anyone does roleplay running?

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  • BigDougie1211
    BigDougie1211 Posts: 3,531 Member
    Used to do this in bac in the days of palyer cam on sky sports.
    Shared student ouse, so the treadmill was in the living room.
    I'd knock player cam on and when the player sprinted I'd sprint, walked I'd walk, jumped for a header I'd jump off and back on the tread again.
  • whalebeast
    whalebeast Posts: 12 Member
    when I am very tired while running I sometimes think I am an international football player(like Cristiano Ronaldo) and it's just a routine run. This somehow motivates me and I no longer feel that fatigue and I easily complete my run:blushing:

    sometimes I think I am a hollywood actor losing weight for movie role LOL

    anyone does that?:indifferent:


    Totally gonna try this tomorrow! Brilliant!
  • tulipzz
    tulipzz Posts: 14 Member
    Gr8 idea OP !
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    A little when I do my Zombies, Run! app. :tongue:

    Otherwise, I do have several movie/TV soundtrack songs in my running playlist - music from the Bourne movies, The Matrix, & things like that can help me kick it up a notch as I suddenly imagine myself in a movie scene. :bigsmile:
  • bugaboo_sue
    bugaboo_sue Posts: 552 Member
    No but when I train for a certain race that is the first week in June I have a friendly competition going on with a friend of mine. During my runs I'll make up songs about how I'm going to beat him and talk smack about it and video tape myself doing that while I run. It's very motivating.
  • Beautifulbridgittlee7
    Beautifulbridgittlee7 Posts: 352 Member
    Run like someone's chasing me, ha and break down 6 miles, into 1 mile 6 times, that works.
  • koosorlose
    koosorlose Posts: 186
    I hate running, so sometimes I imagine that I'm a piece of pizza and there's a big, hungry dude chasing me. Does that work? :P
  • No_Finish_Line
    No_Finish_Line Posts: 3,661 Member
    i thought you were going to say you dress up as batman or something lol
  • CupcakeCrusoe
    CupcakeCrusoe Posts: 1,425 Member
    The Zombies, Run app is great for this sort of thing. Makes you a character in a very large story and keeps you updated as you run. A real fun way to make running better.

    This is a little embarrassing, but when I'm running or doing an obstacle race and I'm really spent, just worn out and want to quit... I imagine feeling the strap of Captain America's shield in my hand. It always gives me a boost.

    :embarassed: :glasses:

    The "strap" of his "shield" in your hand, huh? Hmmmm....

    This. A run is not a run anymore unless I have "Zombies, Run!" in the background. I've come to associate "raise the gate" and covering fire = going out to exercise. :)
  • besaro
    besaro Posts: 1,858 Member
    i do. i often think of them as quests. supply runs, discovering new areas of the maps, encountering new monsters,

    yeah, i am playing skyrim right now.


    eta; sometimes it feels like I'm wearing my heavy armor, somedays, my light armor. i love it when i get to wear my light armor.
  • jessc4343
    jessc4343 Posts: 214 Member
    I tried something similar a few times. I would close my eyes and pretend my mom or super-runner-cousin were running next to me. I don't recommend it though as I nearly fell into a drainage ditch. Duh. It was a nice boost for a little while!
  • Squidgeypaws007
    Squidgeypaws007 Posts: 1,012 Member
    Sounds like a brilliant idea. Running from zombies, post-apocalyptic monsters, etc. Or go Lord of the Rings and be Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas running to find Merry and Pippin. I was a footballer all the way through college, so pretending to be Ronaldo, etc. might bring up some traumatic memories of pre-season. Haha.

    gimli-running.gif?w=520

    I've been half-halfheartedly tracking my walking distance along Bilbo's journey to the Lonely Mountain.
    (I'm almost through "Day 84" http://home.insightbb.com/~eowynchallenge/Tools/Lonely_Mountain/lonely_mountain.html) Now, you have me considering tracking my runs against one of these timelines...

    Yeah, see - that's what I'm RPing as I'm running ;P

    Haha ^^ this link is brilliant, thank you :bigsmile:

    I also have to confess to being an RP runner :laugh:
  • redversustheblue
    redversustheblue Posts: 1,216 Member
    When I was a little kid I used to pretend my bike was a horse. Gave it a name and everything. Yeah, I was a weird kid.
  • thavoice
    thavoice Posts: 1,326 Member
    I role play that I am an older guy who is trying to stick with, and show up, the younger guys in a PT test and/or race,
  • redversustheblue
    redversustheblue Posts: 1,216 Member
    you might like these palaeolithic workouts on my blog: https://cavepeopleandstuff.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/palaeolithic-workouts/ - roleplay the lives of your palaeolithic ancestors

    I really love you.
  • littlefoot612
    littlefoot612 Posts: 156 Member
    I read roleplaying but my brain said cosplaying. I was trying to picture myself running in my son''s Doctor Who cosplay costume.
  • rachel865
    rachel865 Posts: 7 Member
    I can't really get out to run - no gym, no treadmill, single parent w/ 8 yr old prone to overheating - but at home sometimes at night I'll jog in place whenever a character in the tv show or movie I'm watching is running. Not exactly the same but better than sitting on the couch the whole time.
  • loomatic
    loomatic Posts: 15 Member
    Oh my gosh, you guys have made my running a lot more fun going forward!
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    i do ...

