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Flasshe - 2006-10-24 12:01:42
Where do you draw the line for Too Cold To Jog? I generally won't do anything below around 18 degrees F.
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Paula - 2006-10-24 12:09:22
When I was younger, and obsessed with fitness, there was no Too Cold, Too Rainy, Too Snowy, Too Sick to Jog, and I would find myself running the Prospect Park loop in 5-degree weather, the only other runner being the scary guy I used to call The Uni-Jogger.
But now I am less obsessed and I belong to a nice, climate-controlled gym, so I will only run outside if it's between 40 and 85 degrees. Anything above or below: elliptical trainer!
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Chris - 2006-10-24 12:19:43
My rule of thumb: Rain, Cold, Wind. Any combo of two of them is bad for running. I have run in -5 as well around the park loop, I did not see the Uni-jogger, but instead the man with the dirty cleveland indian cap and beard who is always always always running. My fav running is between 25 and 40.
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Sue - 2006-10-24 13:28:33
Paula, the final copy of AQUACADE is on its way to you...! You could always make the tracks available for download someday.
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Greg - 2006-10-24 13:30:22
Chris & Paula--in case you were wondering--remember the with the Wild Turkey bottle and smokes who applauded every time you passed? That was me!!!!
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Paula - 2006-10-24 13:54:13
Chris:
the man with the dirty cleveland indian cap and beard who is always always always running
That's him! And he always has his pant legs rolle up, even when it's inclement.
Sue: yay, thanks!
Greg: I thought I recognized you--you're the "you want some fries with that shake?" guy.
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Chris - 2006-10-24 14:37:41
Paula: how can you stand the boredom of the gym when you got the uni-jogger? Also, you got a great place to run along the water there in your bayridge.
When I am on the treadmill all I can think about is not falling.
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Paula - 2006-10-24 15:18:49
I've turned 180 degrees on the issue. It use to be that running on a treadmill never felt challenging or interesting or "real" enough. But lately, running in the street causes me to get distracted, to give up too soon, to take too many rests, to use any excuse to stop, where the unforgiving treadmill motivates me to go, go, go. Although for 5 minutes afterward, it feels like the floor is moving.
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Chris - 2006-10-24 15:57:50
well if your looking for a good outdoor challenge try the NYC half marathon series. Equally spaced during the year, 5 different races, one for each borough. I am running them this year, and if lucky maybe you and the Uni-Jogger will run on my team. I like that name, the Uni-Joggers. By the way, if you do another 180 degree turn on the issue then it will be the ceiling that will be moving once of the treadmill.
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Paula - 2006-10-24 17:21:28
Neither the Uni-jogger nor I are really joiners, but that sounds cool, thanks. As for the ceiling, I think Lionel Richie has a song about that.
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Greg - 2006-10-24 20:28:39
Paula & Chris--Have either of you ever wished, whilst running in the park, that black lycra was outlawed?
And somewhere in that fries line, Paula, is a very cheesy but perhaps socially relevant joke about trans-fat... but I'll be damned if I can think of it.
My favorite food related comment in regards to girl-watching, came from a friend as we walked past a callipygean beauty sunbathing: "That reminds me of two roast chickens lying side by side in a pan. Hey, let's go to the snackbar."
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2fs - 2006-10-24 23:19:24
Every neighborhood must have its Weird Jogger. Around here, there's this Ichabod Crane-looking guy in probably his early 50s: no matter what the weather, he's wearing very short running shorts, even if he looks to be turning blue in below-zero cold. He often has his dog with him, and invariably his head tilts to one side. He's got this sort of Iggy Pop thing going on, but (even) more creepy and less charismatic.
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Paula - 2006-10-25 03:41:27
In one old neighborhood of mine, there was a guy who would jog everyday in his regular everyday-wear: trousers, buttoned shirt, shoes. It's like he was being chased.
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Flasshe - 2006-10-25 15:05:14
My local UniJogger is a tall thin guy in his 40s who wears shorts, long-sleeved t-shirt, hat, and mittens. He runs fast and is all over the place. He's never done the jogger-to-jogger wave or said anything. He looks very serious.
Paula: That is too funny about the everyday-wear jogger. I wonder what his co-workers think...
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Paula - 2006-10-25 17:13:18
He's never done the jogger-to-jogger wave
This is an important jog-o-quette issue: to wave or not to wave when you're jogging and you pass someone else and it's just the two of you. I mean, in the park I wouldn't even bother, there's too many other runners, but if you're all a-trot in your own 'hood? There have been times I've waved and the other person kind of looks at me funny, so I figured it's just not done in the BK.
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Flasshe - 2006-10-26 15:03:07
I'm sure it's different in these suburbs out here in the old midwest than it is in NYC (not that people are any more or less friendly or anything). I've found that the really serious joggers (the ones with frowny faces) don't wave, but most others do. It's such a shared experience, doing this crazy running thing in the cold and dark, that some kind of acknowledgement seems required.
so I figured it's just not done in the BK
Why are you jogging in a Burger King?
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Paula - 2006-10-26 19:14:00
Why are you jogging in a Burger King?
Cuz I want some fries with that shake?
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