Personally I think the guy should have had someone positioned at the half way point so he could switch out packs. One fanny pack isn't enough for an entire 5K. That's 5,000 meters!
Personally I think the guy should have had someone positioned at the half way point so he could switch out packs. One fanny pack isn't enough for an entire 5K. That's 5,000 meters!
Like the racing in sub 50F thread, these responses are getting lamer and lamer. I guess imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
Penn Gwinn wrote:
Fanny pack material has evolved quite a bit since this thread began. Last week I picked up the new ultra lightweight aerodynamic pack created by those same dudes who make bicyclists aerodynamic for time trials.
I credit my recent 5k PR of 23:56 to this. My previous best was 24:14. I was cruisin along at an 8 minute clip when the air pocket on my brand new pair of $230 Nikes popped. Any other runner would be doomed to not finish because running on a popped air cushion for such a long distance would surely have resulted in injury. But my fanny pack saved the day! I had an extra pair of shoes tucked neatly inside my aerodynamic super duper fanny pack, so I made a NASCAR-esque quick tire change, downed three packets of GU, and was on my way!
Serious, elite runners like me can sniff out sarcasm like yours, Penn Gwinn. A real piece of valuable equipment is the Nike+ i-Pod shirt.
Very true, you can't ever reproduce a classic like Packin's original thread.
I think it was the perfect blend of blatant sarcasm with blind naivete that got me.
Is a fanny pack worn from the front called a ball sack?
Funny thread. Kudos to whoever suggested ditching the fanny pack and carrying one of these:
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In the UK, a ladies front bottom is referred to as a 'fanny'.
Cue much schoolboy mirth whenever someone Stateside 'lands on their fanny'.
Actually, that was close my first thought. One of my running friends wore a fanny pack when he ran during his stint in Iraq, not for gel packs, but for his service revolver. And yes, the fanny packs are government issue and are made from camouflage material.
Moscow wrote:
WTF? Are you going for a run or going to war?
This guy invented Letsrun trolling. Bow down.
alltalk wrote:
This guy invented Letsrun trolling. Bow down.
Along with the power point threads and the threads by 45SWM who got kicked out of his running club, this is one of THE classic letsrun threads.
CSU Runner wrote:
alltalk wrote:This guy invented Letsrun trolling. Bow down.
Along with the power point threads and the threads by 45SWM who got kicked out of his running club, this is one of THE classic letsrun threads.
Greatest troll thread ever. All current trolls should take note.
Never noticed this thread before,
probably been said a million times already but anyone who
uses a fanny pack in a race or walks round the city after a
race wearing their medal is a sad tourist.Sorry but it's one of the hard facts of life.
I agree..this and the Abdi "Black Cactus" video on FLotrack make me bust out laughin thinking about them
brojos should have a special section of the greatest letsrun threads ever...
fanny pack
powerpoint
original rexing
the kid with the treadmill and pirate cat gun girl
etc.
vandergraafgenerator wrote:
Never noticed this thread before,
probably been said a million times already but anyone who
uses a fanny pack in a race or walks round the city after a
race wearing their medal is a sad tourist.Sorry but it's one of the hard facts of life.
The day after last month's NYCM, people were walking around Midtown wearing their medals! These weren't people in from Glen Ridge, NJ, either. Belgians and such!
There's an old guy you see around the Reservoir with a wheeled Zimmer frame, and he wears his 1989 finisher medal every day.
Well yes like I said, Sad tourists . For the old guy he's probably a nutter anyway. Avery courageos old nutter to be sure but all the same.
Belgians area joke to the French you know, they're considered as pretty dumb.
In fact if you've ever been to ffeance you've probably seen Belgian jokes.
Stuff like " In the 1989 Brussels Greyhound Derby what was the name of the winning jockey" etc etc etc.
In fact Belgians have abig problem because it's reall 3 races in one.
French, Dutch and Germanic, there was a big outcry just lately because Miss Belgium only speaks French.
Belgium is 70% Flamand or Dutcg but the French speaking Wallons have all the plumb jobs and the German speakers have all the money. The dutch speakers have all the slums and problems.
No wonder they go about Manhattan with their medals.
Anyone who is replying to this obviously didn't get the sarcasm, no one is that stupid...
duh
Blaze
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This is the most hilarious thread ever... my stomach hurts from laughing so much... oh, wait, that was my fanny pack buckle causing the pain, not the laughter....