Talking the talk

Oryx

Maybe this has been done before, apologies if it has. But if youre new to running or tri or just this forum, some of the lingo can have you bouncing over to google every five minutes to check what the heck an LSR is. I thought a post which lists the more commonly used abbreviations and acronyms might be of help to anyone who is finding themselves a bit lost.

As some of them come to mind

AG - Age Group
AR - Adventure Race
AT - Anaerobic Threshold, the initial phase of exercise, or any short burst of intense exertion, eg weightlifting, sprinting.
BPM - Beats Per Minute
Brick - Combination of bike/run sessions back to back.
Cad - Cadence, revolutions per minute of your pedals.
DCM - Dublin City Marathon
DNF - Did not finish
DNS - Did not start
DQ - Disqualified
Fartlek - Swedish term meaning 'speed play' that is a relaxed method of interval training.
IM - Ironman (long) distance triathlon. (2.4mile swim, 112mile bike, 26.2 mile run)
HIM -Half Ironman (Middle) distance triathlon (1.2mi/1.9km swim, 56mi/90km bike, 13.1mi/21.1km run)
HM - Half Marathon, 13.1 miles
HR - Heart Rate
HRM - Heart Rate Monitor
LSR - Long Slow Run
LT - Lactate Threshold, the highest pace at which you can go for an extended period (>30 minutes) without building up lactic acid.
MHR - Maximum Heart Rate
OLY - Olympic Distance Triathlon (1500m swim, 40k bike, 10k run)
OW - Open water
PB - Personal best
PMP - Projected Marathon Pace/Planned Marathon Pace
Sprint - Short distance triathlon, usually 750m swim, 20k bike, 5k run.
Sprint - 100m, 200m or 400m race on an athletics track.
Strides - 50 -200m runs with recovery in between, run relaxed but at the fastest pace you can manage without losing form.
T1 - Transition 1, changeover from swim to bike in triathlon
Tempo run - fast paced run, 75-85% of max effort.
T2 - Transition 2, changeover from bike to run in triathlon

Maybe someone would like to add more to this, or correct me if Im wrong.

hardCopy

Oryx wrote: »

Maybe this has been done before, apologies if it has. But if youre new to running or tri or just this forum, some of the lingo can have you bouncing over to google every five minutes to check what the heck an LSR is. I thought a post which lists the more commonly used abbreviations and acronyms might be of help to anyone who is finding themselves a bit lost.

As some of them come to mind

AG - Age Group
AR - Adventure Race
AT - Anaerobic Threshold, the initial phase of exercise, or any short burst of intense exertion, eg weightlifting, sprinting.
BPM - Beats Per Minute
Brick - Combination of bike/run sessions back to back.
Cad - Cadence, revolutions per minute of your pedals.
DCM - Dublin City Marathon
DNF - Did not finish
DNS - Did not start
DQ - Disqualified
Fartlek - Swedish term meaning 'speed play' that is a relaxed method of interval training.
IM - Ironman (long) distance triathlon. (2.4mile swim, 112mile bike, 26.2 mile run)
HIM -Half Ironman (Middle) distance triathlon (1.2mi/1.9km swim, 56mi/90km bike, 13.1mi/21.1km run)
HM - Half Marathon, 13.1 miles
HR - Heart Rate
HRM - Heart Rate Monitor
LSR - Long Slow Run
LT - Lactate Threshold, the highest pace at which you can go for an extended period (>30 minutes) without building up lactic acid.
MHR - Maximum Heart Rate
OLY - Olympic Distance Triathlon (1500m swim, 40k bike, 10k run)
OW - Open water
PB - Personal best
PMP - Projected Marathon Pace/Planned Marathon Pace
Sprint - Short distance triathlon, usually 750m swim, 20k bike, 5k run.
Strides - 50 -200m runs with recovery in between, run relaxed but at the fastest pace you can manage without losing form.
T1 - Transition 1, changeover from swim to bike in triathlon
Tempo run - fast paced run, 75-85% of max effort.
T2 - Transition 2, changeover from bike to run in triathlon

Maybe someone would like to add more to this, or correct me if Im wrong.

Nice, but you left out HTFU - Harden The F Up

Oryx

And

SIU - Suck it up

Brianderunner

Objection your honour

Sprint - 100m, 200m or 400m race on an athletics track.

Oryx

Brianderunner wrote: »

Objection your honour

Sprint - 100m, 200m or 400m race on an athletics track.

