Le professeur de trail
I got in close to 5.5 last night. It felt a bit like a summer night run. It was nice although too many kids out at 9:30 at night. Don't they have school today?!?
QOTD: Tell a story about how you were raised - good, the bad, the ugly - anything you want.
My parents were fairly strict. My mom was the mean one, my dad the passive one. Being the youngest of 4 I saw the treatment my older siblings got from my mom. Today it would be called abuse. Back then, it was parenting. When I hit my teen years, I fought back and was very close to running away at one point. Sometimes I wonder how life would have been if I did. Don't get me wrong, my parents loved me (and still do). I just don't agree with how things went. I try and not do the same with my kids.
Have a great day!
My favorite day of the week is RUNday
running under the BigSky
we're supposed to get up to 50 today, but it's 22 now so it's got a way to go- planning on 6 miles in the hills after work
qotd: I'm pretty sure I was handful for my parents (and teachers!) ; but I have very fond memories from my childhood. I was very active and unlike today, we were outside all the time- my Mom would have a heck of a time getting us in for meals or night. We would often get a group of neighbor kids together and go on long hikes (of course not real good about telling parents where we were headed or when we'd be back). Seems like today parents have to force kids outside, was just the opposite when I was a kid- we couldn't stand being inside.
2023 goal 2023 miles √
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2021 goal- 2021 miles √
Sue
I bagged my run last night and am going to do 6 on treadmill right niw just because its' cold and wet out there. Haven't been on the TM in a super long time.
QOTD: i was a kid of the 60s. Mom stayed home and raised her 5 kids...my sister ignored me so I hung with my brothers. We were always outside. We had woods close by and the nieghborhood kids were always up for playing games. My Mom was the disviplinary but she wasn't too bad....unless you disrepected her! Then watch out what she is holding she start hitting you with it!!! Skiing was everything to me, I was shy and socially awkward unless I had my skis on . I idolized my oldest brother. We all attended catholic school. I have great cousins, Aunts and Uncles, and Grandparents.... It was a good upbringing.
05/13/23 Traverse City Trail Festival 25K
08/19/23 Marquette 50 dns 🙄
MT - I too "lived" outdoors as a kid. I roamed the woods a lot - sometimes on a trail and most of the time not. I want my kids to play more outdoors but they always want me with them. I don't have the energy to be outside all the time. I can't wait until they are a little older and I can trust them to go explore on their own.
Tim
5 easy miles on some mostly flat rails. Warm and a bit humid, so I'm calling it an acclimatization run.
QOTD: (Sounds like Sue and I had the same early life.) Also kid of the 60's. Youngest of 4 and mom also stayed home. Went to catholic school (through college), played outside and was super competitive with older brother. We both were very athletic and I moved into swimming to "not be the younger brother". Mom was classic homemaker with cookies on the table after school. Dad owned an insurance business and made his own hours so he coached us all in one sport or another.
“Paralysis-to-50k” training plan is underway!
sugnim
Good morning all. I had a nice run this morning, just over 4 miles, lit by the moon. It was 18 degrees out, so I had to bust out my winter shirt again.
QOTD: My childhood wasn't very pretty. I spent a lot of time home alone, and then made to stay in my room alone when my parents were home. My mother was an alcoholic, and my step father did not like children. Now that I have a son, it's been wonderful to experience a more positive childhood, even if from a different side of things.
Refurbished Hip
I got a whole lot of nothing going on. Really hoping that my foot clears up before vacation next week.
QOTD: I was a child of the 80s raised by your typical semi-hippie Madisonians. I have never attended church, my mom was the breadwinner of the family, and my dad worked 6am-2:30, so he was always home when we got back from school. Dad cooked a lot. We ate a lot of homemade things. I grew up with Nintendo, but we still spent a lot of time outside. I lived on a dead end off a dead end, so traffic was non-existent. We ran through the woods off the dead end and played basketball and street hockey in front of the house. I was a tomboy and still am, much to the disappointment of my mother.
Running is dumb.
Rest day here.
I grew up in an idyllic setting. From the time I was 8 years old It was horses horses horses. My friends and I would meet up for long rides together. Racing up and down dirt roads and fields. We also showed horses so there was ring work with them. Every weekend we went to horse shows. Mostly small...but tons of fun. The smell of a warm horse and even warm horse manure makes good feelings. Horses made our family bond a strong one. Good times. Not without problems....but whatever they were they lacked any lasting significance.
