Clydesdale - you're just fat
PR - the correct and only acceptable term is PB
Jogger - actually this is ok if you *are* a jogger, but I am a *runner*
Controlled - as a description of pace or effort
Clydesdale - you're just fat
PR - the correct and only acceptable term is PB
Jogger - actually this is ok if you *are* a jogger, but I am a *runner*
Controlled - as a description of pace or effort
LSD - Long Steady Distance pace (The drug references get old)
CR - Championship Record (just stick to meet/meeting record)
U20/U18 - Under 20 / Under 18 .... (Uh Juniors)
Running like [insert animal here] - (Since when is a race an African Safari)
"Run Forest Run" (Please just no)
Any distance over 400m being called a "Dash" (It's Run lol)
bwakem wrote:
Clydesdale - you're just fat
PR - the correct and only acceptable term is PB
Jogger - actually this is ok if you *are* a jogger, but I am a *runner*
Controlled - as a description of pace or effort
OK, don't call me a jogger either. The rest I'll have to disagree on.
PB - way harder to say than PR and you just sound pretentious
meeting - same as above just with meet instead of PR
carbohydrate wrote:
"Championship Style Race"
"Tactical" race.
There is nothing "tactical" about being determine to jog the first 1100m no matter what.
I can't stand when people say/write cross for cross country. The rest listed in this thread don't bother me that much.
Howard Dean wrote:
Going home DEVASTATED.
^ That's merely LRC troll speak. NOT an actual running term.
Roger Murdock wrote:
Calling cross country "cross".
Calling a marathon a "thon" or "mary".
Fartlek. Spare the juvenile jokes.
"Training through". Shut up, please.
Calling a rocky trail "technical". This one really makes me want to vomit.
quote]cnj wrote:
I can't stand when people say/write cross for cross country. The rest listed in this thread don't bother me that much.[/quote]
Exceptions and modifications:
"USATF Club Cross" is okay and I'm willing to get into a fistfight with the likes of you over that exception. [Meet me at Club Cross this fall, and we'll have at it you arrogant POS MFer!]
Fartlek is a Swedish word that has been around in running for many many decades. Jokes aside, it's here to stay.
"Training through". Shut up, please. - okay fine
Calling a rocky trail "technical". This one really makes me want to vomit.
Took me years if not >decade to figure out what they meant by "technical" but now it's ingrained. If you were a skier you'd differentiate between icy, packed, and powder--not just say I skied on "snow." Likewise, trails have varying conditions. Rocky, rooted, muddy, smooth gravel made from crushed volcanic lava, etc. But get your point. I blame cyclists and triathletes for that BS.
Bib used to refer to a Race number.
Ackley wrote:
Bib used to refer to a Race number.
People referring to their 'number' when it actually has their name on it and no number at all - usually just elite road races.
Great, at least the retarded kids have their own thread.