What's the oddest time of day/night you've run at?

tacomafan wrote:

I had a streak going, so I went out at 11:15pm to get a run in that day. Didn't consider it that weird...

Odd numbers are all equally odd, so there's no oddest.

Weird numbers are different, the lowest being 70.

I ran a marathon that I started at 1:29 AM. I was home before the kids woke up. I had to slide down the stairs with my infant on my lap to feed him breakfast.

https://strava.app.link/h5k56JLSMjb

Like several other posters, I'm pretty sure that, at some point, I've run at every hour of the day. The midnight - 5 am timeframe tends to be the most quiet -- it's pretty deserted, and if you do see someone else out, even in a car, you kinda wonder what they're doing out so late/early.

About 15 years ago globilization hit the job I had and I had to start work at 6am instead of 7. I had been getting up at 4am for my first run of the day for years and so switched to 3 am. I was surprised at how hard 3 am was compared to just 1 hour later. Being a morning person, I love running in my city really early - there are so few cars around, I hardly have to stop at intersections much, no people, what's not to like? I admit that I have no trouble going to bed early and this makes all the difference.

Something I've noticed a lot over the years, often I would do the same 8 mile route twice a day (the only route I had that allowed for near continuous running). For years I recorded HR data and found that every evening run (almost always 11 hours after my morning run) my HR was lower and pace was faster compared to the morning run. I once did 18 x 1km on the track (starting right at 4am after a warm up and will say it was challenging, though damn satisfying.

1955 wrote:

Like several other posters, I'm pretty sure that, at some point, I've run at every hour of the day. The midnight - 5 am timeframe tends to be the most quiet -- it's pretty deserted, and if you do see someone else out, even in a car, you kinda wonder what they're doing out so late/early.

Around 2:10am they are driving home from the local bar after it closed. Be careful running at that time.

flew to s korea a few yrs back. they are 14hrs ahead of us. At 1pm us it was 3am there, what time was I really running at? I don't know

A long time ago I was in Copenhagen in early December. I'd go for long runs in the morning before going to work and I was just totally confused because it was still total darkness at 8am. My body clock never did adjust to the time difference from eastern US even though I was over there for ten days. So 8am felt like 11pm or midnight and being a night person, it felt almost normal. Later in the day, I would totally crash and prop myself up with coffee.

I am reminded of this post from nine years ago.

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4974186

Night runs are one thing but like sometimes a run at 2pm on a weekday is weird - it’s past lunchtime but not that far past it, like you should be at work or school, if you see others running around then it definitely doesn’t seem right, after you shower and stuff most people would be getting ready to leave work/school so you’re sort of left wondering what to do with yourself. It definitely has a weird energy to it.

About thirty years ago I paced a friend for twenty miles in the middle of the night at the Western States 100. We were out in the middle of nowhere each with a flashlight and a spare. At about 3AM we heard faint music far off. It gradually got louder. About a half hour later we reached a small hill with an aide station about 50 yards away. There was some guy in a devil's suit and a pitchfork dancing around on the crest of the rise. He was silhouetted by the lights of the aide station out in the middle of nowhere. The station was run by the Buffalo Chips, a Sacramento running club. They had some how hauled in a generator for the lights and music. It was like a scene out of "Apocalypse Now." It's one of my most vivid memories. That and the first time I saw a tanned Cheryl Chaney in a white one piece bathing suit.

2AM

During Hood to Coast.

Went running at 4am for a weekday long run. Was trying to avoid street traffic. I saw a bat and a shooting star, totally rad!

Typically I run an hour before sunrise. I run along a levy and I see critters such as racoons, possum, coyotes, red fox, egrets, blue herons, zillions of geese. Occasionally bass jump in the water. Never been attacked. I took the dog once and a red wing falcon followed us, so that was the last time I did that.

I thought owls had talons? No stitches?

Bra-ket wrote:

Night runs are one thing but like sometimes a run at 2pm on a weekday is weird - it’s past lunchtime but not that far past it, like you should be at work or school, if you see others running around then it definitely doesn’t seem right, after you shower and stuff most people would be getting ready to leave work/school so you’re sort of left wondering what to do with yourself. It definitely has a weird energy to it.

I know what you mean.

And good observation.

Kind of weird that that is weird, but it definitely is.

Let's face it - there's a horde of morning runners and for whatever reason, that is a thing.

But again how weird is that - perhaps the easiest time of day to run - mid-afternoon - and yet it feels like the weirdest.

Probably has something to do with our work oriented culture in the US especially, if not elsewhere.