It's sad that your freshman year of HS X-C is the first time you've ever been on any trails in your life and introduced to spiders but at least you got started now. Listen to the guy who mentioned the spider stick idea to knock them down before you get to them.
welcome to running wrote:
It's sad that your freshman year of HS X-C is the first time you've ever been on any trails in your life and introduced to spiders but at least you got started now. Listen to the guy who mentioned the spider stick idea to knock them down before you get to them.
I wish I had joined cross country when I was in school, I am almost 30 now.
Heinenkleisner wrote:
I wear a ball cap and clear safety glasses. Still worth it to avoid running in the heat of the day.
I think boxers call that a cup or protector. Must be big spiders to need one of those
Bunch of wusses.
I've never heard them referred to as "lines."
As long as there isn't a spider in the web, I don't mind. If there is, you'll see me turn into a 5 year old girl real quick.
eff spiders wrote:
I've never heard them referred to as "lines."
As long as there isn't a spider in the web, I don't mind. If there is, you'll see me turn into a 5 year old girl real quick.
Well I'm not sure they can be considered webs, at least not the trail I'm on. It's a paved path right next to a busy street, the street is higher than the path then on the other side is swamp/lake.. I think spiders have single lines going across this path but I'm not sure because I can't see them until they are wrapped around my sweaty face. Instead of walking across the path I think they jump across from the high side to the low side and leave a single strand about face level going across.. they are a bunch of them at different spots you never know when you're going to hit one.. the other night I could had swore when I hit one I felt a bunch of little things crawling all over my face.
Yeah, down here on the Gulf Coast you have to love those banana spiders. Their webs are strong and you can hear them snap as you run through them. Takes a while to peel the web off and just when you're done you hit the next web.
Running along the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, MA on calm summer evenings, I have to be careful about the gnat balls - those little winged bastards swarming together at face level at water's edge in the last patch of sunlight of the day. I once inhaled an entire colony, I think. And gagged afterwards.
Spiders laughed at me.
But it was good protein.
Don’t give away the secret of the spider stick (patent pending). Last weekend I looked foolish waving a stick as I ran on a less traveled trail that paralleled a busy trail for a few yards. As I came out toward the busier trail a girl looked at me with horror/humor as I ran along swashbuckling thru webs. Sucks being tall on trail runs! Good story bro... Agreed!
“And he ran the morning run, through the trails, through the spider strings laid laboriously across the trail the night before, it felt like breasting a thousand finish line tapes”
eff spiders wrote:
I've never heard them referred to as "lines."
As long as there isn't a spider in the web, I don't mind. If there is, you'll see me turn into a 5 year old girl real quick.
In the morning it's mostly just webs. Around and just after sunset, the spiders are out there making the webs and you're likely to get spiders on you. Gives me the heeby-jeebies.
I also had never heard the term "spider lines" before.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Bunch of wusses.
Yeah, try trail running in the Amazon, spiders webs the size of Trumps hairdo.
Just think of it as a service to the community. The runners that come after you will thank you. Unless you're 4' tall and are not clearing the taller ones. Nothing like a giant hairy banana spider to wake you up and test your reflexes.
I do. After a hard day of saving the world I have all kinds of strands hanging out my a*s. It doesn't actually come out of my hand like the movies would have you believe.
At 6000 ft. and above, running on mountain ridges in Oaxaca Mexico during the rainy season, it's Spider land. I love running up there, but all those spiders freak me out. But, I brush them out of the way and somehow never get a bite.
spiderStick! wrote:
Don’t give away the secret of the spider stick (patent pending). Last weekend I looked foolish waving a stick as I ran on a less traveled trail that paralleled a busy trail for a few yards. As I came out toward the busier trail a girl looked at me with horror/humor as I ran along swashbuckling thru webs. Sucks being tall on trail runs! Good story bro... Agreed!
I'm afraid someone will see me running with the stick and pepper spray me or something, or the police.
theJeff wrote:
I once knew an old lady who swallowed a spider. I think she did it to catch a fly she had eaten earlier; no idea why she swallowed the fly in the first place, tho.
I think I knew her too.
Spider stick is a bad idea. I ran a route every morning for a few years where I was covered in spider webs by the end of it. Tried the spider stick but you just can't run properly waving that thing around. Only solution I found was getting a friend to run with and making him run in front of me.
spider webd wrote:
Spider stick is a bad idea. I ran a route every morning for a few years where I was covered in spider webs by the end of it. Tried the spider stick but you just can't run properly waving that thing around. Only solution I found was getting a friend to run with and making him run in front of me.
spiderman?
No but i messed around with an older lady last nite who had spider veins. #yuck