That guy who jogs in place at stoplights

Sure, looks silly

but some ppl do it for a reason… like staying loose and ready to go when the opportunity exists.

Better than the guy that sits on his couch

With all the reasonable things to be bothered by why waste the mental energy being annoyed by this? Being critical of someone for something so innocuous really reflects on you and your emotional wellbeing.

Personally, I’d never jog in place at a light, but I will hit the cross-button and jog up the block for 10-20 seconds before turning back in time to cross. I don’t like to stop and start: sue me.

Glad I'm not the only one that is annoyed by this. Just stop.

Gee you sound pretty annoyed by this guy. Says alot about you, no?

It's about not letting your heart rate drop dork. Some stop lights can take forever, like 60-90 seconds and unless you are out there doing intervals, adding that rest period isn't ideal when your on a tempo. Not everyone is a spoon fed Ivy leaguer with great places to run uninterrupted.

Only a desperate dork would plan a tempo run in interruptible arena.

Guys, guys, guys, it all counts towards your daily step count!

And 10,000 steps a day doesn't happen by itself, now does it?

Does it?

Whats with the weird frog picture? Is the OP 12 years old. Back to reddit please

It’s called the winky tink trot - you gotta teach kindergarten to spot it.

I find it amuzing more than annoying.

I personally avoid crossing at traffic lights at all cost. I pick routes that intentionally avoid major road crossings. When I do cross a major road, I don't do it at an intersection. While technically illegal, 15 years as an ER doc at a level 1 trauma center have taught me how dangerous intersections are.

There are too many assumptions. Too many moving parts and pieces. Too much can go wrong. The auto pedestrian accidents I see almost exclusively occur at intersections.

Outside of freeway accidents, almost all car accidents in general occur at intersections. Too much chaos. Too many people not paying attention. I choose to never bet my life on whether someone is paying attention or not.

spread the good word. Funny how the illegal method is actually is safest.

What runner tracks their daily step count? That's for sedentary people.

Jogging in place is a little strange, but I haven't seen anyone do that since like 2004

That person is just signaling to the world that they are a hobby Jogger

My college coach said if we didn't do this we'd lose our adaptations. We turned out fine, unless we were actually meant to be 13:30 guys.

Still better than being a hobby lounger

That doesn’t make any sense. You are pretty warmed up and ready to go for quite a while if you’ve been running for a few minutes before the light. You don’t suddenly cool down and freeze in the time the light changes.

you mad bro? AND slow? so fierce!

The guy who said it’s more amusing than annoying is right. Envisioning certain runners I know doing that made me let out a chuckle.

Anyways, you can avoid having to stop for too long in a lot of cases if you’re not too scared to run between a few cars. Just don’t try it if you know that you’re lacking in the spatial awareness department.