I lived and ran on Lake Merritt back in 1969-70. No rutted trail in the grass above the walking path. No one went by you and you went by no one because there were very few runners there.
I lived and ran on Lake Merritt back in 1969-70. No rutted trail in the grass above the walking path. No one went by you and you went by no one because there were very few runners there.
I live in Portland and a couple of summers ago I was running near Willamette park and heard a couple guys coming up talking easily. I was with some other people on a long run and we didnt change gears to APEED them which was a good move since it was Tegenkamp and Nelson. Now whenever I hear footsteps I just hope it's Tegenkamp or one of the Nike guys. I don't take offense to having the pros blow by me.
I had never engaged in egoceleration before the following scenario. When I was in college, I frequented a park in Tallahassee to do my easy runs. I ran an out and back route which contained narrow switchbacks of a sort on a brief segment of the trail.
One day, I passed a guy running with his dog just before the switchbacks began(I said excuse me as I passed him). Just as I climbed the first one, the guy and his dog pass me. Then he slows down, and since I'm running an even pace, I soon pass him. This time though as I'm passing him he picks it up and starts running along side me. I normally wouldn't mind, but the segment of the trail we were running was narrow with unstable footing and his dog was crossing into me. I started to pick it up slightly and he begins to match my pace. Admittedly annoyed, I picked it up further and as we hit the next hill, he fell back.
Two days later, just as I was approaching the switchback section of the trail, the same guy came storming out of nowhere (scaring the sh*t out of me BTW) with his dog and starts running next to me, seemingly wanting to race up the trail. I changed the route I ran for about a month after that!
Anyone else have a similar experience?
Blank wrote:
I had never engaged in egoceleration before the following scenario. When I was in college, I frequented a park in Tallahassee to do my easy runs. I ran an out and back route which contained narrow switchbacks of a sort on a brief segment of the trail.
One day, I passed a guy running with his dog just before the switchbacks began(I said excuse me as I passed him). Just as I climbed the first one, the guy and his dog pass me. Then he slows down, and since I'm running an even pace, I soon pass him. This time though as I'm passing him he picks it up and starts running along side me. I normally wouldn't mind, but the segment of the trail we were running was narrow with unstable footing and his dog was crossing into me. I started to pick it up slightly and he begins to match my pace. Admittedly annoyed, I picked it up further and as we hit the next hill, he fell back.
Two days later, just as I was approaching the switchback section of the trail, the same guy came storming out of nowhere (scaring the sh*t out of me BTW) with his dog and starts running next to me, seemingly wanting to race up the trail. I changed the route I ran for about a month after that!
Anyone else have a similar experience?
That guy just burst into my office demanding that we race to the vending machine.
This has been studied. I cannot cite the reference, but I stumbled upon it when researching something else.
The study involved a popular running loop in a park. The researchers video'd runners and measured their speed when no one was in a section of the park and then measured speed when they went past people in the park. The runners sped up when the "spectators" were around.
This sounds like a potential sniglet---see who gets that one.
Blank wrote:
I had never engaged in egoceleration before the following scenario. When I was in college, I frequented a park in Tallahassee to do my easy runs. I ran an out and back route which contained narrow switchbacks of a sort on a brief segment of the trail.
One day, I passed a guy running with his dog just before the switchbacks began(I said excuse me as I passed him). Just as I climbed the first one, the guy and his dog pass me. Then he slows down, and since I'm running an even pace, I soon pass him. This time though as I'm passing him he picks it up and starts running along side me. I normally wouldn't mind, but the segment of the trail we were running was narrow with unstable footing and his dog was crossing into me. I started to pick it up slightly and he begins to match my pace. Admittedly annoyed, I picked it up further and as we hit the next hill, he fell back.
Two days later, just as I was approaching the switchback section of the trail, the same guy came storming out of nowhere (scaring the sh*t out of me BTW) with his dog and starts running next to me, seemingly wanting to race up the trail. I changed the route I ran for about a month after that!
Anyone else have a similar experience?
Tom Brown Park?
so who's been passed by a chick on an easy run? happens to me occasionally in central park. it takes a good deal of maturity to let that happen without having your pace speed up (consciously or subconsciously). although it helps to know categorically that there are only a handful of women in the world who are faster than you, and if that's one of them, that's pretty cool.
Military_man wrote:
Blank wrote:I had never engaged in egoceleration before the following scenario. When I was in college, I frequented a park in Tallahassee to do my easy runs. I ran an out and back route which contained narrow switchbacks of a sort on a brief segment of the trail.
One day, I passed a guy running with his dog just before the switchbacks began(I said excuse me as I passed him). Just as I climbed the first one, the guy and his dog pass me. Then he slows down, and since I'm running an even pace, I soon pass him. This time though as I'm passing him he picks it up and starts running along side me. I normally wouldn't mind, but the segment of the trail we were running was narrow with unstable footing and his dog was crossing into me. I started to pick it up slightly and he begins to match my pace. Admittedly annoyed, I picked it up further and as we hit the next hill, he fell back.
Two days later, just as I was approaching the switchback section of the trail, the same guy came storming out of nowhere (scaring the sh*t out of me BTW) with his dog and starts running next to me, seemingly wanting to race up the trail. I changed the route I ran for about a month after that!
Anyone else have a similar experience?
Tom Brown Park?
Yes, Tom Brown Park. Don't tell me you're the guy?
Blank wrote:
Military_man wrote:Tom Brown Park?
Yes, Tom Brown Park. Don't tell me you're the guy?
Awkwarrdddd
+1 for soultron
norphxc wrote:
It's based on a desire to not loose a soultron.
Whats' a soultron you ask?
There's an article here:
http://www.grinnell.edu/node/12447ABSTRACT
The long-pondered phenomenon of “soul breaking” within a long-distance race can be explained by the existence of the soultron. The soultron represents the quantum particle of the soul, which is exchanged when a runner of a lower Race Energy Level passes another runner and assumes a higher Race Energy Level. Once released, the soultron is left suspended in the open atmosphere of the race. Soultron destination can be explained via soultron affinity, but the behavior of the soultron in the company of three of more runners has yet to be explored and determined.
You clearly have a very high soultron affinity, and so even during easy runs you refuse to let others pass you.