What have I become!

[paul2014]

Hi All

Driving home from work the other night and spotted a jogger. What was the first thing that popped into my head?

'His vertical oscillation looks quite high' hahahaha. What has happened to me ;o)

[I_will Graduate]

Oh dear, you have an over developed 'running' sphere in your brain! It grows the more you run until your whole brain is taken over by it, at which point you only understand conversations and concepts that have anything to do with running!

[paul2014 Graduate]

Haha. Oh dear

[Hidden]

Do you find friends avoiding you now? Does the family not want to discuss running at the dinning table? (All puns on the effect of high oscillation on food gladly accepted here ). Hmm - I can sympathsize.

[paul2014 Graduate]

You're experiencing it, too?

[anadelsur]

Maybe we will need a "runners anonymous" soon

[paul2014 Graduate in reply to anadelsur]

Lol. It may just come to that

[Bonniesingh Graduate]

This is the sort of comment that plodders/joggers like me fear!!!! Are the people who see me from their cars criticising my vertical oscillation? Are they unhappy about my cadence? Please let me be invisible!!!! Just look at my dog! Her oscillation and cadence are perfect. I'm just training her running style.

[paul2014 Graduate in reply to Bonniesingh]

Lol. No need to worry. It's just other runners that take an interest and they're nice people

[Bonniesingh Graduate in reply to paul2014]

I know you are nice people. But my dog has a lovely running style. What is vertical oscillation, by the way? Does it have anything to do with sports bra efficiency?

[paul2014 Graduate in reply to Bonniesingh]

Haha. Not really but not far off and it would be more interesting to observe.........for us guys anyway

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

Yo! Paul. Or should I say Yoyo! Don't get hung up on it. Let's face it, we all have our ups and downs.

[paul2014 Graduate in reply to IannodaTruffe]

Lol. Nice one

[no-excuse Graduate]

Its weird isn't it! Even my non running husband says 'there's a garminer just going past'! Me- I just look at their trainers! x

[paul2014 Graduate in reply to no-excuse]

Yeah, I do that too

[no-excuse Graduate in reply to paul2014]

What a bunch we are! x

[paul2014 Graduate in reply to no-excuse]

[grannyjudes Graduate]

heres another addicted weirdo as well !

[paul2014 Graduate in reply to grannyjudes]

You're more than welcome. Budge up everyone

[Miles_Yonder Graduate]

LOL! You as well, Paul? I too find myself studying another runner's gait, kit - everything! They probably think we're gawping, but we're genuinely fascinated! And addicted!

[paul2014 Graduate in reply to Miles_Yonder]

I'm afraid so and you're right, it's just a genuine interest on our part.

[Hidden]

Still waiting for this to happen to me, I don't know enough about running yet, but I am primarily a swimmer and very observant of other swimmers at the pool. I rarely see anyone that is doing it without at least one glaring error (one chap at my local pool does front crawl about three feet under the water!) Wish I had someone to tell me what my running style is like..

[paul2014 Graduate in reply to Hidden]

I don't know a great deal either but it'll soon happen to you, too

[Bazza1234 Graduate]

I tend to try to calculate what their cadence is - and whether I can hear their feet on the pavement. I also try to see what shoes they are wearing

[paul2014 Graduate in reply to Bazza1234]

I can only manage to observe one thing at a time at the moment

[Nilzed in reply to paul2014]

Or two?

[paul2014 Graduate in reply to Nilzed]

Lol. Depending on what I'm observing

[emkeenan Graduate]

Oh me too! I got a playful dig in the ribs from my boyfriend for gawping at a runner.

'I was just looking at his Garmin! His Garmin...'

[paul2014 Graduate in reply to emkeenan]

Haha. I'll remember that next time I'm out with the wife