The Running Thread - 2016

[roxymama]

Anyone here use www.athlinks.com ? Stumbled upon it a few months ago and was impressed with the amount of information it gathers about races you have done.

Cool link, I just tried it. It finds all my Chicago runs but none of my suburban/local runs. I'm going to play around to see if any of the suburban ones show up.

 

[CheapRunnerMike]

Anyone here use www.athlinks.com ? Stumbled upon it a few months ago and was impressed with the amount of information it gathers about races you have done.

Yup, I'm on there...it's a good site and it does a decent job pulling in your race results. Most of my Canadian races show up without any problems.

 

[Barca33Runner]

QOTD: When not training for a particular race, how far is your long run for the week?

10 miles or 10K, whichever I get to first.

Kidding aside, it's usually one of those two nice round numbers. I'd like to say it's 10 miles more often than 10K, but I'm not a liar.

 

[DopeyBadger]

QOTD: When not training for a particular race, how far is your long run for the week?

Interesting question! I haven't been actively training for a race since May 2013. So, based on my records then 3 miles.

I am on athlinks (http://www.athlinks.com/athletes/194543213). Anyone is welcome to rival me.

 

[IamTrike]

QOTD: When not training for a particular race, how far is your long run for the week?

Usually in the 10-15 mile range but there are a lot of dependancies. Weather, time, how much I feel like exploring, where I am etc....

Anyone here use www.athlinks.com ? Stumbled upon it a few months ago and was impressed with the amount of information it gathers about races you have done.

I don't really use it actively but it has pulled most all my races.

 

[opusone]

I always plan for the entire field ahead of me to make a wrong turn, and although I will yell at them to go the right way (because sportsmanship) they will not hear me over their music, and I'll just have to suck it up and get the first place trophy.
But it never goes as planned.

I actually had this happen a few years ago! It was a really small local 5k race, maybe 150-170 entrants, and at about mile 2.5, the volunteers were letting folks go straight when the route was suppose to turn left. There were probably 10-15 people ahead of me, but we were pretty spread out by then, so I couldn't yell at anyone ahead that they were going the wrong way. The scary part was that there was a really busy street the next block, so runners were crossing a major street without anyone to stop traffic. I stopped and told the volunteers there that we were suppose to turn left, not go straight, and also mentioned to them that people they let go straight were crossing a very busy street with no police or volunteers to stop traffic.

I then turned left and finished the correct route. I had no idea that not one of the runners ahead of me had made the turn, so I ended up being the first across the finish line. I immediately told the race management what had happened and that they needed to go find any of the runners that went straight.

Once everything had settled down, I did get a chance to talk to one of the runners that was in the front group of three. The leaders made it another mile down the road before finally realizing that something was wrong (and that they should already be at the finish line). None of the three were from the area, so they didn't know how to get back to the start. Two of them went one way and eventually asked someone for directions; the third went another way and finally found his way back.

Needless to say, results were never posted, and that race has never returned... BUT, I can finally say that I crossed a finish line first!!!!

Anyone here use www.athlinks.com ? Stumbled upon it a few months ago and was impressed with the amount of information it gathers about races you have done.

Yes, but I only check it about once every six months. Kind of fun to look at your race progress over the years - they even have results from a few races from as far back as 18 years ago. Evidently, I used to be fast. What happened?

 

[LSUlakes]

Interesting question! I haven't been actively training for a race since May 2013. So, based on my records then 3 miles.

I am on athlinks (http://www.athlinks.com/athletes/194543213). Anyone is welcome to rival me.

I added you, and it let me know I am 0-1 against you...

 

[IamTrike]

Interesting question! I haven't been actively training for a race since May 2013. So, based on my records then 3 miles.

I am on athlinks (http://www.athlinks.com/athletes/194543213). Anyone is welcome to rival me.

I rivaled you. I'm 7 -3 against you but all my wins are back before you got fast.

I added you, and it let me know I am 0-1 against you...

What's your link?

 

[LSUlakes]

I rivaled you. I'm 7 -3 against you but all my wins are back before you got fast.



What's your link?

http://www.athlinks.com/athletes/238011329

Let me know if it works... Not very familer with the site, but I do enjoy looking at all my races in one place. I guess it will only give us a win/lose if we participated in the same race?

 

[gjramsey]

I am there as well. http://www.athlinks.com/Athletes/134764625

I enjoy the stats it provides for my races. I seem to have a namesake that runs a race in Australia that I will not claim.

 

[ZellyB]

Anyone here use www.athlinks.com ? Stumbled upon it a few months ago and was impressed with the amount of information it gathers about races you have done.

Cool site. Seemed to pull in most of my races.

 

[DVCFan1994]

Anyone here use www.athlinks.com ? Stumbled upon it a few months ago and was impressed with the amount of information it gathers about races you have done.

I checked it out, and it found every race I've done, which is not a lot (11 total). Seems like a useful thing to utilize going forward.

 

[CheapRunnerMike]

Here's my page on Athlinks for those of you playing along at home...

http://www.athlinks.com/athletes/148237436

 

[roxymama]

It sadly only has three of my races. I must run too many "small potato runs" even though the Chicago-area suburban races are frequently quite large. That should change this year as I branch out more to more established races.

 

[opusone]

Here's mine: http://www.athlinks.com/Athletes/150655847

 

[DopeyBadger]

Here's mine: http://www.athlinks.com/Athletes/150655847

I tried to add you, but it looks like your profile is private.

 

[*DisneyDreamer]

Anyone here use www.athlinks.com ? Stumbled upon it a few months ago and was impressed with the amount of information it gathers about races you have done.

Cool link! It was able to pull up what I think is all of my timed race results to this point. I can't think of any that aren't on there. It's awesome, because a few months back I tried to find the results from a race I did in September 2014 (to compare to the same race in 2015) and couldn't find them on the event's website or through searching. The result was on there no problem.

I'll post my link later if I remember.

 

[LSUlakes]

Here's mine: http://www.athlinks.com/Athletes/150655847

I tried to add you, but it looks like your profile is private.

@opusone you have it currently set up as private.

 

[opusone]

Here's mine: http://www.athlinks.com/Athletes/150655847

I tried to add you, but it looks like your profile is private.

Oops… habit. I made it public now.

 

[opusone]

@opusone you have it currently set up as private.

Just fixed it.