Joggers on the road

[Waquoit]

I'm driving on a slightly narrower road yesterday and see a jogger up ahead. Since a bunch of cars are coming the other way I slow down. It's an older guy and he's not going very fast. Turns out it was Paul Pasqualoni! God bless 'im, it was 80 degrees and very humid. I'm not jogging in that, I'm walking.

 

[uconnbill]

I like Coach P it was just past his time as an HC but he knows defenses.

 

[John]

God bless him.

 

[Rich]

God bless him is right.

I switched to treadmills when I was 38 or so to save my knees.

 

[History Geek]

I tore my meniscus on a treadmill, running straight. They are actually horrible for your knees.

 

[Kolumbo]

Last time I was on a treadmill was almost 20 years ago. I'll take 90 and humid or 20 and snowing over a treadmill every day of the week.

 

[metsfan2323]

I'm driving on a slightly narrower road yesterday and see a jogger up ahead. Since a bunch of cars are coming the other way I slow down. It's an older guy and he's not going very fast. Turns out it was Paul Pasqualoni! I roll down my window to say hello and he turns to look at me with a crazed look in his eyes and starts screaming "chunk plays! chunk plays!" I say "take it easy old man" and he stops running. Then he starts walking toward the trees and I say "hey Paul where are you going?" He yells back "my IPAD is missing, I think I left in these here woods." so I foolishly follow him as he walks aimlessly into the woods, then I yell to him "Paul I seriously doubt your IPAD would be in these trees" and as I say that the wind picks up, 40, 50, 60 mile gusts out of nowhere, I yell to Paul that i'm heading back to my car and as I say that he sprints past me screaming "the trees are slanting, the trees are slanting" and he was right, trees start falling over left and right and now i'm terrified. Paul is so fast and he is now about 100 feet ahead of me and I see him jump into my car, he starts the engine and he takes off, wheels screaming down the narrow road, and then he explicably and for no reason drives my car off the road and into the gutter.

Were you in a cold sweat when your wife woke you up from this nightmare?

 

[CONN78SEJ]

I'm driving on a slightly narrower road yesterday and see a jogger up ahead. Since a bunch of cars are coming the other way I slow down. It's an older guy and he's not going very fast. Turns out it was Paul Pasqualoni! God bless 'im, it was 80 degrees and very humid. I'm not jogging in that, I'm walking.

Do you dream a lot?

 

[Waquoit]

No dream, it was HCPP.

 

[Marbles90]

Last time I was on a treadmill was almost 20 years ago. I'll take 90 and humid or 20 and snowing over a treadmill every day of the week.

I run 1600+ miles per year and I tell people I only go on the dreadmill when there are extremely bad road conditions (ice or unplowed snow). In the last 15 years, I would say less than 10 times total. Summer heat/humidity or winter cold is no problem for me outside.

However, a few weeks ago, I was on it for the first time this year with a brand new reason: Canadian wildfire smoke. I did not want to be running outside in those horrible air quality conditions.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

I run 1600+ miles per year and I tell people I only go on the dreadmill when there are extremely bad road conditions (ice or unplowed snow). In the last 15 years, I would say less than 10 times total. Summer heat/humidity or winter cold is no problem for me outside.

However, a few weeks ago, I was on it for the first time this year with a brand new reason: Canadian wildfire smoke. I did not want to be running outside in those horrible air quality conditions.

I ran 20 miles a week for 40 years. Ran in everything, 98 degrees, 18 inches of snow, driving rain, 6 neighborhood dogs following me at 3 in the morning, ran by a house with a woman throwing all her husband’s things out on the front lawn.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I think it would have been appropriate to throw an f bomb his way and let him know his suckitude and bringing his boy GD along screwed us over and led to the Diaco fiasco and RE2.0.

In the overall scheme of things, slowing down and throwing a 15 second rant his way wouldn't be uncalled for or unseemly.

 

[RSTuthill]

I like Coach P it was just past his time as an HC but he knows defenses.

The man knows more about football than just about anyone. Let's just say he found it difficult to transition back from the NFL (where motivation is never an issue) to CFB. I still admire him in many ways. And he loves the state of CT.

 

[RSTuthill]

God bless him is right.

I switched to treadmills when I was 38 or so to save my knees.

Cycling for lower body, kayaking with a wing paddle for the upper body, and skiing (Alpine and Nordic) in the winter. Some people do a lot of swimming which is also low impact. I just replaced a knee because of a torn meniscus 27 years ago running on highly crowned back roads in the Midwest. We had nursed it as far as possible. I do not recommend running at all even though I did an awful lot of it. Very hard on all subassemblies.

 

[CL82]

I'm driving on a slightly narrower road yesterday and see a jogger up ahead. Since a bunch of cars are coming the other way I slow down. It's an older guy and he's not going very fast. Turns out it was Paul Pasqualoni! God bless 'im, it was 80 degrees and very humid. I'm not jogging in that, I'm walking.

If it had been Bob Diaco, would you have slowed down?

 

[CL82]

I think it would have been appropriate to throw an f bomb his way and let him know his suckitude and bringing his boy GD along screwed us over and led to the Diaco fiasco and RE2.0.

In the overall scheme of things, slowing down and throwing a 15 second rant his way wouldn't be uncalled for or unseemly.

 

[Chin Diesel]

That's the first half. The key to good mental health is to not internalize that hate and let it eat away at you. Find the source of that hatred and fire away (verbally of course). Then move on.

 

[Waquoit]

TBH, since HCJM got here, I rarely look in the RVM, FB-wise. I was surprised to see PP, I thought he moved.

 

[RSTuthill]

That's the first half. The key to good mental health is to not internalize that hate and let it eat away at you. Find the source of that hatred and fire away (verbally of course). Then move on.

I think we have been there, done that, and gotten the T-shirt. Time to look forward to something that could be quite special.

 

[superjohn]

Cycling for lower body, kayaking with a wing paddle for the upper body, and skiing (Alpine and Nordic) in the winter. Some people do a lot of swimming which is also low impact. I just replaced a knee because of a torn meniscus 27 years ago running on highly crowned back roads in the Midwest. We had nursed it as far as possible. I do not recommend running at all even though I did an awful lot of it. Very hard on all subassemblies.

I agree on running. You should add in weightlifting, it's extremely important as we age.

 

[Kolumbo]

I agree on running. You should add in weightlifting, it's extremely important as we age.

Just ran the LHRR for the first time and I accomplished my goal of not stopping to walk on Gallows. That was brutal.

 

[formerlurker]

I'm just surprised he wasn't running up the middle of the road.

 

[RSTuthill]

I agree on running. You should add in weightlifting, it's extremely important as we age.

Yup. And balance exercises. Agree totally.

 

[superjohn]

Just ran the LHRR for the first time and I accomplished my goal of not stopping to walk on Gallows. That was brutal.

I was a runner as a kid. Ran all over the country for cross country and ran road races all over the state. Litchfield was the one race I hated. It was always extremely hot because of it's 1pm start time and Gallows was awful. I don't miss running at all.

Congrats to you...completing that race and not walking part of Gallows is a hell of an accomplishment in my book, it certainly isn't easy.