Once Upon a Time

[Black wallnut]

1981 My oh my how time changes us! I once had hair!

[gsmittle]

Back in '81 not only did I have hair, I was a lot thinner! Ever since then, somebody shrinks my clothes...

g.

[Whaler]

This was during the 1975 Fur Rendezvous in Anchorage AK. I had hair then too.

[Ed62]

If the only thing you guys are losing is hair, count your blessings.

Ed

[cabinetman]

This was during the 1975 Fur Rendezvous in Anchorage AK. I had hair then too.

Dick, you haven't changed much. Maybe a little less hair, but the mustache was a nice touch. Let your eyebrows grow long and just comb them back...problem solved.
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[Pappy]

I still got hair, but the wife dies a few strands gray every night wile I sleep!

[germdoc]

I still got hair, but the wife dies a few strands gray every night wile I sleep!

Pappy I hope you meant she "dyes" a little in her sleep, not "dies" a little.

[Wood_workur]

I've still got a lot of hair... and none are gray....

[ironhat]

I've still got a lot of hair... and none are gray....

...and we hate you for it!! LOL!

[crokett]

I've still got a lot of hair... and none are gray....

Me too.

Mark, that looks like you were running a cross country race. What kinda times did you run? Somewhere I have a similar pic of me looking impossibly skinny.

[BobSch]

I kid LOML that I had NO gray hair before I met her.


Of course, that was 35 years ago...

[Black wallnut]

Me too.

Mark, that looks like you were running a cross country race. What kinda times did you run? Somewhere I have a similar pic of me looking impossibly skinny.

David, the best time I could find was 16:46 for a 3 mile course. Up here most all of the cross country courses have several hills. Times really do not mean much. I was consistantly the #4 or #5 runner for my school as a senior. In CC only the top 5 runners from each team score, so a team is only as good as its 5th place runner. We won some and lost some.

In track my junior year I had a great season. Spokane, WA back then had lots of distance runners with many in my own school. I placed second in the 1600m with a time of 4:36, in the junior varsity district meet. This time placed me within the top 16 throughout the district for all runners. That same season I also ran a 1:56 800m and a 10:32 3200m. The 1600m is about one yard short of one mile. If the race would have been a full mile I would have likely won; I was so strong at the end and the other guy was fading so bad. I'm told I still have the School JV mile record and will likley for years to come.

[crokett]

Those are pretty good times. My best 1600 was a 4:53. My best 800 time was a 2:01. I don't think I ever broke 17 in the 5k and I was always the 6th man. I ran great times as a freshman/sophomore. I just never got fast enough as I got older. Where I grew up your 4:36 mile would have gotten you 4th or 5th in the league championships.

[rja]

In 1978 I ran my first and only marathon in Pittsburgh. Now, several pounds heavier and with a case of plantar fasciitis in my left foot and bursitis in my left hip, if only I could run (or even walk) free of pain again . . . .