Your turn-around point?
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UFTriGator posted 1 year ago.
I like running loops and doing track work. I have a friend that might want to run with you, though:
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ShaverR6 posted 1 year ago.
You are not alone, I touch a rail of a bridge for my 5k loop, an outhouse (hopefully empty) for my 8k loop, and a park bench for my 16k loop.
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RV posted 1 year ago.
I don't have to touch a point by hand but my foot had better touch down across the turn-around "line" else I also feel like I cheated and will then have to add it on to the end of the run.
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Slimpee posted 1 year ago.
I know how you feel. I don't out and back but if i did I would have to touch the turn-around point each time.
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Sloswimr posted 1 year ago.
I'm in the club too. I now plan all my runs as loops. I went to USAFT.org and planned routes at various distances.
Becareful, people like us can spend way too much time mapping a route to be sure its exactly the distance you wanted.
This brings up a question. What are junk miles?
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PJT posted 1 year ago.
My 7 mile out & back and my hilly 5 mile route both have signposts that I high-five at the turnaround. I don't know if it's OCD if you obsess about not getting to the turnaround, because I ALWAYS touch those signposts. ;)
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UFTriGator posted 1 year ago.
Sloswimr;73678 wrote:
What are junk miles?
Non-workout runs. Despite what their name implies, you still need them. A good portion of them can be replaced with cycling for triathletes, which is why triathletes only run maybe 30 miles while runners do double or triple that.
P.S. USATF....in case anyone tries to go there and gets confused:D.
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dr_rios_ec posted 1 year ago.
I am with all of you guys!!!
I can have my day completely ruined if I cheat or cut short my turn around point of my run....
Call me OCD...or anything elses, but it kills me if by somereason cut short a run missing my actual turning point.
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beads1985 posted 1 year ago.
I think you need to have a running partner that will beat you with a PVC pipe if you "Cheat" again. :D
Then you will stop "cheating"
Next time you get to the gate, touch it, and drop and do 20 pushups!!
Nothing to it, but to do it
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run_sparky_run posted 1 year ago.
For those of you regulars that don't know, I've been running with Beads1986 for almost 2 years. When I run with him and we get to a turn around point, I hit him instead!:D
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Triguy98 posted 1 year ago.
As one of my former coaches used to say:
"You can cheat me, you can cheat your mom, but DONT CHEAT YOURSELF!"
My turn around points are normally times, not distances. I have two out and backs- one to the community pool, the other goes around a round about, no cheating there!
Life is short. Play hard and get dirty doing it.
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Anton posted 1 year ago.
Since I run big circles and not often out and backs...where is my turn around point? Is it more of a tipping point? Is the circle unbroken? Since I go around, do I come around?
ah...morning meta-physics.
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RV posted 1 year ago.
run_sparky_run;74431 wrote:
For those of you regulars that don't know, I've been running with Beads1986 for almost 2 years. When I run with him and we get to a turn around point, I hit him instead!:D
Ya, but I think Beads enjoys being hit!
Beads1986? Don't tell me there is another one!
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fpugsley posted 1 year ago.
My turn arounds are time based also, but I always set the interval timer on my watch for the first half to be longer than the second by several minutes. That way, if I either run faster on the way back or dont, I get my time in and maybe a cool down walk in the Texas heat
Yay for Type A personalities!
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bluebirdbiker posted 1 year ago.
See, you're not alone. It's a psych thing. We all have mental probs. I'm the same as you, "have to go around a particular post to call it a 'sucessful' run" and, not to feel guilty after :-)
Sickness? Yes. In fact last night I got home I was drained from fragmented sleep the night before. ....lay on the couch trying to convince myself that I can give up the run tonight. It started eating me up. Conclusion? I got my sorry ass off the couch and went for the run. Retrospect? Very glad I did. Oh, and btw, I did go around the post so it WAS a successful run HA! :D
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fpugsley posted 1 year ago.
bluebirdbiker;74490 wrote:
Sickness? Yes. In fact last night I got home I was drained from fragmented sleep the night before. ....lay on the couch trying to convince myself that I can give up the run tonight. It started eating me up. Conclusion? I got my sorry ass off the couch and went for the run. Retrospect? Very glad I did. Oh, and btw, I did go around the post so it WAS a successful run HA! :D
I did the same thing yesterday! Except my excuse was a little case of the brown bottle flu left over from my friends taking me out for my birthday on Wednesday. One more season before I take on the 30-34s.
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grlawguy posted 1 year ago.
Great thread. I do it too. Too funny! And when I am running a loop route, I have to finish strong past the "finish line," which is the light pole just up the street from my house. Even if I feel like puking (a la Beads1985 (see NYC Tri race report)), gotta make it past the finish line.
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run_sparky_run posted 1 year ago.
Well I'm glad to see that it's not just me that has these hangups too.
I heard the Beads1985 puking story firsthand yesterday as he ate an entire pepperoni pizza then jumped in the pool to swim... some people never learn!
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beads1985 posted 1 year ago.
It was not an entire pepperonni pizza, it was about 1/2 of a peperoni pizza and 1/2 of a plain pie. It was also spread out over a few hours.
I needed the carbs to keep up with the girls at a birthday party!:D
Nothing to it, but to do it
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Tikal Dog posted 1 year ago.
Now I´m getting scared with all you nut jobs!!!!! :D
I don´t have this problem since my training sessions go by time not by distance. But I have to say that if I am in front of home and still have 30 seconds left... I have to keep running.
Hyperactive Trifueler!!!! (I refuse to let the status go :p)
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run_sparky_run posted 1 year ago.
Passing your house with 30 seconds left is the same thing.
I suppose that it's the same tenacious spirit we have when racing. My wife supposes that I'm just a freak!
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wllmsylv posted 1 year ago.
Thats funny. I thought I was the only one. But i don't go crazy over it I will just run or ride my bike around in circles till I get the milage I am after. I have yet to cheat on myself.
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Marvolo posted 1 year ago.
run_sparky_run;75488 wrote:
Passing your house with 30 seconds left is the same thing.
I do the same thing. I usually go by time, but it drives me crazy if I stop at 1:19:30, or something. I might as well make it an 80 minute run at that point. So I run up the street for 15 seconds, turn around, and confuse the neighbours.
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tri-p posted 1 year ago.
Great trails I run them all the time and for us to this crazy sport we have to be a little crazy anyway, just touch the damn get then go a little further next time.
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amyro1234 posted 1 year ago.
I thought I was the only one! I know all the distances of the routes I run by mapquest or by my bike computer. I have to cover every step of those routes when I run them, and if I don't cover the whole thing, or am running a route I do not know the distance of. it drives me crazy!
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wirebook posted 1 year ago.
I'm all about the post in front of my house (when returning). I must touch thy post for the workout to be done. For running I go by distance, around my house I have all of the distances marked out well, but for cycling I go by time. Sometimes I end up at the end and will be doing back and forths on my street in front of my house (thankfully a long mulit-mile perfectly flat and straight street), but it confuses the heck out of folks when I go back and forth. I think they think I'm just some lost cyclist.
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My weekday runs are usually on a wooded trail (Paulinskill trail in NJ, a former rail bed). When I reach my intended turn-around point, I have to touch the gate that blocks vehicles from getting on the trail.
A few times I've turned around a few yards shy and not actually touched the gate at the half way point. This has driven me nuts for the remainder of the day with a sense that I cheated myself.
Do I have a touch of obsessive compulsive disorder, or does this happen to any of you great athletes too? What do you have to reach out and touch at your turn-around point?