Stereotyical Runners - 'GQ Running Guy,' 'Headband Hippie Running Dude, 'Cherry Picker Race Winning Guy' and more

Run Gary Run!!

Can you train me?

You ran a 1:31 at the Ocala Half?

Wow Impressive!

As you claimed on your blog with Word 97 "Ocala is hilly"

That is so true.Ocala is known for their steep hills!

I can't stop laughing at "your blog"

Thanks Gary,

Haven't read your essays about stereotypical runners. However I enjoyed the Tom Fleming interview.

I can't understand why you get so many negative comments.

Anyway keep up the great work, there are some who really appreciate your posts.

Dudes, what's your problem? See too many of yourselves in stereotypical running guy?

I somehow became "cherry picker guy" last year. I won 5 races. That was more than I had won in the last 30 years. My fastest win was an 18:28 5k. I think it is hilarious. In past years I was always "cherry picker guy who always gets beat by one faster cherry picker guy" at every little podunk festival race I would go to.

I am definitely "big goofy headset guy" running races listening to my ipod. I am also "Mr analytical runner guy" having all my warmup and race splits I want to run memorized before I get to the race.

I am contemplating being "basketball player running guy" if I can get some insoles and a sweet pair of chuck taylors to go along with a nice basketball uni to run races in.

I remember my schools top runner in the middle 70s playing basketball all morning until everybody left for lunch. He would head out in his chuck taylors to run 5 miles. He would then play basketball at the outdoor courts all evening and repeat the same thing the next day. Ran 10 flat 2 mile as a soph and never went out again.

In case you really are interested, that year I missed the start in Naples and ran 1:21 plus 24 minutes late. My PR is 1:08:13 run while I was working 50 hours as a CPA, married and with two kids. Why don't you go check the results of the Deland, Florida 10-miler from 2007 when I took down a 17 year old grandmasters record with a 58:37 ay age 50. Or check the Florida Running website where Ii ran 35:30 10k that same year, the fastest grandmaster time in the state of FL for the entire year. That is the last year I concentrated on training. Come clean with your name and what you have been running. As usual, letsrun attracts the lousiest commentators. The anonymity of the internet allows you runners who have accomplished nothing to continue slamming people whose presence you don't deserve to be around. How do we know you haven't done anything noteworthy? Because those who have don't act like you do.

Thanks Monk - I think the negative commentors run the site here. I appreciate your kind comments. On March 1st look for an interview with Don Gehrmann, one of the greatest unknown US milers of all time.

Certified Public Accountant COHEN, GARY STEVEN Primary AC0013651

CPA Null and Void,

12/31/2003

License Location Address*:Available..

Main Address*: *********Available

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Tell us another story Mr. Gary!!!!

NULL AND VOID!!!!!!!!

You live in APopka .What a DUMP!...

You have a fat ugly,and LOUD-MOUTHED wife!

Really Gary you were a CPA in 2007?

Not according to the State of Florida so were you working without a license.

So the accounting career was "voided" in 2003 then you tried "training people" and we all know how that went.So is this the latest lame attempt at making a living. Blogging or as you put it "essay writing" with Word 1997.Are you going to Gasparilla to see your old friend Boston Bill? What about Joanie?

Are you the GQ guy with your hair dye?

By the name of the posts people seem to know you in "real life" and have no problem saying "you are a jack-ass" right to your face.

Hey Grandpa Gary,

Love the 80's porn moustache!

You are very wise....

I ran a 1:45 half-marathon too!

Can I just say "I was 24 minutes late too"?

and call it a 1:21?

Thanks Grandpa that is a PR for me!

Do you have a Commodore 64 too?

Heather S.

You forgot "the kipper".

Whoa, easy dude.

I mean, it is funny to blast his crappy site but you are taking it a little too far. He seems like a nice guy, why bash him so hard?

TrailRunnergary wrote:

The anonymity of the internet allows you runners who have accomplished nothing to continue slamming people whose presence you don't deserve to be around.

Who do you think you are?

I have to hand it to ole Gary.

He keeps coming back here for beatings a couple times a year without fail.

boring

forcing yourself on the world like a loud boring guy on a bus

why do boring guys always talk the most

backhanded bragging about 16th at peachtree

humbly listin your pr's

asshole

At Appalachian State University, Gary was a four-year letterman in both cross-country and track and field. He was the Southern Conference Indoor 3-Mile champion in 1978 and the Mountaineer's cross-country MVP that fall. At Miami Carol City High School he was All-State in cross-country with a 7th place finish and in track and field with a 3rd place 2-mile finish of 9:20.4. He was the 1974-75 Outstanding Athlete at MCCHS.

Gary has excelled at racing a variety of distances for over 30 years. His all-time personal bests include: mile - 4:17; 2-mile - 9:14; 5k - 14:44; 10k - 30:28; 15k - 46:49; ½-marathon - 1:08:13; marathon - 2:22:34.

As a Grandmaster runner his performances include: 5k – 17:11; 10k - 35:30; 15k - 55:38; 10-mile - 58:37; ½-marathon - 1:21:06; marathon - 2:59:53.

Not a shabby runner, not a stud. Nonetheless, the guys doing a good thing for the sport, and jack asses, and almost certainly noone (unless they are that lame) faster than this guy is bashing him. So why all the hate?

There is hate because stupid men with small dicks and slow PRs are a hateful bunch. They take the frustration of their pathetic lives out on others instead of improving themselves.

I'd like to know why all the hate on his wife? She hasn't done anything but so many are calling her out for whatever reason. Sheeeez....can't you haters at least leave her alone?

Hello all; I am "Over half-century on the planet and haven't figured out that FL is a sweaty, stinky palmetto dump good only for crocodilians and imported swamp denizens aka 'exotics'" guy! This forum is a good place for me to spread The Word that no place is too dank and skank to garner attention from trollios from around the globe! Have a laugh at my expense but soon I will stereotype YOU too and put you up on the interweb in an unfavorable format circa 1997!

thoughts wrote:

"the one stepper" - guy that always has to be one step ahead.

"the bathroom guy" - stops everyday at least once in the middle of the run to pee.

"the workout hero" - dominates workouts or track sessions but can't race fast.

"the same route guy" - guy that loves to run the same route even though you may have ran there the previous 3 days in a row.

"the heavy breather" - guy that breathes heavy no matter what pace youre going.

"the cut off guy" - guy that will just turn right in front of you with no notice at all because he knows the route and you don't (but a little warning would be nice).

Just a few suggestions.

Btw I read some of them they are quite comical!

I and a few of my friends are well represented here. I run one step ahead because I don't see very well and am very clumsy so I try to stay out of people's way. I tell people about it before I run. I like the bathroom stop because either I want to slow the pace or just need a rest. I don't mind the workout hero but I do plan the days that I run with him to match my uptempo days. I run the same route every morning because I run at 4:30 AM and sometimes don't wake up until halfway through the run. I day dream or plan out my day so the sights don't really matter. I don't heavy breath but I hack a lung very often on my run. I sound like a horse on good days, a dieing horse on bad ones. The cut off guy is a good friend of mine but I sure gave him a rash of sh** when he did it to me in a race. He just laughed. I'm not sure the point of making fun of our own. We are all freaks because we run anyway and freaks make me laugh and yes, sometimes the freak is me. Oh, and my PRs are all better than this Cohen guy but his are pretty good too.