Mediocre Runners

Ok listeners, we have our first question here at MR.  Let’s delve into the mailbag.

Dear MR,

I very much enjoy your blog.  I also enjoy a bit of cross training and regularly use the great outdoors as my gym…primarily b/c I’m too cheap to join a club and really enjoy the scenery and people watching of the DC metro area.

Anywho onto my question…I’ve often been running and riding in parks and along trails that have those “work out station thingies”.  You know where there are random bars and pieces of wood aligned in all sorts of slants and elevations that you have to balance, pull-up, push-up, jump over, and otherwise exert yourself on/over.  Problem is, I never know where to find them, unless I just happen to run across one. (pun intended)

I’ve recently moved to a new neighborhood and would like to find the closest “work out station thingy” to my house, however I’ve found that the rest of the world doesn’t call them “work out station thingies”.

What is the correct term for these cross training challenge circuit areas and is there a good website that tracks the location of such places so that I can plan my workout routes accordingly?

Thanks,

Hack

Hey Hack! Thanks for writing in!  Unfortunately here at MR, we’re no experts so we have no idea what those “workout station thingies” are.  For argument sake, let’s call them “workout station thingies.”  There just happens to be one of those work out station thingies on my normal run root on the Four Mile Run Trail. I will check it out and get back to you.  Also, Ryan says there is one on Rock Creek and he uses it daily. I’ve seen a set of pullup bars over near wear Rock Creek and Connecticut Ave meet.

Again, thanks for writing in!  Please feel free to email MR at help [at] mediocrerunners dot com.