The Running Thread --2025

[Herding_Cats]

I regret to inform you

The very same!

I have the best meme. I will share it on Sunday.

 

[jmasgat]

I have the best meme. I will share it on Sunday.

Can you do it early.....I signed up for a half that I have to drive an hour to and could use a good laugh.
I'm counting on Disney race training (i.e. getting up in the middle of the night) to get me there on time.

 

[Herding_Cats]

This leads nicely into a QOTD:

Spring Daylight Savings Time Change. Are you excited for it, or dreading it?


ATTQOTD: I'm excited. I am not an early riser (although I may have to become one this summer) so the idea of having more daylight hours while I'm *awake* is exciting. It will also increase my opportunities to get outside to run after DH gets home from baseball practice. I'm about sick of my treadmill at this point.

 

[Herding_Cats]

Can you do it early.....I signed up for a half that I have to drive an hour to and could use a good laugh.
I'm counting on Disney race training (i.e. getting up in the middle of the night) to get me there on time.

no no. you have to wait.

 

[Erika10021]

Spring Daylight Savings Time Change. Are you excited for it, or dreading it?


ATTQOTD: I am not looking forward to it. Time change always messes me up. When I travel to different time zones, I do my best to stay on EST!

 

[GollyGadget]

ATTQOTD: DREADING IT!!! I hate hate, double hate, loathe entirely waking up in the dark. Similarly, I'm perfectly happy to go to bed by 9 and also dislike when it's still daylight at 10pm in the summer. Give me standard time year round please.

Related to running, I frequently need to find time to run before work and that is a challenge when it's not daylight until 7 or later.

 

[The Expert]

ATTQOTD: HATE IT! I'd much rather have the light earlier in the day, even through summer.

 

[Naomeri]

ATTQOTD: I hate the actual day of the time change, since we lose an hour of sleep, but I don't hate waking up in the dark or having more useable daylight hours.

 

[RuntheMouse]

ATTQOTD: I’m neutral on it. I think it’s stupid and unnecessary but it doesn’t bother me that much. I run in the morning but not until after I eat so it’s light out anyway.

 

[flav]

ATTQOTD: The change messes me up. I would rather we just pick one and I will adjust my schedule accordingly.

 

[Novatrix]

ATTQOTD: Add me to the team excited for the time shift.

I'm someone who lives in EST but somehow has a circadian rhythm set to Hawaiian time. On the weekends, this will give me more usable hours of daylight. During work days, I need to wake up in the dark anyway no matter what time of year, at least this means I can experience light once I get home!

 

[FFigawi]

This leads nicely into a QOTD:

Spring Daylight Savings Time Change. Are you excited for it, or dreading it?

ATTQOTD: No time change here. The only difference is that meetings and calls with Europe and the US start an hour earlier. Guess that’s a good thing.

 

[KCO5988]

ATTQOTD: I'm meh on the time change. I wake up at 4:30/5 am most weekday mornings to workout so it's dark anyway. May shift all my runs to lunch time next week so waking up at 6 for work feels the same as waking up at 5 to workout did this week. I'm more worried about the effects on my two year old who is holding strong on a 3 week long regression of screaming and trying to climb out of the crib at bedtime... so yeah let's just add a time change into the mix!

 

[fatmanatee]

Not sure if they'll be doing the Virtual Marathon for NYC this year, it's not listed on the race calendar and it looks like they've reduced the number of overall virtual events. I did a few virtuals to help qualify via 9+1, they started doing it sometime during covid bc in-person races came back in June 2021, it was a way for people to "make up" for lost events in a way. Was a little surprised they kept doing it when I decided to go for it again in 2023 but hey I'll take it. And the virtual marathon started in 2020, IIRC people could do that and get automatic qualification for any of the following three in-person events.

Anyway, not surprised if they'd decide to move away from that because it's a squeeze on lottery participants. I have a feeling that a lot more people are trying to get in via 9+1 too, feels like all the qualifying events are selling out a lot quicker.

 

[nancipants]

I don't mind the actual "spring forward" part of the time change because it means my kid might actually sleep past 7 am for one day on the weekend. He wakes up around 6:15 on the dot every day, so when we "fall back" we don't get an extra hour of sleep, he just wakes up at 5:15.

But I hate waking up in the dark and I don't like when it's light out past 8 pm (because, again, I want my kid to go to sleep and if the sun is awake, he is awake), so I would love to stay on standard time all year long. It's especially bad when we visit Seattle in the summer and it's light out until like 10 pm. I am very used to Florida and its relatively even hours of daylight and nighttime.

 

[GuinnessRunner]

ATTQOTD: Just pick one and stick with it. It doesn't reall impact me since I will still be up and getting out the door most mornings when it's still dark. So I would just prefer not to have to deal with this sillyness twice a year.

 

[mmm_texas]

ATTQOTD: Hate is maybe too strong, but I really dislike the semiannual time change. At least pick one and stick to it. I prefer Standard Time, more daylight in the mornings. As relates to running, I'd rather run before work and not be in the dark.

 

[PrincessV]

ATTQOTD: I despise DST. I need it to be getting dark in order to wind down and fall asleep at an appropriate time to get adequate sleep before I need to be up, and a sun not setting until 9pm is a major problem. It’s such an issue, I literally change my entire life by an hour to survive it, going in to and coming home from work an hour later until we go back to ST. On top of the sleep issue, it’s a million degrees in FL summer: we do not need more sun at the hottest part of the day! In order to get runs in without heat stroke, I run in the dark mornings, spend all day in a windowless office or in my house with every curtain closed, and basically never see sunlight for months. It sucks. Not a fan. Zero stars.

 

[Zutroy]

ATTQOTD: I love the end of daylight savings mainly because it occurs the night before the Wine and Dine half marathon and I get an extra hour of sleep. Since I run in the morning, I hate DST because it means I have to go back to using a flashlight. It’s getting light enough right around 6 am not to have to worry about a light, but come next week I have a couple more months of dark runs.

 

[nancipants]

There is a very limited edition lightsaber for my favorite Star Wars character being released at Disney parks tomorrow, and I'm going to use my Springtime Surprise experience from last year to briskly walk to Dok Ondar's during rope drop.