The deal: you get $50,000, but you also gain 50 lbs, lose all your cardio fitness and strength. Back to square 1.
Would you accept the offer?
The deal: you get $50,000, but you also gain 50 lbs, lose all your cardio fitness and strength. Back to square 1.
Would you accept the offer?
Pre-tax, or post-tax $50,000?
you can't lose what you never had
reed wrote:
you can't lose what you never had
SO EDGY.
Hell no. Weight gain to that degree is not worth it. $250,000k though? Hell yes!
its called being a salaried store manager in retail
Sure, I'd do it. I've been running for about 13 years and a couple times I have come close to your specifications: I had a fairly major surgery in 2007 and didn't run at all for almost four months; went from 133 - 136lbs to about 160 - 165ish, and when I got back into it, a 15-20 min run involved a couple walk breaks.
So, I was quite detrained - more than I am now, for anyone following my 'comeback' in the training week thread from very spotty training / no running since late fall of last year - and would have made it to your standard within an additional two to three months or so, I am sure.
Also, it's pretty clear that 'square one' for a former runner is not quite the same as it is for someone who has never run. In any case, it would probably take no more than six to eight months at best to get back to 90%, if not more, if I worked hard at it. And at that point, the training would have become meaningful again, and I would have $50,000 in the bank.
No
Spiral out, keep going wrote:
The deal: you get $50,000, but you also gain 50 lbs, lose all your cardio fitness and strength. Back to square 1.
Would you accept the offer?
Pick one, is it loose all your running fitness or (and) gain 50 pounds?
Those are two very different things. I do not think I would gain 50 pounds for 50k. I might loose all my running fitness, depending on what "square 1" actually meant.
You've perfectly described my first year out of college.
Sure, I'd be back to normal weight and decent fitness in 3-4 months anyway.
JoeyJoeJoeJrShabadoo wrote:
Hell no. Weight gain to that degree is not worth it. $250,000k though? Hell yes!
I'd be looking for net $330K to pay off my mortgage.
Sure, I'd do it. I've been running for about 13 years and a couple times I have come close to your specifications: I had a fairly major surgery in 2007 and didn't run at all for almost four months
That's not what I'm talking about though. 4 months off will make you lose maybe half your total fitness. I'm talking about losing 100% of it.
I was once unable to run for an entire year and gained 40 pounds. Not quite 50, but close. It was a pain in the @ss to take off, but I did it succesfully, and since getting back into running (2 years ago), I've run new PRs at 3 of the 5 distances I routinely compete in. A 4th, the 10k, is likely to fall next time out considering that I recently ran a half marathon only 6s per mile off my 10k PR pace.
I would be pretty bummed if I regained that much weight and lost all my fitness again (I was literally worse when I started back than when I first started running in general), but 50k is a lot of money. Still, I'm not sure that I'd be able to accept.
Absolutely. This is a complete no brainer.
Hell yeah, I'd take it.
The most enjoyable part of running/fitness is the feeling of getting back into shape, seeing and feeling progress, etc. Isn't that what you're searchig for anyway when you try, pathetically, for years, to get back down to your high school 5k PR?
Absolutely. I'm over 30 pounds underweight anyway, so this would put me slightly over the average.
Answer Guy wrote:
, depending on what "square 1" actually meant.
There is only one thing it can mean...
I don't want to over think or over analyze this so I will say yes to the 50K. It may take 10,000 days to get back into shape; however, I would reach out to embrace whatever may come.
Lateralus wrote:
I don't want to over think or over analyze this so I will say yes to the 50K. It may take 10,000 days to get back into shape; however, I would reach out to embrace whatever may come.
[B}WITH MY FEET UPON THE GROUND
I LOSE MYSELF BETWEEN THE SOUND
AND OPEN WIDE TO SUCK IT IN
I FEEL IT MOVE ACROSS MY SKIN
I'M REACHING UP AND REACHING OUT
I'M REACHING FOR THE RANDOM OR
WHATEVER WILL BEWILDER ME
WHATEVER WILL BEWILDER ME