Top ten reasons not to ask a runner how their long run went:
10. There’s got to be something better you can do with that hour you’re going to lose.
9. Seeing black toenails grosses you out.
8. You’d rather not have them show you how they can no longer touch their toes.
7. If you want to know the difference between heel striking and forefoot striking, you’ll Google it.
6. You are afraid they will ask you for a donation for the charity marathon they are running.
5. Hearing about bleeding nipples grosses you out.
4. You’d rather not be forced to visualize their morning bathroom routine.
3. You’re afraid they will ask you to join them next weekend.
2. You don’t want to hear them say, “I had to skip my long run, because I only had time for 12 miles.”
1. You don’t have to ask, they’ll tell you!
- Questions:
- Are you guilty of doing or saying any of these things?
- What do you consider a long run… how many miles?
- What other obnoxious things do we say?
This is awesome! I’m losing 3 toenails so I had to laugh at #9.
Of course as a fellow runner, I’m thinking, “Wow, you must have run a great race!” But your non-runner friends are thinking, “Ewh!”
I love the list! I am guilty of over sharing about my running. Whe n I’m at a meeting for work anda coworker asks how my run went, I have to remember they’re just making polite conversation and they really don’t want a play by play. They are looking for a one word answer: good, fine, hot, slow, etc.
I consider anything over 6 miles that is run on the weekend as a long run.
Obnoxious things we say: “I can’t, I have to go running” (say this enough and people eventually stop inviting you places, by the way), and “according to my GPS that 5K was [insert whatever distance slightly below or above actual race distance] miles.”
A few years ago the Cruisers made a rule that anything over ten miles was considered a long run… 😉
I know that at times I’ve been a pretty boring dinner guest, because I didn’t drink, or we left early because we had a race the next day. 🙁
I love this! I have found now that I started a running blog that’s all I talk about! Some way or another I figure out how to turn the conversation into running!
Also thank you for all the tweets about Justin this weekend!
Emma@ a mom runs this town
In the past all that I wanted to talk about was running; and now that I write a running blog, all I want to talk about is my running blog! 😉
Oh dear. I am so busted.
Tee Hee! This post was way too easy for me to write. I just pulled from all of the obnoxious things I say and do! 🙂
Love it and guilty as charged!
HaHa! So guilty here as well!
These totally crack me up! I have a tendency to show my close running girlfriends and my family the gross black toe nail and my blisters. They are my proud running wounds right? I consider 8+ a long run, but maybe that will change as I marathon train this summer.
We work hard for those blisters and black toe nails! I don’t understand why everyone wouldn’t want to see them! 😉
HA!! I honest-to-goodness was looking up that marathon photo for my blog post earlier today 😀
I really feel badly for that guy that he’s famous for THAT photo!
Hahhaha definitely all of these! My fiance is an athlete as well so he can tolerate this stuff. But if any non runner asks I usually just say “good” because I know they don’t want to hear the details, or feel guilty that I just ran for a few hours while they were sleeping!
I have a habit of being an over-sharer! Thus the idea for the post! 🙂
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