The Running Thread - 2018

[roxymama]

Love Medals4Mettle! I wish our local chapters were more active! And that they wanted 10k medals too. lol

I hope this isn't a dumb question...but why do they not want 10k medals?

 

[LSUlakes]

If NOLA @roxymama advice is solid choice. I wouldnt try to run in the actual quarter alone. If you are in Baton Rouge, "lakes" near LSU's campus are the way to go. Easy options with loops of 4, 5, and 6 miles. The place to park is a park called Milford Wampold Memorial Park aka Baton Rouge Beach. Plenty of parking and restrooms and water. From there you would run clockwise keeping the lakes to your right the whole time for the 4 mile route. You will have a water view nearly the whole run. The route has you running along sorority row and beautiful homes. If you wanted to, you can run into campus and check out Mike the Tiger, Tiger Stadium, the P-MAC, Indian Mounds, Bell Tower ect which would add about a mile or so to the 4 mile loop. Send me a PM if you are heading to Baton Rouge, and I can get your more specific instructions with turn by turn directions and/or a map of one of my runs.

 

[Baloo in MI]

View attachment 295728 I have this lovely display in my bedroom. DH bought me another row for my recent birthday and put it up this weekend.

As I was replacing all the medals after the addition of the 4th row, I remarked that even with all of these medals, I still don’t think of myself as a runner......and wondering why I don’t...

Even your medal rack knows you are a runner "Once Upon a Run" Run = runner! And that is quite a collection of runs you got there!

 

[roxymama]

If NOLA @roxymama advice is solid choice. I wouldnt try to run in the actual quarter alone. If you are in Baton Rouge, "lakes" near LSU's campus are the way to go. Easy options with loops of 4, 5, and 6 miles. The place to park is a park called Milford Wampold Memorial Park aka Baton Rouge Beach. Plenty of parking and restrooms and water. From there you would run clockwise keeping the lakes to your right the whole time for the 4 mile route. You will have a water view nearly the whole run. The route has you running along sorority row and beautiful homes. If you wanted to, you can run into campus and check out Mike the Tiger, Tiger Stadium, the P-MAC, Indian Mounds, Bell Tower ect which would add about a mile or so to the 4 mile loop. Send me a PM if you are heading to Baton Rouge, and I can get your more specific instructions with turn by turn directions and/or a map of one of my runs.

Just to add on if you do run around Audobon Park in nola, right across St. Charles Ave from the park is Tulane University (GO GREEN WAVE!) and it's a pretty place to check out as well. It's nowhere near as big as LSU so it doesn't take long to do a lap of at least the big quad right in the front. Just a plug for my old stomping grounds.

Edited to add that lots of people jog the actual grassy streetcar line in the "neutral ground" between the two lanes of St. Charles. However...you kind of have to pay attention not to get hit by an actual streetcar.

 

[LSUlakes]

SNEAUX Update 2018: currently a misting but no SNEAUX yet. Should get fired up in a few hours. The low for tomorrow is 16! Schools are closed tomorrow and DW has to work which means running for me would have to take place before 6 AM. That’s going to be chilly!

 

[rteetz]

SNEAUX Update 2018: currently a misting but no SNEAUX yet. Should get fired up in a few hours. The low for tomorrow is 16! Schools are closed tomorrow and DW has to work which means running for me would have to take place before 6 AM. That’s going to be chilly!

We got 4.5 inches last night. Nothing closed here

I always love following along with the southern snow storms.

 

[roxymama]

We got 4.5 inches last night. Nothing closed here

I always love following along with the southern snow storms.

I took my dogsled to work today. How about you Ryan?

 

[Sleepless Knight]

QOTD: What do you do with your race medals? Do they go on the wall, a desk drawer, shadow box? Do you get the engraved or do anything else special with them?

Oddly enough, my very first medal from the 2011 Disneyland Half is currently in a drawer. And I'm not even sure which drawer.

I have two of the Lasting Commemoratives runDisney shadow boxes hanging up for my 2012 Coast to Coast with the Disneyland Half and Wine & Dine Half. I also have the 2017 Kessel Run box hanging on the wall with all the Star Wars race medals that were not 5Ks in 2017. I have the Inaugural Star Wars Half Shadow Box, but it is not currently hanging up.

All of my Star Wars race medals (Light Side 2015-2017 and Dark Side 2017 Challenges) are on a display table near Jedi Mickey Big Figs. My 2017 Coast to Coast hangs on the wall and the 2017 Avengers currently sits on a shelf.

 

[rteetz]

I took my dogsled to work today. How about you Ryan?

I have a truck with 4 wheel drive so I was okay

 

[dis_or_dat]

I live in the SF Bay Area and remember all the buzz when Super Bowl 50 was here about 2 years ago. I live far enough away from San Francisco and Santa Clara that the game didn't impact my life, but it definitely altered things in the city. There was so much excitement. If not for work that time of year, I may have tried to check out some of the week of the game activities.

I took my son to Super Bowl City and it was so fun that we tried again on Friday morning. The BART was packed and the lines were so long for every activity, but I'm happy we were able to go earlier! I agree though, it was fun to see random Super Bowl stuff pop up everywhere.

ATTQOTD: Holy cow you guys are impressive! I only have a few medals and they're stuffed into the back of a closet along with my bibs.

 

[baxter24]

We got 4.5 inches last night. Nothing closed here

I always love following along with the southern snow storms.

There are talks of up to five inches here in North Carolina so naturally people are freaking!!!

ATTQOTD: My parents got me an awesome hanger for my medals but they are all currently draped on either side of my dresser. I have no real good excuse as to why I haven’t put them up. I would like to do something special with my Dopey medals and bib st some point.

 

[DIS-OH]

SnOH report from the Buckeye State: View of my backyard and front yard.


Just another day on the treadmill!

 

[kski907]

ATTQOTD: Most of Mine and Hubbys are Disney medals hanging on coat hooks in our hallway along with family photos from the run vacation. Not many people see them.


But theses bad boys folks see all over town. No shame here

 

[LSUlakes]

Went for a run. I advise not running with 10-15 mph winds and sleet, which then turned to freezing rain. SNEAUX is a much more pleasant experience.

 

[Barca33Runner]

Was taking a photo for when I get to my race recap in my journal, but figured I’d post here for today’s question:


That is my Dopey medal hanger. It’s full at 30 medals.

 

[JeffW]

Went for a run. I advise not running with 10-15 mph winds and sleet, which then turned to freezing rain. SNEAUX is a much more pleasant experience.

You need a Beardski! Keeps the face warm in all winter conditions

 

[jennamfeo]

All this snow talk.... it was 80 degrees Sunday in Phoenix and my legs got a tan during the Half I ran. It felt like Spring instead of Winter. It was insane.

 

[LSUlakes]

It’s now sleeting really hard.

Going to full Cajun here:

Mais sha, I got dat gumbo cooking on dat stove, a cold beer, and doing da sneaux dance there me. Y’all come on over to da house cause I gots plenty for my friends yea.

 

[run.minnie.miles]

It’s now sleeting really hard.

Going to full Cajun here:

Mais sha, I got dat gumbo cooking on dat stove, a cold beer, and doing da sneaux dance there me. Y’all come on over to da house cause I gots plenty for my friends yea.

Well I guess “a cold beer” sounds great in any dialect...

 

[camaker]

There are talks of up to five inches here in North Carolina so naturally people are freaking!!!.

Yep. Schools are already closed and they even closed work for tomorrow and announced a minimum 2 hour delay for Thursday! I'm not going to argue with another day off..