You Know You're A Roadgeek If...

[Desert Man]

Palm Drive...which should be renamed Palm Road (the song's title), going from I-10 (Palm Springs city limits to Desert Hot Springs). The anime here is Urusei Yatsura ("Those annoying aliens").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QnENVF6Bv0

[yakra]

Looks very Rumiko Takahashi, though apparently she's got nothing to do with it.
*Wikipedia* O HAY there's a character called Kurumi!

[MCRoads]

Just put the point at which you realized you were a road geek, then when your family realized...



I knew when:
When I memorized all the major roads in the OKC metro.
I started to want a traffic drum (still don't have one ).

My family knew when:
When I knew how to drive better than my parents.
A candlestick cone mysteriously appeared in my room  .

[Max Rockatansky]

When I saw some of the interchanges on the Lodge Freeway when I was three and I tried to replicate them in my sand box.

[jp the roadgeek]

My parents: When they used to take me for a ride to essentially the middle of nowhere when I was about 5, and I knew every route to get home.

Me: When I would read atlases when I was about 5 or 6 and would draw maps of Greater Hartford for my relatives, including the I-291 beltway.

Another relative:  When I was 5 and my great aunt took my cousin and I to the CT shore.  She always told me the story of how she took a certain way to get back to my house.  Apparently when we got there, I told her, "Well, if we had gone such and such a way, we would've got here 5 minutes sooner." 

[MNHighwayMan]

I had my own term for construction barriers (cones, barrels, etc) back when I was ~five years old: "orangies."

In the second grade, I wrote an "essay" on how to get to my grandparents' house (in St. Cloud) from where I lived at the time in St. Paul. I remember that I mentioned I-94 at least once.

[MCRoads]

I had my own term for construction barriers (cones, barrels, etc) back when I was ~five years old: "orangies."

Lol, that's funny.

I used to call construction sites "obstacle courses" . I also used to build contraflow construction sites with blocks, but we never had enough blocks to satisfy me. It always ended up half finished.

[hotdogPi]

Existing thread: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=1113.0

[rickmastfan67]

Existing thread: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=1113.0

Will merge in a sec.

[SSOWorld]

Second's up (long ago)

You know you're a roadgeek when you jump in the car and go cause of the 'damn' freeways!

[Hurricane Rex]

Second's up (long ago)

You know you're a roadgeek when you jump in the car and go cause of the 'damn' freeways!

That is why I got hooked into roadways.

[Hurricane Rex]

When you are making running memes off of roadgeek stuff. Or taking selfies when running off road geeky stuff. Only do it on distance day though (10-22.5 miles).

I don't have photoshop so if complete it should say: Speed Limit 65, Joggers 60.

[PHLBOS]

I don't have photoshop so if complete it should say: Speed Limit 65, Joggers 60.

1-minute miles for joggers? 

[Max Rockatansky]

I don't have photoshop so if complete it should say: Speed Limit 65, Joggers 60.

1-minute miles for joggers? 

The fastest a trained human is really capable of running would but 12-15 MPH anyways.  Looks like that guy is going by theory of its better run facing towards traffic than blindsided by it coming from your back.  Besides, the speed limit sign ought to on the right side of the road.

[PHLBOS]

Besides, the speed limit sign ought to on the right side of the road.

Look a little closer at the photo.  The signs are for the highway to the left of it, not the two-laner on the right (which would have a lower speed limit); also note the small fence located to the right of the signs separating the two roadways.

[Max Rockatansky]

Besides, the speed limit sign ought to on the right side of the road.

Look a little closer at the photo.  The signs are for the highway to the left of it, not the two-laner on the right (which would have a lower speed limit); also note the small fence located to the right of the signs separating the two roadways.

I know, but the guy making the meme isn't aware of that.  Presumably because he isn't a "road geek"  and thought to would just make for an amusing photo meme. 

[Hurricane Rex]

I don't have photoshop so if complete it should say: Speed Limit 65, Joggers 60.

1-minute miles for joggers? 

1. A few members of my team wish they could go 65 mph in a race.
2. My pace limits are modeled off of speed limits:
Speed 50: 10:00 mile
Speed 55: 9:00 mile
Speed 60: 8:00 mile
Speed 65: 7:00 mile (most days/Marathon pace)
Speed 70: 6:15 mile (half marathon pace)
Speed 75: 5:30 mile (10k pace)
Speed 80: 5:00 mile (5k pace)
Speed 85: 4:30 mile (mile pace)
Speed 90: 4:00 mile
Speed 99 (I skip 95): As fast as you can go
15-second tolerance.

Besides, the speed limit sign ought to on the right side of the road.

Look a little closer at the photo.  The signs are for the highway to the left of it, not the two-laner on the right (which would have a lower speed limit (45)); also note the small fence located to the right of the signs separating the two roadways.

I know, but the guy making the meme isn't aware of that.  Presumably because he isn't a "road geek"  and thought to would just make for an amusing photo meme. 

