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| Photo by Dr. David Litrenta |
There aren't many photos of me from that era. It wasn't my style. This one was taken by a patient of mine and presented to me today as partial payment for the visit. I think that may be my mom in the background, although I may be wrong on that. Maybe my sister will help me out on that one. The other shadow was my best friend Dan Spangler who I cropped out of the photo because none of you would have been able to pick me out if I kept him in it. By the looks of things, this was right before Districts of my Senior year. I had just run a lead-off 2:01 Half and 4:27 Mile. My Coach wouldn't let me run the 2 Mile or the 880 Y that day, so I think that accounts for the smile.
Zoom in on the socks to see the "peds", complete with the little ball in the back, my preferred footwear at the time.
No, I don't think that's mom sitting on the curb in the background. She was most likely sitting in the bleachers holding your cold drinks!
ReplyDeleteDave, I think your coach let you run the 2 Mile that year. You won in a record 9:22.21.
ReplyDeleteMom went to all my meets but never actually watched me run, she was so nervous. I now know how she felt watching her namesake in the recent WITF Spelling Bee. I hated having to watch that. I was more nervous than I used to get during a basketball game having to "bring the ball up". I was never nervous at all for running.
ReplyDeleteAnd that District record still stands! (They started running the 3200 M the next year.)
That singlet looks like a medium...did you order that from a store in Glenolden?
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