100 mpw is for losers

Yes, that’s deep, as in now you know for sure that running that much produced nothing at all of tangible value beyond giving you the assurance that there was no longer any room for doubt on whether it would.

Any obsessive excessive level of physical activity is very likely to lower testosterone, sex drive, risk injury, risk hurting interpersonal relationships, etc., yet die hard mileage accumulating hobbyjoggers pretend as if it’s just a hobby with no downsides.

Last I checked, you could actually play video games for hours without any negative consequences so long as you promptly dropped the remote to attend to your yelling spouse complaining about unfinished housework, so I’d even say video games would appear to even be slightly superior than running much more than around 3 hours a week.

Not at all true. Pretty much all of the good things in my life are connected to my decision to throw myself into running as deeply as I did. My best friends are mostly serious runners, or were. I've been to parts of the world I'd never have gone to because of my running and gotten to know people I'd never have met. Also, and to me most importantly, there is no way I'd have my wife and kids if not for running.

Ditto

Ok, granted you got some value there, and at the very least, it is unclear whether or not you could’ve had as satisfying a life — or even a much better one — if not for your running.

Most people meet their future wives through means other than running (not counting chasing them) and have their kids through thusly procured wife (usually, not counting offspring borne out of wival infidelity).

Imagine thinking the best hobbies are those that allow interruptions by a spouse screaming about unfinished housework. LMAO

Thank you for pointing out the obvious

Funny how many LR users don’t understand basic English. Sounds like you don’t disagree with anything I actually said.

You can always think your life could have been better if you'd done this rather than that. But it's really impossible for me to do that seriously. To me it's nowhere near unclear that I could have had even as good a life let alone a better one without the running I did.

The only losers are the people who disagree with my politics, regardless of me running 118 miles one week.

I'm sure you're aware of posting here 2500 times since April 2020 when you say that.

To be fair, HRE is only saying that “it's nowhere near [unclear] that I could have had even as good a life” as the one involving thousand+ LR posts a year and presumably more anonymous ones.

I can agree that a biggest benefit of hobby jogging ~100 mpw is finding anonymous online community in like minded individuals.

Running is pretty mundane. But so are many things that people enjoy (like you said). It might sound wishy washy, but running this much has shown me so much of the world I wouldn't ever trade what I do. Hell, once this winter is over I'll probably be doing it again. Consider this.

I get to travel to places I've never been so I can run, family members that would never leave their small town choose to follow me and we get to see so much stuff we wouldn't otherwise see together. I can pretty much eat and drink whatever I want so long as it settles in my stomach well. I can jump into any race at any distance with a friend on a moments notice. I can take the same amount of time that a student spends after school at a sports practice or piano lesson and just run. Listen to a podcast or book, if indoors play some video games on the treadmill or watch Netflix. I can meet others (faster or slower than me; could honestly care less) and just have fun.

Sometimes running 100mpw isn't a means to an end but it's just something you do because, why not?

It's only obvious to losers who think money is everything.

I am not remotely aware of posting here that many times about anything since April of 2020 that many times. But if I have that number has surely been dwarfed by the number of people here who post some variation of "if you're running high mileage you're wasting your time" or "if you run high mileage and aren't making a living doing it you're a loser" or some such thing.

I'll consider the source.

Okay, at least you admit that you're unaware that you're in an unconscious, unexamined, compulsive trap.

8/10

It's been about 140 weeks since April of 2020. I'd need to post more than fifteen times a week to have 2500 posts here in that time. I have many weeks when I might only post two or three times and others when I might go above fifteen. But I'll tell you what, you define what "that" is that I post 2500 times, then find that many posts where I've actually said whatever it is, trap hen explain what unconscious, unexamined, compulsive, trap I'm in and I'll agree with you.