What do runners have against racewalk?

WOW Eliot - Don't get so hacked off! You were so cranked you clicked "post message" 16 times. Easy there tiger, don't yell at your wife or kick the dog when you get home. Think happy thoughts - Like racewalking through azure meadows of violets during the mellow twilight.

ccwalker_uwp wrote:

As for the faster, stronger, higher...If the goal is to run as fast as you can, then the only running event would be the 100m dash, since every other event is slower (when looking at meters/second).

200m is faster.

I myself am a runner/racewalker and now a graduate clinical psychology student. I know why runners do this.

Most runners are typically small, weak geeks who couldn't cut it in any other sport. They were often bullied as children and adolescents and are insecure. Hence, they take their issues and push them onto someone else. They are too weak to direct their anger at the appropriate target. So, they pick another target they determine to be "safe." They think racewalkers are worse than they are, so they (like little cowards) make fun of racewalkers in an attempt to heal their pathetic little minds. This pathetic psychological defense mechanism is known as displacement.

Racewalking is unnatural and artificial, therefore unworthy of respect. It is the only event in track and field where you get disqualified for doing what comes natural -- like run.

You are right...

200m = 0.0966m/s

100m = 0.0972m/s

kcbrye wrote:

Racewalking is unnatural and artificial, therefore unworthy of respect. It is the only event in track and field where you get disqualified for doing what comes natural -- like run.

This is the thread I was talking about on CoolRunning Australia in an earlier post about the Australian World 50K champ, Nathan Deakes. It was in response to a report that Deakes was losing his sponsorship. Please read:

I wonder if anyone else noticed the respect for the efforts of racewalkers, and the total lack of the kind of snide and disparaging remarks that the tough guys here can't resist spewing forth. Sad.

So disliking race walking and thinking it is worthless means you are trying to be a "tough guy"?

Maybe it means you just think it's ridiculous.

I've never heard/read someone stutter a paragraph before. Bravo

^o^

Blaze

15 times...That's gotta be the mulitple post record for letsrun...you aren't representing your "sport" very well Mr. Denman.

say what? wrote:

So disliking race walking and thinking it is worthless means you are trying to be a "tough guy"?

Maybe it means you just think it's ridiculous.

I think the venomous criticism against racewalking is ridiculous. Read the post: It mentions a European walker who is featured in commercials, and a South American walker who's a national hero.

But because race walking offends the sensitivities of some angry Americans, the sport should be banned.

At least that's what a majority of the messages here seem to say.

My point: There's a civilized way to disagree. And just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's not worth doing.

You know Crash, I think you're correct; never really thought

it that way; but, you know, I cannot imagine any elite

runners, athletes or human beings lashing out at others

because they are different. The more I think of it, the less

humorous these caustic postings are; really, we're talking about a dangerous and sad mindset here. I'm not even sure

now how often I want to associate with this website that

allows such hatred. (please, I do not say that the authors

of this site agree in any way with the attitude and classless

behavior evinced by these ignorant few; well, I guess its

more than a few isn't it).

Displacement eh! Yah, I think you've hit the idiot on the head amigo!

I think you're guilty of more than a little hyperbole.

Most people here don't want it banned - they just wouldn't care if it ceased to exist.

I think that hurts you worse than if they wanted it banned.

Also, I don't see many angry posters here except those that passionately and melodramatically defend racewalking.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

Runner's World used to publish annual, and, of course, Olympic photo collections. It seems that photos of just about any lead pack containing at least three racewalkers would catch one of them completely airborne- in short, running, albeit relatively slowly, in an unnatural, ungainly, and aesthetically repellant way. That last, obviously, my subjective view. Yet I think successful racewalking often involves cheating in a hard-to-detect-manner.

I think the bulk of peoples' trouble with racewalking stems from the artificially contrived nature of the style, the general perception of it as being "not quite running" and the suspicion that at competitive levels it is rife with a certain degree of fraud that is institutionally condoned, like traveling by 7-foot centers in the NBA.

So, there you have it: nothing hard, but a general disdain for the mechanically inelegant nature of it, and the suspicion that the basic rule distinguishing it from running is not rigorously enforced, blurring the line between the two diciplines.

Runner's World used to publish annual, and, of course, Olympic photo collections. It seems that photos of just about any lead pack containing at least three racewalkers would catch one of them completely airborne- in short, running, albeit relatively slowly, in an unnatural, ungainly, and aesthetically repellant way. That last, obviously, my subjective view. Yet I think successful racewalking often involves cheating in a hard-to-detect-manner.

