Running: 3 Things You Hate, 3 Things You Love

Love:

1. The "effortless" feeling

2. Running trails in the fall and early spring

3. The feeling of breaking your PR

4. Pushing through tough weather conditions outside

Hate:

1. Injuries

2. Coming up short on your goals

3. Missing a day

4. Bad weather

5. Coaching (AD at my school has told me that if I don't coach, all the running teams are cut and I don't want the kids to miss out on the opportunity that I had. But coaching isn't that fulfilling for me as it is for some and my running always sucks during the season because I am often hanging back to encourage/work with the slow people).

Love

1. Running on the first cool and dry day after a long, hot and humid summer. It is like coming down from altitude and being given the legs of a 20 year old

2. Getting faster, moving up the ranks of my local running scene and competing with people who I used to watch with wonder a few years ago even as I hit 40

3. Finishing strong in a marathon. Only have been able to do it twice in eleven tries. But it is an incredible feeling to be able to drive home the last six miles without dropping any time off your pace, all while passing people like they were going the other way

Hate

1. Finding running shoes that fit my skinny feet and don't let the heel pop out

2. The fact that I only have a few years left before age begins to take back the speed I have worked so hard to achieve

3. The lack of quality Drs, physios, PTs and other injury treatment people in my area who know runner's injuries, provide treatment that is specific to quality runners and not the usual by-the-book stuff for hobby joggers, and who are available without having to wait the same amount of time that is usually prescribed for resting your particular injuruy

LOVE

1. the many memories from my old team that are going to last me forever

2. feeling effortless while im inshape

3. mile repeats and tempos

4. kicking back with friends after a sunday morning run

HATE

1. loss of coordination in my leg

2. not having a team anymore

3. injuries

4. no time to train anymore

Love

1. The feeling during a cooldown after an awesome workout

2. Those days where you feel like you can forever.

3. Watching yourself get faster and faster as the seasons and years go by.

Hate

1. Long runs alone

2. "Run Forrest, Run!"

3. Injury

Love:

-Those perfect runs where you feel awesome and finish really fast without even trying, just feeling like you're cruising effortlessly

-The way you feel after a tough track workout

-Fast long runs

-Running when it's really cold and there's no one else outside

-Fun, enjoyabole runs with friends/teammates

-The opportunity to push/challenge yourself on a regular basis

-Starting off each day with something productive, fun, and energizing

Hate:

-Injuries

-Cross-training

-Teammates telling me how lucky I am not to have to do the mile repeats workout when I can't imagine anything I'd rather be able to do at that moment than run a good, tough, injury-free workout

-The miserable nervousness I feel at/before the start of a race

-Treadmills

Love:

1. Banana pancakes after a long run early in the morning

2. Hilly trail climbs in the forest

3. Hitting a PR or a goal

Hate

1. Not being able to sleep the night before a race

2. GI issues on a run when there is no porto in sight for a while

3. Anemia/Amenorea

Love

1 cooling down in the swimming hole after a hard run

2.Post-run endorphin rush

3.Rail trails and canal towpaths on autumn days

Hate

1. Deerflies

2. Never having anyone to run with in my neighborhood.

3.I get out of shape and gain weight very easily

geese wrote:

hate-the fact that most races are accompanied by huge

markets selling useless gadgets.

getting sick/injured

people who think they know everything about running and feel they have a duty to tell the world their mistaken knowledge

love-interval workouts where your body is perfectly in sync and you don't even feel tired

running all-out 100's and feeling as if you are weightless

chilling on an easy run without a care in the world

I love the same things as you^

but i hate:

losing

cross country races

being too sore to run

LOVE

1.The notion that I could easily outrun anybody in the room

2.Races even bad ones I still feel really good after

3.The moment that you realize that your race pace from 3 years ago has become training pace

HATE

1.Aqua-jogging

2.People who know nothing about running yet act like they know everything

3.Being ready to run at 10:00 then being forced to stand still untill the race at 11:00

love:

- the feeling after a hard workout and completing it.

