The Running Thread - 2018

[LSUlakes]

ATTQOTD: I try to be a morning runner, but as I get older, getting up really early seems to be getting more and more difficult. I try to time my runs to be finished by 5:30am during the week, so that means hitting the streets between 4 and 4:30, based on the planned workout. I will run occasionally in the evening time.

This is also what it will take for me to run in the morning, and when longer midweek runs start I may have to set the alarm for a time starting with a 3:XX AM. I currently wake up a 5:45 AM to bring kids to school and get to work for 7:30. I just got to get to bed earlier to make that early morning wake up not so bad.

I'm a mid-morning runner for all seasons. Just not liking the 82 degrees at 10:00 AM in CT today. I think we skipped spring and went right to summer! Oh well! It's always something.

isn't 80's spring weather? We are about at the same temp today, but I think a front is moving through Saturday which will make it feel nice around here, but should cool things off in the north much more than here, or as things have been going 12" of snow lol.

 

[cavepig]

Morning runner here & luckily I can schedule stuff around that most the time. If I can't run in the morning then it won't happen most likely. I've done a few afternoon runs here & there but always feel like crap.

 

[PCFriar80]

isn't 80's spring weather? We are about at the same temp today, but I think a front is moving through Saturday which will make it feel nice around here, but should cool things off in the north much more than here, or as things have been going 12" of snow lol.

Nope! Not in this neck of the woods.

Average daily temperatures in May
High °F Low °F Place
71 48 Hartford
69 44 Mansfield Hollow Lake

 

[KevM]

ATTQOTD: My running schedule is all over the place, depending on the day.

Monday/Wednesday/Thursday - When I run in these days, if I run in the morning, I need to be on the road by 4:30 and can run for about 30 mins. If I’m running more than 2.5-3 miles I have to run after work and it’ll be about 6 PM. I take a good amount of these days off.

Tuesday - I work from home and run on my lunch hour. I’ll sometimes make Tuesday a double run and will also run again after work about 4:30 or so.

Friday - No work and i’ll generally run in the late morning, around 10 or early afternoon around 2 or 3.

Saturday - I’ll generally run in the late morning, around 10.

Sunday - Amy long run day. I start running between 7-8 AM.

 

[Miranda]

isn't 80's spring weather?

Hah, no, not in New England. I was just scraping ice off my car like 2 weeks ago.

Actually it was still like in the 30's earlier this week even! Last night when my group went running it was still 87 at 6pm. I don't know what I was thinking, but I didn't carry any water, and I was seriously parched. We cut our run short partly due to heat because no one is ready for 87 degrees yet, partly due to a miscalculation on the part of someone as to how many laps of a neighborhood we were supposed to do to get 4 miles total. Then we all stood in line for an hour to get an ice cream and luckily we did cut our run short because the ice cream place started closing the windows about 5 mins after we finally got our cones with about 50 more people still standing in line.

 

[KingLlama]

ATTQOTD: When I started running, I went early in the morning for one simple reason....I didn't want my neighbors watching me run. I was a new runner, 80 pounds heavier, and I was just really, really self-conscious. Over time, I realized the same thing that previous posters mentioned....if it doesn't happen early, it ain't happening. So now I PREFER morning running, just to A)knock it out, and B)set a healthier tone for the rest of the day. When I run in the morning, I eat better for the rest of the day, use the stairs more, etc. It sets the tone.

Having said that, I'm also kind of a night owl. I love staying up late watching games, etc. So that makes those 4:30 a.m. wake-up calls tortuous. I need to find a happy medium.

 

[FFigawi]

QOTD: Morning runners and afternoon runners, how early or late do you run? When do you prefer to run?

Definitely in the morning. It's way too hot in the afternoon to even think about it.

 

[Keels]

LOL - define “morning”.

 

[FFigawi]

LOL - define “morning”.

Two hours after you go to bed

 

[Waiting2goback]

QOTD: Morning runners and afternoon runners, how early or late do you run? When do you prefer to run?

ATTQOTD: I am more of a afternoon runner except for weekends. When I have run lately, most of my runs start at 7PM or later. It is my hope to transition to morning runs in a few weeks to avoid some of the summer heat thats coming and to have more family time in the afternoons with my family.

