Does anyone else have a hard time finding women who can even maintain 7-8 min/mile on a typical run?

single lady wrote:

does LetsRun have a personals section for lonely runners? I'd hit that up.

Yes. The entire forum.

themanontherun wrote:

Anyway, we're engaged now, so I got that going for me, which is nice.

On a side note, my fiance does browse letsrun, and she knows I post under this name, and she knows I troll under another name for fun, but she doesn't know what it is. She doesn't seem to mind.

Who is it? There are only three options:

1. TXrunnergirl

2. xcrunnergirl1 or whatever

3. xenonscreams

I'm going with #3.

I'm totally in the same situation. We started school here (also a grad student) and there is a new girl (1st year grad student) who is pretty fast (ran D1 in undergrad). She's fit, and I can tell that a lot of the guys are interested with her. Thing is, there is one of her and typically anywhere from 4-10 guys that show up for runs...

I'm not the fastest, but most of us aren't that far apart in terms of time. How do I be the one who hits it off with her? And would it be weird for one of us to date her when the rest of us guys are all friends? I feel like it would be awkward if there was a break up.

You don't need to be in a serious relationship if you can't handle "compromising" your running by running with your SO at a slow pace.

I'm not the fastest, but most of us aren't that far apart in terms of time. How do I be the one who hits it off with her?

There is only one way... Gobble gobble.

Dude, just do them on the treadmill

I've been in this situation before. In fact, this is how I met my wife. Granted, it was in the gym, but still, she was running on a treadmill at 10:00+ pace and didn't appear to want me or any other sweaty geeks interrupting her.

So speaking from experience, I can tell you that this method has worked in the past and will probably work again.

You need to execute an "up and under shuffle". It's simple to adminster and will yield positive results.

Step 1. Casually walk up to her treadmill from behind.

Step 2. Carefully step up onto the sides of the treadmill, straddling the actual moving part. There should be enough room on each side for you to place each foot.

Step 3. (This is where the name "up and under shuffle" comes from) Carefully insert each of your arms between her sides and her arms without being detected. This is tough if she's running fast because the arms might be moving rather quickly, but easy in your case. You don't want her to know you're there yet, so it is a little bit like playing "operation" when you were a kid. Once in this position you are ready to execute the maneuver. You're going to want to cup each breast from behind and start shuffling them up and down in a moderately aggressive fashion while licking the back of her neck.

Don't thank me, I'm sure you would have thought of this on your own eventually.

If she can run her easy runs with you, she'll dump you, or at least cheat on you. Women want superior men, not pu$$ies. Forget what your lesbian feminist teachers told you in school.

Hardloper wrote:

themanontherun wrote:

Anyway, we're engaged now, so I got that going for me, which is nice.

On a side note, my fiance does browse letsrun, and she knows I post under this name, and she knows I troll under another name for fun, but she doesn't know what it is. She doesn't seem to mind.

Who is it? There are only three options:

1. TXrunnergirl

2. xcrunnergirl1 or whatever

3. xenonscreams

I'm going with #3.

All three of your guesses were wrong!

themanontherun wrote:

On a side note, my fiance does browse letsrun, and she knows I post under this name, and she knows I troll under another name for fun, but she doesn't know what it is. She doesn't seem to mind.

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but if your fiance browses letsrun then she is in fact a he

The situation is pretty similar where I live. In my area there are about 5 women who could break 19 (excluding the university teams) and about 50 men who can break 16, including me. All 5 of the women are in relationships or engaged and the slower women do not take their training seriously (not really anyone around between 19-22, maybe a handful, but mostly just real slow people who run maybe 20 miles a week with walk breaks). Unfortunately since I'm a year past grad school knowing the university women does me no good (too old for them or they'd be dating someone from their university, not someone who lives here for work) and most of them quit running or leave the area after college.

Within my small group of coed friends it's always the women who push the pace sub-8. Most of us guys would run around 8 even or just over, but there are three women in the group who typically run sub-8 and if even one of them shows up to the run we all end up going that pace because somehow it seems good manners to default to the female's preferred pace.

I totally get it.... wrote:

How do I be the one who hits it off with her? And would it be weird for one of us to date her when the rest of us guys are all friends? I feel like it would be awkward if there was a break up.

Be funnier, more interesting, and genuine than the rest of them. And also have really nice abs, women like that sh it

I totally get it.... wrote:

I'm not the fastest, but most of us aren't that far apart in terms of time. How do I be the one who hits it off with her? And would it be weird for one of us to date her when the rest of us guys are all friends? I feel like it would be awkward if there was a break up.

Wow, you're a loser. You'll regret that you didn't make a move when she picks someone else. Probably she's already screwing some of your friends while you sit at home playing with your wiener.

I've lived in two different cities where there were women who ran the Sunday long runs with the guys. In both cities the women always set the pace. And god forbid two women are in the group, because the pace always got ridiculous then. Worse than having a one-stepper in the group.

A few years ago I was running around 19 mins for 5k and my gf at the time ran around 21 so we were able to do runs together. Sometimes I had to watch my pace a bit, but it was never a big deal. It was ok but not so great that I would actively search it out. And once I started getting faster it started being more and more annoying having to run her pace, yet she expected that we would keep running together.

Having a girl into general fitness is great, but being able to run 7-8 min miles isn't anything special. It is nice having someone to go to races with, but as far as the actual training, who cares...

whatev7 wrote:

^^^^^^ Haha love caddyshack

The running store I referenced earlier just brought in some of these...

Take note of the style description.

Depending on the distance 7-8 mpm is a training for a competitive female runner. When I coached H.S. XC, the girls did their long runs beween 7-8 minutes. In fact, a female that can run 10 miles at 7 mpm is a Footlocker qualifer. In your average local 10K raod race, the top females are only running a little under 7 mpm. When I was a competitive runners, I never expected any female to run with me on anything that resembled training.

...sounds like you need to date an NCAA all-American

I'm female, I run under 19, and my easy pace is still on the upper end of that (7:45-8:00 pace). There are women who are a lot faster than me who also seem to default to the same easy pace. I'm not sure why, but it's true.

I've only ever run with my boyfriend while warming up for a long race or cooling down after a hard workout, so that we were both going so slow it didn't matter. He is a low-15 guy. I don't mind. It's nice to be able to jog with him, but it's also nice not to have to spend every moment together, and we train with different motives.

You could maybe pace some not-as-fast women on a long tempo. I paced my sister on some marathon-pace runs and it was nice.