Running terms/phrases that need to die

5k marathon. Heard this 5 times at my first ever road 5k this summer.

tempoed the race.

Race was off base training, haven't started speed work yet

Going home DEVASTATED.

Howard Dean wrote:

Going home DEVASTATED.

You mad bro?

pretzel man wrote:

Howard Dean wrote:

Going home DEVASTATED.

You mad bro?

Totally. Dude is so mad. He's going home DEVASTATED himself.

Leg turnover

Glute engagement.

No, just DEVASTATED.

Transgender

Intersex

Doping: Most elites do it. Accept It.

Crushing

Tempo's

Interval's

Pace's

Strider's

Singlet's

Spike's

Track's

Stretch's

Race's

Run's

Jog's

Elite's

So you mean misuse of an apostrophe?

Agreed, but not just for running. Just a general American's Are Stupid kind of situation.

Um, ever heard of Jordan Hasay?

XCuse wrote:

tempoed the race.

Race was off base training, haven't started speed work yet

This would be an excuse for not placing well, even then, lots of teams (especially in high school) peak way too early, so early season races mean absolutely nothing.

In terms of times, no sh!t people will post slower times if they haven't done any speed or are in the middle of a hard block of training. Almost everyone in my family knows next to nothing about running.

Example: I ran a 5k in 17:35 on a July 4th race. My PR is 16:38 and I have run a couple other 5k's close to that since, so they would expect to hear a 16:XX time for every race. But what they don't realize is that I took 2 weeks competely off after track, and just started up easy base mileage again, so obviously I'm not anywhere close to being in PR shape. I had to explain to them briefly about peaking and the different phases of training, and it makes sense to them then and there, but if I wasn't running, they wouldn't care the slightest about what I had to say, and never remember.

When someone says they tempoed a race, they usually just ran terrible and are a hobby jogger making an excuse for themselves to satisfy their ego and to keep their friends ooing and ahhing at their races. This needs to go.

I tempoed a race once, and hated it, I will never do it again. I was going through a phase where I had convinced myself any hard running before mid to late July was going to make me peak early. I got 4th and was maybe a minute behind the winner in a 5 mile race, so I could have at least challenged for the W. But tempoing a race is a thing. Also, Galen Rupp essentially tempoed that 1/2 marathon to qualify for the OT.

Buffed out singletrack. Cringe

Bruh wrote:

was going to make me peak early

There's another one. "Peak early."

Strength

"Nattys"

Bruh wrote:

[quote]XCuse wrote:

I tempoed a race once, and hated it, I will never do it again. I was going through a phase where I had convinced myself any hard running before mid to late July was going to make me peak early. I got 4th and was maybe a minute behind the winner in a 5 mile race, so I could have at least challenged for the W.

But, if you had raced and won, people would have given you a sad look, then said something like “oh, you won with a 28:10? Um…congrats?” So at least you spared yourself that humiliation.

"Championship Style Race"

"Next Phenom"

"Training Cycle"