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Travelling with other runners is awesome (Read 98 times)

Adam_McAllen


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    I met up with a few old teammates for the last few days and I've come to the realization that travelling with other runners is pretty sweet because:

    -every evening ends with a discussion about when and where to do the next day's run.

    -core o'clock.

    -your idea of an hour on the trails to help cure a hangover isn't immediately shot down

     

    Do you guys ever travel with other runners? Do you end up training on the vacation?

    In the words of my late-coach : Just hang in there, relax... and at the end of a race anyone you see.....just pass them

    LRB


      I have not traveled with any but I enjoy the rapid fire discussion when in the company of others who run.

       

      I mean, you literally will cover fifty topics about running in five minutes!


      delicate flower

        DW's cousin is pretty obsessed about her running and we've taken several vacations as a group.  It's always easier to carve out time for running when more than one person is pushing the issue.  The last time we vacationed together, I ran 52 miles that week.  DW doesn't mind though if I want to run when it's just the two of us travelling.  Problem is, given the nature of our trips I am usually too damn exhausted at the end of each day to want to run.

        <3

        happylily


          Aww.. sounds wonderful, Adam! It's never happened to me to travel with other runners, but I would love doing it! In Boston, I'll be meeting with some friends from Montreal also running and I'm looking forward to it. Are you doing the Paris marathon this coming weekend?

          PRs: Boston Marathon, 3:27, April 15th 2013

                  Cornwall Half-Marathon, 1:35, April 27th 2013

          18 marathons, 18 BQs since 2010


          delicate flower

            I have not traveled with any but I enjoy the rapid fire discussion when in the company of others who run.

             

            I mean, you literally will cover fifty topics about running in five minutes!

             

            Heh, pretty sure me and Oski's DH drive the wives nuts with the running talk whenever we get together.  Smile  I don't have any proof of this, but I suspect the female eye rolling abounds.

            <3

            Adam_McAllen


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              LRB - It was also the first time I'd run with another person in months... so I think I may have talked their ears off :P. We actually didn't talk to much about running itself.

              Baboon - That's good your wife doesn't mind. I often find that I'm too tired at the end of the day, or something like "let's take a walk down by the river/get a bottle of wine" just sounds a hell of a lot better than running a few miles.

              happylily - It was last weekend... now I've got no real running plans other than run a lot of miles and get fit.

              In the words of my late-coach : Just hang in there, relax... and at the end of a race anyone you see.....just pass them

              happylily


                Am I already senile and I forgot your RR? Where are the pictures? And your funny comments?

                PRs: Boston Marathon, 3:27, April 15th 2013

                        Cornwall Half-Marathon, 1:35, April 27th 2013

                18 marathons, 18 BQs since 2010

                Adam_McAllen


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                  Am I already senile and I forgot your RR? Where are the pictures? And your funny comments?

                  I actually ran this one, so no photos Undecided.

                  In the words of my late-coach : Just hang in there, relax... and at the end of a race anyone you see.....just pass them

                  happylily


                    I actually ran this one, so no photos Undecided.

                     

                    Grrr... RR soon? How awesome was it?

                    PRs: Boston Marathon, 3:27, April 15th 2013

                            Cornwall Half-Marathon, 1:35, April 27th 2013

                    18 marathons, 18 BQs since 2010

                    Adam_McAllen


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                      Grrr... RR soon? How awesome was it?

                      Could have been better, could have been worse.

                       

                      In the words of my late-coach : Just hang in there, relax... and at the end of a race anyone you see.....just pass them


                      Hip Redux

                         

                        Heh, pretty sure me and Oski's DH drive the wives nuts with the running talk whenever we get together.  Smile  I don't have any proof of this, but I suspect the female eye rolling abounds.

                         

                        You both crack me up, actually.   It's like clockwork... we're sitting at the table for 5 minutes and blammo!  We're talking running.  Big grin

                         

                        Buelligan


                           

                          Do you guys ever travel with other runners? Do you end up training on the vacation?

                           

                          I don't really know any other runners.

                          Docket_Rocket


                            I've never traveled with other runners but runners are in general, awesome.

                             

                            How did Paris go?

                            Damaris

                             

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                              I travel with friends to do a relay race in NH (3 hour drive) each year. I spend the day with my friends, then my wife joins us for 2 night outs.She knows all my friends fairly well, and we have fun.

                              Just B.S.


                                Hubby and I are fortunate to have a core group of about 30 of friends who are runners/cyclists/

                                swimmers AND love to travel.

                                 

                                I can't remember all the places/races we have been to with friends over the years

                                but a few are: Florida,  Ottawa, Maine Marathon, Nova Scotia, PEI,  Boston,

                                Reach the Beach 200 mile Relay in Mass, Bermuda (25 people)and many places in

                                our own province for day or weekend trips.

                                 

                                Next big group running trip is Ireland in September for 10 days. 35 of us going on that

                                trip.Smile

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