Do you look down on people slower than you?

Can’t beat 9.9seconds over 100m, Kipchoge what a loser

The key to enlightenment is the acceptance that no one cares about your running.

This is true. This includes your spouse, your family, your best friend, your neighbors, and especially your coworkers. Not a single person gives a sh*t.

Depends how tall they are

No, but I have found the reverse situation at my running club and in the local community. Some of the slower runners think "faster runners" are elitist.

You're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

running as instrumental/winning vs. running as community/experience. to the instrumental you are just a number and you're not as good because you don't work hard enough. they don't particularly care to meet you to sort out reality. one of the better things in HS was i finished 4th in the 100m one meet early on in varsity. next week i see one of the guys from that final at an inner city meet and he introduces me around to his buddies as the "fast white dude." i would see them around rest of my varsity time and it's hey fast white dude. it's like you're initiated. and they were all fairly fast for HS kids.

to me some of it is a sort of noblesse oblige where one stays rooted, helps others out, realizes their success doesn't have to come at a moral expense.

that being said, on a track or soccer field, i want to win. but there are other values besides that. one of my favorite parts of college soccer beyond my own success was mentoring my backup when i was out a couple weeks injured, watching him improve. it was like coaching my kid sister in U8.

i wouldn't worry about the jerks because they only last as long as they win. find your own joy in the thing and grow at your own pace.

to me it's like a switch can flip. x period we're pals. cross that line, game time.

When you are a sub elite athlete running 17 minute 5k's, you deserve respect from everyone, especially when you show up at the start line of a race knowing that you are better than everyone. I don't want anybody to get in my way unless it's Bekele, but then it will be more me in his way. When I start a conversation at a race I usually ask what someone's goal is. If I think it is slower than what I can do then they are not worth my time. I just chuckle and walk away and tell them I better focus on my warm up(or warm down if it is after the race). Unless it is a girl I won't look down on them. I will tell her she is fast for a girl, and compliment the fukk out of her, although for some reason I'm looked down upon when this happens. I usually don't get the admiration I'm entitled to from slower runners. There is something wrong with our sport. I'm sure if I was subelite in another sport, girls would be chasing after me

At one point in time I was pretty fast, national caliber, never once did I look down upon people that were slower.

I always thought running was a personal thing. What other people did wasn’t important.

Of course. Everyone faster than me is a genetic freak. Everyone slower than me just doesn't work hard enough.

This is probably the most stupid post/question I've seed on any site. Why would any human 'look down' on another?

Only when said slower person talks big about how they will perform when they have no business having such goals and continuously demonstrate that they actually aren't willing to put the work in to reach their goals

I mostly look down on people shorter than me. if they’re slower too that’s just a bonus.

The time does not matter, the attitude of the person is what counts. if you are the slowest person on the team but show up each day with a positive attitude while supporting teammates, you are leaps and bounds ahead of the fastest person on the team who is not supportive of teammates or a positive influence.

To feel better about their own miserable existence?

Do I look down? No.

Do I look back? Yes.

17-minute 5k's does not make you a sub-elite. Don't worry about girls chasing after you.

No women in the front packs, just skinny dudes. From what I’ve seen, 8-9 min pace is where you want to be to meet the ladies.

Any male can break 4:00 if they train hard.