Yuppie Running vs. Blue Collar Running

Yuppie: votes for trump but lives in Williamsburg pretending to be cultured

Blue collar: votes for trump and still believes he's doing a great job

What about boomer vs zoomer running??

Boomer: Imagines that he's prefontaine, idolizes Jordan Hasay, tracks runs in excel

Zoomed: imagines he's Spencer brown, drools over colleen Quigley instagram, tracks runs in strava

YR: Has all the latest gadgets, HRM, GPS, Strava, newest, latest, greatest, high tech shoes, clothes, nutrition, and training gizmos. Consults with a personal trainer, runs on treadmill during bad weather, does yoga, cross trains. Still gets beat by BCR

BCR: Doesn't have sh*t, just runs and trains hard year 'round. Continues to beat YR convincingly every time.

Race day plan:

YR: go out easy and negative splits.

BCR: Go out hard and see what happens.

On Paker Stinson:

YR: Criticizes him for having balls.

BCR: Loves Stinson for having balls.

How they plan to improve and PB:

YR: Hires a coach. Carefully plans out training.

BCR: Just ups mileage and increase the speed and volume of his workouts.

On pain:

YR: Backs off.

BCR: Embraces it.

Favorite coach:

YP: some science nerd

BCR: Percy Cerutty

Favorite workout:

YR: Vo2 max blah blah blah .....

BCR: Hard 10 miles

Where they do their workouts:

YR: around a track

BCR: where ever they can, usually around the block.

When they see bad grammar on letsrun:

YR: Points it out.

BCR: Accidentally did it because he was typing the post while watching the kids.

Who they secretly admire:

YR: Rupp

BCR: Salazar

Favorite Boston Marathon:

YR: 2011

BCR: 2018

On weight and diet:

YR: Worries about gaining a ibs, and eats all the latest health food trends.

BCR: Worried about getting too lean, and eats what he can get his hands on.

When taking a dump in the woods:

YR: How am I going wipe?

BCR: Wipe? Why?

Strength training:

YR: Some stuff he seen some professional runners do on Instagram.

BCR: Throwing the kids around, mowing the lawn(and other house chores) and his job.

Where most of them live:

YR: Gated communities

BCR: middle to lower class neighborhood.

On stretching:

YR: Always does dynamic stretching before runs and 15 minutes of post run stretching.

BCR: Sometimes touches his toes in the shower, so the hot water can hit his lower back better.

On climate change:

YR: Knows it is end of the world.

BCR: Knows it is just a hoax.

Kind of cream they put in their coffee:

YR: Soy

BCR: Full fat dairy cream

Kind of milk they put in their cereal:

YR: Soy or almond

BCR: Full fat cows milk

Kind of cheese they use:

Some chemical vegan sh!t

BCR: Real actual cheese

How they celebrate the 4th of July:

YR: Stay inside to watch some firework show on tv, drink some craft beer, cooks some vegan burgers and hot dogs.

BCR: Cooks real meat on the charcoal grill, and light some 100+ dollars worth of fireworks off.

Pizza:

YR: Supreme

BCR: Meat lovers

XC:

YR: Complains about the hills and worries about time.

BCR: Complains about it being too flat and worries about competing.

On injuries:

YR: Take a few weeks off and goes to the PT.

BCR: Just jogs easy till the pain goes away.

Pre race warm up:

YR: 15+ minutes of dynamic stretching, jogs and some strides

BCR: Drinks his coffee, just goes for a jog with some strides.

Post race recovery nutrition:

YR: Chocolate milk and gatorade

BCR: Coke-Cola and beef jerkey

Post race meal:

YR: Some hipster vegan restaurant

BCR: Pizza or a nice burger.

When to get new shoes:

YR: Every 300 miles

BCR: Till the rubber is completely worn out.

GPS watches:

YR: Checks it every other minute to make sure heart rate, pace, cadnece etc. is in line with what they think is ideal.

BCR: Wears a GPS watch, but only looks at it after his runs.

Weather:

YR: Complains about it.

BCR: Only checks weather to see what to wear.

Races:

YR: Tempos it.

BCR: Races it.

Clothes:

YR: Gets new clothes every year.

BCR: Still wearing what he did in high school to run in.

On Sage:

YR: biggest fan boys.

BCR: Tells him to eat a steak.

Fartlek:

YP: Planned out and by time.

BCR: Just goes by feel.

Running drills:

YR: Does them 3x a week with strides.

BCR: Might do them before races, occasionally.

On the Japanese marathoners:

YR: But they don't brake 2:05.

BCR: Loves them, looks at how many Japanese are going under 2:10 for the marathon.

On Yuki:

YR: Hates on him, believe there should be a asterisk next to his win at the 2018 Boston.

BCR: Loves him, him wining Boston was one of the greatest sporting moments they ever seen.

YR: 1500m

BCR: Mile

BCR on YR: several hundred reply thread on Letsrun

YR on BCR:

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proud blue collar runner wrote:

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I don't want to quote the whole tweet but just wanted to say that is one of the best posts I've read on here in a LONG time. I was laughing my ass off. Still am. Please email me and I'll buy you a beer.

proud blue collar runner wrote:

Meh.

Neither YR nor BCR has time to post so much overboard crap. But HobbyJogger does!

Chocolate milk, vegan cheese and hot dogs? You realize all of those things are in contradiction to themselves. You can’t keep your joke straight. 1/10

YR: Konstanze Klosterhalfen

BCR: Elle Purrier

YR: Vegan

BCR: Raw red meat

YR: ribbed for her pleasure

BCR: raw dogger

19 pages of nerds hating themselves while idolising the noble savage.

YR: Does something that everyone does but feels ashamed because it involves technology or knowledge or some semblance of thought

BCR: Does something manly and mindless *swoon*

H2Oh-yeah wrote:

Most of the blue collar types that I know like Guinness, especially those of Irish-Catholic descent. If you don't believe me, go to a bar in Southie and exclaim that Guinness is a yuppie beer. See what happens. For maximum effect, go during a Red Sox game. And if the objective is to really get drunk, why drink beer at all when you can have a fifth of JD?

P.S.: My mom lives in a trailer.

Yeah, well Southie is one of the most yuppified neighborhoods in Boston these days. Its all new gentrification-chic "multi-use" apartments directed at local college grads. For the community you're looking for, try going to Braintree or Somerville.

.Pure Hate Pupil.. wrote:

YR - Pure Love

BCR - Pure Hate

https://media.giphy.com/media/84CRvhy2DJlwA/giphy.gif

This GIF screams, "I'm an anime-obsessed incel"

proud blue collar runner wrote:

Loved this post! He took what I had started and ran with it to the max!

yuppie runners : shave their legs

YR: 6 Kenenisa Bekele ETH 2:12:52

BCR: 7 Ben True USA 2:12:53

someName wrote:

YR: 6 Kenenisa Bekele ETH 2:12:52

BCR: 7 Ben True USA 2:12:53

LOL! An Ivy League guy is blue collar?

The real BCR, who went to an NAIA school, finished right behind the fake one.