The Running Thread - 2019

[TheHamm]

ATTQOTD:
If driving to work and running at lunch counts, maybe 70%?
Driving specifically to run is once a week in summer and apparently when it is icy or sub 5 F to run at the Y, which apparently closes in extreme cold.

 

[PrincessV]

QOTD: How often to you have to drive v/s walking out your front door for a run?

ATTQOTD: Outside of races, I never have to. But I choose to drive to a local park for long summer runs, because I can keep a big bottle of cold Nuun in a cooler with ice and circle back to my car for refills of that instead of filling my handheld bottle with 90* water from the drinking fountains. And sometimes I'll drive out to the beach for short beach runs (it's 5 miles away, so I can run from home to beach on long runs.)

 

[Capang]

ATTQOTD: if it is an early morning run before work or a later in the evening run in the dark I walk out the door and get going. If it is summer or a nice day on a weekend I tend to drive to a couple of my favorite parks that have a combination of paved paths and wooded trails.

 

[Jules76126]

ATTQOTD: I would say 50/50 right now. If an outdoor run, it is right out my door. If I need to use the treadmill, it is a five minute ride to the gym.

 

[jennamfeo]

ATTQOTD: Runs that are 5 miles or shorter can be done around my house. Speed work and anything longer than 5 miles (on a weekday), I have to drive to our park or Island, which is about 10 minutes from my house with no traffic. Exception being a long run on the weekend where I end at a restaurant or brewery and my family meets me there for food. My local pool is about 7 minutes from my house. And I ride my bike on the Island usually. So not a lot of my workouts are right outside my door right now.

 

[huskies90]

QOTD: How often to you have to drive v/s walking out your front door for a run?

ATTQOTD: Outside of driving to a race and occaisionally driving to preview/run a course prior to a race, I always just walk out my door or my office door to run. I am too lazy to drive somewhere but there are probably some really good running spots around me I could/should take advantage of.

I choose to drive to a local park for long summer runs, because I can keep a big bottle of cold Nuun in a cooler with ice and circle back to my car for refills of that instead of filling my handheld bottle with 90* water from the drinking fountains.

This is a great idea and not sure how I did not think of it. When training this summer/fall I hated carrying water on long runs so I would leverage the drinking fountains around a park which was central to my route. Around early November, they shut off the drinking fountains and rather than carry water, I drove water bottles and placed them at locations around the route. It would have been easier to just drive to the park to start/finish my run and leave water in my car...

 

[Miranda]

This talk of cold temps always makes me laugh. You can always tell when you live in the north. My daughter got in the car the other day with no jacket. It was 22'. I said, honey, where is your coat. She says, "Dad, its 22' out, its warm." I said st what temp do you require a cost? She says, "Anything below 15".

I don't actually wear a coat very often. Like in the mornings when I go to OTF, it's 6:30, like yesterday it was 6F out. Like usual, I was just running out to the car wearing capris and a hooded sweatshirt.

 

[KSellers88]

ATTQOTD: Maybe 50/50? During the summer it is more 75% home and 25% elsewhere because the sun stays up longer. I can't run at home when it is dark because we have no streetlights or sidewalks where I live. During those times I will either go to a local running area after work or run at work on my lunch break with a group of coworkers.

 

[Jules76126]

I don't actually wear a coat very often. Like in the mornings when I go to OTF, it's 6:30, like yesterday it was 6F out. Like usual, I was just running out to the car wearing capris and a hooded sweatshirt.

I don't either. I never wear a coat to the gym or if I am just running to the store quick. A Hoodie is fine for that.

 

[IamTrike]

ATTQOTD: I don't really have many places safe to run right out my door. I have a treadmill and do a lot of weekly runs on that, so I don't need to drive for those. On the weekends I usually drive to a park or greenway for my long runs.

 

[GollyGadget]

QOTD: How often to you have to drive v/s walking out your front door for a run?

Anything long or speedy requires a drive, so usually I drive to about 1/3 of my runs. My neighborhood is good for a 5 mile hilly run but anything longer requires multiple loops and anything quick requires a flatter terrain.

 

[Professor_Cookie]

I don't either. I never wear a coat to the gym or if I am just running to the store quick. A Hoodie is fine for that.

It’s 10 and while I am wearing a coat, I am also wearing flip flops. I’m not the only weirdo around here who does that, I noticed one of our regular customers does, too.

 

[Kazrak]

QOTD: How often to you have to drive v/s walking out your front door for a run?

I only drive for races. I've got a greenbelt that starts across the street from me, and it connects to other trails. No need to drive, and I'm pretty sure that if I had to drive I wouldn't have taken up running.

 

[Chaitali]

I'd say about 3/5 of my runs are in my neighborhood. My weekend long run, I'll generally drive somewhere to meet up with friends for a run. And I tend to have one run per week on the treadmill at the gym, usually speed work.

 

[broadsheet]

ATTQOTD: my neighborhood has trails and one loop from my house is about 2.5 miles. Any longer than that, I drive to go run because I am not disciplined enough to run loops past my house without stopping!

 

[Kazrak]

This talk of cold temps always makes me laugh. You can always tell when you live in the north. My daughter got in the car the other day with no jacket. It was 22'. I said, honey, where is your coat. She says, "Dad, its 22' out, its warm." I said st what temp do you require a cost? She says, "Anything below 15".

My older son is spending his first winter at school in upstate New York, after growing up in metro Phoenix and the SFBA. He decided he was going to keep wearing shorts until it snowed.

He regretted the decision but stuck to it, apparently. Fortunately, given the current weather, my sister took him to go get a winter coat, boots, and gloves when he visited over Thanksgiving.

 

[Sanchez]

We live in the ultimate planned community and consequently an almost perfect environment for run and tri training. Miles of outdoor trails, relatively quiet streets and a high school with a rubber track are right here. Our building has a moderate size gym and our regular gym is 1.5 miles away. It is palatial and adjacent to two pools. The area is also great for cycling. The only thing we do not have is an indoor pool - and that is only 4 miles away.

Heavily restricted, planned communities are certainly not for everyone but they can be convenient for training.

 

[ZellyB]

ATTQOTD: 100% drive. No place safe or good to run outside our door.

 

[txdisneygrl]

ATTQOTD: I drive for every run. My neighborhood has no bike paths, tons of cars parked on the streets, and people speeding like crazy. There are several areas nearby with easy parking and good, safe trails so I always head to one of those.

 

[KevM]

ATTQOTD: Right now I have 2 runs that I start right out my door and 1 that I have to drive to. My other 2 runs are in a trail about 2 miles from my house which I could run to, but there are two or three sections on the way that I don’t like running on, so I drive.