January , 2022 Yankee Springs Winter Challenge 25k
Jumped on the TM and looked at two very sad dogs just staring at me...so put on the rain gear and ran 3 miles with the mutts outside and then 2 mover on the TM. I think 3 miles was all Jack could handle...he is new to running.
sugnim: That sucks...but glad you are enjoying a wonderful family life now.
Mandy: My mother tells people she has 3 1/2 boys...me being the half boy. But she has always been proud of my accomplishments.
AT: I was also on the swim team for awhile.
By the way...great QOTD! I love learning more about you all!
Faster Than Your Couch!
Somewhere around 8 or 10 miles through the woods and over the mountains in the rain. The rain started halfway into the run, and within minutes, I was drenched, my clothes saturated. So, as it did not matter how much longer I would be in the rain any more anyway, I tacked on some extra miles, and really enjoyed it. Worst part of it all was taking off the meanwhile cold, wet clothes at home.
QOTD: Also a child of the 60's, but in Austria. It was the place and time when spanking was the standard way of parenting, and growing up in a blue-collar migrant worker neighborhood, there were many kids who regularly got spanked badly, some of them even with a belt, a whip, or a paddle. My parents, however, barely ever spanked us kids, even though me and my sister must have been quite a handful. Especially me, being the younger of us two, and appropriately free of any cares or worries.
I spent a lot of time outdoors. There were many ravines, two larger forests, and fields around our neighborhood. Later, this was all filled with houses and apartment buildings, but in my childhood, these were great playgrounds. My parents trusted us to keep ourselves safe, so we were fairly free to go wherever we wanted to, as long as we told them where we were headed, even on the bikes. We only had to abide strictly to our curfews, but these were often quite generous.
Our vacations were fully dedicated to my dad's research work as an entomologist. My parents were both teachers, and in Austria, there's a lot of vacations and breaks in school, so every break (late fall, Easter, late spring, summer) we would go to some European country, like Italy, former Yugoslavia, France, or Spain, often living in a tent then, and spend the whole day outdoors "in the wild" to look for my dad's small butterflies. Actually, us kids were just playing something somewhere, e.g. building little ships out of wood and racing them downstream, or exploring forests.
Winter vacations (Christmas and February) we would spend skiing in the Alps.
From the time I was 10 years old, we would spend each summer vacation traveling through America, Canada, Alaska (including remote islands) and Mexico, always searching for my dad's animals. It was a very exciting time, and I got to see many National Parks and a lot of nature and wildlife. Not many cities, except New York and Washington D.C., but I liked that mix.
I was very close to my parents and my sister, and other relatives, too, even throughout college and work later. I did not see them very often as an adult, as I always worked in other countries, but the bond that was formed throughout my childhood and teenage years still remains strong to this day.
Run for fun.
I must be your brother-from-another-mother.
Me too, me too, I was also on the swim team in middle school. We seem to be all related...
Monday was a SRD, Tue evening I did 5 on the trails north of the apartment in the dark (I had a light), and today I'll do 5 more somewhere.
qotd: Also a kid of the 60's, grew up on the south shore of Long Island, NY. I was #3 of 4 boys in the family. Our mom was totally out numbered, but even at under 5' tall she held her own. We didn't have much discipline and had the run of our town and only went home to sleep during the summer, but we were generally good kids and hung out with other good kids. Our cousins (also 4 boys) lived really close by. We had huge open fields surrounding our neighborhood and we'd do all sorts of stuff there. I remember doing crazy jumps and trail rides on our homemade 'stingray' bikes (early MTB I guess). We also raced sailboats all summer long (my dad made the boat, a Blue Jay, years before and it was handed down from kid-to-kid), so we also sailed alot and had our "run" of the Great South Bay. Sailing 5 miles away to Fire Island was always a ton of fun. I don't think we wore shoes between the months of May and Sept, feet like leather, and I remember trying to get school shoes on my feet when the summer was over. We were firmly in the lower end of 'middle class' but somehow we managed to do all sorts of stuff and have lots of fun.
As a follow-up, we should post a 'photo form the past'. Me, my brothers and Mom (I'm all the way on the right).
2/17/24 - Forgotten Florida 100 Mile, Christmas, FL
Sandy, nice story and great pic! Nice looking family...looks like it could have been just yesterday.