I prefer anywhere from 10am-2 pm. But, I have a job so that makes it hard. I have run as early at 5:00 am and as late as 11pm. But typically, as of late, I run around 8:30pm. I may start moving it to before work now that the sun is up sooner and warmer temps are back. It's easier to fit in when I am running outside as opposed to driving to the gym.

 

[txdisneygrl]

ATTQOTD: My idea of a morning run is more like 1030 because I struggle to get going. I prefer to run in the evenings as the humidity is lower and it says light long enough. So about 7pm.

 

[Miranda]

I prefer anywhere from 10am-2 pm. But, I have a job so that makes it hard.

This is one thing I love about my job. I work from home and my boss is pretty flexible, so I can pretty much go work out whenever it is convenient for me, as long as I don't have a meeting or something (and I don't usually have meetings, I'm not a meeting person). It is one of the great perks of my job.

 

[kleph]

here in texas, come july early will mean "finish by sunup." that's tricky for long runs but i have a couple courses that offer some shade to buy another hour or so of relative survivability. one BIG problem i've encountered with weekend runs now i'm back close to the city center is if you don't get out there at o'dark thirty, you'll be battling the crowds. saturday is the worst but sunday gets rough as well if you wait too long to get out the door.

 

[LSUlakes]

here in texas, come july early will mean "finish by sunup." that's tricky for long runs but i have a couple courses that offer some shade to buy another hour or so of relative survivability. one BIG problem i've encountered with weekend runs now i'm back close to the city center is if you don't get out there at o'dark thirty, you'll be battling the crowds. saturday is the worst but sunday gets rough as well if you wait too long to get out the door.

I know exactly what you mean. Those longer runs during the summer need to be done by 7:30AM instead of starting at that time lol.

 

[Keels]

Two hours after you go to bed

I DID finish my runs before 9 yesterday and today. And that’s a.m., not p.m. ... any later than that and I’m cutting into prime NOLA drankin’ time.

 

[Novatrix]

Bless all you morning people! Unless the house is on fire, there's a red eye flight, or someone's life is counting on it I am not getting up before 6 am.

ATTQOTD: Can night runners answer? I tend to run in the evening as a wind down activity, typically on the treadmill with whatever show I happen to be binge watching at the time. Depending on when I get home, this can be as early as 6pm or (as was the case one weekend) as late as 11pm when I needed to get a 20 mile run in (got done at ~3:30 am).

 

[flav]

ATTQOTD: It depends.

I really like to go before sunrise, all is so quiet then wakes up. Plus, it means that I have already accomplish something while others are sleeping, it feels great.

I also like going at lunch on workdays. It means that I can go on the mountain or by the river. Sometimes with friends. And in winter, that is when there is light.

Evening and afternoon are when DD and DH come or it is a good opportunity to fit a training without too much impact on work. For the latter, I usually run from the train station to home while DH picks-up the DD and starts dinner.

 

[Keels]

ATTQOTD: Can night runners answer? I tend to run in the evening as a wind down activity, typically on the treadmill with whatever show I happen to be binge watching at the time. Depending on when I get home, this can be as early as 6pm or (as was the case one weekend) as late as 11pm when I needed to get a 20 mile run in (got done at ~3:30 am).

I don’t run at night when I’m at home because I’ll probably get mugged, but I do run at night when I’m at my parents’ house in Orlando - generally between 11 pm and 2 am.

I’ll have to change my normal path when I’m back in June because during my last day run, I came across an alligator on the lakefront path and had to #nope the Hell right outta there.

 

[Baloo in MI]

ATTQOTD:
Well when I start running again I am sure I will fall into my regular routine which is to think/wish I am an early morning runners but hit the snooze too many times and have to run at night after the kids are i bed. Then I stay up to late - rinse and repeat...

I do manage to pull off an early morning run on the weekends, either Saturday or Sunday I try to get out for my long run early enough to be home for family brunch. Good luck to everyone racing this weekend!

 

[PrincessMickey]

ATTQOTD:

I work graveyards so my morning runs are actually afternoons runs. As it starts warming up I will transition to my evenings when I get off which is actually mornings. Not sure how that will work on my weekends though. Depending on weather it may be a morning run followed by a nap as I adjust my weekend schedule a bit to be more amongst the living or it will be an afternoon/late morning run.