I actually was aware of that because I rerouted my distance day to get to that sign because it was one of two speed limit 65 signs I could find that didn't require running on the freeway (route picture below). I would be a dead man with my parents or coach if I ran on the freeway. I would prefer the fence not being there but I have to make do with what I got.

If you can't tell yet, that's me in the picture and the meme was requested by one of my teammates.

Route for the day: (Errors if I resize it.) Originally supposed to be an out and back on the return route (goes counterclockwise in the loop).

And yes, I ran on the left side of the road for the blind side reason but switched back over in a quarter mile when bike lane/sidewalk resumed.

[Max Rockatansky]

I don't have photoshop so if complete it should say: Speed Limit 65, Joggers 60.

1-minute miles for joggers? 

1. A few members of my team wish they could go 65 mph in a race.
2. My pace limits are modeled off of speed limits:
Speed 50: 10:00 mile
Speed 55: 9:00 mile
Speed 60: 8:00 mile
Speed 65: 7:00 mile (most days/Marathon pace)
Speed 70: 6:15 mile (half marathon pace)
Speed 75: 5:30 mile (10k pace)
Speed 80: 5:00 mile (5k pace)
Speed 85: 4:30 mile (mile pace)
Speed 90: 4:00 mile
Speed 99 (I skip 95): As fast as you can go
15-second tolerance.

Besides, the speed limit sign ought to on the right side of the road.

Look a little closer at the photo.  The signs are for the highway to the left of it, not the two-laner on the right (which would have a lower speed limit (45)); also note the small fence located to the right of the signs separating the two roadways.

I know, but the guy making the meme isn't aware of that.  Presumably because he isn't a "road geek"  and thought to would just make for an amusing photo meme. 

I actually was aware of that because I rerouted my distance day to get to that sign because it was one of two speed limit 65 signs I could find that didn't require running on the freeway (route picture below). I would be a dead man with my parents or coach if I ran on the freeway. I would prefer the fence not being there but I have to make do with what I got.

If you can't tell yet, that's me in the picture and the meme was requested by one of my teammates.

Route for the day: (Errors if I resize it.) Originally supposed to be an out and back on the return route (goes counterclockwise in the loop).

And yes, I ran on the left side of the road for the blind side reason but switched back over in a quarter mile when bike lane/sidewalk resumed.

Heh, that's amusing I didn't know that was you out there.  I've been a distance runner for about 20 years myself, we're around the same speed for the half marathon/full marathon distance.  A lot of my local sign finds have actually been out while I've been running in Fresno.  I found some old CA 180 mileage paddles on Kings Canyon Road that shouldn't be there recently:

180CAa by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

IMG_8028 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Incidentally running here in Fresno for the most part sucks.  There are a ton of county islands where this is no sidewalk, a narrow bike path, and no street lights.  I had to learn all the way safe routes around weird streets like Clovis Avenue, I'm finding the canals are flat enough to be safe in the dark without being a trip hazard.  The city I used to love running in was Orlando, FL 15 through downtown was a blast on the old brick alignment.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

2. My pace limits are modeled off of speed limits:
Speed 50: 10:00 mile
Speed 55: 9:00 mile
Speed 60: 8:00 mile
Speed 65: 7:00 mile (most days/Marathon pace)
Speed 70: 6:15 mile (half marathon pace)
Speed 75: 5:30 mile (10k pace)
Speed 80: 5:00 mile (5k pace)
Speed 85: 4:30 mile (mile pace)
Speed 90: 4:00 mile
Speed 99 (I skip 95): As fast as you can go
15-second tolerance.

I just wish I could keep those paces. Right now, my best 10K was done at 5:31 km, i.e. 8:52 mile. And I'm now training for my first half...

That 32.2 km run at 4:39 km is really impressive.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

... you are excited Big Rig Travels is going to cross craIG county (He has done so about half-a-hour ago).

[NE2]

...your solution for global warming is to pray for cold.

[Hurricane Rex]

... you are excited Big Rig Travels is going to cross craIG county (He has done so about half-a-hour ago).

When you cant stop laughing at this post and said sign.

[qguy]

I knew my son (roadsguy, who posts on this forum and is now 18) was a roadgeek at age 7. My wife's sister got lost with her kids somewhere in the distant suburbs north of Philadelphia and called me to see if I could help. While I was speaking on the phone, my son, who was listening, tugged on my pant leg and said, "Daddy, I can tell her where she is and how to get home." I suspected he could, and my sister-in-law was game, so I put him on the phone. He asked her a few questions and gave her correct directions on the most direct route home, which she happily followed. We all still laugh about that.

Of course, another clue was that every time we went out to eat, before the food came he would flip over his paper place mat and draw maps, roads, interchanges, and route shields.

[Hurricane Rex]

Your English paper is on a roadgeek subject and your the only one in class happy about it or you choose that to be the subject if no subject is given.

[Michael]

...you're jealous of your friend who lives near a new DDI and has driven through it several times.

...you're even more jealous that that same friend is driving through it while on the phone with you.

...you notice you share a birthday with another roadgeek. (I just noticed that Scott5114 and I have the same birthday, and even the same birth year)