Meaning…does your feet make a slapping noise as you stride,or are you a silent bouncer.
Do you pant,grunt?
What is your favorite aspect of your LONG run?
Me…I’m a midfoot striker…so I make the slapping noise,high cadence,almost no lift off.
I run hi volume(80-90 mi/wk) so I am fairly quiet breath wise.
My favorite part of my long run…seeing nothing but the road behind me when I turn around to look, and the satisfaction of being totally drenched in sweat…pretending I just did the final take of a Nike TV commercial. Nothing wrong with dreaming…right ?
Favorite part, where you get in a groove, and your mind is blank, and everything seems effortless, and you glance down at your HRM and you can’t believe how much time has passed, and your HR is staying low. Now, if I could get the whole run to be like that, I’d be onto something.
It’s also cool when the IPOD shuffle selects the “perfect song”, that’s a real pick-me-up.
Loud. Between sounding like I have hooves, asthma, and the sloshing from a water bottle I carry I can be heard a mile away. I can’t sneak up on anyone. I did scare a lone female walker/jogger recently. It was 5:00 a.m., she was jamming with her walkman/headphones on a secluded section of a jogging trail. When I passed her she was startled and screamed. I kept on jogging hoping she learned a safety lesson.
Normally pretty quiet, unless I’m really leaning on it (some huffing and puffing). Once in a while I will run up on someone and startle them. I usually try to cough or something to give a warning (fat ass approaching), and run well around them so I don’t get smacked.
Depends on the workout…LSD runs are kinda quiet and very enjoyable when I’m at one of the local metroparks. My favorite though: I love being on my toes and the sound of my spikes or flats when I’m doing speed workouts on the track!
Quiet. Favorite part of my long run is when the noise in my head turns off, we settle into a good pace, and my hound has the look on her face that says " this is the shit".
Quiet. I often run with my dog, a 12 lb Jack Russell, all white. She is quiet too. I get a kick out of coming up behind pedestrians with the dog out in front on the retractable leash. Now, 12 lbs is small for a dog, but it would be a sizable rat. When people see motion and look down and see this white blur, they scream about 75% of the time. Not just females, either.
Ummm…Lets see. 235 lbs, runs like a bear in a forest, sounds like a steam engine. No need for the courtesy cough on my part. When I run on the treadmill through the winter, people in the gym come to see whats causing the windows to rattle if I do sprints.
My wife runs like a cat, all elagant and silent. Poetry with nice legs!
At moderate paces, reasonably quiet. Race pace a little more huffing and puffing.
I have a friend who is a very competitive triathlete/runner that grunts with almost every foot strike. He takes short strides/high turnover so running next to him is a little disconcerting to say the least. Unfortunately, this habit carries over to weight training. He has been kicked out of 3 health clubs for “grunting!” By the way, he is a really good guy and very quiet and unassuming when not exercising.
“You know you are getting old when you see your father in the mirror!” Anon.
