All Cummers wrote:
"Women"'s 800
^This
All Cummers wrote:
"Women"'s 800
^This
logic... wrote:
full logic wrote:
the full
It's a freaking marathon people. You never hear 'full mile' or 'full 10K" so why is this designation needed?
Maybe because the 800 or the 5k are not commonly referred to as a half mile and a half 10k.
A full gallon of milk. A full dozen eggs. A full pint of berries. A full yard of cloth. A full marathon.
Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
If you mean half, say half. If you don't mean half, don't say half.
wineturtle wrote:
RE Full Mile
Full mile is a common term in states that contest a 1600 meters run at the HS level. It means the race distance mentioned was a mile and I agree fully that the word full is redundant in the expressions full mile and full marathon.
Bring Back The Mile! I ran the 1600 in high school, but didn't realize how stupid that distance was until college.
Just 1 more waterfall stripe on the track and you can run the mile. A second strip and you can run the 3K AND 5K.
not different, just wrong! wrote:
fat but fit.
Um, it's called a Fathlete.
crew - We ain't in a boat.
"running crew"
"urban crew"
https://blog.strava.com/the-genesis-of-urban-running-crews-11328/
https://www.runnersworld.com/rw-selects/running-crews
Is this really a thing? Was vocabulary really holding back potential runners?
"-high" and "-low" in relation to times:
"He's capable of 2:12-low on a good day."
"That's the equivalent of 59-high on a good course."
Such an imprecise insidery term.
And then the extrapolation of a performance into to what it's "worth" under better conditions.
"His 4:04 at altitude is worth a 3:58 at sea level."
"His 2:09-low in the blazing heat at Chicago is worth a 2:03-high with a cold tailwind at Boston."
No, the time is the time. You don't get credit for 3:58 because you ran 4:04 at altitude. You get 3:58 if you ran 3:58.
annoyed by common language wrote:
1. Shake out run. Just call it a jog.
2. Training through. Excuse for running a bad race.
3. Mary
4. Thon
5. Saying "60 point" after a repeat. You're a dork.
1- "Footrace" as in "The last 5k of the Berlin Marathon became a real footrace". WTF!?!? Isn't the whole thing a "footrace"? And why is "foot" being specified? Other than the wheelchair races, is there some other kind of race happening? Why not just say "the last 5k was tight" or " a real battle" or something?
2 - "Rupp"
get off my lawn wrote:
crew - We ain't in a boat.
"running crew"
"urban crew"
https://blog.strava.com/the-genesis-of-urban-running-crews-11328/https://www.runnersworld.com/rw-selects/running-crewsIs this really a thing? Was vocabulary really holding back potential runners?
Yeah in the old days we just called them douches, and I'm not that old.
Why do you have to create your own little special hipster run group? Just join one of the 1000's of run clubs!
qwff`f`2g`g`g3`g13h wrote:
When commentators call a say 'piece of running'.
When commentators on football and track say: separation, as in "he has/had great separation" when referring to a runner widening a lead or a football receiver getting open.
Urban Running Crews and suburban parents of cross-country runners are both great sources of running drivel. Both have a sense of entitlement and sophistication that produces some really funny stuff:
1. "BQ" as a verb or adjective. "Going vegan really has BQ value." "I'm BQing this work out." "It was a BQ type effort."
2. Using the names of old time coaches as adjectives. "Coach Kranick is such a pure Lydiardiste." "Little Johnny finds so refreshing Coach Aris' Ceruttian approach." "I love his Bowerman-style preparation for the race."
3. Military terms "After last week's tempo work out, the boys JV team is fully weaponized." "I'm ready to go nuclear at the NYRRC fun run."
100m wrote:
Strength - it has nothing to do with strength.
Is that right.
Meets that don't have live results.
Running the 1600/3200 in high school, should be 1500/3000
Long slow distance makes long slow distance runners.
Idiots Live Amongst Us . . . and Post on This site wrote:
10K = 10 degrees Kelvin or 10 kilograms. IT IS NOT 10 kilometers.
The distance is 10km.
Nobody runs 5K or 10K. There is no such distance.
90% of the hobby joggers on this site must've never gotten past the 6th grade.
Gotta say I disagree with you here! First off, kilograms would be kg, and K, yes, it can mean Kelvins, but k denounces a value of 1000, and is much more common in colloquial language than Kelvins. Also not that Kelvins are with a capital K, whereas k, as in 1000, is with a regular k. So I find 10k and 5k legit
RossiCheated wrote:
"Guy"
He's a 14:34 guy.
He's a sub-2:10 guy.
He's a 4:04 guy.
It's like people are trying desperately to sound like they are still in middle school.
This, or "1:49-man." Do i become a different person when I PR by one second?
Magic pace
Magic summer/fall/winter
Not really terminology, but I always got annoyed by my dad in high school referring the 800 to the 880
+1000000
My strength training for the full thon has really been paying dividends. I decided to train through a local 10 k the other day. I had done a quick shake-out early in the day and I was tempoing the race, well more of treating it like a fartlek, when one of these yuppie hobby joggers thought he could upstage me. I decided to unleash my pure hate, cut my rest a tad short, and dropped the hammer for a 60 point quarter to bury that dude. I backed off and settled into 27:30 pace for a couple k’s and was feeling great until my hammy started tightening up (found out later my glutes weren’t completely firing). Ended up jogging it in for third place anyway. I thought maybe I need to work on my speed work so finished off the day with some striders. I think with this effort in mind I’m capable of 2:12-low on a good day, but I consider myself more of a 2:09-high sea level guy so when I come down from altitude training at 7,000 ft I will be ready to PR for sure.
pretty good!
I hate cruise intervals and steady state. They make hard workouts sound easy. I've never felt like I'm cruising on an interval workout and steady is not the feeling of burning at the 3rd mile of a 20 minute T pace.