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  • pgjacksonpgjackson Posts: 18,711 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited February 9

    Forgot to mention....around 98 or 99ish in the Marines I scored the winning TD in the NAS Pensacola Captain's Cup Championship flag football tournament. Jeff Speedy, former Kentucky QB, was our QB (he was waiting to go through flight school). He threw me a perfect quick slant that I took in for the winning TD.

    This was actually a big deal because the "School's Command" typically won this tournament because they were all Navy and Marine junior officers and mostly former college athletes waiting to go through flight school. Speedy was assigned to our Marine unit by pure luck. Super cool guy with an absolute CANNON of an arm.

  • pgjacksonpgjackson Posts: 18,711 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited February 9

    It was! I still have the trophy. I was the QB for the team for 2 years before Speedy got there. I was happy to give him the ball. That guy was a freak athlete.

  • pgjacksonpgjackson Posts: 18,711 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    19:30 was my best ever 3 miles. I was typically a 23 minute guy. I hated running. I was a very good sprinter, usually one of the fastest guys on all my teams, but hated distance running.

  • swilkerson7317swilkerson7317 Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited February 9

    @pgjackson Good story. Spent some time in Pensacola myself my Grandfather was a Navy lifer. He would have stayed in had they let him till he died.

    The Naval Aviation museum there is first class.

  • donniemdonniem Posts: 6,904 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    As a XC/track coach I'm impressed by your 17:40 for 3 miles. I'm pretty sure Marine basic is not designed to produce fast milers/3 milers. So, kudos to you. I do recall breaking 6 minutes for the mile at ROTC camp after my junior year in college - in combat boots. However, I'm not at all sure of the distance on our "track" - it was simply a dirt loop. Might well have been short of 1/4 miles and, hence, short of a mile.

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