I was going to paste the origin post from that counting trees 2,4,5 etc. thread, but it seems to have been deleted yet again. Always disappointing
I was going to paste the origin post from that counting trees 2,4,5 etc. thread, but it seems to have been deleted yet again. Always disappointing
Stinky John wrote:
1) walkers 3 abreast in the first 3 lanes of the track (sometimes with strollers or kids on bike) on hard track session day.
God, yes!
Completely agree with the people talking about locked tracks. The local college coach got mad about beer/milk miles and locked the thing 24/7. Really easy to hop though.
This article does a good job of graphically depicting my biggest pet peeves
http://www.houstonpress.com/news/five-of-the-most-disgusting-marathon-pictures-ever-6721713
Kids riding bikes in lane one on a track
People walking or running in reverse on a track
Very slow walkers in lane one on a track
Dog owners - I don't like dogs but I don't have a problem with people owning them just dog owners who think their dogs are 1. friendly to everyone and off leash 2. on the same level as a human child
littering in the woods
runners listening to music via speakers
runners running with their dog on a hot morning when i see you at mile 4 AND 11 on my route and THEN see you stop to walk because it's too hot for you. WHAT ABOUT THE DOG.
This is probably my biggest pet peeve.
Here's the scenario: imagine you're a day after a KILLER workout, and then the day after you run into some familiar faces on a trail. You don't notice each tree per se (2, 4, 5, etc.), but you keep with the group just to be with them. You can see them way ahead of you, and you're struggling to keep up, meanwhile your watch is telling you that you are going like 10 minute mile pace. You try to push the pace in the hopes they'll speed up, but you just can't reach the guy at the back -- he's just too far ahead.
Runners who refuse to run on concrete ever. Got one in my neighborhood. We have a 4 mile 4 lane Boulevard circling my neighborhood, and this guy refuses to run on the sidewalk or bike lane because it's concrete. Instead he runs on the asphalt in the lane of traffic that is 45 mph. Make all drivers hate all runners because he's an idiot. If concrete is that injurious, then drive to somewhere else and run instead of using a lane of traffic when there's already a bike lane and sidewalk.
vwvwwvwvwwvwvw wrote:
Runners who refuse to run on concrete ever. Got one in my neighborhood. We have a 4 mile 4 lane Boulevard circling my neighborhood, and this guy refuses to run on the sidewalk or bike lane because it's concrete. Instead he runs on the asphalt in the lane of traffic that is 45 mph. Make all drivers hate all runners because he's an idiot. If concrete is that injurious, then drive to somewhere else and run instead of using a lane of traffic when there's already a bike lane and sidewalk.
this is a great one! I too tend to avoid concrete too but I recognize that it is entirely irrational. Neither concrete or asphalt is any softer on the impact of a runners foot striking it during a stride. To believe that asphalt is softer must by law of physics mean that the asphalt actually gives a bit when the foot strikes it. Of course the weight of a foot landing does not have the ability to move the surface of either so they are the same.
Yet, I can't help avoiding it. Although not in the manner of your neighborhood guy.
Odd indeed.
vwvwwvwvwwvwvw wrote:
Make all drivers hate all runners because he's an idiot.
Your reasoning is really off. You hate him because all drivers hate this all runners because of this one idiot runner.
This one idiot is not responsible for the lack of any driver's capability to reason.
Message board extremists on both ends of the spectrum.
The common ones here that we see all the time:
A) anyone not pro (and making a living at running) or DI scholarship is a slow (hobby) jogger.
B) Some up and coming runner runs an excellent time and a troll throws out the world record, and says no it's actually quite mediocre. Discussion is over at that point.
At the other end of the spectrum:
C) The mentality that a 5 hour marathon (or 40 hour 100 mile ultra, finishing >2X slower than the winner)) is as much or more of an accomplishment than a 30 min 10K, or 2:30 marathon.
D) Finisher medals for anything less than a marathon (and even then it's kind of cheesy).
E) Jogger running groups taking over the track and taking over the inside 3 lanes, doing 10-15 minute miles.
Elev profiler wrote:
Message board extremists on both ends of the spectrum.
The common ones here that we see all the time:
A) anyone not pro (and making a living at running) or DI scholarship is a slow (hobby) jogger.
B) Some up and coming runner runs an excellent time and a troll throws out the world record, and says no it's actually quite mediocre. Discussion is over at that point.
At the other end of the spectrum:
C) The mentality that a 5 hour marathon (or 40 hour 100 mile ultra, finishing >2X slower than the winner)) is as much or more of an accomplishment than a 30 min 10K, or 2:30 marathon.
D) Finisher medals for anything less than a marathon (and even then it's kind of cheesy).
E) Jogger running groups taking over the track and taking over the inside 3 lanes, doing 10-15 minute miles.
^^^^Looks like somebody thinks he has this thread all figured out but didn't bother reading it.
The Original Poster wrote:
When my teammates and I are running along a popular running route, like the Charles River, and an out-of-town hobby jogger is out waving, head nodding, or talking at us when we are trying to have a conversation or are focused on a workout.
I see what you did there.
I was running a 3 mile tempo on the track the other day and these 2 ladies were walking in lane 1 and 2 and no matter how many times I passed them they never opened up lane 1.
That and people thinking they are funny/original for yelling "Run Forrest Run"
Splits Guy wrote:
I was running a 3 mile tempo on the track the other day and these 2 ladies were walking in lane 1 and 2 and no matter how many times I passed them they never opened up lane 1.
Call out "TRACK PLEASE" as you approach. The problem is most always resolved.
Peeve purveyor wrote:
A- Wholes that throw their gel wrappers on the ground.
This. THIS.
The Original Poster wrote:
When my teammates and I are running along a popular running route, like the Charles River, and an out-of-town hobby jogger is out waving, head nodding, or talking at us when we are trying to have a conversation or are focused on a workout.
Seer of what you did there wrote:
I see what you did there.
:)
Ddf wrote:
Hobby joggers that think they're better than other hobby joggers.
Unless, of course, your teammates are professional runners. No?
Went right over this guy's head, though.
Little kids in 5K races who take off like bats out of hell and then collapse after 400-800 meters. I'm one of those people born without a single fast-twitch muscle fiber in my body, and there's no way I'm going to ruin my chances at running a decent race by trying to sprint like hell away from the starting line. So I watch helplessly as the kiddies take off and then try to guess which ones will stop right in front of me first so that I can avoid them. I'm only 115 lbs but I could still get hurt tripping over a kid half my size, and I'd hate to hurt a little kid by running over him.
I have no beef with little kids who either start near the back of the pack or can actually run the race distance at a reasonably steady pace. In a recent 5K, this 58-year-old woman had a lot of fun racing a couple of roughly 10-year-old boys from start to finish. But I really wish the kids who can't run the distance had enough sense to stay out of the way. I also hate sounding like a nasty ogre for thinking this.
Used to be Rono wrote:
Splits Guy wrote:I was running a 3 mile tempo on the track the other day and these 2 ladies were walking in lane 1 and 2 and no matter how many times I passed them they never opened up lane 1.
Call out "TRACK PLEASE" as you approach. The problem is most always resolved.
They have no idea what to do if they hear "TRACK PLEASE". They just look around like the dumbfvcks they are.
"I'm on your left" or "Move to your right" are more clear. Sometimes I talk to them before I start to let them know they need to stay the fvck out of the way. Sometimes, I'm an as5 about it.
going home DEVASTATED! , its the worst