My buddy and I have been running now for the last 3 years and while some may consider us to be hobby joggers, we have run quite a number of races including several marathons.
Anyway, we are planning a marathon again early next Spring so we're trying to get lot of miles in so that we can get in good shape and hopefully PR. My buddy is a pretty decent 5K / 10K and struggles a but more with the 26.2 than me and he has hit the wall a couple of times including his last marathon where he finished the last 10K in something like 50 mins when he had been running 6:30's.
On a call with him the other night, we were talking about our marathon prep and discussing how we hopefully manage to both run solid times. However, I mentioned to him that it may well be hot and humid on race day and that a lot of people collapsed last year in the last few miles. We've got a similar sense of humour so what I actually said to him was 'you can definitely expect there to be a shed load of bonking going on at the end of that marathon next year'
Of course, my wife just happened to hear that last part of the phone conversation and took it mean that we are looking to hook up post marathon for a bit of female R & R. She's not a runner by any means so has not idea what 'to bonk' means.
She's always thought that my running has been about getting in shape to try and score with attractive, athletic women and now this has really convinced her of this.
What the h*ll can I do to convince her that I'm just in love with running?
Wife thinks I'm having an affair because of running lingo
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Express your everlasting adoration for her, and show her the definition of bonking in a marathon.
Besides that, carry on as usual. -
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Tell her if you don't get enough bonking at home, you'll look for it elsewhere.
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She obviously isn't getting bonked enough --hubby rather run-- so she find a real man, probably younger, to fill her lustful needs.
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Perhaps it's time to come out of the closet. It's okay it's 2015
No one talks to their "straight" running buddy that way. -
Just have her travel with you to the marathon? She'll see what it's all about if she hasn't had much exposure to the sport already. When you're too fried from the race to even "bonk" her after, hopefully she'll be less worried.
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Tough to give advice if you never tell us what version of Power Point your computer is running.
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***Update***
My wife has put us on a trial separation with one condition being that I cut back on running.
Maybe this is the excuse I need to wind my way back into non-running reality.
As for all of you calling this BS, then I know I'm not the only one whose marriage has taken a blow bc of running. -
If you don't have any children, make the trial separation permanent. It never ceases to amaze me all of the threads on here about wives being upset at their husbands running and the lack of support they receive in doing something healthy.
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If she can't deal with you running then you need to GTFO of that relationship. Give me a friggen' break. I don't get these relationships where people feel the need to control every aspect of the other person's life.
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Troubled Man!!! wrote:
***Update***
My wife has put us on a trial separation with one condition being that I cut back on running.
Maybe this is the excuse I need to wind my way back into non-running reality.
As for all of you calling this BS, then I know I'm not the only one whose marriage has taken a blow bc of running.
If running has seemed to cause this to happen, then running is not really the issue in your relationship.
Either you trust your spouse, or you don't. -
You're obviously gay. You spend all your time running with your 'buddy', talk to him all night on the phone and go away for weekends together. Give her a divorce and let her go find herself her a man. You did.
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Dude, you are pouring time into running and not the marriage and you wonder why there's a trial separation. If there are no kids, then get a divorce and be done with it. There's nothing there if she can't acknowledge the running.
If there are kids, then WTF were you doing running so much?
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You chose poorly. And that's your own fault. You deserve the misery and grief you're getting.
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Just HOW MUCH time have you been spending on running / time away from your family? Also, how long have you been married?
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Have her watch your next race so she can see you bonk.
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Troubled Man!!! wrote:
while some may consider us to be hobby joggers, we have run quite a number of races including several marathons.
part of the phone conversation and took it mean that we are looking to hook up post marathon
1/10 only because I chuckled at the word "bonk" these^^ make it too obvious. "took it mean" is creative but the bit about the hobby joggers in the beginning is a dead giveaway. -
I wouldn't have anything to do with a woman who wasn't supportive of me.
The best solution is to divorce from her and move on.
