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about the lifetime supply of heartbeats thing.. just point out that training lowers your resting heartrate, so although you're going like 160+ BPM an hour of the day you are probably saving 10 BPM for the other 23 hours versus if you were untrained, so the net effect is conservation of your heart beat supply. |
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Sadly, there are college coaches and runners out there who think the same way as these co-workers. |
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Exactly what I was thinking...
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Tim Culpepper approves this message. |
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I was talking to a cute girl who is a somewhat serious runner (ran Boston a couple years ago), and she found out that I was a runner. She asked me what my marathon time was. I replied that I've run a 2:39 marathon and will be running Boston in the spring. She thought that was incredible that I'd run so fast. I then tried to play it down a bit by telling her that I couldn't have run for the DI school whose logo was on the shirt she was wearing. (I ran DIII and don't even begin to imagine that I would've been competitive at the DI level.) She then told me that I must have improved a lot since college! There's no way I could run my college times right now...even though that was just two years ago. It's not just non-runners that don't get it. |
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I tend to not even share with others. I have family and friends ask all the time how my running is doing and I just reply good. Most people cannot comprehend minutes per mile and distance or what it takes to run a race all out. Recently I mentioned it to a teacher friend that I have been so tired lately, since I have been waking up early a.m. to run. They said "oh why do you wake up so early". I said "well to run" In which she replied "its so good to do something to stay healthy" I had no response. how do you explain to someone that you do it competitively? |
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BUMP! |
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Moderators, I think you should delete this thread. |
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A friend once told me that they didn't run because their father had told them that running is bad for you because it shakes your internal organs around and they get bruised. I couldn't stop laughing! My friend was being completely serious and believed that rubbish. Non runners have no feckin idea. If you tell someone that you meet that you run they always say "marathon this, Olympics that, how far can you jog in one go?" etc........... Nothing worse than being called a jogger! |
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I think they key is that most people are trying to be interested and polite. I would never think less of someone who was interested in what I'm doing. I usually just make fun of myself a little bit and say, 'Yeah, I'm a little obsessive about it.' If I'm talking to someone who says they play the tuba I'd ask some questions to make conversation and maybe learn something but I'd probably sound like an idiot asking if it got heavy after a few minutes. |
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Moderators, I think you should delete Kareem Ab..., I mean Roger Murdock. |
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Honestly, the OP seems like kind of a douche. But I will say this. I get annoyed by one of my friends who isn't in to running, specifically, but rather working out in general and "getting toned" and "building lean muscle" or whatever, and he probably runs once or twice a week to get his "cardio" in. He's always asking me questions like, "What's the best type of running for burning fat? I read on BodyBuilding.com that sprints are the best for burning fat." Annoying bullcrap like that. |
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I hate when non-runners tell me that they are so proud of Lagat and his American Records. They don't even realize he is a kenyan. |
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Why are you people responding to an 8 year old thread?? |