Yuppie Running vs. Blue Collar Running

I'm a yuppie runner! wrote:

Yuppie running

http://completerunning.com/

That is the fruitiest running web-site ever. The only thing worst than the running-skirt poll is the article on DNFing.

BTW getting a massage defintely seperates the Yups from the BCRs. I just want to know why a service academy grad is considered a Yuppie over an Ivy League grad.

Yuppie Scum wrote:

BTW getting a massage defintely seperates the Yups from the BCRs. I just want to know why a service academy grad is considered a Yuppie over an Ivy League grad.

Then by your definition, this would categorize every top American runner from the 1970's on as a yuppie.

Yuppie Scum wrote:

I just want to know why a service academy grad is considered a Yuppie over an Ivy League grad.

What convinces everybody that a yuppie runner is going to have a lesser work ethic when it comes to running than a blue collar running? The majority of "yuppies" come from families that work hard and are successful; they didn't inherit copious sums of money. This work ethic carries over to running. Are all of you people bashing "yuppie" runners telling me than an investment worker or medical resident pulling 80-90 hour weeks doesn't know anything about hard work?

Reason and reasonableness has no place in this thread.

Cool, I'm not alone

YR : have hung up the trainers for the winter after this fall's marathon

BCR : this fall's marathon was just a training run for Boston.

YR: Trains hard for constant self-improvement.

BCR: Unionizes with other runners to see if they can collectively bargain with race directors to give all of them a nice prize after races, regardless of individual performance. If not, they refuse to enter races.

YR: No prob forking over $30 for cookie cutter NYRR raceBCR: Forms own track club, raises $, talks to race directors, get prizes aka unionize.

alternate reality wrote:

YR: Trains hard for constant self-improvement.

BCR: Unionizes with other runners to see if they can collectively bargain with race directors to give all of them a nice prize after races, regardless of individual performance. If not, they refuse to enter races.

NY runner wrote:

BCR: Forms own track club, raises $, talks to race directors, get prizes aka unionize.

No, that would be an Entreprenurial Runner (ER), who, if successful, would inherently be a YR. But even if not successful, they wouldn't be a BCR.

A BCR would join an existing track club for some reason stemming from lack of self-initiative or something close to laziness, such as 'a drinking buddy is joining and wants them to join.' Then the BCR would limit his/her involvement in the club to the bare minimum (clock in at 9, clock out at 5), file a grievance with the club union if they were ever asked to help out at a race, and then expect an equal distribution of prize money for all finishers of the race.

1st I like my orginal post about post fall marathon - the YR hangs up the trainers for the winter, BCR the fall marathon was my training run for Boston. That's how I looked at mine.

2nd Track clubs are non-profit. Entrepenures are not in it for non-profit. Believe it or not unions are non-profit. Forming a group of runners to get better races / conditions is more in the unionizing spirt then Entrepenurial.

3rd the whole YR v. BCR is about attidue. The lazy union worker isn't the BCR attidue. BCR is gutting it out, running gritty. So is git'r done. YRs like gadgets and pretty jackets.

4th you'er a Yuppy Home Oh and I would like to kick your a$$ in an upcoming road race.

NY runner wrote:

2nd Track clubs are non-profit. Entrepenures are not in it for non-profit. Believe it or not unions are non-profit. Forming a group of runners to get better races / conditions is more in the unionizing spirt then Entrepenurial.

3rd the whole YR v. BCR is about attidue. The lazy union worker isn't the BCR attidue. BCR is gutting it out, running gritty. So is git'r done. YRs like gadgets and pretty jackets.

4th you'er a Yuppy Home Oh and I would like to kick your a$$ in an upcoming road race.

Your first "point" made zero sense, so I can't even comment.

As for your second "point", someone who starts a non-profit (an enterprise) is an entrepreneur.

About your third point, the lazy union worker is definately blue collar, so certainly they are part of the blue collar attitude. So, just for the convenience of your argument you pick the "best" of the blue collar attitude and the "worst" of the yuppie attitude? In this process, you're ignoring the fact that the majority of the people in society who "git 'er done" - who actually create value - are people that you would label "yuppies." Meanwhile the blue collar workers are making sure they don't stay a minute after 5pm so they can rush to the bar after work.

And your fourth point says a lot about the "blue collar attitude". Excellent work...you're proving my point for me.

You're kidding right? Every yuppie in New England is training for Boston all winter whether qualified, banditing or fundraising for some charity.

What a stupid thread so I'll add to the stupidity...

I'm from Canada. I train throughout the winter in up to -30C/-22F.

I'm a BC runner. Everyone who doesn't do what I do is a YR.

See? Stupid. Just like the rest of this crap.

NY SAYS

"YR : have hung up the trainers for the winter after this fall's marathon

BCR : this fall's marathon was just a training run for Boston."

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ok I'm done but I think that this post pretty much sums up the complete retardation of this thread

so let me get this straight, are you saying that YR are bad and BCR are good? that makes 0 logical sense

Maybe you're saying that BCR like to run races for the historical factor rather than fast courses? How does that work?

OR you're saying that YR just prefer fall marathons to spring ones. Maybe, but still kinda weak.

CAN WE LET THIS THREAD DIE PLEASE

I am deeply disturbed but the idiocy on threads like these... do people think that these posts are "smart"?

If we say from the early to mid-80's say since an American won Boston - YES. In fact every time I try to give somebody a pass, I think about it for a few seconds and say yes - No BR since probably '82.

B]Yuppie Scum wrote:

Then by your definition, this would categorize every top American runner from the 1970's on as a yuppie.[/quote]

YR: 2007 Honda Element w/1,800 miles

BCR: 1993 Honda Civic w/180,000 miles

here we go again...

All runner are yuppies