athletics fan and runner wrote:
This reminds me. In my first cross country season in collage I ran the last 4 races of the season on a broken foot.
If you really brroke that foot you wouldn't have been able to run on it. Stress fracture maybe, broken foot I think not.
Anti-chaffing agent:
YR - body glide
BCR - gold-bond extra-strength
YR: Shaved legs no beard
BCR: chin curtain Amish style or pusstache
BC: Takes a day off work (without pay) to watch the Olympics at local sports bar because he/she can't afford cable.
WC: Closes door to office and watches Olympics online.
Strength training:
Yuppie: Hours of squatting, deadlifting, and Mobility at weight room
BCR: Slightly more mileage
Star Wars Idol:
Yuppie: Anakin Skywalker
Blue Collar: Luke Skywalker
megaranation wrote:
Strength training:
Yuppie: Hours of squatting, deadlifting, and Mobility at weight room
BCR: Slightly more mileage
Star Wars Idol:
Yuppie: Anakin Skywalker
Blue Collar: Luke Skywalker
2016 Favorite
Yuppie: Any of the BroKos picks (Carson/Cruz/Fiorina)
Blue Collar: Sanders
YR: Has little oval stickers in car window reading "13.1" and "26.2".
BC: Has little oval stickers in the brain reading "71:07" and "2:50:20"
YR: Kicked butt in HS, went off to college and doubled mileage to 45-50 per week. Came home and ran the summer races.
BC: Stayed home and got a job repairing telephone equipment. Upped mileage to 85-110. Ran the summer races and kicked YR's butt.
Ruined of Threads (Again) wrote:
megaranation wrote:Strength training:
Yuppie: Hours of squatting, deadlifting, and Mobility at weight room
BCR: Slightly more mileage
Star Wars Idol:
Yuppie: Anakin Skywalker
Blue Collar: Luke Skywalker
2016 Favorite
Yuppie: Any of the BroKos picks (Carson/Cruz/Fiorina)
Blue Collar: Sanders
^This.
Shaft-- John Shaft wrote:
YR- votes for Kerry
BCR- votes for Bush
^Not This.
YR: Centro Jr.
BCR: Centro Sr.
A great article for comparisons of yuppies and not.
JohnMD1022 wrote:
YR: Has little oval stickers in car window reading "13.1" and "26.2".
BC: Has little oval stickers in the brain reading "71:07" and "2:50:20"
YR: Kicked butt in HS, went off to college and doubled mileage to 45-50 per week. Came home and ran the summer races.
BC: Stayed home and got a job repairing telephone equipment. Upped mileage to 85-110. Ran the summer races and kicked YR's butt.
YR: breaks 23 yr old 10K record set by doping Chinese woman; "my doping is Jesus"
BC: trained in front of touchdown Jesus
#necrobump
titaniumbolt wrote:
JohnMD1022 wrote:YR: Has little oval stickers in car window reading "13.1" and "26.2".
BC: Has little oval stickers in the brain reading "71:07" and "2:50:20"
YR: Kicked butt in HS, went off to college and doubled mileage to 45-50 per week. Came home and ran the summer races.
BC: Stayed home and got a job repairing telephone equipment. Upped mileage to 85-110. Ran the summer races and kicked YR's butt.
YR: breaks 23 yr old 10K record set by doping Chinese woman; "my doping is Jesus"
BC: trained in front of touchdown Jesus
#necrobump
LOL!!!!!! Love it!
Day Shift wrote:
Well, I now have first hand experience with being a blue collar worker trying to run. For the past couple of months I've been working as a package handler for FedEx while in between jobs. I've always kept in really good upper body shape and good running shape but will tell you right now this job is kicking my ass. I work in the unload side which means you have to put 1059 packages on the belt in 1 hour. But really, if you're only pulling 1059 the shift manager is all over your ass telling you to roll the truck. It's really more like 1300 an hour. And it's mostly retail going through there so you're not looking at grammy's small cookie boxes. It's tires, mufflers, furniture, etc. I will be honest, if I run before my shift, I just can't keep up with the other guys. If I run after, it feels like an elephant is standing on my shoulders and I'm wearing concrete shoes. Anyway, I guess reading through this thread is amusing, but not true. A blue collar runner doesn't exist, or at the very least, they aren't busting out any good times. I hope I get hired soon, or I might just give up running for good, it's too painful anymore and my speed is gone. Anyway I'm just bummed out and wanted to put in my 2 cents for what it's worth, nothing.
PS If you are shipping something delicate/fragile through FedEx, UPS, DHL, or USPS and you care about it, save the "fragile" and "this way up" stickers and package it really, really well.
I dealt with the same thing for 4.5 years when I stocked shelves on the graveyard shift, except I didn't have time to run before work because that was my family time. I still have a blue collar job, but one that doesn't involve heavy lifting, so I will have energy for post-work runs now.
Bump. Let's make this thread great again
YR: Avocado Toast
BCR: Spaghetti and Hamburg
Would also like to add Genesse to the running total of BCR beer.
Some pro runners, good, not so good, bad:
YR: Kerron Clement
BCR: Karsten Warholm
YR: Kilian Jornet
BCR: Anton Krupicka
YR: Eric Jenkins
BCR: Ben True
YR: Galen Rupp
BCR: Yuki Kawauchi
YR: Wilson Kipsang
BCR: Geoffrey Kirui
YR: Evan Jager
BCR: Carl Stones
YR: Cam Levins
BCR: Noah Droddy
YR: Craig Engels
BCR: Clayton Murphy
Generally any runner training with something like NOP, BTC is going to be YR. Excess of GRIT gets a pass, or aggresiveness/history like Murphy. Runners training out East, in small groups or solo (like True) are BCR. NJ/NY TC is definitely YR. Attitude towards training, quality of results vs quantity of resources, interview responses, etc can qualify you as a BCR. Controversially, I would say Symmonds is BCR.
Masters runner:
YR: Anthony Whiteman
BCR: Ed Whitlock
crosscounts wrote:
Some pro runners, good, not so good, bad:
YR: Kerron Clement
BCR: Karsten Warholm
YR: Kilian Jornet
BCR: Anton Krupicka
YR: Eric Jenkins
BCR: Ben True
YR: Galen Rupp
BCR: Yuki Kawauchi
YR: Wilson Kipsang
BCR: Geoffrey Kirui
YR: Evan Jager
BCR: Carl Stones
YR: Cam Levins
BCR: Noah Droddy
YR: Craig Engels
BCR: Clayton Murphy
Generally any runner training with something like NOP, BTC is going to be YR. Excess of GRIT gets a pass, or aggresiveness/history like Murphy. Runners training out East, in small groups or solo (like True) are BCR. NJ/NY TC is definitely YR. Attitude towards training, quality of results vs quantity of resources, interview responses, etc can qualify you as a BCR. Controversially, I would say Symmonds is BCR.
How TF is Cam Levins YR? Dude used to grind incredible mileage, went to small university and made it big time.
Coffee Monster wrote:
How TF is Cam Levins YR? Dude used to grind incredible mileage, went to small university and made it big time.
NOP, lack of results. But my list isn't meant to be gospel, or definitive.