Last night two girls asked me, "How's your jogging going?" while I was finishing up my run. I wasn't running too slow either, 7min miles at least. I replied, "Jogging?! I am running!" They said, "You're not running." This prompted me to think about how slow I must be.
What a said day.
7 min miles do in fact look like a "jogging" pace. Not sure what you were, or are, trying to prove.
I think running always looks slower than it feels. I will feel like I'm hauling ass sometimes, then see myself on video and I look slow. And when I go to watch road races, guys who would kick my ass if I was running look slow when I'm watching.
Half Truths wrote:
7 min miles do in fact look like a "jogging" pace. Not sure what you were, or are, trying to prove.
Easy tough guy...
I've gotten "enjoy your jog" before. I should have taken their advice...on the enjoy part, not the jog part.
Don't feel to bad.When I was in college doing mile repeats on the track,my coach told me I looked like I was running slow.Perhaps I was for a lot of guy's but for me it was a good pace.I was running them between 4:34- 4:37.He was serious until he looked at his watch.I've made the same observations with my own kids/athletes but I don't say anything until I look at my watch first.
Those girls were probably trying to "hit" on you. THey just wanted to make small-talk to break the ice.
One has to be receptive to these things. Were they cute?
my .02
Real Truth wrote:
Those girls were probably trying to "hit" on you. THey just wanted to make small-talk to break the ice.
One has to be receptive to these things. Were they cute?
my .02
They did initiate the quick convo and they were kinda cute for being under 18.
Ah well it's all good
Girls don't know what they are talking about...ever.
Did it ever occur to you that they were yankin' you big time? Chop busting takes many forms.
Hmmmmm wrote:
Did it ever occur to you that they were yankin' you big time? Chop busting takes many forms.
I doubt that. They were "jogging" too. Perhaps next time I should invite them for a "jog", then a good snog.
Now you know how I feel when I'm busting those sub 3:30s.
it only means you look like geek.
HAHAHAHAHA
My lisense tag says "RUNMOM". The other day one of the neighborhood kids, a chubby 9 year old, told me it should say "JOGMOM". I told her that I run, I don't jog. She shook her head and disagreed with me, "Uh,uh, I've seen you jog by my house". I looked at her and said once again, "I run." Finally she came back with ,"Well when you were pregnant, you JOGGED!"