I mean people who work 40 hour weeks doing physical work such as truck drivers, factory-workers, cops, tradesmen, fishermen, miners, even say, retail pharmacists, etc., who put up national-class or close-to-national-class times?
No school teachers, programmers, or work-from home, set your own hours, doing gawd knows what types.
Seems to me running has become such an elitist sport that if you don't spend a couple of years in college running, its over for you, but there must be some working-class heroes out there.
And please don't turn this into a political football.