Wow guy, you're obese by any BMI standard. I would lose weight so you don't have a heart attack. At 5'8" you should be around 130-135 to actually be healthy. So you run slow and are fat. What is the point of this post?
Wow guy, you're obese by any BMI standard. I would lose weight so you don't have a heart attack. At 5'8" you should be around 130-135 to actually be healthy. So you run slow and are fat. What is the point of this post?
Oh, so you'd like the point of my post?
I hope you and your buddies are thick-skinned enough to handle it.
Many of you who were high school and college "hot shots" feel entitled to give weight information to people (many of whom don't request it) and/or deride them with comments about their weight.
You do this because you're faster, but you make a lot of assumptions about people's VO2 Max, training, diet, etc because of sheer numbers.
Yeah, on the track competing for a title or on an XC course, I can see how the need to prove how much faster you are is important. But as many of you sit here not making a dime from running, a dime from running endorsements and have to pay your entry into a race, I suppose my point is to remind you that you are not entitled to be pejorative or directly pick at someone's training or, especially, weight because you were once good.
If you want to do that, then you would have to be ready to compare relative improvement, in which case, several people who racing considers "Clydesdales" would be able to show a better improvement curve based on start to finish fitness.
Then you would have to explain why you weren't fast enough to qualify for the A standard in any international or national competition and what you did wrong in your training, because, in layman's terms, if you didn't make the standard, then you, like others in the 18, 21, 25, etc range are an also ran...it would then make people wonder what right you have for attacking their weight when you apparently had shortcomings too...you didn't make the A.
There are people who will never get a whiff of 15:00 just like some may never break 21. But to use that as a weapon for appearance? All one has to do is say, sure....you ran a 17:00 as a HS freshman and got to 14:45 as a senior....wow. And you dropped your time to 24:12 in college! Wow. Well, i didn't run in HS or college and I got this 23 minute 5k.
Then, if you're honest with yourself, you'd have a difficult time telling him why the 16:22 you just ran in the same race (and placed 6th) is better than his 23 under the circumstances and why it entitles you one bit to judge him on other than time.