A Glossary Of Running Terms

From bandits to threshold runs, here are some words you need to know. Us runners, with our sometimes funny-sounding vocabulary, can come off as quirky. That’s just the way it is.



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What's in a Name?

An athlete wakes up at dawn every other morning for 12, 15, or 20 weeks to ready their bodies and their minds for attacking that final goal. From newbie first timers to high level elites, we all sweat, hurt, struggle, fall, and get back up.

We race on the same courses, in the same conditions, on the same days. We all bore our friends and family with excruciatingly detailed race reports and vivid descriptions of “that wicked nasty blister I got on my toe that popped right in the middle of my run.”

We have all reached down deep when we thought there was nothing left and were surprised to find a little bit more. We have all walked when we should have run, stopped when we could have kept going, and slept in when we should have been up.

When you finish that first race, take pride in it. Take ownership of your accomplishment. You set a goal and you saw it through. You are a runner, a triathlete, a swimmer, a cyclist. You earned that.

 

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What's a Long Run?

Galloway says, any run that is longer than any distance you have covered in the past three weeks qualifies as long.