100 mpw is for losers

You are not saying anything new to me, nor are you saying anything disagreeing with anything I actually said, rather you are agreeing that running 100 mpw doesn’t have tangible value beyond bringing you enjoyment.

I could eat or drink anything I wanted without putting on weight even before I was a runner, and most people can get all of the health benefits of running with near zero downsides with about ~3 hours/week of running.

There’s any number of ways to use additional spare time to 1) do something useful to make other people’s lives better (like “work”), or 2) spend it on enjoyable activities like video games or reading a book or playing a piano, or 3) do both for the fortunate few for whom work is enjoyment. You choose to spend it on the second category, just like people who are part of a fun video gaming community.

Are we on the same page? Note that I didn’t call you or any other runner a loser or otherwise insult anyone in any post in this thread.

Nonsense. In the grand scheme of things, it is fast, as very, very few people will ever run that time.

You wish. Your prolific stats show in a drop down from your username.

The rest was incoherent, maybe booze would help me there.

How about you lace them up and race me OP? You pick the distance. Sincerely, 75 MPW hobby jogger.

So you check the number of my posts. That's only mildly less flattering or freaky. Yes, you might want to try some drinking.

You got it wrong way round, many rich and successful people spend hours running per week and they can maybee run 19min 5km.

Daily running can make you loads of money as it stimulates your brain and helps to deal with stress. Many good ideas have come to people when they ran.

You can also save on health insurance cost 😉

I’ve never run 100 miles in a single week but I do dedicate more time watching football without getting paid for it.

If it helps you make money, good for you, but they can show little health benefit to more than 150 minutes per week of cardio exercise in scientific studies.

You are likely enjoying yourself more and are more relaxed and more ready to dive into sexy time and probably more energetic and injury free compared to the 100 milers but they will swear their overlong running is the most enjoyable and satisfying activity they could be doing with their spare time.

Well I haven't burned the midnight oil to check your running mileage, this week or ever. Speaking of freaky or flattering, party boy. But I take your word on it, champ.

I'm glad I'm helping you fill your spare time.

As you should be, sticking to a theme.

Are you saying you don't believe those of us who say we enjoy or enjoyed running all those miles? If so, why is that hard for you to believe?

Uh, you come on this thread and say “look at me” and then take issue with what people see and point out when they do? Dude’s right, you lack self awareness.

Mentioning that I once ran 155 miles a week on a running forum and that things like that made my life better is saying look at me and another guy saying he supposedly ran 16:00 for 5 km on 30 miles a week isn't? Okay.

False dichotomy, don’t try to deflect now.

Simply saying "false dichotomy" without explaining how is meaningless but I'm not really interested in what you'd say. What I'm going to try to make my final comment here is this. When some little douchebag with a barely mediocre performance comes here and not only brags that he managed to become mediocre with almost no effort then goes on to insult people who really care about the sport and their performances I may or may not be in a mood to ignore him. This time I was in a mood not to. Now I sort of regret not ignoring him because I'm caught up with people like you.

A big thing that I learned from taking my running seriously enough to do a lot of it was that I was capable of doing much more than I had once believed. That's both in terms of racing performances, which were nothing spectacular at all but much better than I once could have believed, but also in terms of work load. So when I see people here talking about how it's impossible for them to run 100 mile weeks or something similar I recall once thinking the same thing about myself and only learning that it was not at all impossible but also enjoyable and productive by trying to do it. So I might mention that from time to time in case there's someone like 18-19 year old me also thinking that running a hundred miles a week might make him a lot faster but is not possible for him.

I nearly always acknowledge that for most people running that much might not be worthwhile and that there's nothing wrong with that or that running 100 miles a week makes you a better person than someone running thirty. But if you're running thirty a week and feel like you need to belittle people who run a lot more, yeah, there is something wrong with that and most likely with you.

Look, we already know you aren’t Frank Shorter or Bill Rodgers. You came on here calling responses pointing out your penchant to waste time frivolously “freaky and flattering.” The OP did no such thing. Jesus’s birthday is Sunday, maybe come down off that cross before then.

I would think you understand English enough to answer your own question.

I personally use the word enjoy to describe an orgasm, relaxation, massage, snuggling, contentment, delicious food, reading, cinema or other forms of pleasure, and might use “satisfying” to describe the feeling of accomplishment after completing a challenging project or a hard run where I felt I gave it my near best.