- long runs in the early morning of summer.

- running with bridget nolan.

hate:

- when geoff treat comes to workouts and sits out until the second to last interval and "smokes" everyone else. I HATE THAT IT ANNOYS THE CRAP OUT OF ME.

- not racing with caitlin orr ... in different uniforms.

- not being able to run.

Love:

1. kicking!!!

2. doing something you've never done or thought you could do before

3. teamates!! <3

Hate:

1. it hurts

2. no one understands me

3. "are you intro to jogging?" no i run you wanna try it? didnt think so

Love:

1.The long talks I share with my 15 year old daughter on our trail runs that we would probably not have otherwise.

2.Being able to keep up with or do better than any of the teenagers in karate class.

3.Being able to eat what I want and still stay the same size I was in high school even after giving birth to 4 kids.

4.And like everyone else....having that run that felt effortless and seemed to end all too soon.

Hate:

1.Not being able to run as fast as I used to run.

2.Getting started on the those cold, rainy day runs. (But they usually turn out great!)

3.Trying to figure out when to fit in a run on days when my kids' schedules are crazy.

love:simplicity; just runfriendshipsthe joy of running in the rain or snowhate:when people tell me marathoning is bad for my kneesmy annual winter chest infectionlack of attention/support the sport receives in this country

Love:

1. Eating whatever I want when I want

2. Long Hard Runs in WARM torrential down pours.

3. The feeling of shock every time I win a race and the satisfaction that my training has paid off.

Hate:

1. Being hungry all the time, despite eat 6-7 meals a day

2. Realizing no matter how much I dream and how hard I train I'll never be elite

3. ... Nope, That's pretty much it.

Hate:

1. Injuries, especially when you are just getting going again.

2. Coming across irresponsible dog owners who think their pride and joy wont ever become aggressive towards a runner.

3. Fellow runners' pessimism about their form on the start line before they run a blinder of a race. Have the guts to say you are expecting to run well! If it doesn't go as you said you thought it would, so what, there's always another race.

Love:

1. Nailing a race.

2. The rare feeling of joy when everything is working properly and you feel you can go on for ever.

3. The camaraderie and friendships that being around people with similar goals brings.

Love:

1) Not PRing in local 5ks but still impressing my friends

2) Anywhere from 30 -120 minutes a day with no cell phone/email/computer

3) Knowing neighborhoods, parks, trails etc. way more intimately than most people who live near me

4) Blowing by meatheads in public areas when I'm on a recovery run

5) Knowing I'm the most fit person in most crowds

Hate:

1) Chaffing

2) Diarrhea

3) When people are amazed and full of compliments when someone mentions they jog 3 miles 3 times a week, and I just have to bite my tongue

4) "Oh I always see you jogging!"

5) The cost of anything related to running (shoes, clothing, entry fees)

Love

1. that no matter where I am or how I am feeling or what else is going on, I can get out for a run and gain that feeling of equilibrium and peace. Running is an ace in the hole for everyone who does it.

2. the ability to inspire others who are not exactly size 2 that they too can accomplish what I do

3. that gut rendering, numb legged, tunnel vision that's kind of blurry at the edges feeling when kicking at the last 200m of a race. It's so intense and painful and it's hard to feel more alive than that

Hate

1. race directors who aren't runners. they almost never seem to get it right

2. chafing

3. folks who run very fast and resent slower runners. I'm not in your way, you never see me during a race, and life is short-what could your problem with me possible be?

Love

1) long runs

2) 1k/mile repeats

3) Winning

Hate

1) Losing

2) Injuries

3) Losing

Love:

Long runs in the summer rain

the last 100m of my kick where everything becomes blurry except the finish (the demons)

The people (especially the hot bods at the meets)

Hate:

Being called a jogger, I'm a runner! I do this at a significantly faster pace and on a daily basis

x-training cause of an injury

Negative runners