What's the cringiest thing you hear runners say or have heard a runner say? (about running)

Cringe wrote:

Pansy wrote:

Not collapsing at the line is cringy. If you don't, it means you were a pansy and didn't go to your absolute max.

Yeah it was so cringy when Bekele ran 12:37 and 26:17

Imagine how much faster he would've gone if he went so hard he did collapse at the finish line? (Also, East Africans don't collapse usually for "reasons".)

Highschool runners quoting Tinman Elite on social media

Runners are uncouth narcissist, we don't need words to be "cringe-worthy"

The Fab Four wrote a number concerning the subject "I, me mine, I me mine i me mine"

“Is it time the Boston Marathon switched dates with the BAA Half Marathon in October?” Is the cringiest thing I have heard a runner say!

The Boston Marathon is apart of Patriots Day and to switch it to any other day would be sacrilegious, in my humble opinion. Besides if you start changing race dates due to weather, you would always be doing it. If you moved it to October and it had a 80 degree race weather, people would complain about it and want it moved again. People need to accept any weather is possible and deal with it. It is apart of being a runner.

When anyone mentions runners high. So corny

"Just put one foot in front of the other." (Forrest Gump).

I understand it's meant to be poetic and witty. But many beginners take it too literally and it sneaks into the back of their mind. This becomes their mental cue on how to run. A recipe for bad running form (overstriding, heel striking, kicking forward, clawing, etc.), injury and giving up too soon.

hobbylaugher wrote:

"Just put one foot in front of the other." (Forrest Gump).

I understand it's meant to be poetic and witty. But many beginners take it too literally and it sneaks into the back of their mind. This becomes their mental cue on how to run. A recipe for bad running form (overstriding, heel striking, kicking forward, clawing, etc.), injury and giving up too soon.

That's cringy, when a runner claim heel striking is bad and to "land under their center of gravity". And than to claim heel striking causes injury, when I know many people who switched to forefoot strike. Only to become injury prone. Only to solve their injury problems by switching back to heel striking. I'll leave it here:

Henry Rono heel striking faster than 99% of the forefoot strikers on letsrun. Sad.

Pre-font-tane wrote:

Not something that runners say, but highschool girls collapsing right at the finish line of races.

there was this old man I heard when he was watching them..

"Bowerman Babes"

"Healthy fats like butter"

"One Mo ..."

"The 800 is the hardest race"

"What time did you get?"

There was a girl in my middle school class who told me that she ran a 3 minute mile. I knew that this was obviously fake, but asked her why she wasn’t on the track team. Her response was that everyone was just too slow for her.

When I get on here and some jackass asks, "rate my workout" or "am I ready to run........?".

diet advice. eat: keto, vegan, gluten free, all meat, anything free, anything in abundance at the expense of something else.

makes this place seem full of people with borderline eating disorders, which is apparently a thing with runners from what I hear.

Anyone slower than BQ pace wearing Vaporfly's.

race predictions based on one workout with no context.

"I did X * Y in Z minutes. Predict R."

No indication of rest, effort or weekly or monthly work or recent races.

Taking running seriously after high school (yes, that includes D1 runners).

Henry Rono was not a heel striker.

Stop with your rubbish

No found it this is it wrote:

That's cringy, when a runner claim heel striking is bad and to "land under their center of gravity". And than to claim heel striking causes injury, when I know many people who switched to forefoot strike. Only to become injury prone. Only to solve their injury problems by switching back to heel striking. I'll leave it here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=H2gAr4UMj6A

Henry Rono heel striking faster than 99% of the forefoot strikers on letsrun. Sad.

I stand corrected. That definition of "heel-striking" and attitude against it is cringe-worthy.

But that's a narrow, "visual" definition of it (usually from analyzing still photo or slow motion video). I guess most will agree than landing heel first with all the forward momentum ploughing the ground sending shock wave up your leg and causing breaking force (like many beginners do) are bad. What Henry Rono does is none of this. He is as fluid as other elite runners with rolling legs in backward momentum (not supporting his weight by breaking forward heel motion). If your legs roll like that it doesn't matter whether the heel, toe or midfoot "land" first. I would not even call these guys "land" or "strike" their foot (those are other cringe-worthy terminology). They caress the ground. They don't event think about "putting" the legs anywhere. They don't think about or micromanage their legs or feet. Which is why I think Forrest Gump is misleading.

crumpline wrote:

Henry Rono was not a heel striker.

Stop with your rubbish

Are you watching the same video? Here's another video of Henry.

Get your eyes checked.