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Next time someone asks "Do you run too?"

cloggsy71
cloggsy71 Posts: 2,208 Member
edited November 2024 in Social Groups
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  • Bikerchickmomma
    Bikerchickmomma Posts: 93 Member
    I have been asked that question. I don't understand its relevance to biking. Do people ask runners if they bike? Some people bike because they can't run for a variety of physical or medical reasons. Does the asker want to hear all the medical jargon as to why one cannot run? I can relate to your frustration with the question. I am in agreement with your answer.
  • daj150
    daj150 Posts: 815 Member
    I am mainly a runner and triathlete. However, when I cycle and talk with people about cycling, it seems to be the ONLY discipline where people ask if I run also. Never really gave it much thought before since I do run, but it's pretty interesting. I have never been asking if I do anything else when I am talking about swimming with people. Same with running.
  • dpwellman
    dpwellman Posts: 3,271 Member
    Never had a flat while running, or broke a spoke or a cleat while running. Never snapped a derailleur cable or a shifter while running either. There's no Rule 9 either. :wink:
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    My nose runs when I'm cycling - does that count?

    I lost the ability to run any great distance in my 20's (leaping off motorbikes at high speed a few too many times) and then lost even more running endurance when a car driver smashed my remaining "good" knee at 31.

    Never actually liked distance running even from a young age but would run after a ball and loved sprinting. Never felt that runner's high at all - the further I went the more miserable I got. It's weird that I'm happy cycling for hours but a 10k run felt like the longest and most hateful exercise hour of my life.
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    dpwellman wrote: »
    Never had a flat while running, or broke a spoke or a cleat while running. Never snapped a derailleur cable or a shifter while running either. There's no Rule 9 either. :wink:

    That's all true. But nobody has ever had fun running, either. :wink:
  • allaboutthecake
    allaboutthecake Posts: 1,535 Member
    Yes, my nose runs too when biking. I run out of patience with drivers sometimes, too. But mostly, running hurts. So I don't.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
    I never thought about it. Why do they ask that? They do ask, but I've never thought about why.
  • Robertus
    Robertus Posts: 558 Member
    NorthCascades wrote: »
    dpwellman wrote: »
    Never had a flat while running, or broke a spoke or a cleat while running. Never snapped a derailleur cable or a shifter while running either. There's no Rule 9 either. :wink:

    That's all true. But nobody has ever had fun running, either. :wink:
    I used to love running, but serious foot/ankle injury required reconstructive surgery that prevents me from running any more. I really wish I could still run, but I've always loved biking too, so there's still that.
  • Robertus
    Robertus Posts: 558 Member
    daj150 wrote: »
    ... I have never been asking if I do anything else when I am talking about swimming with people. ...
    I mentioned at a master's swim practice once that I had swam 3-miles the day before and the guy just assumed I meant that I had ran 3-miles the day before. As if that were some kind of accomplishment.

  • niblue
    niblue Posts: 339 Member
    sufferlandrian wrote: »
    I never thought about it. Why do they ask that? They do ask, but I've never thought about why.

    I've never been asked that - or asked anyone that. I do run too though!
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