1. Having to have the conversation with yourself as to whether you can still get in your run despite the 2 feet of rain mounting on the street and the unholy lightening storm rumbling through the skies above. You can right?
2. People who run on your heels or clip you without apology when they lap you.
3. Finding out mid run that your usual route is closed off due to construction or other blockage.
4. GPS failure. Seriously, there's no concrete here, barely any trees, why doesn't it work!?!
5. Everything that happens when you try to pass other walkers, cyclists, or runners like:
People who decide that they need to walk or run 8 people deep making it impossible for anyone else to be able to pass them up, or...
Yelling out to your left, and the person ignores you and you have to scurry on by or they move in the wrong direction smacking into you because they don't know their right from their left or...
Someone's dog on a retractable leash (of course!), bounding out into your path right as you approach, or...
People who don't look behind them when they cross paths, or...
People who decide to stop on their bikes blocking the way mid path or try to get in some huge stretches mid path without warning, or..
Anybody with a stroller, or..
People running in the wrong direction on a one way path or deciding that they are going to use this opportunity to play chicken until you move out of the way..
6. Major temp changes mid run
7. The three "S" pain in your @$$ of winter running: snot, snow, and slick roads/side walks.
8. Farmers tan. Your feet, parts of your back, and your legs are all two different shades.
9. Uphill anything. Period.
10. The first few steps after a downhill when you remember gravity exists
11. People who talk about their great 'run' when they mean, their 'jog.'
12. Having to decide between busting your kidney or breaking down to stop to pee
13. That f**king pebble that's found it's way into your shoe
14. Gadget whores who think that a bunch of technology or accessories attached to them are going to make them a better runner.
15. Wet socks and shoes. Wet socks and shoes with 3 miles left to go.
16. All the things that happen to your feet. The cracking, toenails falling off, bleeding, blackening, knotting, blistering, things.
17. The regrets of not stretching properly before or afterwards
18. Hitting "the wall" mentally, emotionally, and physically
19. Chafing
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