I already said that I hit all of the criteria but the $250k was family income. I don't think it should matter because all of my friends who make $250k have wives who stay home.
I already said that I hit all of the criteria but the $250k was family income. I don't think it should matter because all of my friends who make $250k have wives who stay home.
high expectations wrote:
A successful life shouldn't be counted in how much money you made or if you had a beautiful wife.
When you eventually come to the end you should ask yourself '' Did I really experience true love ? Did I give true love ? ''
And the answer of a real good life then '' Yes! I really did!''
This. People have a strange way of assigning value to life. Have a friend worth tons of money, good looking guy, accomplished in sport, beautiful wife. Always dated beautiful models when he was younger. Owns 3 homes, amazing vacations...etc. 6 months ago he told me his wife is cheating on him and she’s the only woman he’s ever really loved. He’s not sure she’s ever truly loved him.
My household income is not quite $250,000 per year.
My wife is beautiful and smart and nice.
I ran 14:58 back in my early 20s, but that was 30 years ago.
Ok, you hit all the criteria. Are you saying that since you fulfilled the criteria that it is easy or common to do so?
I hope not. Statistically it is very very hard to even reach *one* of the requirements listed by the OP.
Gee ....what a bunch of BS...........Half of you all couldn't pass the first round of Jeopardy....and half of you couldn't run a 5K in 25 min.....I am worth 1.5 Mil. two houses.......one wife (40 years) and am happy to run period..........5K 28:00..........no speedster........but can kick your ass in a bike ride.......I am 72...........best 5K was..........16:00.......Cheers to all of you youngsters and see you on the road........Funny boys.......
No. I am probably in the upper 5% of posters here who hit all three.
Dropped out of college due to drug problem at 22. Kicked the drug habit a few years later but became a problematic drinker but been dry for over a year.
HHI 130k. wife and I very close depending on where my commissions and bonus fall.
I am 33 she is 40 but she is a solid 7.5 even after 2 kids. Sold our first house and moved to a very wealthy neighborhood, 700k+ houses. We are the smallest house in the neighborhood at 400k. very charming area, houses all built pre ww2.
Wife had a decent inheritance that helped with down payment on house and a great start to our kids college funds.
sub 16 but now shooting for sub 3.
happy as a clam.
epodemiologist wrote:Sold our first house and moved to a very wealthy neighborhood, 700k+ houses. We are the smallest house in the neighborhood at 400k. very charming area, houses all built pre ww2.
You obviously don't live on the west coast near a major city. $700K homes are nothing here and in some places hard to find.
Maybe he is on the west coast of Canada.
Go run fast and jump wrote:Maybe he is on the west coast of Canada.
Vancouver BC is even more expensive.
Why not? There are ways to make that kind of money without exhaustion. Legal and honest, in most countries of the world :-)
N=2 wrote:
The part I don’t agree with is not being able to have this all at once. I know a number of people who can run around 15 flat in the 5k (or a marathon equivalent), make a lot of money and have classically attractive spouses. I’m not talking dozens but 2-3. All it really takes is being a fast Dr. Not exactly an incredible rarity.
You keep insisting that it’s not that big a deal to do it all at once... and yet you haven’t, and even your hypothetical goal of “getting close to 15” won’t get you there. (And I notice the “people you know” are “around 15 flat,” not under. Big difference, as John Landy would tell you.) I think you’re underestimating how hard it is to run under 15, especially once you’re done college.
I ran under 14 in my 20s, but once I got serious about my career in my 30s I never ran faster than low 15s even though I was still training reasonably hard with a solid training group. For the vast majority of people, getting under 15 requires really optimizing the details and prioritizing running.
FWIW, my wife is a physician and was a better runner than me. She ran the female equivalent of sub-15 on pretty minimal training during her residency. But now that she’s in practice and starting to pull in some money, she’s older and busier and can only run around 18:00, despite being able to train more than during residency. I know quite a few docs from my serious running days, and none of them continued to be able to crack 15 by the time they entered practice.
Tl;dr: we all understand that it should be possible hypothetically to do all at the same time, and many of us have done all the individual elements at different times. But I still think doing them all once is really hard. Best best: top-end Olympic runner. Some of them marry well and occasionally crack $250,000 in a year.
cancel me this cancel me that wrote:
Have a friend worth tons of money, good looking guy, accomplished in sport, beautiful wife. Always dated beautiful models when he was younger. Owns 3 homes, amazing vacations...etc. 6 months ago he told me his wife is cheating on him and she’s the only woman he’s ever really loved. He’s not sure she’s ever truly loved him.
