Can anyone think of any vocabulary or slang that is used solely by runners?
I can think of only deuce (two mile) and a kick.
Thank you, your help is appreciated.
Can anyone think of any vocabulary or slang that is used solely by runners?
I can think of only deuce (two mile) and a kick.
Thank you, your help is appreciated.
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"K" referring to race distances (5K, 10K, etc.) The rest of the (metric) world it's kilos, km, or klicks.
"Throw down," although that seems to have disappeared from running jargon as fast as it arrived. Too bad, I liked the sound of it.
"DNF"
'clip'. Like, 'He was moving at a good clip.'
'turnover' Like, 'I am trying to increase my leg turnover'
'lapper' Like, 'Today's workout is 3 x 5 lappers'
grinder = hill. 'The course has a couple grinders'
Penguin. 'The guy who makes money off sucking hope and cash out of fat lards calls himself The Penguin.'
rabbit
lsd
speed
tempo
'singles or doubles'
i have heard people say a course with down hills has "down syndrome"
"sit on" (lag behind someone, waiting to kick)
They call it drafting in other sports.
"hammer" (run real fast for awhile)
"tactical" can mean a lot of things in other sports. In running, it seems to mean run slow with a bunch of other guys until less than a lap to go, then see who has the fastest 200 speed.
"pull a Rexing" (run at speed of light while simultaneously banging three entire sororities at once)
DFL
Goin out for a jaunt,
the romp'n'chomp = morning run with a meal afterward
sayin someone's a "fiddle", or "looks like a fiddle", when they're fit as a fiddle
"easy 10" = nuf said
Snot-Rocket?
how about the many uses of 'flat'
1) to feel crappy or heavy-legged in a race
2) xx.00 or something close
3) distinguishing the 400 from the 400 hurdles (the flat 400 vs the 400IH)
4) light shoes that don't have spikes
5) to go flat-out meaning to give everything you have
6) the section or sections of an XC course between hills
or how about this sentence:
"he split 52-flat in the open 8" meaning he went through 400m in 52.0 in the non-relay 800m
"Cracking" as in "Cracking Effort or Cracking Race". Kind of like when Bekele runs under 1240 for a 5K or When Webb,Mottram and a few others ran under 349 for the mile.
I guess the way we use dying counts, right? Like, "I got to 20 miles and then I just died." Also "hitting the wall."
Hammer is not exclusive to running, used in cycling as well.
DNF is also not exclusive, it is used in cycling and skiing. DFL is also used in skiing.
What's that one about "a Bear jumping on your back"? Oh yeah that seems to happen every time I come into the final turn of the 800 Meters!
'bump' Reserved for midlife crisis men on letsrun.com b-board who want to generate discussion and bring their posting about Ritz vs Superman to the top of the boards.
Ok now here's the ultimate test: Who can sling together the most running words into the ultimate paragraph of running nerdery? The gauntlet has been thrown.