Who/What are the enemies of running?

[spikers]

Who or what do you see as the enemies of running? Here is my list. Add to it. Or maybe there is one here you don’t agree with.

The couch
Television
A busted alarm clock
Oprah. (come on, did she really RUN the NYC marathon?)
Run/walk programs
Medals for just showing up.
MP3 Players? (I enjoy hearing my surroundings)
Treadmills
Moderation
Ice cream (My personal demon)
Red Lights/ “Don’t Walk” signs. Or anything that makes you stop in mid-run.
Late nights at the office.

[Heather!]

red + white = pink... running + walking = jogging.

[Brandon Hough]

Nike Hatphones...Definitely a must for your everday jogger. ; ]

Take a peak for yourself... = ]

http://walking.about.com/od/hats/gr/nikehatphones.htm

[Adam]

I hate people that listen to headphones! I do admit I have done it when I've been forced on the treadmill by inclement weather, but there are exceptions to every rule, right?

I'm sorry, but running is pain and by taking your mind off that pain you are losing something great about running. I ran 10 miles today in new shoes (big mistake) and had a bloody nipple, cracked and bleeding toenail and I hit my head on a branch causing a little more blood. The run, the injuries and the heat hurt wore me out, but I can't help but feel how happy I was to have my mind in the run every minute of it. I think headphones take you away from the workout.

[Bill]

reeboks run easy deal

[Running Lou]

People who howl abuse of of car windows
Events that say people can walk them
People who take notice of the above and then stroll around the route, three abreast across the road
Dogs not on leads
Broken streetlights

[CanadianMeg]

I do disagree with your accessment that run/walk programs are the enemy of running. Couch to 5K is a very successful program that has developped a lot of runners who stuck with it after the nine weeks. And how can ice cream be an enemy of anything?

I'd like to add to the enemies of running...
* high humdity (it's an enemy we just put up with though)
* windchill (another enemy you just deal with)
* insomnia
* tobacco/cigarettes

[gary lambert]

Old Age
Working overtime
Injury
hurricanes
Big Dogs unleased
walkers,kids, on the inner lanes

[Parker]

The dude that leaned out his car window and threw a beer bottle at me while he was driving 45 MPH, while I was on my 14 miler... missed my head by about 6 inches. Yeah, he was a cool guy.

[Peter]

I hate ass holes like that . with XC we run and two days in a row someone threw stuff at us. we started to carry rocks with us in case they threw simething at us we get them back.

[bundy]

had some kids throw a full cup of ice at me while running on a bridge guess they thought it was funny

[Heather!]

oh. my. god. that would piss me off.

a few years ago on the 4th of july some dipshits drove by and threw some of those little white things that pop and snap when the hit the ground right at my feet. i wished so so so badly that i had a rock in my hand to throw right back at them.

[Heather!]

i'm gonna have to add the mom with the double wide stroller who sees you coming, makes eye contact with you, but then doesn't move (yeah that's aimed at YOU, woman in washington park with the ugly pants!).

and the dirty old men who whistle at you

and the cars that kind of pretend they're gonna stop at the stop sign and then start to go when you're right in front of them.