Does your family support your running? (Read 1715 times)

Man I love you

I did not create it. It's Dude Code. It's eternal. Early copies were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. But feel free to love me.

But finally he admitted that he's jealous that I had the drive to start running and I've kept at it.

I'd wager something a lot like that is pretty darn close to the true cause of Mr. Sippi's Man Code violations. When you're unmotivated and lazy, people who are motivated and ambitious can seem really, really annoying. As a lifelong lazy person, I know this feeling well. It's hard to watch somebody get passionate and driven about something when you don't have the same thing in your life. That's no excuse, of course. But its understandable.

When you're unmotivated and lazy, people who are motivated and ambitious can seem really, really annoying. As a lifelong lazy person, I know this feeling well. It's hard to watch somebody get passionate and driven about something when you don't have the same thing in your life. That's no excuse, of course. But its understandable.

When I was overweight and inactive I thought people who exercised regularly and ran races were pretentious and obnoxious...now I know that's not the case at all. But sometimes I wonder as people driving nearly run me off the road if they are having those sorts of thoughts towards me. I know I once had them towards others... I really scored in the support dept. did is no longer a runner, but his family is FULL of runners (his aunt's hubby organizes the North Country Trail Relay here in MI and has run Western States 100 at least once), former runners, and his dad ran the Chicago Marathon back in the day. And as a dedicated cyclist (and former runner--he ran track and CC in HS and CC in college) he knows the necessity of regular workouts to train for long, challenging events. A few weeks ago I returned from my long run for the week just as the dids were arriving home. Derek asked how far I had gone and I told him "11 miles." He smiled at me, kind of shook his head in mild disbelief, and said "5 years ago I thought I would be married to a fat woman for the rest of my life."

What does that mean

It's means he's pretty damn ugly.

Jake, Wife #2 loved your bro code post. We both just laughed our collective asses off. Thanks bro!

When I was overweight and inactive I thought people who exercised regularly and ran races were pretentious and obnoxious...now I know that's not the case at all. But sometimes I wonder as people driving nearly run me off the road if they are having those sorts of thoughts towards me. I know I once had them towards others...

I'll tell you what... and I know I'm making a generalization here, but I think runners are a pretty amazing bunch. I belong to another forum for hikers in my area. You would think we're all a bunch of tree-hugging fools, and that we all love each other, and that we all have a common goal and appreciation of the wilderness. That may be, but I have never seen such a group of jackasses in my life. They are hugely argumentative about everything, they all feel they're better than everybody else. If somebody posts a question like "I hear y'all talking about Heart Lake. Where is it, I can't find it on a map?" that person gets slammed, and everybody starts talking about the sacredness of some areas, etc. (even though nearly every single person on that forum had already trampled their way to the same lake, and now won't tell some other person how to get there.) We've recently had more than our fair share of deaths in the woods, mostly due to avalanches, and rather than just say "those poor folks. Rest in peace", the folks on the forum go on and on about how stupid they were that they had cotton shirts on, and they have "no business" being in the wilderness. I don't participate much on there anymore. Anyway my long-winded point is that the running community, as whole, is a lot nicer and more supportive than other communities, I think. Like you said, they're not pretentious and obnoxious. I find it very refreshing. One of the only people on that hiking forum that I really like is... surprise, surprise... a runner! I don't know where I was going with that thought, but there you go. I'll go have another beer now.

To answer the question of my family supporting my running: YES! DH was a runner already. He stopped for a while then got back into it by signing up for a marathon. I used to get annoyed by the time his Saturday long runs would take but never said anything. I thought it was his time. He tried to get me to run for years but I thought I hated running. I liked to smoke and spend time inside watching HGTV. Then we had kids and I dedicated all my time to them and working on my degree and anything that wasn't active. DH and I were creeping slowly toward divorce. When we moved this last time I chose to quit smoking and start running as a way to keep off cigarettes. Unknown to me he signed me up for a marathon so I would have to keep running. I wasn't thrilled at first since I had only 8 months to go from zero miles to 26.2. But I did it and LVOE running! I thank him all the time for signing me up. It kept me motivated. He didn't mind my long run time and I didn't mind his. Now my kids are getting into running. The two older ones have done kid races (all under 1/4 mile) and want to do more. My little guy did his first kid race last January. He had fun. He sees me run most days since he is in the stroller I push. He will run just to run whenever we head to the playground or just about anywhere. My other son (6) likes to run with me. I finish my Sunday run, get him and go for 2 laps around the loop across the street. That's about 1.5 miles. (I am a run/walker and he keeps up quite well; I do have to slow down for him a bit.) He loves the talk time and the running. He talks about when he is going to run the marathon with us. My daughter (7.5) is always asking about running. She enjoys it as well. I am going to do Couch to 5K for her soon so we can share some mommy-Maeve time in a healthy way. She even tells us when she feels the need for new running shoes (they are no longer called sneakers ) So I think I can answer YES, my family supports my running! And I am thankful for it every day!!

Well, my dad is a runner, whom I really don't talk to anymore, but I know he really takes it seriously and if we did talk he would support me running. The rest of my family supports me and my desicions. My girlfriend runs, her dad, and sister do too. (they are the closest thing I have to family lately ). But yes, they all do support me.

My wife is generally supportive of my running. Granted, lately it has all been on the treadmill so should something happen, I can still help out with our sun. Soon I'll be heading back out side, but she has never minded before. She's been very accomodating of my running and cycling and if I do a race, she is prepared to sign up as a walker. the only area she tries to discourage me is weight loss. I'm not lean and mean...I weigh about 180 on a 5'10" frame. I want to get down to about 160, which she thinks will be too thin. She said she wants a guy with some meat on his bones. We go back and forth on this and we've never had any real arguments but it does get brought up every few days. I have lost 8 pounds on Weight Watchers so far (3 weeks) and she's ready for me to stop there.