Corrected with humblest triathlete apologies.

ecoli

Few more thought not as well know

AT/Tempo/LT (Lactate Threshold) - Some people use these interchangably - roughly 10mile to HM pace
AeT Aerobic Turnpoinnt (Marathon pace)
AnT Anaerobic Threshold - 10m-HM pace point in which your body begins to produce lactate at a level higher than it can buffer resulting in hydrogen ions causing fatigue (what people know as "lactic acid") used when distinguising between HMP/MP
Vo2Max Roughly 3k-5k pace. Maximum capacity for body to transport/use oxygen during exercise
MPW miles per week
SB Season best (fastest time an athlete has ran this year)
NR National record

tunney

FTP - Functional Threshold Power, the best average power for a one hour time trial that a person can hold
TT - time trial
OBLA Onset of Blood Lactate Accumulation, when lactate is produced faster than it is cleared, typically when the concentration of blood lactate reaches about 4mmol/L

Gringo78

RHR - Resting Heart Rate
HRR - Heart Rate Reserve (=MHR-RHR)
PR - American version of PB
DOMS - Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness

Krusty_Clown

GPS - Global Positioning System - usually refers to a watch-like system worn on the wrist, used to track distance and pace.
ABV - Alcohol by volume (oops, wrong forum ).

Oryx

Core - Refers to abdominal and back muscles
PT - Personal Trainer
S&C - Strength and Conditioning
Turbo - cycle trainer/ turbo trainer: a frame and roller which attaches to the rear wheel of a regular bike for indoor training sessions.

nerraw1111

DQS: Diet Quality Score.

DQS? I saw this mentioned a few times in the Ironman training logs along with graphs and charts for what appears to be a spaceship.

EDIT: ShotgunMCOS explained what it is in his latest posting.

ThePiedPiper

BQ: Boston Qualifier

GFA: Good For Age, usually in relation to qualifying time for London Marathon

M35, F50, etc: Masters age groups; Male <35, Female<50, etc

tunney

Clydesdale - fat bloke that does triathlon
Athena - fat bird that does triathlon

Oryx

Chicked - when a man gets beaten by a girl
Bonk - Fatigue caused by your body running out of fuel, youve exhausted your glycogen stores from not taking in enough carbs. (usually happens in cycling)

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

GTFOYA - Get the fck off your arse - used when feeling lazy and you do not want to do a session. TM of JB enterprises

ultraman1

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

GPS - Global Positioning System - usually refers to a watch-like system worn on the wrist, used to track distance and pace and bash course measurers
.

Krusty_Clown

ultraman1 wrote: »

I know... I know... There were undiscovered tribes in the Amazon that knew I was going to post that.

Izoard

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

GPS - Global Positioning System - usually refers to a watch-like system worn on the wrist, used to track distance and pace.

RTFM - often used to respond to queries about aforementioned GPS

Edward Old-fashioned Rattrap wrote: »

GTFOYA - Get the fck off your arse - used when feeling lazy and you do not want to do a session. TM of JB enterprises

JFDI - a shorter, but equally compelling version of GTFOYA and an infamous closing to many a meeting with a former boss...

robinph

Context has to be taken into account for some of these acronyms as well. They may not always be on about something to do with the sport, but one of the forum members.

Bugsy2000

Oryx wrote: »

Maybe this has been done before, apologies if it has. But if youre new to running or tri or just this forum, some of the lingo can have you bouncing over to google every five minutes to check what the heck an LSR is. I thought a post which lists the more commonly used abbreviations and acronyms might be of help to anyone who is finding themselves a bit lost........

You're not wrong there. I could have done with this list a couple of years ago.:P

Pherekydes

RunForestRun wrote: »

M35, F50, etc: Masters age groups; Male <35, Female<50, etc

M35 is Male >35, F50 is Female >50 etc

shotgunmcos

RPE - Rating of Perceived Exertion

Basically rating the intensity of training by feel.

Ranges from 1 asleep at your desk to 10 seeing how many times you can lift your desk in 20 seconds with your boss sitting on it while typing a reply to this thread and holding your breath simultaneously

emerald007

Oryx wrote: »

Chicked - when a man gets beaten by a girl

Is there a term for the opposite case, a female beating a male Punked?

TFBubendorfer

emerald007 wrote: »

Is there a term for the opposite case, a female beating a male Punked?

No but there is Geezered for being overtaken by an older runner.

Brianderunner

emerald007 wrote: »

Is there a term for the opposite case, a female beating a male Punked?

There is, Duded. As men are superior to women in all ways this happens quite a lot.