I think the bulk of peoples' trouble with racewalking stems from the artificially contrived nature of the style, the general perception of it as being "not quite running" and the suspicion that at competitive levels it is rife with a certain degree of fraud that is institutionally condoned, like traveling by 7-foot centers in the NBA.

So, there you have it: nothing hard, but a general disdain for the mechanically inelegant nature of it, and the suspicion that the basic rule distinguishing it from running is not rigorously enforced, blurring the line between the two diciplines.

Runner's World used to publish annual, and, of course, Olympic photo collections. It seems that photos of just about any lead pack containing at least three racewalkers would catch one of them completely airborne- in short, running, albeit relatively slowly, in an unnatural, ungainly, and aesthetically repellant way. That last, obviously, my subjective view. Yet I think successful racewalking often involves cheating in a hard-to-detect-manner.

I think the bulk of peoples' trouble with racewalking stems from the artificially contrived nature of the style, the general perception of it as being "not quite running" and the suspicion that at competitive levels it is rife with a certain degree of fraud that is institutionally condoned, like traveling by 7-foot centers in the NBA.

So, there you have it: nothing hard, but a general disdain for the mechanically inelegant nature of it, and the suspicion that the basic rule distinguishing it from running is not rigorously enforced, blurring the line between the two diciplines.

Runner's World used to publish annual, and, of course, Olympic photo collections. It seems that photos of just about any lead pack containing at least three racewalkers would catch one of them completely airborne- in short, running, albeit relatively slowly, in an unnatural, ungainly, and aesthetically repellant way. That last, obviously, my subjective view. Yet I think successful racewalking often involves cheating in a hard-to-detect-manner.

I think the bulk of peoples' trouble with racewalking stems from the artificially contrived nature of the style, the general perception of it as being "not quite running" and the suspicion that at competitive levels it is rife with a certain degree of fraud that is institutionally condoned, like traveling by 7-foot centers in the NBA.

So, there you have it: nothing hard, but a general disdain for the mechanically inelegant nature of it, and the suspicion that the basic rule distinguishing it from running is not rigorously enforced, blurring the line between the two diciplines.

Runner's World used to publish annual, and, of course, Olympic photo collections. It seems that photos of just about any lead pack containing at least three racewalkers would catch one of them completely airborne- in short, running, albeit relatively slowly, in an unnatural, ungainly, and aesthetically repellant way. That last, obviously, my subjective view. Yet I think successful racewalking often involves cheating in a hard-to-detect-manner.

I think the bulk of peoples' trouble with racewalking stems from the artificially contrived nature of the style, the general perception of it as being "not quite running" and the suspicion that at competitive levels it is rife with a certain degree of fraud that is institutionally condoned, like traveling by 7-foot centers in the NBA.

So, there you have it: nothing hard, but a general disdain for the mechanically inelegant nature of it, and the suspicion that the basic rule distinguishing it from running is not rigorously enforced, blurring the line between the two diciplines.

Runner's World used to publish annual, and, of course, Olympic photo collections. It seems that photos of just about any lead pack containing at least three racewalkers would catch one of them completely airborne- in short, running, albeit relatively slowly, in an unnatural, ungainly, and aesthetically repellant way. That last, obviously, my subjective view. Yet I think successful racewalking often involves cheating in a hard-to-detect-manner.

I think the bulk of peoples' trouble with racewalking stems from the artificially contrived nature of the style, the general perception of it as being "not quite running" and the suspicion that at competitive levels it is rife with a certain degree of fraud that is institutionally condoned, like traveling by 7-foot centers in the NBA.

So, there you have it: nothing hard, but a general disdain for the mechanically inelegant nature of it, and the suspicion that the basic rule distinguishing it from running is not rigorously enforced, blurring the line between the two diciplines.

Runner's World used to publish annual, and, of course, Olympic photo collections. It seems that photos of just about any lead pack containing at least three racewalkers would catch one of them completely airborne- in short, running, albeit relatively slowly, in an unnatural, ungainly, and aesthetically repellant way. That last, obviously, my subjective view. Yet I think successful racewalking often involves cheating in a hard-to-detect-manner.

I think the bulk of peoples' trouble with racewalking stems from the artificially contrived nature of the style, the general perception of it as being "not quite running" and the suspicion that at competitive levels it is rife with a certain degree of fraud that is institutionally condoned, like traveling by 7-foot centers in the NBA.

So, there you have it: nothing hard, but a general disdain for the mechanically inelegant nature of it, and the suspicion that the basic rule distinguishing it from running is not rigorously enforced, blurring the line between the two diciplines.