How are you Seattle guys getting your runs in? Running out in the street? Sidewalks and trails are a foot deep in snow.
How are you Seattle guys getting your runs in? Running out in the street? Sidewalks and trails are a foot deep in snow.
You are not going to make it out there.
The section of the Burke that I live by has about a 1 foot wide section of trampled snow that's okay for running. Other than that it's the treadmill. Miserable for actual training, can't get a decent workout (haven't for over a week).
Wisenheimer wrote:
You are not going to make it out there.
Made it in around 4 hours ago. The people at the airport were damn glad to see my plane arrive. I feel sorry them. They looked pretty haggard.
God dammit people like you ruin our earth !
Boo hooo it snowed it Seattle , what kind of shit are you going to complain about next ? the coffee ? the f***in coffee isnt any damn good ?
furious with you wrote:
God dammit people like you ruin our earth !
Boo hooo it snowed it Seattle , what kind of shit are you going to complain about next ? the coffee ? the f***in coffee isnt any damn good ?
Geez, what brought that on? I am just shocked at the amount of snow Seattle has. It's too deep to run on any of the streets where I am.
How the hell am I ruining our earth?
Seattle rarely has snow. Some, sure, but it's not too frequent.
And, although it's frequently overcast, it has about half the annual precipitation that NYC, for instance, has.
BTW: Global warming, my eye.
The coffee's kinda lame. You roast it too dark out there - you taste the roast, not the bean. It's a good way to get something pretty drinkable out of crappy beans, but it's also a good way to get something merely pretty drinkable out of the really prime beans. Your guys should come to NYC for some graduate courses with the master who got 'em started so they could launch your little scene out there, Brooklyner Don Schoenholt of Gillies. He certainly doesn't overroast those f***ers.
Maybe send your snow removal people out here for a lesson as well.
The snow is no problem. There are still good places to run. The rain later this week will take care of the removal. The people who complain the most are the transplants. Real Washington people don't complain about the weather.
jean wrote:
And, although it's frequently overcast, it has about half the annual precipitation that NYC, for instance, has.
Don't know where you got this from, but from weather.com it's much closer:
New York: 46.33
Seattle: 38.25
http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USWA0395?from=month_bottomnav_undeclaredhttp://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USNY0996?from=month_bottomnav_undeclaredNew Yorkers are full of themselves and their crappy city. You East Coast people stay where you are and we'll stay where we are and everybody will be happy.
i hate when people compare east coast snow to west coast snow. its completely different. snow on the west coast gets wet and sloppy in the day, and freezes at night, making the roads a nightmare. the east coast stays below freezing for several days, thus not creating alot of ice. therefore, snow is much easier to handle over on the east coast.
as for running over here, it sucks, im running occationally and waiting for it to pass.
have not missed a run wrote:
Real Washington people don't complain about the weather.
Not in my experience. I moved directly from Minneapolis to Washington. Winters were downright balmy in WA compared to MN, yet people in WA complained exponentially more about cold weather.
Drifter in the dark wrote:
Not in my experience. I moved directly from Minneapolis to Washington. Winters were downright balmy in WA compared to MN, yet people in WA complained exponentially more about cold weather.
Those people are transplants. Californians and such.
Friends from the NE, MW and even AK agree that the winter chill here (Often mid-high 30's and drizzle) is often tougher than the dryer cold of those areas. Certainly none of them downplay our winters- they are the real thing, for the most part.
blahblahblah wrote:
Those people are transplants. Californians and such.
There is reason to believe this.
American Community Survey 2007 by the Census Bureau:
Washington ranks 40th in percentage of population born in state with 53.6%
10th-Minnesota 73.8%
11th-California 72.5%
2nd-New York 82.1%
1st-Louisianna
http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/info/census/ACS2007/acs_2007_geo_comp_and_rankSome car sprayed slush all over me yesterday whilst on my run. It sucked.
Drifter in the dark wrote:
have not missed a run wrote:Real Washington people don't complain about the weather.
Not in my experience. I moved directly from Minneapolis to Washington. Winters were downright balmy in WA compared to MN, yet people in WA complained exponentially more about cold weather.
I lived in Spokane which gets it worse then Seattle. Running in snow is easy. I actually enjoyed it occasionally. It's usually not slippery, it easily moves away as your legs glide through it, there is rarely ice below the snow, and you can tell where people have been and what not. You are a pussy if you cannot handle the snow and live in areas where it does snow. As for the comment above, I moved to SD to get the hell away from that crappy situation. Funny thing is that living in the PNW I was such an outdoors man, but here in SD, all I do is stay inside. Go figure. Truthfully, I'd move back up the the PNW in a second if I could.
Go inside the Dempsey and run laps, and if one of the coaches are there they'll let me use the Alter-G.
What's really pissing me off is the lack of snow removal. It wouldn't be so bad if the Seattle Powers That Be hadn't been in the news congratulating themselves for getting the snow off the main streets - which they kind of did, but the side streets/surrounding areas are slicker than snot. The public "transit" system is running maybe 50% of its buses; Sea-Tac airport "ran out of de-icer" in two days (they're supposed to keep a week's worth) leaving thousands stranded (can't get in OR out), and Greyhound turned all its stranded passengers out the other night when they closed the station. They said the passengers could go to a homeless shelter; problem was no one told the homeless shelter, and the shelter wouldn't let them in. Took 3 hours of these people standing out in the cold before the cops arrived and transported them elsewhere. Not to mention the charter bus sliding down a hill, crashing a barrier and hanging over the interstate (complete with passengers inside) because "they didn't know the road was closed." Complete cluster phuque around here. Yet all the nanny staters keep telling us to give up our cars and use mass transit. I think not.