5k and 10k runners. What's your excuse?

I would say "shut the f*** up you stupid c***, you don't know the first thing about running. You and your 6 week marathon training plan are an embarrassment to the sport"

First why don't you tell us your excuse for being so insecure?

i just did one to get people off my back...i'm still not a "marathoner" and will never be...of course, i was getting asked "do you run marathons" pretty much everyday at work (i work at a running specialty store)...jog one and get it over with or go run one hard for 20 miles and blow up the last 10k like i did...

there is nothing to do as long as people are uneducated

and have the distorted view that running a marathon in 4h is more impressive than running 10k in 35min.

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First why don't you tell us your excuse for being so insecure?

Feeling insulted is different than being insecure.

Asking Usain Bolt if he's tough enough to play in the NFL is an insult? It's the same type of stupid insult question.

Why don't you play in the NFL? Are you afraid to be hit?

Don't you feel like your wasting your gift by not playing football? Questions can be insults.

How about this dude I know who can't be bothered to run 10ks and 5ks. Too short for him, a waste of his time. He can't break 40 minutes. Yet he'll fly across the country to run a mediocre marathon. What can you say to him?

do the math wrote:

How about this dude I know who can't be bothered to run 10ks and 5ks. Too short for him, a waste of his time. He can't break 40 minutes. Yet he'll fly across the country to run a mediocre marathon. What can you say to him?

Renew his Runners World subscription, and buy him a Gallowalker T-shirt.

I just tell them that I'm running mostly shorter stuff right now and that I'm using what little speed I have while I'm still young and it's still here. Then I tell them the plan is to move up to the marathon as I get a little older.

That seems logical to most people and they understand then that you're running as fast as you can rather than as far as you can.

wrap up a stack of dollar bills set a pair of googly eyes on top of it and when he flys back from across the country all beat up and sore from Gallow-walking 26.2 miles, point to the stack of bills and say thats the money, pain and suffering you could be saving by supporting your local 5k 10k road races....

"I'm working on sub four minutes for the mile. How fast can you run a mile?"

"26miles, wow, that's far. My longest run of the week is only 20miles. Then again I run that far every day. How far do you run every day?"

"4 hours and 56 minutes. To run 26miles? Wow, you must really be embarassed to be running that slow. Top runners can do 50 MILES in that time."

"You're trying to break five hours in the NYC marathon? Like, actually running it? Christ, you could fly from NY to LA in the time it takes you to run just the five boroughs. Ha!"

If I don't really care about the person, I'll go along with it. Something like:

"No, marathons are way too hard for me. I have a tremendous amount of respect for anyone who runs a marathon. Just finishing one of those is a superhuman feat."

I can just imagine Bekele saying this when Geb and the boys start hassling him.

I don't consider myself a serious runner at all. I am not going to run a marathon unless I'm preety sure my first marathon time is between 2:40 - 2:50. So far, I've not even run more than a half marathon even in practice. My first half marathon in a race or practice is when I did finish a half marathon and time was 1:15. Running is a life long experience, not something you prepared for six months or so and enter some marathon and finish it between 3-4hrs. I think Teg's qoute on letsrun front page is right on point - the length of time one put on running is very improtant.

My Reply "No, but I have run a sub 4 mile..... kiss my ass"

[quote]Ninetonite wrote:

"26miles, wow, that's far. My longest run of the week is only 20miles. Then again I run that far every day. How far do you run every day?"

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