    - zombies are chasing me (check out the zombies! run app for this)
    - taking it back to the old school "that lamp post way down the street is safe"
    - pretending i'm jaguar's paw in apocalypto running towards the corn, away from the jaguar etc
    - i'm a soccer, football or rugby player
    - i'm auditioning for a new bourne spin off called the meshashesha supremacy
    - oprah is giving away $99K in cash and you have to get there by foot.

    :laugh:
  • pltjess
    pltjess Posts: 101 Member
    I listen to instrumental music by Two Steps From Hell... they do a lot of stuff for theatrical trailers, so it's really epic music. It makes me feel like I'm in a movie and always makes things more fun.
  • PennyVonDread
    PennyVonDread Posts: 432 Member
    Only when free running. It's easier to find motivation to maintain flow if you imagine being chased by enemy raiders in a dystopian post-apocalyptic society. Other people at my training facility do this, too. It's pretty common and it's cool to hear what seeds grow out of others' imaginations.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,226 Member
    Thia is why I love the "Zombies, Run!" app, it really helps you keep running when you feel like the undead are on your heels!
  • ElementalEscapee
    ElementalEscapee Posts: 552 Member
    Sometimes I pretend I'm Ezio on a mission or the Lone Wanderer running from feral ghouls...and I pretend my dog is the dog from Fallout 3, "Dogmeat". Weird but it works! :D
  • Galatea_Stone
    Galatea_Stone Posts: 2,037 Member
    Sometimes I pretend I'm Lola from that weird techno movie Run Lola Run. Sometimes I pretend I'm Bo Derek running down the beach. Sometimes I pretend I'm Forrest Gump and running against the wind. Sometimes I pretend that I'm playing tag and whoever is behind is it. Sometimes I pretend there's a beer at the finish line and I can have it if I finish in a certain time. And sometimes I pretend that I'm being stalked by a big cat and I'm a gazelle.
  • spirit095
    spirit095 Posts: 1,017 Member
    I like to pretend I'm training for something really cool, like fighting monsters or the Hunger Games lmao. It makes running more interesting for me.
  • Howdoyoufeeltoday
    Howdoyoufeeltoday Posts: 481 Member
    sometimes I look at people on the street and see if they look like people from television or movies. So one day I'll play the walking dead game and give myself plus points if I see Daryl or the governor look alikes, and then minus points if I see Laurie...cause no one wins when they see Laurie. gives me something to do when music isn't helping so much.

    Or I'll put on the playlist from the dark knight rises and pretend I'm batman...cause batman is boss!
  • grubb1019
    grubb1019 Posts: 371 Member
    I will pretend that my kids or other family members have been waiting a long time to see me and they are at the end of my run. If I'm on the track and I'm alone I will close my eyes and think of the time my son was running and said "this feels like flying", because sometimes it does.
  • whalebeast
    whalebeast Posts: 12 Member
    I can't really get out to run - no gym, no treadmill, single parent w/ 8 yr old prone to overheating - but at home sometimes at night I'll jog in place whenever a character in the tv show or movie I'm watching is running. Not exactly the same but better than sitting on the couch the whole time.

    Rachel, something I always mean to do is jog/squats/lunges/crunches/whatever throughout every commercial break.
  • likitisplit
    likitisplit Posts: 9,420 Member
    I will pretend that my kids or other family members have been waiting a long time to see me and they are at the end of my run. If I'm on the track and I'm alone I will close my eyes and think of the time my son was running and said "this feels like flying", because sometimes it does.

    There is this hill near my house. If you're having a good run and are loose and hit it at just the right speed...there's nothing quite like it. It feels like you are floating down the hill and just pushing yourself forward with your feet. It makes running everything you ever imagined it could be.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    ha! nope, but Im sure gonna do it now!!!
    hmmmm, what should I be....

    I'll be a an olympic gymnast in training, lol. got to get in cardio for the floor routine!

    This is the cleverest dirty joke I've read in this thread so far.

    Well done.

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