9 Replies to “Warning: Lurker in Car Watching Runners on the Road”
On the street, in the gym, from their car to the shops – yep I’m a running assessor too. I do not lay claim to being the best runner, heck I know my foot strike is probably in need of serious reassessment and don’t even get me started on my upper body – fail.
Sometimes I shake my head at the shoes people wear – or the girl at my gym who wears jeans, I am also a minimalist runner, I don’t wear a watch, any technology, or even carry water with me so I don’t understand why people think that they need to carry a Sherpa like load with them when the whole point is to feel free and light 🙂
I can’t believe that they cut all the running teams! Especially when running is a gift you can give people for life! You don’t see many 75 year olds playing football, but there are plenty still out there shuffling along the pavement in their sneakers!!
Haha I DEFINITELY am guilty of checking out and ‘assessing’ other runners!! And I always laugh when I see people running in stupid clothes! I mean, a running top with TASSLES?! 😀
whoa, stop the presses…u saw someone running in a tassled shirt?!?! people…are u kidding me?!?! i guess it only would have been better should it have been a tassled bra. 😉
Hee I know what you mean!! I always always ‘assess’ other ‘runners'(only to get fierce glares back at me. Boy are female runners so super grumpy :-() . And not only runners! I ‘assess’ just about everyone because runners are few. Near my house, the people along where I …jog… are elderly people in loose shorts and singlets having their evening or morning stroll… oh and people who are walking their dogs! I totally observe dogs! Most are super cute 😀
Do you kind of laugh sometimes when you see what certain people are running in or running with?
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haha….join the guilty party! 😉 yes, i do love cute dogs but i do get really annoyed at people who don’t put their dogs on a leash and their dog either bites at me or runs after me!! 😛
I’ll admit it, I assess other runners as they jog by. I feel like you can tell a lot about a runner based on the gadgets and clothes they wear…but not in a snobby way. More of just an interested/observational/ sometimes comparative way. I think it’s natural for people to do that!!
I’ve never seen someone run in jeans…danggg that must be uncomfortable!!!
You stated it best, and what i hoped i was able to portary…i’m not being snobby at all just like i love to people watch in general, runner people watching is even better! 😉
haha…ya, i don’t even want to think about the shower one would take after running in jeans!
On the street, in the gym, from their car to the shops – yep I’m a running assessor too. I do not lay claim to being the best runner, heck I know my foot strike is probably in need of serious reassessment and don’t even get me started on my upper body – fail.
Sometimes I shake my head at the shoes people wear – or the girl at my gym who wears jeans, I am also a minimalist runner, I don’t wear a watch, any technology, or even carry water with me so I don’t understand why people think that they need to carry a Sherpa like load with them when the whole point is to feel free and light 🙂
I can’t believe that they cut all the running teams! Especially when running is a gift you can give people for life! You don’t see many 75 year olds playing football, but there are plenty still out there shuffling along the pavement in their sneakers!!
Haha I DEFINITELY am guilty of checking out and ‘assessing’ other runners!! And I always laugh when I see people running in stupid clothes! I mean, a running top with TASSLES?! 😀
whoa, stop the presses…u saw someone running in a tassled shirt?!?! people…are u kidding me?!?! i guess it only would have been better should it have been a tassled bra. 😉
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Hee I know what you mean!! I always always ‘assess’ other ‘runners'(only to get fierce glares back at me. Boy are female runners so super grumpy :-() . And not only runners! I ‘assess’ just about everyone because runners are few. Near my house, the people along where I …jog… are elderly people in loose shorts and singlets having their evening or morning stroll… oh and people who are walking their dogs! I totally observe dogs! Most are super cute 😀
Do you kind of laugh sometimes when you see what certain people are running in or running with?
I feel too guilty to reply 🙁
🙂
haha….join the guilty party! 😉 yes, i do love cute dogs but i do get really annoyed at people who don’t put their dogs on a leash and their dog either bites at me or runs after me!! 😛
I’ll admit it, I assess other runners as they jog by. I feel like you can tell a lot about a runner based on the gadgets and clothes they wear…but not in a snobby way. More of just an interested/observational/ sometimes comparative way. I think it’s natural for people to do that!!
I’ve never seen someone run in jeans…danggg that must be uncomfortable!!!
You stated it best, and what i hoped i was able to portary…i’m not being snobby at all just like i love to people watch in general, runner people watching is even better! 😉
haha…ya, i don’t even want to think about the shower one would take after running in jeans!