2014-10-15 - Dumb Running Terms

I'm sure you have a list of stuff that drives you nuts, mine includes: People who call running shoes, "tennis shoes"; heck, running shoes are perhaps the worst shoes you could wear playing tennis! The term "Jogger". People who refer to any running event as a marathon, do they really not know a marathon is 26.2 miles? And the term that bothers me the most, "Half Marathon", it's a 13.1 mile race, better yet as it is called everywhere outside the USA, 21K, yes, the full marathon happens to be 42K but as we don't call a 5K, half of a 10K, it makes no sense to use the word half, these races are specific distances we race, they are not half of anything. Venting does make one feel better...

For those of you headed down to run long in the "D" this weekend, it's time to TAPER, TAPER, TAPER! It's time to lick those training wounds and put some gas in your tank. You can only run too much the week before your race, not too little, actually no running would be just fine. To finish a long race you need to be healthy and rested. There, I have granted you permission to do a TV taper. Enjoy the days off, then rock your run on Sunday!

Get out and Jog!

Randy Step, an admitted obsessed Jogger, now does that sound stupid or what? And yes, I will be running a 13.1 mile race this weekend!

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