Can we stop this PC bull**** about treating hobby joggers like equals?!

Lonnie the liger wrote:

OP: please list your pb's. I'm curious as to what they are. Please verify with a link, I if possible.

His pb's what?

PB's= personal bests

or PR's if you are in The States, I suppose.

Lonnie the liger wrote:

PB's= personal bests

or PR's if you are in The States, I suppose.

Let me try again... That's not where the apostrophe goes.

OMG....I need a TRIGGER WARNING! My SAFE SPACE is being invaded!!

I'm serious about this wrote:

I'm so sick and tired of reading about people who call themselves runners off 5 miles/week, smile and wave and jump for joy during races with their headphones jammed in their ears, and look down their nose at me when they talk about how many marathons they've completed. YOU AREN'T A RUNNER, STOP PRETENDING TO BE ONE, STOP GETTING OFFENDED WHEN IT'S THE TRUTH. Let's cut out this politically correct garbage-- handing out participation medals for races and treating your 20 minute milers the same as the college elites. When you run 100 mile weeks, train your ass off all year long, and live and breath running, then I'll consider it--- but only if you can break 7 minutes in the mile, Sir Weekday Warrior. Eat my split shorts.

George Ilie wrote:

Runner: a jogger who has a habit of running.

Amateur runner: someone who beats the jogger.

Professional runner: contract paid runner.

Elite runner: contract paid runner + event based paid contracts.

Star runner: paid to appear in ads.

Stop judging!

I'm serious about this wrote:

I'm not saying I'm the fastest runner alive or that I'm "special", it's more a case of hobby joggers not having earned the honor of a runner.

LOL, "honor"? wow you are fast and important

see page 2 for my response to this

what a nest of tiresome children with their irrelevant dick measuring

yes, "honor of having the title of a runner" sounds much less elitist. thanks for clarifying your ridiculous stance.

I would stop running, oops, I mean jogging if that means I would die 15 years earlier. And if you think I am not a runner, that's fine with me. I am too slow to make the cut-off anyway.

#CompetitiveDistanceRunnersMatter

I'm serious about this wrote:

I'm so sick and tired of reading about people who call themselves runners off 5 miles/week, smile and wave and jump for joy during races with their headphones jammed in their ears, and look down their nose at me when they talk about how many marathons they've completed. YOU AREN'T A RUNNER, STOP PRETENDING TO BE ONE, STOP GETTING OFFENDED WHEN IT'S THE TRUTH. Let's cut out this politically correct garbage-- handing out participation medals for races and treating your 20 minute milers the same as the college elites. When you run 100 mile weeks, train your ass off all year long, and live and breath running, then I'll consider it--- but only if you can break 7 minutes in the mile, Sir Weekday Warrior. Eat my split shorts.

I ran 14:40 in college. I ran 24:35 xc 5 miles in college. I ran 14:30 in my early 30's. I am now in my late 40's and run 17's. Am I your hobby jogger? When I'm slower and in my 50's and 60's and running in the 20's will I be laughed at and scoffed at by the likes of you?

I just want to be sure. I just want to make sure that I am accepted by YOU. For you are superior to all. You reign. When I see my former college team mates that ran under 14 minutes, should I warn them of you? Should I tell them that now that we are older they should be worried about your wrath?

Or since we ran faster times than you ever did, are we accepted. I just want to be clear so I can step aside when you come by.

Do you post a picture on Facebook biting your medal when you run a 17 5k?

Selfies are for helpies wrote:

Do you post a picture on Facebook biting your medal when you run a 17 5k?

Do you post on Facebook?

OP said he's talking about the

The issue is all about money.

Hobby joggers have far more money than all of the elite runners but together. Race organizers, etc. what to make as much money as possible.

46 wrote:

I ran 14:40 in college. I ran 24:35 xc 5 miles in college. I ran 14:30 in my early 30's. I am now in my late 40's and run 17's. Am I your hobby jogger?

You know OP is trolling right? Even then, he said people with less than five years experience if you read the other posts.

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46 wrote:

I ran 14:40 in college. I ran 24:35 xc 5 miles in college. I ran 14:30 in my early 30's. I am now in my late 40's and run 17's. Am I your hobby jogger?

You know OP is trolling right? Even then, he said people with less than five years experience if you read the other posts.

Mr. 46, I have nothing but respect for you. If you're ever in Toronto, I'll buy you and your gang a beer.

The OP was clearly a troll.

8/10

(Although truth-be-told I have worked very hard training and pushing myself to reach my potential in running and it just rankles me when some hobby jogger who does 3 mile runs 3X a week puts himself in the same category as me and calls himself a runner. This might sound extreme but they DO NOT deserve that honor, no they are NOT RUNNERS!.....................nah, I'm really OK with it, I just thought I'd join the troll)