RunningAHEAD - Topic: What 3 things do you run past? (page 6)

r2farm

flatland mountaineer

posted: 6/19/2008 at 10:39 PM

our wheat

wildflowers

doe a deer a female deer

The whole world said I shoulda used red but it looked good to Charlene in John Deere Green!!

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meggie

posted: 6/19/2008 at 10:47 PM

Quote from zoom-zoom on 6/19/2008 at 7:46 AM:

Stuff like what I'm seeing in this thread makes me wish I lived somewhere a bit more metropolitan. Cornfields and more cornfields gets so boring after a while. Our paved rail-trail is nice...but it is a perfectly straight line for miles with nothing more than trees on both sides. Nothing to break the monotony. It is nice to not have to deal with a lot of traffic, though--that is one benefit.

I do like running in Chicago because there's always something to look at, but sometimes I miss running through cornfields and trees. It's so much calmer, and you don't have to worry about dodging clusters of people and dogs and beer gardens that take up the entire sidewalk. We have a trail that runs along the lakefront (which I'm assuming is where Berner runs judging from the three things he listed :P ), but it gets insanely crowded. I don't like running where there are a ton of other people who aren't doing the same run as me because I feel guilty when I stop/turn around *hide*

Berner

posted: 6/19/2008 at 11:54 PM
modified: 6/19/2008 at 11:54 PM

Quote from meggie on 6/19/2008 at 1:26 AM:

You seem to be running in the opposite direction from me lol.

Hehe. I run North too, but I figured there were more recognizable landmarks on my South route. Smile

Your #1 and #3 are also on my frequently run-passed list, but I don't recognize #2.

Quote from meggie on 6/19/2008 at 10:47 PM:

I don't like running where there are a ton of other people who aren't doing the same run as me because I feel guilty when I stop/turn around *hide*

I don't mind seeing a lot of other runners on days that I'm doing tempo workouts or other fast sessions. On slow recovery days, when I jog like a snail, I hide on the side streets. Blush

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goat

Finder of good newts

posted: 6/20/2008 at 12:18 AM
modified: 6/20/2008 at 12:26 AM

Monday's run... Unexploded ordnance warning signs Laguna Seca Race track Prison work crew

It's hard to look down if you don't go up

AroundTheHorn

posted: 6/20/2008 at 2:29 PM

Apathy Tollway School

Roads, where we're going we don't need any....roads.

lov2run

posted: 6/20/2008 at 2:51 PM

The ocean A golf course A horse farm all on the same run... I love it

RacingSlug

Speediest Slug There Is!

posted: 6/20/2008 at 3:06 PM

Slugs... Snails... Caterpillars... (do we see a pattern?) Sad

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 6/20/2008 at 3:13 PM

Quote from RacingSlug on 6/20/2008 at 3:06 PM:

Caterpillars...

That's the worst thing about running this time of the year...tent caterpillars ALL over the place. Man, they are nasty. I've given up trying to dodge them and I'm just not looking at the bottoms of my shoes anymore. Dead

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

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scubagrrl

posted: 6/20/2008 at 3:29 PM

Today: 3 homeless men sleeping on the bench 1 homeless man peeing in the trash can and a woman sitting in her car parked on the sidewalk. (litterally she pulled up on the sidewalk and stopped. Cop went by and kept right on going...geez!)

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slaptear2

De-slacking in progress

posted: 6/20/2008 at 8:31 PM

Uphill Downhill Uphill

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swgross

12 Squared

posted: 6/20/2008 at 8:35 PM

KC-135s A church A lake

If you don't know where you're going, chances are you will end up somewhere else. - Yogi Berra

meggie

posted: 6/20/2008 at 9:44 PM

Quote from Berner on 6/19/2008 at 11:54 PM:

Hehe. I run North too, but I figured there were more recognizable landmarks on my South route. Your #1 and #3 are also on my frequently run-passed list, but I don't recognize #2.

I live a block away from #1, but I've never actually been there. #2 is at Clark and Farragut next to the Swedish American museum. Running up Clark always makes me hungry - I want to stop at pretty much every restaurant I go by because they all smell so good.

IamDenise

Double IPA Please!