Why are hobby joggers obsessed wih marathons?

2l;drBut serious question y'all.Did Pheidippides really die of exertion from running the first marathon?Or did the other Greeks kill him because he wouldn't shut up about it.

confused carlton wrote:

What's wrong with 10ks?

You are a hobby jogger. Answer your own question.

why are some moderately fast runners obsessed with 'hobby joggers' and what they do or don't do?

You do realize that the average hobby jogger (whatever that means..) is completely unaware or uninterested in how fast you run or how short your short shorts are?

If anything, hobby joggers are snickering at age group medalists who take themselves way too seriously..

+1. As a reminder, you are all hobby joggers. Meb, Wilson, and Mo laugh at all of you.

ANTON CHIGURH wrote:

why are some moderately fast runners obsessed with 'hobby joggers' and what they do or don't do?

You do realize that the average hobby jogger (whatever that means..) is completely unaware or uninterested in how fast you run or how short your short shorts are?

If anything, hobby joggers are snickering at age group medalists who take themselves way too seriously..

-1 to the both of you. No one's obsessed, except perhaps people like you, with the harmless griping of others about pet peeves.

the real shoe guru wrote:

+1. As a reminder, you are all hobby joggers. Meb, Wilson, and Mo laugh at all of you.

ANTON CHIGURH wrote:

why are some moderately fast runners obsessed with 'hobby joggers' and what they do or don't do?

You do realize that the average hobby jogger (whatever that means..) is completely unaware or uninterested in how fast you run or how short your short shorts are?

If anything, hobby joggers are snickering at age group medalists who take themselves way too seriously..

ANTON CHIGURH wrote:

why are some moderately fast runners obsessed with 'hobby joggers' and what they do or don't do?

You do realize that the average hobby jogger (whatever that means..) is completely unaware or uninterested in how fast you run or how short your short shorts are?

If anything, hobby joggers are snickering at age group medalists who take themselves way too seriously..

Age groups medalists at local races are hobby joggers.

The idea of awarding medals to slower people because they are older than the overall medalists is the start of slippery slope... sooner or later every one gets a medal, which they already do at marathons and half marathons.

confused carlton wrote:

What's wrong with 10ks?

This was another successful letsrun trolling brought to you by me.

You may remember me from such popular trollings as "Hey all you hobby joggers, only one week til your turkey trots" and "How did all you hobby joggers do in your 4th of July 5ks today?"

Look for more exciting hobby jogger-themed trollings coming soon!

confused carlton wrote:

confused carlton wrote:

What's wrong with 10ks?

This was another successful letsrun trolling brought to you by me.

You may remember me from such popular trollings as "Hey all you hobby joggers, only one week til your turkey trots" and "How did all you hobby joggers do in your 4th of July 5ks today?"

Look for more exciting hobby jogger-themed trollings coming soon!

I like the cut of your jib. 7/10.

Rater of Trolls wrote:

confused carlton wrote:

This was another successful letsrun trolling brought to you by me.

You may remember me from such popular trollings as "Hey all you hobby joggers, only one week til your turkey trots" and "How did all you hobby joggers do in your 4th of July 5ks today?"

Look for more exciting hobby jogger-themed trollings coming soon!

I like the cut of your jib. 7/10.

Hobby joggers have to be one of the most effective troll topics here. What are some others?

confused carlton wrote:

This was another successful letsrun trolling brought to you by me.

You may remember me from such popular trollings as "Hey all you hobby joggers, only one week til your turkey trots" and "How did all you hobby joggers do in your 4th of July 5ks today?"

Look for more exciting hobby jogger-themed trollings coming soon!

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Yes! Thank you. And shame on frickin' Oprah, P Diddy and other celebrities for running them.

C. Kramer:

Great answer. Even though I never fell for running a marathon, I think like you do. Too many people think running a marathon is better than running a fast 5K or even a mile.

A lot of people think that it's silly to train hard to chop off 3 seconds from your mile time when you could run an impressive 3 hour marathon.

When I was in high school about 8 of my CC teammates and I ran a 20 mile fund raiser. We stopped for several minutes every 5 miles to eat cookies, pop, or candy. Our group finishing time was 2:30. Granted it was not a certified course. But later in college I had teammates who I regularly beat in workouts who ran like 2:42 in marathons.

My point I guess is that running a 3 hour marathon is not fast as many people seem to think. If I told them what my fastest 1500 was they would not understand. I love to run, I am not going to let a marathon ruin it for me.

Jed Clampett

confused carlton wrote:

What's wrong with 10ks?

I've often wondered about this. I know people, particularly women with some self-serving charity to promote, and who have never been fit in their lives and have never run or jogged more than a couple of laps around a track, say they 'JUST HAVE TO" run the Boston marathon.

confused carlton wrote:

What's wrong with 10ks?

It gives them a sense of accomplishment. The marathon is the first distance over an amount that a member of a hunter gatherer society wouldn't traverse on foot on an average day. At the same time it allows them to go on vacation. Your town has a 10k. Probably on thanksgiving, the 4th of july, memorial day, or some random weekend, it has a big one. Your town probably doesn't have a marathon or if it does, chances are its not a big one like NY, Chicago, etc. Those are popular with the hobby jogger set, but even more popular are rnr, miami, hawaii, etc. beach marathons. Vacation. They're just less concentrated at these events than at say ny or chicago.

10k is nuffin. You get in shape for that in 1 week. Marathon at least requires a month of training.

Has anyone here ever gone downhill skiiing? Take the snowboarders out of the equation, and realize that some people are fast, some very skilled, some okay, some bad, some pathetic, some learning how to get down the hill.

In a way, a lot like marathon running. Life is really tough to understand for some of you, isn't it?

Nail on the head with this one. I went through the whole run-the-marathon thing -- mostly because it's what all my training partners did not anything to do with people at the office. My marathon times weren't terribly but they were not as good as my shorter distance times.

At one point I thought of trying to run a marathon as a masters runner, but instead decided to hang out with masters track runners and focus on track and shorter distances. The races are more fun that way and it doesn't take months to recover from them.

"Hobby joggers have to be one of the most effective troll topics here. What are some others?"

1. anything to do with diet.

2. teachers and/or the job of being a teacher

3. tattoos

I wear Skechers wrote:

Has anyone here ever gone downhill skiiing? Take the snowboarders out of the equation, and realize that some people are fast, some very skilled, some okay, some bad, some pathetic, some learning how to get down the hill.

In a way, a lot like marathon running. Life is really tough to understand for some of you, isn't it?

There's a website snowboarders have dedicated to goofy newbies. It's called Jerry of the Day.