re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

Same here. Might be more bc of where I run, but I like to be completely aware of my surroundings - people, bikes, cars, street cars. I suppose if I ran trails or neighborhood streets I might listen to music on my runs.

complete opposite for me. i have to listen to something. i can't stand the sound of my breathing.

I typically have music on but rarely am I paying attention to it except on more leisurely runs.

How do you guys hear the endless catcalls from passing milfs with your headphones in?

Saw that shite huh? Wasn’t he a Doctor and punched a woman? She must have got in his path while he was banging out 800’s, threw off his pace and it sent him into a rage!

They normally just grab my arse as I run by

I prefer running alone for the same reason.

I’ll run with someone with the understanding that it’s my pace, and they can get dropped or they can drop me.

Side note: forecast has me nervous. Still might change.

I think I subconsciously started running because it’s my time by myself and not having to deal with people.

That’s what running groups are for, running with other people. I’m talking strictly about people that could run in a running group, and do, but choose to bother me as well who rarely runs in a group like I’ve got the magic solution to their lack of Q sessions.

I used to do the long group run every once in a while until Covid, but also don’t miss it much because sometimes there would be folk that decided they’d want to swing dicks and ruin the pace. It’s pretty competitive around here and there are some guys that are plenty fast enough to ruin a good long run. I usually resist to urge to drop the whole frickin lot and hammer down to make any/everyone that goes with me suffer.

Due to the competitiveness, the whole group would typically go and try to keep up if the measuring tape comes out which would lead to me running between paces (“garbage” pace) and most of them running their marathon tempo. Doing shite like that will overtrain ya depending on your training that week so I don’t bother most of the time.

Usually when I group run, I’ll hang a the back of the pack. It’s really weird around here because it’s small enough for everyone to know everyone else’s running business. There’s lots of “so and so ran a...”, or people will come up to me and go “man, I heard you ran a...” and I’ll not know who the frick that person is. Also, I couldn’t care less how fast some other dink ran a race. I don’t have time to care, lol. I primarily racing against the clock.

Ran a local 5K today. Nice to run with some ‘normal’ people again and not the psychos in the track club. New PR at 23:46. Good for a top 25 outa 150. Same pace last weekend in the 10K wouldn’t crack top 200.