Why a taboo subject? wrote:
Yee-haw wrote:
Yee-haw. Letsrun and its obsession with race yet again.
Why is this a taboo subject? Feeling insecure? Or, are you a soy boy beta c u c k who has white guilt?
It is obviously not taboo here. It is just boring when that is the only thing you ever talk about. Grow some depth, you are very shallow.
life is complex you are not wrote:
Why a taboo subject? wrote:
Why is this a taboo subject? Feeling insecure? Or, are you a soy boy beta c u c k who has white guilt?
It is obviously not taboo here. It is just boring when that is the only thing you ever talk about. Grow some depth, you are very shallow.
Stop the lobotomy of society! Subject of race and ethnicities is very interesting. If you don't talk about it then you are nothing with no independent thoughts. Only programmed to parrot TV propaganda/thought guide.
e-on wrote:
Genius in the house.... wrote:
Since you havent done one you have no idea how difficult is to run a fast time in one of those, which come in all shapes and sizes, where courses are not closed to the public and often, when with loops, you have to lap guys and zig zag pretty much from half race. Plus Parkruns are usully an extra session in the week for most of the "regulars", no tapering no particular prep, no nothing.
So Yee's time is mighthy impressive - he improved ten seconds from March and he ran 13'34" during the summer, so we are talking of a 13'20" guy right now.
How fast can you run math GENIUS.....
Yawn....
Deer moran,
I have done more than 150 Parkruns, most of them at my local one in the Midlands, but a bit throughout the country, and I have experienced all types of courses.
Now about Alex. I am directly involved in athletics in Britain and I have followed Alex's career. So no need to be a patronising turd.
I didn't belittle Alex's performance in any way.
I didn't see the full race results but I guess he soloed it which is a mighty good workout for an athlete of his caliber.
How fast I can run is irrelevant and it's the question people ask when they want to make others feel inferior.
How fast did Sebastian Coe run the 5? Ta.
My post was aimed at the OP because I find it entertaining how he is so obsessed with performances by British athletes while totally disregarding (or belittling with age-cheating or doping allegations) performances by others - as is the case with Wanders' new European record.
Have a nice day and maybe consider becoming less judgmental and patronising.
You just yawned at a guy who ran under 14' on a parkrun which is surprising once you said you have done quite a few of those and that you are involved with BA, for which you should know Alex Yee is "one of the guys"... let alone the reigning 10k track champ
Happy New Year Pinocchio.....
Typical letsrun wrote:
Instead of discussing his time, the very first reply brings up his ethnicity. Not surprised.
Do you think that minority groups feel that their ethnicity is important to them and an important part of who they are and how they identify?
John Utah wrote:
Typical letsrun wrote:
Instead of discussing his time, the very first reply brings up his ethnicity. Not surprised.
Do you think that minority groups feel that their ethnicity is important to them and an important part of who they are and how they identify?
If your first question about someone you haven’t met before is what’s their ethnicity you either have an agenda or are pretty shallow.
the world is complex you are not wrote:
John Utah wrote:
Do you think that minority groups feel that their ethnicity is important to them and an important part of who they are and how they identify?
If your first question about someone you haven’t met before is what’s their ethnicity you either have an agenda or are pretty shallow.
You could also argue that if you define yourself by your ski color or ethnicity you are a shallow person.
the world is complex you are not wrote:
John Utah wrote:
Do you think that minority groups feel that their ethnicity is important to them and an important part of who they are and how they identify?
If your first question about someone you haven’t met before is what’s their ethnicity you either have an agenda or are pretty shallow.
I agree with you. I think everyone should stop defining themselves by their skin color and ethnicity. Drop all of the African American, person of color, Latino, Asian community, etc. Just be a human. I’m 100% for this. But you can’t have it both ways.
Coevett wrote:
I would love to turn up at a local parkrun and see an elite runner at the starting line. I know it's easy to say you've 'ran against' elite runners if you enter a big marathon, but a parkrun only has on average 200-400 runners and you can be literally alongside him at the starting line (if not for very long once the race starts).
Jake Wightman does one or two every year as well.
