Emma Coburn wrote:
If so, how did it make you feel?
No, and my PRs still wouldn't be, but if I ran any race today I'd get smoked lol
Emma Coburn wrote:
If so, how did it make you feel?
No, and my PRs still wouldn't be, but if I ran any race today I'd get smoked lol
famed pasta wrote:
There is a 49 year old in our running community who does nothing but
run. Well, he works, but he had no other interests, no children and is a
total jerk.At a race last summer, he didn't too well and was passed the last 200 meters by a female Kenyan. At the awards banquet, he was pounding the table in frustration, saying how he was going to "train his brains out and pound her in the ground next year."
If he only saw the people laughing at him. What a joke.
At a local parkrun it got so competitive at the start that a pram got turned over in the melee. Also many complaints of men at the front swearing at slower runners to get out of the way. Hobbyjogging is serious business these days.
Emma Coburn wrote:
If so, how did it make you feel?
I'm 66 so, I really don't care. I actually met a younger woman I dated for a while because she finished one place ahead of me in our local Turkey Trot a few years back.
Keep running and stay fit. Someday it'll work to your advantage. Young women like older, fit men rather than chunky, video game nerds their own age.
5K about 10 years ago. I ran 16:18 - an old man PR. There was a woman w/bright red hair that jumped out ahead of me by 40-50 meters by mile 1. "She'll come back to me" I thought. Never did and actually pulled away and posted 15:5?. I approached her post-race and basically said "WTF lady!?" Her response: "Don't worry honey, I'm a pro." Fair.