I mean really fat. So fat you were shocked he could run faster than you.
I mean really fat. So fat you were shocked he could run faster than you.
Haha! I'm that fat guy. 6'3"250. Former 400/800 runner in college. Now I just hobby jog the occasional 5k and often get looks of shock when I run under 20 min.
I'm 5-8 and 160-170 so not small my any means and look kinda soft. My 5k is only 17:30 (1:21 half) but it's good enough to shame a lot of hobby joggers that take themselves too seriously
I've been beaten by a fat person, but unfortunately not in a race.
bananas for everyone wrote:
I mean really fat. So fat you were shocked he could run faster than you.
This reminds of Jethro Tull's "Fat Man:"
Don't want to be a fat man,
people would think that I was
just good fun.
Would rather be a thin man,
I am so glad to go on being one.
Too much to carry around with you,
no chance of finding a woman who
will love you in the morning and all the night time too.
Don't want to be a fat man,
have not the patience to ignore all that.
Hate to admit to myself half of my problems
came from being fat.
Won't waste my time feeling sorry for him,
I seen the other side to being thin.
Roll us both down a mountain
and I'm sure the fat man would win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqbGXl5lxEgI had this experience once. I was running mid 17 5ks at the time. A rather tubby guy took off at the gun. So what...he's a noob and will fade fast, right? A half mile and he's still there. A mile...still there. Halfway point, and I'm stunned that Tubbo is still ahead of me. 2 miles, still there. I close the gap, but not by enough. He finishes one spot in front of me, and I go home devastated.
And I ate a half gallon of ice cream. Hey, it seemed to work for that guy.
I'm old and fat, ran a rinky dink 5K last fall, was looking to run 7:20 to 7:30 per mile.
About a half mile in, check my watch, I'm going about 6:40 pace, think I should back off. But there is this huge lady ~190 just ahead of me. I said to myself, there is no way she can hold a pace for half a mile, that I can't do for a whole 5K, I'm not backing off the pace until she blows up.
I stay on her shoulder until the mile and she starts to pull away. She ends up beating me by more than a minute.
Later in the day after the results were posted online, I recognize her name. 10 years ago she was a stud local female.
Fat guys (some) can dance as well.
the only races that i'm a part of are when people race to exit the room when i fart
Solinsky beat me once.
I'm that fat guy wrote:
Haha! I'm that fat guy. 6'3"250. Former 400/800 runner in college. Now I just hobby jog the occasional 5k and often get looks of shock when I run under 20 min.
OK, please get a video of you wooping folks in a 5K while carrying a big piece of pizza. Seriously, smear some pizza sauce on your face too.
Do you mean by a 40 pound overweight Henry Rono? Yeah, in the late 80s.
bananas for everyone wrote:
I mean really fat. So fat you were shocked he could run faster than you.
Not in running, but swimming as I'm also a former NCAA swimmer and now masters. Was at masters nationals in 1999, got my ass kicked by about .5 seconds in my then age group by a huge fat dude in the 50 br who was swimming right next to me. Amazing time also. I was pretty disheartened until I found out he was a former gold medalist.
bananas for everyone wrote:
I mean really fat. So fat you were shocked he could run faster than you.
I once spent about 15 miles of a marathon trying to shake some jerk who was drafting off me, so closely that I could not see him with a turn of the head.
I was changing sides of the road, varying my speed by big amounts and still couldn't shake the dude.
Then, I passed a store front with a large front window and saw that it was my own backside that had been dogging me. I knew I had been putting on the pounds but this experience finally led me to change my diet and improve my fitness.
Since that time, I don't mock the lipid-challenged citizens and I came to enjoy watching Mike and Molly.
Bob Sacamano wrote:
I had this experience once. I was running mid 17 5ks at the time. A rather tubby guy took off at the gun. So what...he's a noob and will fade fast, right? A half mile and he's still there. A mile...still there. Halfway point, and I'm stunned that Tubbo is still ahead of me. 2 miles, still there. I close the gap, but not by enough. He finishes one spot in front of me, and I go home devastated.
And I ate a half gallon of ice cream. Hey, it seemed to work for that guy.
Post of the day.
Of course not.
I'm that fat guy wrote:
Haha! I'm that fat guy. 6'3"250. Former 400/800 runner in college. Now I just hobby jog the occasional 5k and often get looks of shock when I run under 20 min.
Are you kidding...you run a 5k under 20 min at that size??? 😨. You go as big as a NFL LB/DE...and those guys never, ever could come close to breaking 20 for 5k. Your time has to a be World record for a 250 pounder! That's a lot of bulk to pull for a 6:26 pace (19:59). Incredible...you da Man!ðŸ‘
I am calling BS. That would be worth a 15:30 if you were around 200.
I'm that fat guy wrote:
Haha! I'm that fat guy. 6'3"250. Former 400/800 runner in college. Now I just hobby jog the occasional 5k and often get looks of shock when I run under 20 min.
Our Buckle wrote:
bananas for everyone wrote:I mean really fat. So fat you were shocked he could run faster than you.
I once spent about 15 miles of a marathon trying to shake some jerk who was drafting off me, so closely that I could not see him with a turn of the head.
I was changing sides of the road, varying my speed by big amounts and still couldn't shake the dude.
Then, I passed a store front with a large front window and saw that it was my own backside that had been dogging me. I knew I had been putting on the pounds but this experience finally led me to change my diet and improve my fitness.
Since that time, I don't mock the lipid-challenged citizens and I came to enjoy watching Mike and Molly.
Laughed out loud. Well done.
Caller of BS wrote:
I am calling BS. That would be worth a 15:30 if you were around 200.
I'm that fat guy wrote:Haha! I'm that fat guy. 6'3"250. Former 400/800 runner in college. Now I just hobby jog the occasional 5k and often get looks of shock when I run under 20 min.
Are you suggesting that people make things up on the Internet? 🤔