Interval work in a graveyard -- immoral??

I'm totally for interval work in a graveyard. Graveyards are perfect. They have grass, dirt, road, hill, and even a water fountain. It being moral or immoral is totally up to you. Besides, there are far worst things than running in a graveyard. Smoking in public has got to be the worst.

Agree with many of the posters - great places to train as long as it is done respectfully.

Here is a great retrospective on the history of cemeteries and how as they moved from the center of the city outward into more rural areas, they were actually designed to incorporate landscape architecture and be used as parks.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/our-first-public-parks-the-forgotten-history-of-cemeteries/71818/

Here in Indy we have the 4th largest cemetery in the US - Crown Hill Cemetery. They also encourage it's use as a park. They have hosted running and bicycle races and conduct tours through the cemetery. Our company also runs bike tours through it. There is even a Gothic Chapel on the grounds that can be rented for weddings or social events.

When in college, I ran for Butler University and we did all sorts of training in it as well - easy runs, tempo runs and hill repeats...

I wouldn't practice steeple over the headstones.

steeepler wrote:

I wouldn't practice steeple over the headstones.

I wouldn't either. Most headstones are well below steeple hurdle height. One should only practice hurdling over objects at or near regulation height.

We always did intervals in my family's cemetery in high school. Actually both sides of my family were there. 400s around my dads family, 800s around mom and dads family. No joke.

In four years of hs running there 2-3 times per week, not one mourner. I guarantee most of the people in the cemetery don't care.

I ran through a cemetary after work in Seattle for 3 years, and never saw anyone else there except an occasional worker.

Sometimes after I'd walk around and read the sentiments on the gravestones after running. I might have been the only person who visited many of them.

By the way, funerals are a ripoff.

I would ask the management if you are having a big group. If you are a small group that is respectful of any mourners, then I say no problem.

There is a very large cemetery near where I live, they have a sign that says no skateboards or rollerblades. That makes me think they indirectly consent to pedestrians and possibly bikes?

A Duck wrote:

We had official work outs in the graveyard behind Mac Court.

Great place to run. Gravel, soft. Not to far from Hayward.

I doubt you ever went off campus during your entire UO career. In your posts you've mentioned dorms, you mention mac court and the pioneer cemetery, and you speak of Hayward like it's a mother ship you can't stray far from.

ok, I take it back, you must have at least gone 1 mile north to pre's trail, and 1 mile east to pre's rock. And maybe 1 mile south to do hills on Emerald Street. So I expect your range was about a 1 mile radius around Hayward.

In Waxahachie, TX, a town of 30,000 just south of Dallas, has its public hike and bike trail run at the edge of a cemetery. It's only about a half mile portion of what is a 3.5M trail (7M out-and-back), but enough people walk/run/bike through the cemetery to make one wonder why city planners allowed it.

University of Oregon has an old cemetery on campus near Hayward Field , lots of miles run in that cemetery over the years by some of the worlds best athletes.

A moment of life comes into the cemetery I was once told by a woman laying flowers on grave as we excited the cemetery at the same time , thank you for this were her words.

piece of cake wrote:

I have a similar scenario. Near my house there is a nice 2mile road alongside a lake that has a dead end. At the dead end is a mental health center that specialized is eating disorders (anorexia. bulimia) so there are are always a bunch of unstable skinny people around there. Well if you run through the campus (on the driveways and parking lots, about 1/4mile) you come out on a road that goes up the other side of the lake and then you can make the route a 7mile loop around the lake.

My wife, who actually did a nursing clinical at this same hospital in college, thinks it is inappropriate to run through there. Am I immoral?

Not unless they tell you to knock it off.

He probably saw how slow your reps were

A Duck wrote:

We had official work outs in the graveyard behind Mac Court.

Great place to run. Gravel, soft. Not to far from Hayward.

Do you know where macarthur court is? do you?

It's all good.. Just make sure you don't lose the devil, as you are racing him when you run in a graveyard.

Bad Wigins wrote:

I doubt you ever went off campus during your entire UO career.

Don't be such a dick.

https://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&q=pioneer+cemetery+eugene+oregon&fb=1&gl=us&hq=pioneer+cemetery&hnear=0x54c119b0ac501919:0x57ec61894a43894d,Eugene,+OR&cid=0,0,3165615671388863456&ei=HjodUYbJJIuK0QH67YCQBg&ved=0CJIBEPwSMAM

I run through a cemetery and jeer at the mourners while running 5:00 pace through the graves and trampling flowers/decorations.

If im lucky enough and theres a funeral going on I'll take a break and strike up a humorous conversation with the mourning party.

If the graveyard is a dead end, it is not a good place to do a workout. What if while you are in there all of a sudden a funeral comes through the entrance?If the graveyard is small, there are real problems if you are running loops in it Crowded Graveyard: again forget it as there will be lots of funerals and lots of mourning going on.

FuneraInteruppter wrote:

I run through a cemetery and jeer at the mourners while running 5:00 pace through the graves and trampling flowers/decorations.

If im lucky enough and theres a funeral going on I'll take a break and strike up a humorous conversation with the mourning party.

As to this poster: Enjoy those 25:00 5k's you are hobbyjogging a.t.m. because with those ethics, your not getting any faster in your ability to escape the devil

(As to some of the other posters - the single greatest trick the devil has done is that he has convinced people he doesn't exist)

////????//// wrote:

If the graveyard is a dead end, it is not a good place to do a workout. What if while you are in there all of a sudden a funeral comes through the entrance?

Wave your arms and yell "thank you!, thank you!!!"