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Who does a 2k time trial? And who doesn't stop when a cop yells to stop? So put these together and we get who does a 2k time trial and won't stop when a cop yells to stop? Not believable.
2/10
Who does a 2k time trial? And who doesn't stop when a cop yells to stop? So put these together and we get who does a 2k time trial and won't stop when a cop yells to stop? Not believable.
Only a true runner would keep going. I believe the OP. I for one think he is quiet a tough bad ass. Tough for toughing out the time trial despite the distractions but also a bad ass for ignoring the cop.
Why stop at 2k? Why not make it 5 x 18 and let her chase you all day?
When we lived in California, the school facilities in our district were not only off-limits to the public but were typically surrounded by high fences. Considering that schools are mostly paid for through the use of property taxes, it's offensive that those facilities are not available for community use.
Conflating school shootings (which have almost always been the province of students themselves, not outsiders coming into the schools to commit violence) and ramped-up security in the campus context, with the supposed need to bar members of the community from using the facilities that they pay for, is patently absurd.
I now live in the Midwest in a school district that struggled for a number of years with gaining approval from voters for school levies. When they rebuilt school facilities in the last number of years, they actually went in a healthier direction, now calling the schools "community centers" and making the facilities available and open for public use. Smart. They now have buy-in from the community and multiple groups use them, including the tracks and some of the sports fields. The natatorium at one of the high schools sees wide use for swimming lessons and lane swimming during the week.
Think about the messaging the young preciouses receive when they attend a walled, "secured" facility every day, that we call school. Think too about the messaging sent to the voters who see the track they are paying for but cannot use in the evenings, or the sports fields that sit unused 22 hours of every day. Ridiculous. Even to say that a grown adult cannot run on the outdoor track while school is in session, ridiculous. Why should the kids not see that their facilities are interwoven into the community?
I would never support a school system that walled off the facilities from use by the community at large.
TrackFan 1979 wrote:
It's time for all of use to buy a measuring wheel and measure along quiet roads and bike paths. The days of running on a track are over folks.
Running tracks are an obvious target for terrorists. It will probably be years before some diabolic genius has the idea to run over crowds with a truck.
runNomad.com wrote: I just thought it was weird that non of the other (25) off-duty police officer had a problem with it, and were very entertained by my time trial. But this lady seemed a little power hungry this morning.
I think you should begin exercising your 1st Amendment right to peaceful protest and begin kneeling for the National Anthem whenever it is played. No runner should have to endure unwarranted displays of fascism by some low-grade cop with an inferiority complex.
And good luck dealing with all of the moronic rednecks (and Trump, who is a step below a moronic redneck) who will rip you because they stupidly misinterpret your action as disrespect for patriotism and the military.
Your narrative is fairly dramatic. For one reason or another ABQ, NM PD act as PE instructors or were acting as PE instructors January, 2015 at Cibola HS. They had a PD across the street 1/2015 (it may still be there). I got a couple laps into a planned 8K run. I was told to leave due to school hours. When my run started, no one was on the track. I asked what time may I return. I came back after 4pm as cop said. No drama.
Your time tho wrote:
what was your time? If you didn't run under 6min imma be so mad.
5:44, It was tune up for an upcoming race so I didn't change gears the last 800. (more like a semi-time trial to open up the lungs)
are you in texas!? are your initials cm by chance..
Shoebacca wrote:
2/10
Who does a 2k time trial? And who doesn't stop when a cop yells to stop? So put these together and we get who does a 2k time trial and won't stop when a cop yells to stop? Not believable.
Agree. Calling kaka on this one.
OP had his shirt off and policewoman didn't ask him out on a date...........yeah, right.
bootleg bekele wrote:
are you in texas!? are your initials cm by chance..
yes and yes...
runNomad.com wrote:
bootleg bekele wrote:
are you in texas!? are your initials cm by chance..
yes and yes...
OMG! DAD IT'S ME!
Fairly dramatic wrote:
Your narrative is fairly dramatic. For one reason or another ABQ, NM PD act as PE instructors or were acting as PE instructors January, 2015 at Cibola HS. They had a PD across the street 1/2015 (it may still be there). I got a couple laps into a planned 8K run. I was told to leave due to school hours. When my run started, no one was on the track. I asked what time may I return. I came back after 4pm as cop said. No drama.
