page for The Racewalking Association (UK) “Why Not Simply Run?” The RWA hears you, and they have an answer, that you’re going to want to read—

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I’m the one that’s like *braces self* On three! One, two, three, YEOWWW… oh that’s not so bad, phew/

whatshouldrunnerscallme:

I can really get my act together with racewalking. No homeowkr until Summer Session I. No excuses.

First and foremost, don’t stop training during the summer! If you stop training, you’ll lose fitness and your times will be much slower indoor track until you regain fitness. If you maintain what you have now, training even ten or twenty minutes a day, you’ll only improve. 

Also, if you can, get your parents to take you to the Walk USA clinics on Monday nights! I’ve gone once or twice, and Gary is great.

You sound a lot like me, I went from 12:53 to 9:30 (while being absurdly lazy!) and when I started actually putting in effort, BAM, I was in the sevens. I don’t know if you were like I was as a sophomore, but if you were, then remember how awesome you did with zero effort and think of what you can do if you actually try!  If you’re a better athlete than I was and put in effort, keep it up!

You should join the page High School Racewalking on Facebook. Michael Roth (an epic coach who used to live on Long Island and work with Gary) admins the page.

Also, there is a Yahoo! group here. Join it, and you’ll see lots of what’s happening in the racewalking world at all levels from high school to Penn Relays, IAAF (the international championship) and the Olympic Trials.

Good luck! [= 

How to get training and a necessary errand done at the same time? Racewalk to the supermarket. BAM, traning done AND have cookie ingredients for final Circle K meeting since I’m baking cookies for everyone as a treat!

Plus I’m hyper like mad and need to siphon off energy to focus so my mind isn’t rapidfire bouncing in all directions

fyeahrunning:

racewalkers that can walk a mile faster than some people can run it…