Drummers wrote: Are you a newer runner, trying to make up for lost time, juggling a career and high mileage like the rest of us?
Yes, that's me. To round out your picture, I'm fast approaching forty, used to smoke and was 45 pounds heavier before starting to run regularly 4.5 years ago.
Does it make you angry that some average old man would make an observation that some people make too much of a fuss over shoes?
Not angry exactly, let's say irritated by what comes off as arrogant dismissiveness. Sure, I could just murmur "asshat" under my breath and ignore you; but I'm curious what exactly drives you to keep at it.
Does it make you angry or uncomfortable or annoyed that some people talk about shoes and which ones feel good and work well for them, when you can run in any-old-thing - and obviously could ignore any old thread?
In my world there's an enormous difference between a few of us saying "model X shoes allow me to run 100 MPW in comfort and without injury" and all these fat old guys I see in the park who've spent thousands on their unobtainium-alloy cycles and dress up like superheroes. I'd agree they are making a bit of a fuss over gear, sure.
Hey, free country and all, but you bet I'm gonna privately snicker to myself.
Even then, I'm unlikely to seek them out on a cycling forum and thump my own chest while deriding them, because, dammit, I ride a 1986 ten speed in cutoffs and a tee shirt; and I once spotted an old geezer on a single speed girl's bike with high handlebars, riding buck nekkid.
And it's kinda hard for me to figure out why you would come on here and repeatedly insist that discussing shoes is silly, unless you're just doing the same thing the insecure young guys around here like to do when they start threads to howl at fatties, as one way for them to stroke their frail egos and think "hey, at least I'm better than someone."
But that's an awfully ungenerous view, and you're a grown man, and I'd love to hear your real reason(s) so that I can start thinking better of you.