Running\Plodding Difference is...WHAT!!!??? - Beginners

Bill Cityfingers

26/06/2003 at 23:56

Ok ok ok ok....

Look, I've had enough right....

Someone...ANYONE....

WHAT IS PLODDING????

Is it just fast walking... is it slow running?, do you lift your knees...

Or is it some sort of Power waddle with a hop on every third step and a star jump every mile....?

I MUST KNOW WHAT THIS STRANGE THING THAT YOU ALL DO AND TALK ABOUT IS!!....

please....<sob>....let me in on it...

Plodding Hippo

27/06/2003 at 07:22

Its jusrt that we are slow, and darent post on training!

happyrunning!

27/06/2003 at 08:43

no, no, no, All plodders welcome on training I'm sure!

Theres far more of us that have plodding moments than those that don't!

And we ALL train!

27/06/2003 at 10:13

Thank you, happyrunning, I've been saying that to the walkers who keep up with me while I'm out there.

Hetpayne was Hetfinch

27/06/2003 at 10:24

Quite like the idea of a star jump every mile though.

Apart from the fact that it'd probably B*gger my knees!

Heather :0)

3TL

27/06/2003 at 14:39

There's been a few threads about this previously, with no definitive answer. However I've decided for myself that:

Plodding is committed slow running, where you just keep on going, regardless of how slow you might think you are.

or alternatively

Plodding is a state of mind, regardless of how fast you go.

I'm using the word 'fast' loosely of course. Fast compared to a tree, with no wind blowing.

lazy lou

27/06/2003 at 20:19

maybe we could add a twist or backwards running half way around our routes?

Bodjit - Training very slowly

27/06/2003 at 22:59

No thanks chick, I find it hard enough to go forward!!

27/06/2003 at 23:13

3TL. Wot's 3TL mean? I'm trying to get to know you all...

Bill Cityfingers

27/06/2003 at 23:22

RRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... YOU CALL THAT AN ANSWER??...

Fine...then I plod... but I thought I ran!!, Oh I don't know... maybe I shuffle or boogie-hop.

Nah, I'm just a
pogo-funkied-V8-turbo-dancing-walnutskipper
who likes to mince occasionally and dances in dog poo....

WELL YOU SHOULD SEE THE PATH I JOG ALONG!!!, It started out it was gravel... now it's just canine faeces... these dog-owners have no shame... I mean, theres GRASS ON EITHER SIDE!!, NICE LOOOOONG GRASS!

Whew... needed a rant.... fine now.....

I think

rachelw

28/06/2003 at 01:38

Plodding is a name for those who are in denial......YOU'RE A RUNNER NO MATTER HOW FAST (or slow) you run. Be proud, hold your head up high and say it aloud 'i'm a runner Goddammit and I run....' If both feet leave the floor at the same time and you're definately not walking you're a runner......
sorry, phew, just had to get that off my chest x

Alf 'Sick Note' Tupper

28/06/2003 at 08:31

Hello,

thought i'd join in. We plod, therefore we are. I describe myself as a plodder cause im not that quick and as 3TL said it can also be a mind set - just keep plodding along.

Its not a definite description and nobody (as far as im aware) has determined 'classifications' as such. If you want to be a plodder you can be, but if you don't want to be - thats great as well. We plod and we run. Its one and the same thing.

Its just a bit of a laugh....

Smitch

28/06/2003 at 10:16

3TL is bound to get that remark printed in RW isn't he

Finn Mortensen

28/06/2003 at 17:39

Ah, in our hearts, we're runners.

It's just safer to call yourself a plodder when you're talking to some bloke who looks faster than you (balding, skinny, legs like spiders etc) because then you don't have to admit that your best 10k time is over an hour, because at the mere mention of the word 'plodder' he loses interest and doesn't actually ask. Or is tactful and doesn't ask (if he's a nice bloke). If he does ask, he's probably a plodder too.

It's a code, really . . . .

;-)

Bill Cityfingers

28/06/2003 at 18:01

AAAAhhhhh... I think I get it now...

I think I must be a plodder, although to my mates I RUUUUUNNNN!!!!!, dunno how fast I go really tho, I don't time distances normally, I did 20k in about 2 hours ish, but I had to stop and chuck up a couple of times cos that was after a drinking binge.... ;)

Is that fast, slow or middle???

I don't care, all I know is I like it and its ALL excercise in the end...innit?

Finn Mortensen

28/06/2003 at 23:33

Um . . . what's 20k in miles?

Drinking binge is good, though, definately. Overhead a (thin) girly in the gym today moaning that if she wanted to both eat today and get P*ssed tonight, she HAD to go for a run. Talk about having your cake and eating it!

Bodjit - Training very slowly

28/06/2003 at 23:56

About 12.5 miles, so not bad, wish I was that fast ;-))

candy ollier

28/06/2003 at 23:56

12 miles.... 10:00 pace.... that makes you a plodder if you believe that makes you a plodder - only you can decide

candy ollier

28/06/2003 at 23:59

sorry yes a bit more than 12 miles so a tad less than 10:00... pushing a four hour marathon if you maintained it, so do you think that makes you a plodder????

3TL

29/06/2003 at 11:03

I'm aiming for glory, as always.

BTW 3TL stands for 3rd Time Lucky.. it took two abortive attempts and then one real concerted training effort for me to complete my first marathon (which was earlier this year)