The Running Thread --2025

[GollyGadget]

No race report needed for this one…

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Distance - 3.1 miles
Weather - sunny, hot, and humid
Views - spectacular
Celebration dinner tonight at Palo on the Disney Magic
Back to training next week

If you happen to see this and get a chance, ask someone about the lookout 5K tomorrow. I saw a report on Facebook that someone was able to collect a medal but the CM had to search for it. I’ll be on the Magic in three weeks and I’m very eager to run at Lookout.

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

Doing some hill work today…

While doing it, every few minutes I had my watch sending me a message that I had left behind both my AirPods and my iPad. Yeah, I know. It was on purpose.

 

[Professor_Cookie]

Doing some hill work today…

While doing it, every few minutes I had my watch sending me a message that I had left behind both my AirPods and my iPad. Yeah, I know. It was on purpose.

Tell me a little more about that road

 

[dobball23]

No race report needed for this one…

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Distance - 3.1 miles
Weather - sunny, hot, and humid
Views - spectacular
Celebration dinner tonight at Palo on the Disney Magic
Back to training next week

I was just on the Magic last week. My 5Ks were done on Deck 4 rather than Castaway. Hopefully you enjoyed Palo!

 

[jrsharp21]

Doing some hill work today…

While doing it, every few minutes I had my watch sending me a message that I had left behind both my AirPods and my iPad. Yeah, I know. It was on purpose.

Whoa. My ankles and Achilles hurt looking at that picture. Do you have to zig zag up that hill?

 

[Professor_Cookie]

I almost tripped over a dead moose this morning running in the dark. Glad I turned my flashlight on when I did, because it was literally immediately jumping to the side to side step it, although the injury might have made for a better story.

Long story short, I also finally saw the front of a car that ran into a moose, as they were still in their car with a cop behind them. Totaled. And this wasn’t a full size moose, and ours are no where as big as CA/AK.

 

[Naomeri]

I almost tripped over a dead moose this morning running in the dark. Glad I turned my flashlight on when I did, because it was literally immediately jumping to the side to side step it, although the injury might have made for a better story.

Long story short, I also finally saw the front of a car that ran into a moose, as they were still in their car with a cop behind them. Totaled. And this wasn’t a full size moose, and ours are no where as big as CA/AK.

I guess that's safer than almost tripping over a live moose!

 

[Professor_Cookie]

I guess that's safer than almost tripping over a live moose!

Yes. I’ve been backed down by them on trails. I don’t want a stompin’.

 

[GuinnessRunner]

I almost tripped over a dead moose this morning running in the dark.

A phrase that is most definitely not on my running bingo card.

 

[The Expert]

"Fun" fact: Moose injure more people each year in North America than bears. People think they are docile and get WAY too close, not realizing how fast and powerful they are. In my time photographing in Grand Teton and Yellowstone, I've seen a lot of close calls! I have a friend who lives in Colorado who was hit by a moose darting across the mountain biking path. She didn't even see it until it was slamming into her side. She had to be airlifted down, broke several bones and had a couple of surgeries. Moose are nothing to mess with!

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

Whoa. My ankles and Achilles hurt looking at that picture. Do you have to zig zag up that hill?

I did not zig zag; I walked straight up. The image makes it look a tad steeper than it is, but not by much.
This is the walking path up Stone Mountain, a giant batholith east of of Atlanta (its "sister" is Ayers Rock in Australia).

The total walk is appx a mile long and around 700-800 feet elevation, depending on where you start your walk. Near the top it is rather steep and there is a section with handrails. That said, I saw someone much younger doing sprints UP that section. More power to him.
It had rained earlier, making the rock slippery in places; that was the first time I had ever had concerns going back down. That said, I was really feeling my toes jammed into the front of my shoe. Note to self: this was more fun 12 or 13 years ago when I last did that hike.
FWIW, my dad used to live and work fairly close to Stone Mountain and would go walk up and down it each morning before going to his retirement job. Respect.

Fun fact: I have ridden up the mountain in the back of a pickup truck. They used to do an annual kite-flying endurance contest, and they drove us and our kites up. Why? The winds were enough that they didn't want to run the cable car. I had a cheap diamond kite flying quite well on at least 1/4 mile of string; it was far enough out that we needed binoculars just to see it. I wasn't even actively flying it. I tied it off to the fence and let it fly itself. My friend and I finally got cold and hungry and left. The kite was still flying when we went home.

