“I’m so fast, son, I caught this fish, cleaned it, cooked it and ate it in the time it would have taken you all to catch me.”
I blame it on X-Box.
It has sucked the life out of a nation, producing slower and slower runners as the years go by. When the zombies come, the couch potato teens will be the first to go.
This is the only conclusion I can draw from today’s 1A boys’ state cross country meet, where Dillon Quintana of Mount Baker just won the race in 15 minutes, 51 seconds, edging out Tom Bradley of Blaine.
Which is nice, until you realize that, just two years ago, a strapping young harrier from Coupeville, one Tyler “I Will Crush Your Soul and Laugh!” King won the same event, over the same distance, on the same course, in 15:16.9.
Those 35 seconds are an eternity in cross country.
Tyler would have already cooled down, had a sandwich, sent a few emails and maybe, possibly looked at his homework from Mrs. Ballard, just for fun, before Quintana and the rest of the stragglers showed up at the finish line.
Simply put, no zombies are catching Mr. King, who now runs at the University of Washington, any time soon. That’s just not the Coupeville way.
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