RunningAHEAD - Topic: Looking cool while triangulating

Gig

posted: 4/17/2009 at 2:00 PM

When my runs start from my office or from where I take my karate classes, I need to do the Garmin pose--holding my arm in the air so that the satellites orbiting 100 to 5,000 miles overhead are a few feet closer. The problem is that it just doesn't look cool, and so much of running is about looking cool. I've come up with two ways to look cool while triangulating. 1. Hold up a random object (a toothbrush case works best), pretend to click a button, thus summoning Ultraman. 2. Hold up a towell as if attempting to hitch a ride with a passing spaceship. 3. Act like I'm Hiro from Heroes by yelling "Yatta!" Any other ideas?

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Phidippides

posted: 4/17/2009 at 2:04 PM

I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. Runners will know what you are doing and not really think about it.... Non- Runners already think you're weird (cause you're a runner) -- so all you're doing is proving to non-runners that its true..... Yes

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Champions are made when no one is watching

Slow Runner

posted: 4/17/2009 at 2:05 PM

Wear a watch not a computer...

NJPhil

posted: 4/17/2009 at 2:05 PM

How about putting your garmin on the windowsill for a few minutes before heading out the door, works for me at home and work. Does eliminate the cool factor though. You could always get the foam Statue of Liberty hat and roll up some aluminum foil for your torch, that would be cool.

Ben Running

posted: 4/17/2009 at 2:09 PM
modified: 4/17/2009 at 2:09 PM

I put mine outside on the front porch while i finish up inside and get ready to run, by the time i get back to it it's all ready to push start!

Buckeye

posted: 4/17/2009 at 2:10 PM

LOL ..... Thought same thing a few nights back at park waiting for Garmin. Bar ... Bar ... Bar ... hmmm .....No I have to stretch or something .... Bar .... Bar ..... Look up at sky as to get some clue of why the satelite can not find me! .... bar .... bar ..... screw it I am running the satelite will catch up.

"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it Great!

Slow Runner

posted: 4/17/2009 at 2:13 PM

If you can't run without depending on a satellite to pick up your location first, then you have bigger problems...

Ben Running

posted: 4/17/2009 at 2:19 PM

Quote from Slow Runner on 4/17/2009 at 2:13 PM:

If you can't run without depending on a satellite to pick up your location first, then you have bigger problems...

Obviously we can all run without it. I can get by without my truck if i had to and a cell phone as well but some of us enjoy using modern technology. Dont be a hater! Tongue

Gig

posted: 4/17/2009 at 2:42 PM

Quote from NJPhil on 4/17/2009 at 2:05 PM:

You could always get the foam Statue of Liberty hat and roll up some aluminum foil for your torch, that would be cool.

Now that's what I'm talking about. That would be SO COOL. Cool

When I wear my all white running clothes with shiny rhinestones, I could do the John Travolta Saturday Night Fever pose. (I just need to get an all white running outfit with rhinestones.)

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milktruck

an amazing likeness

posted: 4/17/2009 at 2:49 PM
modified: 4/17/2009 at 3:42 PM

I go for the 'proud and tall' pose with my arms folded across my chest, Garmin side up. Unmoving, unwavering in the face of whatever is coming so that I don't make any microscopic twitches and throw the Forerunner off its task of hearing unknown signals from the heavens. Except for maybe a tear running down my cheek like the pollution indian chap.

_{Acceptable at a dance, invaluable in a shipwreck.}

labrat

posted: 4/17/2009 at 2:57 PM

Quote from milktruck on 4/17/2009 at 2:49 PM:

I go for the 'proud and tall' pose with my arms folded across my chest, Garmin side up. Unmoving, unwavering in the face of whatever is coming so that I don't make any microscopic twitches to throw the Forerunner off its tasks of hearing unknown signals from the heavens. Except for maybe a tear running down my cheek like the pollution indian chap.

nice

Ileneforward

#artbydmcbride

posted: 4/17/2009 at 3:06 PM

Take it off of your wrist and set it on top of your head for a minute. And look around all nonchalant with squinty eyes like the Marlboro man. Smile

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Doug B

posted: 4/17/2009 at 3:12 PM

Quote from Gig on 4/17/2009 at 2:00 PM:

so much of running is about looking cool.

sho nuff.

xor

posted: 4/17/2009 at 4:23 PM

This is a very bad ass way to look cool. Of course, they had bigger issues at the time than whether their Garmin could find the signal.

Plus, I guess they were done running by this point.

perfesserr

Imminent Catastrophe

posted: 4/17/2009 at 5:28 PM

Hey, I never knew they had GPS in '68!

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