Thread: Running. (Without feeling like a nonce.)

Quote: Originally Posted by Napier One good thing about looking silly is that drivers noticing how silly you look have noticed you. Not getting noticed by drivers can be a big big problem. Unless you're not on the road. In which case drivers not noticing you is usually not a problem.

Quote: Originally Posted by Alex_Dubinsky You go into a gym, and the personal trainers just chat up their clients. Re-reading, I just want to reply to this quote in particular. I agree, there are some PTs out there that do this. But their client is paying them. If the client is ok with doing less exercise and more social, great, it's their money. It's hard to teach group fitness classes that aren't registered (as in, you must...

Quote: Originally Posted by EmAnJ This is why people need to understand that fitness classes, especially if they aren't registered, are self-paced . Not working hard enough? Grab heavier weights, take the resistence up, run faster. Working too hard? Take it down a notch. Quit depending on the instructor and take control of your own fitness. And just because YOU find it easy doesn't mean the guy beside you does. I do a couple of...

Quote: Originally Posted by si_blakely I am still running and I am thinner, but I still look stupid and slow. Erm....You look pretty damn good to me.

Quote: Originally Posted by WordMan Exercise involves gear and behaviors that can look silly and can involve you committing yourself physically, which can also look silly and certainly sweaty. Hear hear. I went surfing this weekend, which involved me and my mini-beer-gut crammed into a wetsuit that was too long for me, walking right through the centre of town struggling with a surfboard, looking like the dudiest dude at the dude surf ranch....

Quote: Originally Posted by Swallowed My Cellphone The only truly goofy runner I've ever seen is a buddy of mine who runs with his arms up by his chest and all limp-wristed, so he kind of looks like he's trying to run and do the Chicken Dance at the same time. Your description here reminded me of a guy I used to sneer at when I was younger and much, much faster (and therefore more competitive). There was this guy who used to run...

Oh, god, every time I run a race my mom wants to buy the pictures. I never let her. She might do it in secret. I look like a very angry praying mantis when I run.

One good thing about looking silly is that drivers noticing how silly you look have noticed you. Not getting noticed by drivers can be a big big problem.

Quote: Originally Posted by Oredigger77 I run at 5 in the morning no one sees me I would suggest doing something similar and get away from people. This summer I was running around the track of a middle school that was out of section. Years ago when I was going to school I would run at midnight during the (Texas) summer months. A lot cooler than during the daytime, had free reign of the streets, and the silence was wonderful. It's def....

Sure, doing anything is better than sitting on the couch. But it's just an endemic disease in America, that the people who are being paid to motivate and push slack off and don't do their jobs, because that might hurt business. You go into a gym, and the personal trainers just chat up their clients. You go to school, and the teachers don't demand that you do anything. (Or perhaps EmAnJ isn't being paid. Yet he is still in...