Weekly Running Recap: I Take Awkward Running Selfies

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Melissa (I Crashed the Web)

June 22, 2019

You know those perfect running selfies you see when scrolling through Instagram? Of the people running but they also managed to capture the best photo? You know the ones – they are mid-stride and look graceful, yet fierce. Not quite smiling but not frowning. They look like runners.
Let’s just say I’m not one of those. That’s right — I do NOT look like that when I try to take a running selfie. But I digress – here were my runs this week. I didn’t mean to take off Thursday, but LM was awake from approximately 1:45 a.m. until 4 a.m., which meant I had slept about 3.7 hours when the alarm went off to run and I couldn’t move.

And, here’s the aforementioned selfie. I think I look somewhat like an awkward robot, don’t you?

And because there are no better photos than that for this week, that’s all you get.

Some questions for you:

Can you take running selfies?
How much sleep do you need?

I’m linking up with Deborah and Kim for the Weekly Run Down.

6 responses to “Weekly Running Recap: I Take Awkward Running Selfies”

kookyrunner

June 23, 2019

I’m not that great at running selfies either. Sometimes I set the timer on my phone to catch a good shot, but that doesn’t work all the time. Sometimes I’ll take a video and then play it back and take a screenshot where I look decent, lol.

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1. Melissa (I Crashed the Web)
  
  June 23, 2019
  
  Oooh I love the video idea!
  
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Kim at Running on the Fly

June 23, 2019

The selfies are so tricky! I think I finally got a handle on, but I still have numerous fails LOL I have my phone’s camera set to ‘live,” which gives me a bunch of thumbnails within a second or two of elapsed time, Usually, one of those will capture the moment…usually 😉 I try to vary the camera angle, side of street, etc. so they all don’t look the same…easier than it sounds, though. Oh, and the sleep…I’m lucky. I am pretty functional with 5-6 hours of sleep 😉

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Deborah Brooks

June 23, 2019

I do not take great selfies either! One of the bonuses of running with friends is that there is always a photographer around! Thanks for linking up and have a great week ahead

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Cari

June 23, 2019

Ditto on the selfies, though I’ve managed ac ouple good jumpies

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Lisa @ TechChick Adventures

June 24, 2019

Let’s talk Good Form Running – how did you get your arms to both be moving forward when running? LOL! I feel like I’ve really nailed some great running selfies – both running and jumping. But race photos? Oh no!! The key to great selfies is using a motion detection app for your camera or recording a burst shot. Easy peasy 🙂

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