Should I try to keep training at a summer camp where running is banned?

Quit scouts. You won't regret it.

scouts is for losers.

autoxfil wrote:

Quit scouts. You won't regret it.

Ignore this fool.

Do what you can, safely. Be resourceful. Camp remains one of my best memories. City boys, pretty boys, and mamas boys may not appreciate it, but they are the exception.

Why is running banned?

My last year I went to basketball camp I ran about 10 miles a day. I would sneak off the backside of the college campus. That was before my soph year in high school. I quit basketball after that year and my running really improved.

scoutee wrote:

autoxfil wrote:

Quit scouts. You won't regret it.

Ignore this fool.

Do what you can, safely. Be resourceful. Camp remains one of my best memories. City boys, pretty boys, and mamas boys may not appreciate it, but they are the exception.

Yeah, I can imagine nothing better than being in a situation where people are so controlling that you can't go for a run before the day's schedule begins. If I had the chance to go to a conference that advertised that I'd be thrown out if I did a morning run, I'd jump all over that.

Trollus Maximus wrote:

Why is running banned?

If you're familiar at all with scouts, you know that they will do anything to prevent a lawsuit.

And to they guy who said I should quit scouts, I'm so close to eagle right now that that would be really dumb.

I'd do it. If they have issues remind them that they are telling you not to do a health activity. You are doing it at a time that the trails are empty and does not get in the way of other activities. I might tone down the volume a bit because you will be doing a lot of other physical activities.

And if you get kicked of a scout camp for running you could turn it into a musical starring Kevin Bacon.

https://youtu.be/3T2FpCDlyNg

How can they ban an activity that is required for the Physical Fitness merit badge? If you get caught, plead ignorance and tell them you were just trying to fit in one more merit badge.

Or is this camp held in a place that is so insanely hot that the no running rule is actually kind of a good idea? In that case, you may want to consider doing 10 days of hard-core swimming as cross-training instead. If you do that, your fitness probably won't suffer too much.

scoutee wrote:

City boys, pretty boys, and mamas boys may not appreciate it, but they are the exception.

Or people who prefer to enjoy the wilderness without being in a herd. One eagle scout I met was shocked that I venture into the woods and climb mountains solo. I was shocked at his lack of understanding self sufficiency.

Have you talked to the people who run the camp to see if you can get special permission or something?

If you dont run for 10 days it won't be the end of the world, but you will lose fitness.

Getting up early to run shouldn't be problem.

On an unrelated note, why are there several boys who move through the ranks of Boy Scouts to become Eagle Scouts. However, Girl Scouts are very popular, but I've never heard of a girl becoming the equivalent of an Eagle Scout or whatever the female version is called.

Patches wrote:

Getting up early to run shouldn't be problem.

On an unrelated note, why are there several boys who move through the ranks of Boy Scouts to become Eagle Scouts. However, Girl Scouts are very popular, but I've never heard of a girl becoming the equivalent of an Eagle Scout or whatever the female version is called.

after some brief research the highest ranked a Girl Scout can achieve is called the gold award

(Girl_Scouts_of_the_USA)#After_earning_the_Gold_Award

Turd Ferguson wrote:

scoutee wrote:

City boys, pretty boys, and mamas boys may not appreciate it, but they are the exception.

Or people who prefer to enjoy the wilderness without being in a herd. One eagle scout I met was shocked that I venture into the woods and climb mountains solo. I was shocked at his lack of understanding self sufficiency.

Do you wear a giant hat?

Turd Ferguson wrote:

scoutee wrote:

City boys, pretty boys, and mamas boys may not appreciate it, but they are the exception.

Or people who prefer to enjoy the wilderness without being in a herd. One eagle scout I met was shocked that I venture into the woods and climb mountains solo. I was shocked at his lack of understanding self sufficiency.

Yeah, I'm sure the world is just overrun by Eagle scouts who are shocked by the idea of someone going into the woods by yourself. I mean, who has ever heard of such a thing!? What a tool!

There are bigger problems here than not being able to run for 2 weeks. First, you're in scouts, in high school!??!?????!!!!

You need to decide if you want to be an xc runner or a pg version of an outdoorsman.

Patches wrote:

but I've never heard of a girl becoming the equivalent of an Eagle Scout or whatever the female version is called.

Oiselle member.

Two things you can try - insurance is indeed the problem so if you can find an adult counselor at the camp who would run with you that could help. You'd be supervised that way.

Or you can just do interval training for 10 days - 10 x 90 seconds can be done in camp quickly, or 10 x a hill if there is one in camp. You would keep much fitness if you did those workouts every other day.

Scouts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuUju1IzLXM