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...
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Theres far more of us that have plodding moments than those that don't!
And we ALL train!
Apart from the fact that it'd probably B*gger my knees!
Heather :0)
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.
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
sorry, phew, just had to get that off my chest x
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....
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 . . . .
;-)
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?
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!
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)
plodding is a state of mind!
makes you appreciate how fast some people can go!
That is my view, for what it is worth!
Cheers,
Zandra
I like the idea of plodding. Once it's got a name, it means it's ok to be at the back of the pack, because there are other folks there too!
Among the hundreds who finished faster than I did was a man with a walking stick.
That must make me a plodder, surely?
I have decided that I plod with my left leg and run with my right....
Ha ha ha
Makes me look kinda imbalanced when I go out admittedly, and I fall over a lot.
DUCK!!!!!!!!!
I once read that if you enter a race then that makes you a runner.
Keep running girl.