{"id":2776,"date":"2012-02-10T08:15:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T13:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2012-02-10T08:15:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T13:15:56","slug":"nice-calf-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2012\/nice-calf-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Calf Definition"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not really sure who said it first or why it\u00a0continued, but it really freaked Christy out when we hung out with my former cross-country buddies and they would comment on my calf definition. \u00a0The first time someone ever mentioned it was maybe my sophomore year when a teammate made the comment that my legs were starting to get some muscle definition, what a compliment – right?<\/p>\n

After that I think it became a joke. \u00a0Maybe it was an insider thing. \u00a0Another time I remember it coming up was after we all shaved our legs. \u00a0The idea was to improve performance. \u00a0Some where someone said that removing all<\/strong> the hair off your body can help decrease your core body temperature by 2 degrees. \u00a0The important part of that\u00a0sentence\u00a0was ALL of your hair and who really cares if you lower your core body temp by 2 degrees in a 5 mile race? So, whatever, a bunch of us spent the evening shaving our legs \u00a0and our legs looked hot! Or something like that.<\/p>\n

Remember we were 15 guys,\u00a0constantly busting our guts together forming a quasi-fraternity at a Christian college. \u00a0Shaving our legs was fairly extreme! And you better believe the soccer players in the next locker room loved to\u00a0harass\u00a0us!<\/p>\n

But I digress… \u00a0So yes, I have (had) nice calf definition. \u00a0It would have been nice if it turned into more running speed, but oh well!<\/p>\n

This post was spurred on by the #dailymission<\/a> question:\u00a0What is the best compliment anyone has given to you pertaining to your sport?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not really sure who said it first or why it\u00a0continued, but it really freaked Christy out when we hung out with my former cross-country buddies and they would comment on my calf definition. \u00a0The first time someone ever mentioned it was maybe my sophomore year when a teammate made the comment that my legs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[506,615,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","category-daily-mission","category-my-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-IM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":790,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/week-in-review-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":2776,"position":0},"title":"Week in Review","author":"crossn81","date":"November 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This was an interesting week.\u00a0 It went by fast and I had a few random meetings and stuff along the way. 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