Yuppie Running vs. Blue Collar Running

YR Jack Daniels

BCR Jack Daniels (old No.7)

Training Mecca

YR: Boulder

BCR: Brevard, NC

YR:NY Yankees

BCR:Boston Red Sox

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i miss heroin bob

Race Day

YR: Paying $30 entrance fee

BCR: not paying and turing off five steps before the finish

Race Prizes

YR: $500 prize money

BCR: Fun Run Mug

Rainy Day

YR: \"I don\'t run in the rain\"

BCR: I only run when it rains!!

almost twice wrote:

Marathon PR

yr= 2:12

BCR= 3:12

i dont know about that, i tried with a guy that was border line pro, 2:19 marathoner and he was the cheapest mo fo ever. won road races for money and made little as a coach

"Blue collar" is not a socio-economic thing but an attitude.

YR: Los Angeles Lakers

BCR: Detroit Pistons

LD

Pegasus

YR: 2004 Pegasus storm with matching outfit

BCR: on his last pair of the old grey ones saved from the mid 80's

Spikes

YR: newest Nikes

BCR: whatever the local store has for cheap

Internet Nerd Runner: Scours message boards until he finds top of the line spikes from a year ago for %80 off

Diversity training wrote: "Flagpole Willy, cognac is certainly NOT yuppie. Cognac is ghetto. Remy Martin Corvoisier, Hennessy target Ebony, Jet and BET because that's their target audience."

Diversity training,

Hmm. Initially Ghetto wasn't a category here - I think j squire added it later. Certainly if only considering Blue Collar, White Trash or Yuppie, Cognac is Yuppie. Charles Emerson Winchester III used to drink it, and lots of yuppie and priviledged people drink Cognac. I would say though that it could ALSO be ghetto. Lots of things are yuppie and ghetto, because a lot of times, the ghetto dwellers are trying to live a priviledged life. This is why you see lots of young poor urbanites (mostly black, but not always) driving around in Mercedes when they really should NOT be (because they don't have the income, not because of their skin color). They put every spare dime they have and then some into being able to drive a car like that. So, currently a Mercedes Benz is both yuppie and ghetto. I suspect the same is true with Cognac.

"To me a yuppie RUNNER and a blue collar RUNNER is not defined by how you earn a living. It has more to do with your approach to running."

? – The very definition of a “yuppie” is an affluent, well educated individual living near or in a large city – a social climber. It has everything to do with how much money you have/make, your job, what clubs you belong, car you drive, etc. I am sure it could be viewed as approach, but it is really a division among classes or more importantly, one that wants to be divided – they want to be a member of the ‘haves,’ not the ‘have-nots.’ Calling someone a yuppie or blue collar is a generalization!

watinging wrote:

Just because you make a living with your brain instead of your hands doesn't mean you're a pussy.

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just b/c you make money with your brain doesn't mean you are a yuppie!

Flagpole, cognac is about as "priviledged" as Vanilla Ice is ghetto.

The cognac market has been black for just about ever. It is not "yuppie," except when white kids from Connecticut try to "get real."

favorite use for Jack Daniels

YR: training program to get him to a 20:00 5K

BCR: training program to get him drunk enough that the girl of choice is cute.

yr: preston, rodes, chase, william, robert, hunter, bailey, sydney, taylor, matthew, riley, kaleb, tristen, conner, etc.

bcr: bill, bob, steve, john, rick, tom, scott, eric, matt , justin, etc.

wt: cletus, billy bob, dale, tommy, bobby, dustin, travis, etc

Very good!

Now - how about the reasons for continuing this thread.

YR - looking for another chance to argue politics or alcohol

BCR - still hasn't seen this thread

wt - can't read

Here's one yuppie telling you how it is.

I live in the Bay Area, grew up in LA. Wear tights when its cold. Sometimes wear a HRM. Cytomax during, endurox after. Synthetic socks and gloves. Love good beer and great wine. Make some money road racing. Like new Nike spikes. Dodger fan, Laker fan. Voting for Kerry. Educated. Urban. Semi-professional. Coached by Jack Daniels. And I'm writing this in Paris.

But I'll still kick your ass!

Bill Cherrie, group director for Cognac at Pernod Ricard U.S.A, says that blacks are "13 percent of the US population, yet are 60 to 70% of the cognac drinkers." Do you think that yuppie white folks make up the other 30% of that market? Not by a long shot. Hispanics, naturally, are the next biggest market of cognac drinkers.

Crawl back in your yuppie cubicle, FW, you don't no squat about the ghetto.

Peter Gilmore, if you had a real coach you have some real creds, you poser. Post when you've actually done something.

YR: Trains 140 miles/week as a "full-time" runner for six months thanks to a paid leave of absence (sabbatical/ company merges with another).

BCR: Trains 140 miles/week as a "full-time" runner for six months thanks to the fact that the factory he'd been working at for 10 years shut down and moved to Honduras.

YR: Likes Corporate Welfare.

BCR: Likes Welfare.