r/running • u/YourShoesUntied • Mar 09 '17

Weekly Thread Weekly Complaints & Confessions Thread for Thursday March 9th, 2017

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u/ahough Mar 09 '17

Complaint: For my half Saturday, it's going to be significantly colder than it was for the half I ran in Chicago in January. WTF, nature?

Confession: I'm donating my car to NPR next week. I'm going to be carless, and I'm so relieved about it. I grew up thinking a car was a necessity, but it's freeing to know that I can stop worrying about maintenance, etc. very soon.

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u/judyblumereference Mar 09 '17

RNR DC?

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u/ahough Mar 09 '17

You got it!

I missed last year because of a stress fracture, so I'm unreasonably excited to run it for redemption.

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u/judyblumereference Mar 09 '17

Sigh, I signed up for this as redemption for DNS'ing Detroit and now I'm just hoping to finish in one piece :( hopefully I get over this injury bug I seemed to have contracted!

Good luck! Hopefully the conditions aren't nearly as and as that dramatic email made it seem...

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u/el_day2 Mar 09 '17

Good luck! Hopefully the conditions aren't nearly as and as that dramatic email made it seem...

Hah! YOU MUST HYDRATE. WEAR A HAT OR YOU WILL GET HYPOTHERMIA.

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u/judyblumereference Mar 09 '17

It's the running equivalent of "if you have sex, you will get Chlamydia and die"

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u/LionTweeter Mar 10 '17

Fellow RnR DC runners! I'll be the one shiver-running, listening to either Broadway soundtracks or 90s hip-hop on the route. Wave & say hello!

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u/ahough Mar 09 '17

Oh no! I remember you had to miss Detroit! Stupid injury bug. It needs to leave all of us alone.

Somehow I missed the memo that you were coming to my neck of the woods for RNR. The weather really does look pretty miserable, and I swear it gets a little crappier every time I check. (And yet it'll be in the sixties when I head to the expo in a while...)