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

"Fun" fact: Moose injure more people each year in North America than bears. People think they are docile and get WAY too close, not realizing how fast and powerful they are. In my time photographing in Grand Teton and Yellowstone, I've seen a lot of close calls! I have a friend who lives in Colorado who was hit by a moose darting across the mountain biking path. She didn't even see it until it was slamming into her side. She had to be airlifted down, broke several bones and had a couple of surgeries. Moose are nothing to mess with!

Here in the south, we have a lot of deer strikes with cars. I watch one unfold with the car in front of me. The SUV's grill was destroyed, airbags went off, deer was knocked several hundred feet down the road. That said, everyone was OK.
In contrast, moose are so big and so tall that (based on accounts in my car magazines) if a car hits a moose, the moose is so tall that it most likely breaks its knees, resulting in a ton of moose coming across the hood and through the windshield. Really scary to think about. Totally unknown down here, but fairly common in the northern states. It was really eye-opening to read about.
To me, it's easy to think about a moose as being like a very large deer, but the reality is that they are an order of magnitude larger. Similar to a bear, it would be both interesting and scary to see one in the wild.

 

[jmasgat]

Long story short, I also finally saw the front of a car that ran into a moose, as they were still in their car with a cop behind them. Totaled. And this wasn’t a full size moose, and ours are no where as big as CA/AK.

When I worked for GM and we still owned Saab (RIP), I went to Sweden a few times for business. One of their design criteria/validation tests involved Moose strikes. And I think my favorite travel souvenir has to be the stuffed moose that can be turned inside out to become a car (or vice versa). Mine is currently in moose form on my dresser. One day I may give it to my grandson (maybe)

 

[RuntheMouse]

Similar to a bear, it would be both interesting and scary to see one in the wild.

We had a bear on the deck right outside our bedroom once. It woke me up, and I in turn woke DH up. He thought it was a raccoon making the noise. I said if that’s the case it had to be a couple of raccoons getting busy to make that much ruckus. It took awhile to run him off, it was very scary!

 

[Dopey 2020]

If you happen to see this and get a chance, ask someone about the lookout 5K tomorrow. I saw a report on Facebook that someone was able to collect a medal but the CM had to search for it. I’ll be on the Magic in three weeks and I’m very eager to run at Lookout.

Back on land now, we didn’t make it to lookout due to Erin so didn’t get to see someone there firsthand but I had already asked the bike rental/medal person on castaway and they said not yet but in the works so I hope you get lucky. I was there last year and there were lots of bike paths being worked on so they definitely have the space.

 

[avondale]

When I was in college, two faculty in the research group I was working with started discussing the relative damage of cars hitting things like deer. (I have NO idea how we got on this topic, given the group was building an x-ray instrument for a space telescope.) They agreed hitting a deer was bad, but one of them mentioned he had spent some time in Australia, and he'd seen that hitting kangaroos was pretty bad. The second guy said he didn't think that would be the case, because kangaroos have a pretty low center of mass. The first one says, "Not when they jump."


What made this even funnier is that the scientist who gave the punchline did it absolutely deadpan...he was one of these folks who just didn't "get" humor, and he had no idea he had just given a great punchline.

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

When I worked for GM and we still owned Saab (RIP), I went to Sweden a few times for business. One of their design criteria/validation tests involved Moose strikes. And I think my favorite travel souvenir has to be the stuffed moose that can be turned inside out to become a car (or vice versa). Mine is currently in moose form on my dresser. One day I may give it to my grandson (maybe)

Gotta like a Saab story with a happy ending...

 

[Professor_Cookie]

When I worked for GM and we still owned Saab (RIP), I went to Sweden a few times for business. One of their design criteria/validation tests involved Moose strikes. And I think my favorite travel souvenir has to be the stuffed moose that can be turned inside out to become a car (or vice versa). Mine is currently in moose form on my dresser. One day I may give it to my grandson (maybe)

Gotta like a Saab story with a happy ending...

I miss Saabs.

Here in the south, we have a lot of deer strikes with cars. I watch one unfold with the car in front of me. The SUV's grill was destroyed, airbags went off, deer was knocked several hundred feet down the road. That said, everyone was OK.
In contrast, moose are so big and so tall that (based on accounts in my car magazines) if a car hits a moose, the moose is so tall that it most likely breaks its knees, resulting in a ton of moose coming across the hood and through the windshield. Really scary to think about. Totally unknown down here, but fairly common in the northern states. It was really eye-opening to read about.
To me, it's easy to think about a moose as being like a very large deer, but the reality is that they are an order of magnitude larger. Similar to a bear, it would be both interesting and scary to see one in the wild.

We see a lot of dead moose and mule deer. I’ve been backed down off trails on more than one occasion by moose. I’m not looking to get stomped.

I still worry most about danger kitties