Oryx

Brianderunner wrote: »

There is, Duded. As men are superior to women in all ways this happens quite a lot.

In that case I think you mean Deluded.

tunney

emerald007 wrote: »

Is there a term for the opposite case, a female beating a male Punked?

NO - Natural Order

hardCopy

Is there a difference between a PB and a PR?

Also is there a difference between Bonking and Hitting the Wall?

Pretty sure I'll find out on Monday either way.

griffin100

hardCopy wrote: »

Is there a difference between a PB and a PR?

Also is there a difference between Bonking and Hitting the Wall?

Pretty sure I'll find out on Monday either way.

PR: personal record - US term
PB: personal best - European term
.......same thing.

For me bonking means loosing all energy and having to stop, walk or slow down. On the other hand hitting the wall means full glycogen depletion - you get dizzy, nauseous, the world starts spinning and you want to lie down and sleep. I've bonked loads of times, I've only ever genuinely hit the wall once, 13hrs into my first IM, a feeling I'll never forget. Others will have a different opinion on the meaning.

Oryx

IM Can also mean international medley in swimming: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and front crawl.
Standard Distance is the new official name for Olympic distance I hear, Olympic being copyrighted by the actual olympics!

Izoard

Oryx wrote: »

IM Can also mean international medley in swimming: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and front crawl.
Standard Distance is the new official name for Olympic distance I hear, Olympic being copyrighted by the actual olympics!

Hey Oryx...

IM is generally "Individual Medley" to distinguish it from the Relay Medley...

Oryx

Izoard wrote: »

Hey Oryx...

IM is generally "Individual Medley" to distinguish it from the Relay Medley...

Thanks for the correction. i was only going on club speak. The learning curve continues.

Izoard

Oryx wrote: »

Thanks for the correction. i was only going on club speak. The learning curve continues.

Good pub quiz question - the relay stroke order is always the same...what is it?:)

A0

GET: Gas Exchange Threshold (wrongly called Anaerobic Threshold / Ventilatory Threshold in the 80s-90s and still misused). Breakpoint in the ventilation and carbon dioxide kinetics (curves). Also known as a concomitant increase in VE/VCO2 and VE/VO2 ratios. Often corresponds to lactate threshold or turnpoint (i.e., 4-4.5 mmol.l-1) however you call them. 10k or HM pace, depending on training status - level.

couerdelion

70.3 - A race of half ironman proportions although not necessarily organised by the WTC. The name is derived from the length of the race in miles (1.2 mile swim, 56 mile cycle, 13.1 mile run).

140.6 - A race of ironman length. The name is derived from the length of the race in miles (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile cycle, 26.2 mile run).

meijin

Oryx wrote: »

Chicked - when a man gets beaten by a girl

and if she's running with a buggy?

tunney

meijin wrote: »

and if she's running with a buggy?

Was watching a ten miler in the park one year, a girl I knew was running with a buggy. Running up the long hill on Upper Glenn Road she was passing loads of men. They saw the woman, then the buggy then they all died a little bit. Was classic.

shotgunmcos

tunney wrote: »

Running up the long hill on Upper Glenn Road she was passing loads of men. They saw the woman, then the buggy then they all died a little bit. Was classic.

They were not bothered by her running backwards too?

Pherekydes

Izoard wrote: »

Good pub quiz question - the relay stroke order is always the same...what is it?:)

Back, breast, 'fly, free.

For the IM it's 'fly, back, breast and free.

nerraw1111

Anyone fancy sticking up some swimming abbreviations?

SWs, B+Bs etc?

tunney

SW - for tri interpretation as normal freestyle
P - pull, use a pull buoy and swim, don't kick
B -band, tie your ankles with a band and swim
B+B - same as band but use a pull buoy too
K - kick with a kickboard
FS - front scull
MS - front scull
RS - front scull
FIST - Fisting drill - swim with clenched fists
PAd - use paddles
PT - use anti-paddles
PBB - paddles + band + buoy

"10x100m sw going off 2:00". Means 100m sw, done 10 times, starting each 100m every 2 minutes, means recovery and effort are encapsulated in the time period after the "off".

shotgunmcos

RT - repeat time = the time you leave the wall, including your rep+recovery
DPS - distance per stroke
SC - stroke cycle, how many strokes per length
CSS - critical swim speed, kinda like threshold speed
Desc - a set of reps with descending RTs

forestman

griffin100 wrote: »

For me bonking means loosing all energy and having to stop, walk or slow down. .

I know what you mean....... although not in the running sense