Have you ever ran around the inside of your house for a run?

Oh yeah, I've done this at home, at work...I once put in 14 miles at O'Hare during a snowstorm. Best one is the mall though. We have these old ladies that meet at the mall and walk every morning when it opens. They just get there and do their power walk. No one ever says anything. So I laced up the shoes and put on the short shorts and went for an 8 miler. Made it 5 before they kicked me out - ran the rest around the parking lot. It was actually a nice day out, I just wanted to see if they'd let me run around the mall haha.

Running "laps" around the inside of your house is completely dumb and isn't giving you any type of beneficial workout. If you're that anal retentive and for some reason can't even go outside to run up and down the street then just do jumping jacks.

Lol bbbnn wrote:

Correcting your grammar wrote:

"Have you ever run..."

Not "ran".

Runners, of all people, should know when to use ran versus run.

https://www.sciencealert.com/people-who-constantly-pick-up-grammar-mistakes-are-kinda-jerks-scientists-find

. That's for you. A$$.

I wonder if the same could be said for people who get irritated by those who correct grammar.

Whenever I am tempted to do this, I just run laps around the inside of my mind.

blort wrote:

Lol bbbnn wrote:https://www.sciencealert.com/people-who-constantly-pick-up-grammar-mistakes-are-kinda-jerks-scientists-find

. That's for you. A$$.

I wonder if the same could be said for people who get irritated by those who correct grammar.

I didn't say it they did . You lost . Ha ha.

Sampson wrote:

Running "laps" around the inside of your house is completely dumb and isn't giving you any type of beneficial workout. If you're that anal retentive and for some reason can't even go outside to run up and down the street then just do jumping jacks.

It's the same as running. It is running . Ask Halie . He has done it through a few hotels. You heard it here 1st.

Runner vs treadmill wrote:

Like run through the house for like 30 minutes to equal a run. Yesterday I did a 40 minute run around the outside of my house. This vs treadmill running.I would take running around the house anyday .

Ran in a Hotel on a cold night once on a trip. Not bad, Ran 15 mins and got decent run in. No dirty looks either

I've done the stairs in my house for up to two hours. It works if you don't want to deal with cold, rain, snow.

HELL YEAH BOIIII wrote:

Oh yeah, I've done this at home, at work...I once put in 14 miles at O'Hare during a snowstorm. Best one is the mall though. We have these old ladies that meet at the mall and walk every morning when it opens. They just get there and do their power walk. No one ever says anything. So I laced up the shoes and put on the short shorts and went for an 8 miler. Made it 5 before they kicked me out - ran the rest around the parking lot. It was actually a nice day out, I just wanted to see if they'd let me run around the mall haha.

Sounds like a scene straight out "Better Call Saul"....lol

I went to work and did repeats of 5 flights of stairs with a walk down recovery for 30 min.

Midwest, 70s, ran the high school hallways when the weather was too bad to run outside (which was like every other day for a few years there). Track began March 1 for us there, which meant it was still the Arctic Circle.

Years later I lived a bit south, and track began Feb. 1.

The reason they're so fast in Texas and California is not just population numbers, it's that track never begins, because it never ends!

Not my house, but my high school hallway was a long rectangular 11-laps to the mile (no the rooms on the inside did not have windows or ventilation to speak of). So we'd do workouts there occasionally.

Didn't Zatopek run in place in his bathtub?

We used to run through the school during track preseason when the track was still covered with snow. We'd go easy on a 100m stretch downstairs and then go hard up one end of the stairway and keep going hard for the 100m back on the second floor and then recover down the stairs. It was a blast really.

As a kid, I used to run up and down our small backyard when I was bored or frustrated with home life.

Yep, live in Phoenix and during our last heat wave it hit 120. Live in a ranch style home with long hallways and DTS surround sound. So, got home from work, hot as hell outside and have commercial free Pandora. No earbuds used in my house folks. Volume up, sub woofers bumping and I am running laps in the house with the curtains open. Wanted to wave to the neighbors, but it was hot as hell. No sane folks outdoors, just us crazy people running in our houses. 120, global warming my a$$.......:)

Runner vs treadmill wrote:

Like run through the house for like 30 minutes to equal a run. Yesterday I did a 40 minute run around the outside of my house. This vs treadmill running.I would take running around the house anyday .

Had to run in place once -- to keep my streak of running everyday for ten years once.

GUB wrote:

friend once ran in place in his dorm room for an hour and called it 7 miles. Not because it was dangerous outside or anything, he had just lost his key card to get back in the building.

Prisoners do this all the time.

If you really can't leave the house you probably do better just doing a few thousand squats quickly.

Ran in the house during hurricane Floyd while living in NC. Also did many laps in my back yard in HS usually just to test out new spikes. Now I live in the country and have a 440y oval three lanes wide in my back yard. It's not flat, so it makes for some challenging intervals. Have the HS runners I coach run workouts on it occasionally. I, myself have run as much as five miles, maybe six around it when my kids were younger and my wife wasn't home. Also has been useful when thunderstorms are brewing and don't want to be too far from home.

I occasionally run up and down my stairs and do 150 or 200 flights. Usually in sets of 20, with a short rest (maybe 30s, enough to grab a gulp of water). It's a pretty good workout and I think if you charge up the stairs at full speed it helps with turnover, similar to doing hill repeats.