How many grammatical/spelling errors they can fit in a single post.
ONE UPer wrote:
D-Bag 1: Yeah well my Dad ran at the US trials in the 80's. He would of HAVE made the team if it werent WEREN'T for the slow start..
D-Bag 2: Oh really, well my Dad won the US trials and he did it why WHILE making your Dad eat his own shoe..
D-Bag 3: Trials?? My Mom won worlds. She is WAS by far the best athlete in her time.
D-Bag 4: My Dad won worlds. Men are superior.
I ran an easy 10 miles yesterday at 5:50 pace. I think I can make the Trials.
Also, the bragging through downplaying one's abilities. For example, I was just a mediocre runner in college (PRs of 29:20 for 10k and 14:10 for 5k) so nothing special. Just your typical college runner.
Impressive eating binges that they've gone on at some point in their running career, i.e.
"Anyone on here ever binge eat? I came home from practice yesterday and ate 9,724 tacos, 3 slices of pizza, then had 2 bowls of ice cream with a handful of goldfish afterwards"
By suggesting that the time OTHERS spend on Letsrun is wasted while one's OWN is not, even when only used for the purpose of telling others that they're wasting their time (e.g. "why don't you guys get out there and train harder instead of wasting time on here?").
My runner's body is way better than a bodybuilders. Each time I go to the gym, I can run faster than anyone on the treadmill.
Their ability to come up with the best response to a thread, even when it's not funny or unique.
If anyone is struggling to lose weight, or improve their time. "Just run baby" "Run more" "Our feet hit the crete till we are skinny"
don't even tri wrote:
Another thing LRCers love to brag about! how much better their sport is than triathlon.
If you ever asked a football or basketball player if they thought their sport was better than Tri they would probably just say - WTF? Are you being serious?
The LRC fan will say ABSOLUTELY and give you 50 reasons why.
Very good, and oh too true.
How many mpw they average, regardless of what their race times may be, LRers LOOOVE that mpw talk.
Lots of guys on here train to train, races be damned.
Predicting who is going to annihilate the WRs and how you heard it here first.
The fact that despite only being able to run a 4:39 mile their other longer distance events are around 4:50 pace
Kogo wishing them goodluck as they warmed up together before FRR
The fact that they didn't run in highschool and walked onto their college team
How they are generally above the whole Letsrun thing (all the while demonstrating a good deal of familiarity with all things Letsrun).
People like to brag about how good their PRs were back in high school and college when they had coaches assigning them the workouts. Funny how not as many people brag about any PRs after that when they were running on their own.
How many treadmills they've broken, and how many awkward stares they get for the amount of noise they make running on a treadmill in a gym.
People love to brag about how little they sleep.
"Man, I was up until 5 a.m. partying every night for a week straight. This was the week before conference, and I still managed to run decent."
How everyone and their brother seems to want to race them while out on training run. Mostly a chick thing.
How they beat Nick Symmonds at D3 XC Nationals.
How many degrees of separation they are from beating sub 4 minute miler.
The format for power point they used to break up with their girlfriend.
How they entered a road race under the name "Jason Rexing" and then dropped out.
How they met Michael Stember at some local 5k road race and the guy was really cool but then they waxed him with an 18:15.
How if they had Alan Webb's talent they would already have two Olympic golds and four world championship golds in the 1500 and three in the 5k cause they would have moved up in '05 since they understand racing tactics and what their best event is better than anybody.
How much pain they can endure.
How they're a democrat/republican/libertarian/communist/neo-nazi/martian and how they went to the convention, met their senator who also was a 14:55 guy in high school, and got him to ban money making sports at their high school or college like football so they could have more 16:30/17:00/17:30 guys on scholly at their school running xc.