I have a .932256 sticker on my car.
I have a .932256 sticker on my car.
Spoken like a true hobby jogger.
10,000 on my car sticker....its really cool....I can run it even though I'm 61 years old....pretty impressive huh....
Junk Master wrote:
It's already been established that a true Lets Runner sports a 0.0 sticker.
I hear that's what our good friend the dentist has been sporting on his car as of late.
Why not just put a sticker that says, "Socially-inept, self-absorbed, threatened-by-any-other-athlete-in-any-other-sport--with-half-a-personality DEWSH-BAG" and be done with it.
If you don't make a living as a runner (and there are very few who do), you're a hobby jogger, so welcome to the club. And, don't be silly, those of you posting on this board have more in common with hobby joggers than elite runners. The elites laugh at you the same way Josh Hamilton would laugh at the guy who dominates his weekend softball game and thinks he's good enough to be a major leaguer.
Exactly. Also, being a hobby jogger is way more attractive than either of the alternatives:
(a) Not jogging or running at all
(b) Trying to make a living as a runner.
To clarify on b: Over the span of a running career the rewards can never outweigh the sacrifices - unless you're from some shi\thole in Africa or so unintelligent that you could never get the sort of education that enables a comfortable life.
Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for people who spare no sacrifice to become the best at what they do. I just think it's extremely rare for a person in a developed country to have running as their best career option. You'd have to be a real dumbfu\ck like Ryan Hall or the brojos.
70.2 bumper stickers are for REAL MEN
IRONMAN RUNNER wrote:
I've run a half marathon, so I put an IRONMAN sticker on my car.
I put an Ironman sticker on my car too! Tony Stark is the man.
This makes me feel very old. This is like the fourth generation of this stupid troll thread. Let me guess, tomorrow Charles Nonhomogenous will come up with some equally clever sock name and start a thread asking what type of running tattoo he should get. Or maybe he'll start a thread asking whether he is a "real man" even though he has 5 kids (or maybe just 1) and is divorced.
You are handsome and correct.
Talk about pompous - anyone completing the feat of finishing should be acknowledged for dedication. Hobby joggers put in many miles as well. Maybe we could acknowledge that even a hobby jogger has put in a lot of training. True runners wouldn't get wound up about this recognizing everyone is running for different reasons. Intead of being a jerk why don't you support anyone who is trying. You really are a jerk
Ruth Gromek wrote:
Hobby joggers put in many miles as well. Maybe we could acknowledge that even a hobby jogger has put in a lot of training.
This is, at best, half true. It all goes back to what is a hobby jogger. It's totally subjective. I could argue it's anyone who isn't getting paid to race. Someone else could say its anyone who cant run a sub 18 minute 5k. Yet another could say its anyone who runs a marathon in over 4 hours.
I'll define the hobby jogger of a marathon as someone who just wants to finish. The fact is that most of the people who do this are NOT putting in a ton of miles. Hell, look at Higdon's Novice Plan (which is what most of these people use). You don't do above 40 miles per week and I'd be willing to say that most of them don't even do that. Sure they probably do the long run, but we all know they skip a middle of the week workout if it's too (insert weather condition here - hot, cold, windy, raining, humid).
Again, to some people this is high mileage. To the people on this site, it might be nothing mileage wise. To each their own.
Ruth Gromek wrote:
You really are a jerk
Why did you bump this forgotten thread from 15 months ago?
Are you off your meds or is menopause shorting your brain out?
For the sane readers, did you notice the messageboards late friend Will commented?
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I am no longer competitive, but used to be a nationally-ranked distance runner. For all of you weekend joggers (or "hobby joggers"), it most definitely IS beyond arrogant to sticker up your vehicles when your times are something anyone that simply has the endurance to finish a race would run.
It would be the equivalent of putting a golfing sticker on your vehicle with a "150" on it. Shooting a 150 sucks.
When you put these stickers n your car, you are "crowing" to the world about your accomplishment. That alone makes you as arrogant as the person whol feels the need to put stickers on his/her car to announce all of the expenive place they have been on vacation. But to put those stickers on your vehicle without having the 'nads to put your times as well? Ludicrous.
I saw a 0.5 sticker once. I want that one, the 800 is my favorite event.
I have a 400 sticker on mine.
DeepSthBoy wrote:
I am no longer competitive, but used to be a nationally-ranked distance runner. For all of you weekend joggers
Idiot.
ha yeah wrote:
Why not just put a sticker that says, "Socially-inept, self-absorbed, threatened-by-any-other-athlete-in-any-other-sport--with-half-a-personality DEWSH-BAG" and be done with it.
That's way too long - just go with a "LRC" sticker and mission accomplished.