Yuppie Running vs. Blue Collar Running

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bcr - casio or check microwave before and after run

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I didn't bother reading through the 14 pages in this thread, so I don't want to add what's already been said. But, in the blue collar area I grew up in, there were your shoes and your heart. We didn't take notice of what kind of gloves or other shit people were wearing. We just wore whatever kept us warm, and heart rate monitors were for the fags that didn't have to work after practice was over.

That was the main difference: people at my high school had to work once school let out. The rich kids ran on their parents' treadmills when it got cold.

Impoving O2 Usage:

YR: altitude tent

BCR: marlboro reds

Very interesting thread.

I'm especially fascinated by how Brojos call Sell "their kind of runner" (blue collar) when they are anything but blue collar. But whatever.

Good point. It's actually interesting because if someone knows that someone is talented, but only knows that that person is talented because that person tried hard to do well at something and it turns out they're really talented at it, then they are obligated by society to continue to do that thing, otherwise they are a failure or weak (ritzenhein), but if someone does not try hard and is ignorant of it all their life, then it is okay, and if later on in life they actually start to work hard at something and become really good, and someone says, 'wow, you don't have the talent but you put in a lot of work', all of sudden we see that person as having worked harder, when really all along they were slacking and only at the end decided to pick it up and deem that they were better in character than the person with talent ever could have been because they 'worked hard to get where they got' (sell). every talented person works hard to get where they get. no one comes out of the womb and has a VO2 max of 85.

is sell really a blue collar runner? doesn't he only work like 20 hours a week and get pampered with the fact that he has sponsors and is coached by multiple people and has a whole entourage of people to help him run. just because he sports a mustache like Pre and comes on late in life doesn't mean he could handle working 50 hrs/week and training on his own and do the same thing. Ed Taylor did that- Ed Taylor was a blue collar runner.

irun wrote:

just because he sports a mustache like Pre and comes on late in life doesn't mean he could handle working 50 hrs/week and training on his own and do the same thing.

Brojos have never worked 50 hours/weeks in their lives -- COMBINED.

yuppie runner: anyone runner from the u.s. who has life relatively easy since birth

blue-collar runner: any runner from kenya, ethiopa, eritrea or morocco

YR:

BCR:

=instant meaningful discussion

Ouch.

Sell ain't no blue collar runner either---Oxysox???---Yuppie.

Hams wrote:

I guess that depends on what kind of beer you're talking about. A bar down the street from me will sometimes have Satuday specials when they put really cheap stuff on tap. Examples: Ham's, PBR, (my favorite)Old Milwaukee, Old Style, Stroh's, and Schlitz. I can get lit for about 6 bucks. The cheapest fifth of whiskey I ever bought was 12 bucks and it was called "Early Times". The title was fairly accurate because after I was finished with it my night was over very early (11 or there-abouts). So, I would say beer would be cheaper than whiskey. Vodka however is another story. There is vodka here in Illinois called Hawkeye vodka, I swear you can buy a liter of this shit for about 8 dollars, possibly a little more. Maybe someone else in the midwest can back me up on this?

there are multiple vodkas where a handle (1.75 liters) can be bought for no more than $10.

B*******s:

Yuppie - recling on the lazy-boy with your trophy wife do the job, then blowing your load on a towel she had prepared

Blue Colar - standing in a dark alley outside a club with some ho you just met that night and nutting on her boobies

About the only "clubs" that could be considered blue collar are the Masons, VFW, IOOF, Rotary, Foreign Legion, Elks, Lions, Kiwanis, and American Legion. Ain't no "hos" in any of those.

Blue Colar - standing in a dark alley outside a club with some ho you just met that night and nutting on her boobies

'nutting on her boobies' that image will keep me going on dark days

irun wrote:

Impoving O2 Usage:

YR: altitude tent

BCR: marlboro reds

I've heard stories about how, back in the day, Italian cyclists would smoke cigarettes during there workouts, or something, and this was supposed to help out because they were going into oxegen debt or something. Can cigarettes improve O2 usage?

They can reduce lung capacity. What effect would that have on O2 usage?

Talk about YUPPIE friggin runing, hahah - look at this shit

Jeez that whole sight is a yuppie running joke!!!!

Footcare:

YR: pedacures twice a month in Solano Beach

BCR: picking dead skin off feet (after a long run) while watching the 11 o'clock news