Dewi Griffiths ran 14:12 at Llanelli parkrun a few weeks ago, that course is very exposed to the wind.
http://www.parkrun.org.uk/llanellicoast/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=100cotton shirt wrote:
Coevett said: And am I showing British bias when I talk about Jakob and his potential as I have since I started coming to this forum? One day I'm a white nationalist racist, the next day I'm simply a British chauvinist. Make your minds up.
I wish a few more of your posts could show this level of rationality and reason, this kind of tone and demeanour. most of the time you come across as a paranoid psychopath with delusions of grandeur and very little contact with reality. there is virtually nothing in your post-history to suggest that anything you have to say is rational, reasonable, or even well-argued or cogently or coherently explained. any sense that your posts have gets buried under the vitriol and barely suppressed anger you bring to bear. if folk on here don't "get," you it's probably because most of the time what you say is incomprehensible, but this particular post shows you in a different light and maybe it would help if you thought about that for a bit.
as to the actual content of your post: I share your dislike of the way that drugs have taken over our sport, I just happen to think that whining about it on LRC is not the way to get anything done about it. do you think Seb Coe or any those pettyfogging time wasters at WADA read LetsRun, or would give a hoot what any message board poster thinks? the world of sport is a commercial exercise and the only folk with a seat at the table are ones with wads of cash in their hands. drugs will not disappear from athletics until shoe companies, tv companies and sports wear companies are shoved off the table, which means, basically, not any time soon. all they care about is advertising revenue, sponsorship deals, tv contract money and how many $300 bums on seats they can get at their pointless Diamond League.
there is a reason all the athletes at those DL meets wear the same vests, and it isn't that they forgot to bring their club vest with them to Zurich.
and as for Alex Yee: my understanding is that he is primarily a triathlete. that he is also the fastest 10,000m runner in Britain this year is just beyond sad, it is a resounding indictment of the pathetic state of British distance running at the moment that only 3 men broke 28:00 this year, all in the same race, and led home by a guy who didn't even want to go to Berlin and run in the European Championships. I'm not surprised that any British fans on this forum are keeping a low profile because we have nothing to crow about from 2018.
and, incidentally, there is, logically, no reason you can't be both a chauvinist and a racist.
Happy New Year.
POD
Slow genius at that... wrote:
e-on wrote:
Deer moran,
I have done more than 150 Parkruns, most of them at my local one in the Midlands, but a bit throughout the country, and I have experienced all types of courses.
Now about Alex. I am directly involved in athletics in Britain and I have followed Alex's career. So no need to be a patronising turd.
I didn't belittle Alex's performance in any way.
I didn't see the full race results but I guess he soloed it which is a mighty good workout for an athlete of his caliber.
How fast I can run is irrelevant and it's the question people ask when they want to make others feel inferior.
How fast did Sebastian Coe run the 5? Ta.
My post was aimed at the OP because I find it entertaining how he is so obsessed with performances by British athletes while totally disregarding (or belittling with age-cheating or doping allegations) performances by others - as is the case with Wanders' new European record.
Have a nice day and maybe consider becoming less judgmental and patronising.
You just yawned at a guy who ran under 14' on a parkrun which is surprising once you said you have done quite a few of those and that you are involved with BA, for which you should know Alex Yee is "one of the guys"... let alone the reigning 10k track champ
Happy New Year Pinocchio.....
Actually you seem to have very limited reading comprehension.
He did say:
"Now about Alex. I am directly involved in athletics in Britain and I have followed Alex's career. So no need to be a patronising turd.
I didn't belittle Alex's performance in any way.
I didn't see the full race results but I guess he soloed it which is a mighty good workout for an athlete of his caliber."
and then:
"My post was aimed at the OP" etc.
So you lose.
Bye
At least at my local park run (sometimes 20 minutes is good enough to be the first runner across the line), this line from the linked article seems like BS:
"Since runs are timed and results recorded, it appeals to those looking for fast competition."
randoparkrun wrote:
At least at my local park run (sometimes 20 minutes is good enough to be the first runner across the line), this line from the linked article seems like BS:
"Since runs are timed and results recorded, it appeals to those looking for fast competition."
Here are the UK parkrun course records for each course, at my local it is very seldom that the winner is slower than 16:xx
http://www.parkrun.org.uk/results/courserecords/