Joggers bounce up and down at stoplights; runners stand still and look pissed.

you win...i almost spit a sip of coffee all over my keyboard when i envisioned a 130lb twig in split shorts and no shirt flexing at cars as they pass by. haha!you should throw in some push-ups to get more veins to pop out of your arms!

excollege guy wrote:

I just stand there and flex

smd wrote:

At NYC in 2010 I was exiting the park the morning before the marathon and saw Gebrselassie exiting. In the few blocks from the park to his hotel, he jogged in place at stoplights at least twice.

Maybe joggers make up stupid dichotomies and runners just do their thing.

You kept up with G for a few blocks? Right.

OJ wrote:

smd wrote:

At NYC in 2010 I was exiting the park the morning before the marathon and saw Gebrselassie exiting. In the few blocks from the park to his hotel, he jogged in place at stoplights at least twice.

Maybe joggers make up stupid dichotomies and runners just do their thing.

You kept up with G for a few blocks? Right.

Yeah, the G would have been going pretty hard jogging at the lights to keep up with.

fawks wrote:

Truth?

Enough said.

It depends how busy the street is, but I try not to stop. There's only one busy intersection with a stoplight on my main route since I moved, so that's not bad. It's about 3/4 mile from my apartment, so the perfect opportunity to stretch. Sometimes it does seem like the longest light ever and I do get pissed.

I only like to dart across if the road is clear and I'm by myself. I can't stand it when I'm running with others and half of them make it across and the others get stuck. It's too dangerous for several people to "run" the red light.

fawks wrote:

Truth?

I stop at stop lights but it's not that big a deal. If I want to keep moving, I'll run to where I can cross. But if it's an easy run, I just wait. Calmly. I run in places where I don't deal w/ too many lights--also any hard workouts are usually on a track or marked bike trail. No shoe companies will chase me down for a contract either way, so why worry?

I do high knees in place.

Don't have any of those stop lights in my parts but I do come across the occasional train. Knowing most trains take about 1 minute 30 seconds to get by, (even though it seems like 5 when waiting in a car)I just turn around and run for 45 seconds. When I turn back around and get to the tracks, the train has just passed.

pretend I'm a mime trapped in a box

Y'all is how losers talk wrote:

5000pr= 14:57 and I jog in place. For the record.

Same exact PR, and I think jogging in place is a little too anal for me. I have no problem stopping if the road is full of cars. So much for runner/jogger theory.

There's a route I like to run tempos on that has a light. I always cross my fingers as i approach. In spite of my superstitions a few times i havent been so lucky. Walk or don't walk, i tread quickly through the intersection. People riding in their cars must think im a lunatic, and they're justified. Sitting here thinking about it, its seems a little demented to risk my life running in front of 2 tons of moving steal just to save my workout from an interuption. Nevertheless, there's a tempo scheduled for next week, and i have no intentions of stopping.

Now that i think about it, I rarely stop. To be sure i use a brand of interpreted caution when the stakes arent so high, but i dont stop. I consider myself to be a runner which means the OP is wrong. Runners dont stand looking pissed, unless of course their literally pissing (real runners abhor stopping, no matter what the reason). Runners, true runners, piss off motorist who hazard to drive on their route.

zamboomba wrote:

Y'all is how losers talk wrote:

5000pr= 14:57 and I jog in place. For the record.

Same exact PR, and I think jogging in place is a little too anal for me. I have no problem stopping if the road is full of cars. So much for runner/jogger theory.

I have a faster PR than both of you, and thus outrank you. My orders: quit jogging in place like a jim ficks impersonator, quit boasting your prs like they give you more credibility, quit stopping for cars.

your dismissed.

Seneca wrote:

zamboomba wrote:

Same exact PR, and I think jogging in place is a little too anal for me. I have no problem stopping if the road is full of cars. So much for runner/jogger theory.

I have a faster PR than both of you, and thus outrank you. My orders: quit jogging in place like a jim ficks impersonator, quit boasting your prs like they give you more credibility, quit stopping for cars.

your dismissed.

You're*

Y'all is how losers talk wrote:

5000pr= 14:57 and I jog in place. For the record.

Pointless and stupid.

Flagpole's 5000 PR is 14.57 and he is pointless and stupid too.

dfkjasdfas wrote:

Y'all is how losers talk wrote:

5000pr= 14:57 and I jog in place. For the record.

Pointless and stupid.

Flagpole's 5000 PR is 14.57 and he is pointless and stupid too.

And your PR....?

Hobby-jogger wrote:

I stop my Garmin at the stoplight, and I don't run an inch if I can't log it. If I don't stop my watch and run in place, the average logged pace will be worse. That's not an option.

Why don't you use the auto pause feature?

I read once that Fam does pull ups hanging from the "Don't Walk" sign when he gets stopped while rockin' around in NYC.

Legend Dairy.

your professor wrote:

Seneca wrote:

I have a faster PR than both of you, and thus outrank you. My orders: quit jogging in place like a jim ficks impersonator, quit boasting your prs like they give you more credibility, quit stopping for cars.

your dismissed.

True. There are however quite a few nutjobs that almost seem to speed up regardless of the lights. Had a Benz just miss me by an inch. I knew I would make it. He knew I would make it. Almost a dare kind of mentality. The guy that said frogger or chicken is right.

You're*

Doesn't (or didn't) Fam do pullups on the crosswalk lights? I tried that once. Did one pullup, barely, then had to lean over until the feeling came back in my arms.