RUNNING PET PEEVES - LIST THEM HERE

Laying under your bed. wrote:

When you are taking it easy...and ahead of you is the perfect lycra clad bottom...all you want is a nibble...but no!!

lmao. this is the best. many of the slower xc teammates i've had have said this is the reason they come back to running each season.

A pet peeve of mine, I will admit,

Is getting chased by your friendly pit,

My tempo was ruined, darn and drat,

Kindly restrain your oversized rat.

"He never does this"

Yeah, dog parent, eff uou.

I can agree with the dog thing, but even worse is when a dog starts chasing you and the owner shouts "it's okay! He's friendly!" Making no attempt to restrain the dog.

When you're racing a non-certified 10k and having an awesome race.....and then you cross the finish line and it turns out to be 8.6 km.

Kids on the start line.

Walkers who can't stay to the f**king right when the marathoners are trying to get around them.

I saw him at a race last week. He was wearing a Vladimir Putin t-shirt lol

Cankles '16 wrote:

Mismo wrote:

When races start at 8am but it's 8:06am and the race director is still going on and on thanking the sponsors, reviewing the course, going over safety tips, and doing the National Anthem

Why do you hate America?

1. Waiting to poop before running.

2. Wanting to poop when on a run.

3. European cars, white SUVs and Subarus. Always feel like I'm a split second from dying when I see them.

4. Getting pumped for running info by a tubby old co-worker that you know will never get her fat feet into some joggers. I'm middle aged now. I figure I've spent years of my life giving advice that will never be put to use. And the injury diagnoses. Sometimes I want to say "maybe your calf hurts cuz you are fat". But I always give a nice answer. Sometimes I add "If it didn't hurt, how would you know you're having fun?"

5. "Did you run today, in this weather?" I get this constantly from co-workers, all year round. There is no season these lazypants would exercise in.

6. Getting cornered by someone that ran a race sometime in the nebulous past, her telling me about all the marathons she ran ("I used to run them all the time!") and her best time was 1:10.

7. People that get all bent if (on the rare occasion I've entered a race) that I can't name the specific charity it is benefiting, and then get all high and mighty about how much they did to support some other charity, the one time many, many years ago that they ran that 1:10 marathon.

Grow up wrote:

Blah Blah. wrote:

Runners who are afraid of dogs.

+1

I never had problems with dogs when I began running. I was running 9 minute miles at the time. Slow running didn't excite the dogs, plus tripping was less of an issue.

As I became faster, problems started to emerge. The dogs are more excited plus the threat of tripping is always there. I've had one bad fall and two bites (hospital trips both times).

My tempo pace is around 5:40 now and dog issues have never been worse. Incidents are weekly.

To sum up, 9:00/mile pace runners don't understand the struggles of 6:00/mile pace... ergo, your two posts.

I'm just here to help.

This happens to me quite often: You're running on a country road and there have been no cars for the longest time, then two cars coming from opposite directions happen to meet at your exact location.

Mr. Brown wrote:

Wake up early, haul myself out of bed, get dressed, warm up, drink some water, take my pre-run piss, lace up, out the door...

0.75 miles down the street and my stomach announces that it's time for a dump. Back home, ruin all flow and rhythm, feel like crap (no pun intended). God damn it.

I'll add that on occasion I go through all that, sit on the pot, release 3lbs. of methane then.....body says no further action needed...

Baileymh103 wrote:

1) The same as number three on the first post. BIG TIME!

2) When I'm in my full running gear, (giant Bluetooth headphones for music, and my hydration belt) and I run past someone I know from schools/ my neighborhood.

3) When I really have to fart and there's people all around me so I have to stop and squeeze my butt cheeks.

4) When it's a muggy summer and literally hundreds of bugs/gnats fly into me and stick because of my sweat! I HATE THIS!

Your a certified hobby jogger.

Free Advice wrote:

This happens to me quite often: You're running on a country road and there have been no cars for the longest time, then two cars coming from opposite directions happen to meet at your exact location.

This!!!!!! Happens to me every day.

Also, approaching a hill when you're already tired and there's a person/people halfway up it. You know you'll pass them at the two thirds point when you're fully feeling the hill, and still have a third to go with them watching from behind.

Also the British weather outside Jun-Sep. There's something uniquely horrible about the combination of damp, cold, wind and dark in this country. What sounds to some like a moderately cool day is in reality much worse than a -10 run in dry, crisp, cloudless conditions.

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Obligatory tree counter wrote:

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

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.

People who one step you

Ha! I’ve been wanting to vent about this. And it’s something I’ve been curious to ask other runners.

It seems that I don’t need to cross a driveway or low-traffic intersection until a car needs to drive through it. Like I could run down a mile-long residential street with a house/driveway every 50 feet. And only five cars will pull into or back out of a driveway as I run down then street. But each one will do so just as I’m approaching the driveway.

Other annoying thing is idiots who hang out in the track lanes dribbling basket balls or socializing while I’m trying to run a 6 x 800m session. One time at my nephew’s track practice I watched a group of soccer players drop all their gear right in lanes 1-2 and then go warm up. They got mad when we moved their gear into the field. Asked us why we didn’t just ask them to move it please lol

1. Dork Boy

2. Neck boy

3. 50 year old douche-bag loser guy on Beach Drive who always wears wrap-arounds (even on cloudy days) and runs shirtless. No one is impressed.