8k "run" or 8k Time Trial... there is a big difference. If I was in the middle of an easy run I would have stopped.
runNomad.com wrote:
Fairly dramatic wrote:
Your narrative is fairly dramatic. For one reason or another ABQ, NM PD act as PE instructors or were acting as PE instructors January, 2015 at Cibola HS. They had a PD across the street 1/2015 (it may still be there). I got a couple laps into a planned 8K run. I was told to leave due to school hours. When my run started, no one was on the track. I asked what time may I return. I came back after 4pm as cop said. No drama.
8k "run" or 8k Time Trial... there is a big difference. If I was in the middle of an easy run I would have stopped.
By, "Big difference" do you mean your 2K time trial was important? I am sure your 2K time trail was important.
there is no need to play your running games while the country is in danger.
obviously they should shut down all tracks for a few years when terrorists are roaming about.
say in the year 2020 when the terrorists are sorted, the police really need to patrol every play ground and make sure no one is running with out a shirt, that kind of offensive male behavior cannot be tolerated.
and also offensive shorts must be banned.
if the cops don't enforce these rules, the terrorists will run the show, and then the nazis will take over.
do you want that? nazis taking over and telling you what to do?
i was in PEI canada recently, the people generally have devolved into nut jobs, or at least, they comply with nut jobs setting the pace.
i was on the beach on a beautiful summers day, shirtless, and looking fine of course, and a lady say's what are you doing, who do you think you are? she was referring to going shirtless. the local folk are typically very obese and their lifestyle is horrendous, so suggested to the mouthy lady that she get on an exercise program.....
so i get it, you should wear a shirt in the vicinity to be "correct", but i wanted to do some chinups and stuff outdoors, found a vacant park, in the warm sun, i took off the shirt and was enjoying doing the gymnastics, then someone taps on my shoulder, i turn around, it was a cop. he say's, what are you doing? so i start chewing him out for his stupid question, then he says, you were adjusting your belt. i go, huh? what, by this time some kids had wandered into the park, and the cop was protecting the residents from pedos. in this case maybe there were pedos who liked to do chinups and pushups intermixed with their perversion. just like the guy doing the 2k time trial, pedos like to do 2k timetrials in the morning.
i gave the officer in question a speech about his role in society, and i think he got it, his role in this warped nut-job politically correct paradigm. we shock hands and got his number, i intended to invite him out for beers, but never did.
these people have to be told. man and woman up.
speaking of cops and stories, last night I was about to cross my street to come home in the dark and I suddenly see a blinding beam of light coming down the street and in front of it a virtually naked dude in like tighty-whities
dude was trying to interact with very slowly passing cars (side street not a main road) and perhaps drunk or on something, would see logical
I was like wtf and started to back up slowly instead of cross the street
then out of no-where, and obviously the source of the light, half dozen cops appear and start screaming at him and guns drawn
dude fortunately was sober enough to put hands up and start to lay down on the ground but the screaming and guns didn't go away
first time I've ever seen something like this live and only 20 feet away from me, I was terrified those cops were going to start shooting and the crossfire would kill me or the people in passing cars
also wild, I started to notice as I was backing up slowly, people started appearing out of the woodwork with phones all pointed and obviously recording the whole scene, I was like "where is your sense of survival to go closer to this event instead of away from it?"
anyways, I nervously went the very long way around back home listening for gunshots and stuck my head out an hour later, fortunately all gone like nothing happened
all I can say is, cops sure seem like they overreact in an insane way to everything, there is no way that guy was armed, he was nearly naked and I cannot imagine guns being necessary when you are that far away and so many innocent other people around (some clearly in crossfire)
(oh for what little it matters, dude was white)
Running while white.
might as well finish the PEI shirtless thing.
in the steam room i made friends with a number of cops, one who was an international consultant, cool guy, he himself wanted to go on runs without a shirt to get some rays, but he feared local harassment, as he was on vacation and not on assignment.
my cop friend gave me a pat on the back for my "activism" for shirtless athletes.
it goes to show you, a lot of cops are pretty sick with this politically correct garbage, but their bosses send them down the wrong path, and they just do their job.
in PEI, most of the crimes, rapes, overdoses are not reported, the cops stories from this seemingly idyllic area are absolutely horrendous.
Fairly dramatic wrote:
runNomad.com wrote:
8k "run" or 8k Time Trial... there is a big difference. If I was in the middle of an easy run I would have stopped.
By, "Big difference" do you mean your 2K time trial was important? I am sure your 2K time trail was important.
One question.. Do you know the difference in a Run and a Time Trial, and the reason why I would stop in one and not the other?..
Yes it was important to me. Maybe not to anyone else, that's fine .. I was ready to accept the consequences.