Hi,
So i have this girlfriend who has never ran or done anything involved with running before. But so far Ive gotten her to watch "Without Limits", eat Kenyan food, know the basics of track and recognize the names of some top local and international runners.
How can i get this girl to start running? Any ideas!
thanks
tell her shes gettin flabby
don't force her. maybe do something to show that everyone is able to be a runner. but don't try to badger or force her in.
I don't recommend that you even try.
Just get her to support your running and you will have a great girlfriend.
Jason
What's Kenyan food?
pics?
Just teach her to wash your sweaty clothes while she cooks your Kenyan food.
Whoa there cowboy, you needa' lasso that lass by enlightening her with the benefits of running, such as being healthy, living longer, and looking good. then the lil' lady will probably be sure to go along with on fun runs. its a huge boost to the *** life when you do the same thing together running, eating, and anything after or between those as well.
enjoy the pudding.
For my morning runs, my GF walks down with me to the park, then I run, while in the meantime she power-walks (a little jogging as well) the equivalent (time, not distance ;-) ).
Then we walk home and have breakfast.
Easy!
Go for a run with her, and don't show off. It's fun. My wife isn't a runner, but it's fun to go for a jog with her once and a while.
Is it that you want her to be a runner or that you want her to be as passionate about something in her life as you are about running? My fiancee runs because I do it, but I would prefer that she get more focused on something she really, really enjoys (like swimming...she's a fish in water) and pursue that than do something just because I do it. Don't get me wrong, I love that she wants to spend time with me and share my interests, but I think she would be happier if she could find something to go all out training for because she loves it. If you make people do things they don't want to do, they will ultimately resent you for it and the outcome will be less than ideal in the long-term.
Enter her in a half marathon.
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Enter her in a half marathon.
Or run it yourself, and then enter her afterwards.
You sound like a jerk.
Maybe she will run when you learn how to conjugate verbs.
Trade her in for a runner. That's what I did with my last non-running GF. Well, OK, that wasn't the reason but it's what happened. Ironically, the new one has now become a non-runner due to injury but I might keep her anyway.
One morning my gf woke up before me at 4:50 a.m and I am usually up at 5 for my run. She wanted to tag along, surprised me big time and thats how she started ... tell her that you will give her a nice rub down afterwards and get in the shower together, she'll want to do it everyday.
Conversation should go like this:
You: I'm sad
Her: why?
You: I'm just thinking about my old girlfriend
Her: why?
You: Oh...it's the one year anniversary of the day we broke up
Her: why did you and her break up?
You: because she wouldn't run
There you go, you can thank me later
Present the benefits of running through a PowerPoint presentation. At the end of the presentation insert a section that if she doesn't get her fat ass running you are going to break up with her.
Enter her in a big, fun race. There are several coming up in major cities. Something like the Bolder Boulder. Or ask her if her and some of her friends would like to run it. Girls in groups like doing crap like that. Then she'll start running with them, and they'll casually start asking you for advice and you can give them advice, but still don't run with them. Then run the same race, again, not with them. And they will see how badass you are and they will all talk about you to your girlfriend. Then she will be impressed and proud of you at the same time and she'll realize running is fun and she'll start running regularly.
Good luck to you man. I'm having a hard enough time getting my woman to swallow. I'm not even thinking of her running just yet!