Not unusual, for those wealthy enough to attract such women.
Myself?
$250k per year: no.
Big home: No.
Sub-15 for 5k: Yes.
Woman who's hot?
My scale of might differ a bit:
7 - more attractive than most 18-25 year old women.
7.5 - usually most attractive women if there are less than 50 women aged 18-25 at the nightclub or event. Very attractive.
8 - 1 out of 1000 among 18-25 year old women. Beautiful
8.5 - 1 out of 10,000 among 18-25 year old women. Stunning.
9 - 1 out of 100,000. Drop dead gorgeous.
9.5 - I've only seen 5, maybe 6 women who rate 9.5+, and they choose who they want to be with, and that choice is almost perfectly correlated with money.
So...what's the female equivalent of infamous LRC sub 15/hot wife/250k+ a year?
Lol.
There are a lot of liars to impress friends...
I make pennies...i barely get close to 10% of the 250k gradient.
No wife, no girlfriend.
5k PR of 19:35.
No pretense, no fake, no jonesing and as a result, I don't facebook, i don't tweet,I don't Pinterest, I don't Instagram, I don't whatsapp, Skype, tinder, etc.
When I was 16, I didn't care if I impressed anyone
When I was 25, I didn't care if I impressed anyone
And now at 46, I couldn't care less what anyone anywhere thinks, but I will openly unabashedly give my opinion on anything I feel like.
I am satisfied with the person I am.
toaster wrote:
N=2 wrote:
The part I don’t agree with is not being able to have this all at once. I know a number of people who can run around 15 flat in the 5k (or a marathon equivalent), make a lot of money and have classically attractive spouses. I’m not talking dozens but 2-3. All it really takes is being a fast Dr. Not exactly an incredible rarity.
You keep insisting that it’s not that big a deal to do it all at once... and yet you haven’t, and even your hypothetical goal of “getting close to 15” won’t get you there. (And I notice the “people you know” are “around 15 flat,” not under. Big difference, as John Landy would tell you.) I think you’re underestimating how hard it is to run under 15, especially once you’re done college.
I ran under 14 in my 20s, but once I got serious about my career in my 30s I never ran faster than low 15s even though I was still training reasonably hard with a solid training group. For the vast majority of people, getting under 15 requires really optimizing the details and prioritizing running.
FWIW, my wife is a physician and was a better runner than me. She ran the female equivalent of sub-15 on pretty minimal training during her residency. But now that she’s in practice and starting to pull in some money, she’s older and busier and can only run around 18:00, despite being able to train more than during residency. I know quite a few docs from my serious running days, and none of them continued to be able to crack 15 by the time they entered practice.
Tl;dr: we all understand that it should be possible hypothetically to do all at the same time, and many of us have done all the individual elements at different times. But I still think doing them all once is really hard. Best best: top-end Olympic runner. Some of them marry well and occasionally crack $250,000 in a year.
Another point to make is that the average runner with a 5K under 15:30 will have a BMI of 19.
I've seen studies where the average woman preferred a guy with a BMI of 24.5 which is the high end of normal. We're talking a 6'1", 185-190 pound guy. Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, in shape and toned but not bulky weight lifters.
Point is that the average woman is *not* attracted to the average 15:30 5k runner body. If the guy is making 300k, has a 10/10 face, and is very charismatic than he can overcome his stick figure body but for most women, they prefer more muscles.
It'll be very hard for the 1530 5K runner making 250k to attract as many women as the version of him that lifted consistently and was more of a rock climber.
Hurts but it's the truth.
Fack a you!
Turn 54 this year
Wife and I combine for over 300k
I make 150k as executive teacher with coaching as side business
Ran 14:20 /29::55
Wife is still hot at 52 but was smoking hot 20 years ago.
Grew up moving from rental to rental all changed when I won a few state titles back in the day.
Yea that about right
Oh yea much better coach than I was ever as a runner
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let's Run.Com boards wrote:
Something dosen't add up. For starters some of you're 45, 50, or over 60. How are you running sub 15 minute 5ks, in your 60s?
Did anyone ever suggest that people on this board are all fast, affluent and have a beautiful wife? I think a lot of posters fall into one of these categories and somehow this led to the joke that the typical poster claims to be in all of them.
There is self-selection. A thread about competitive DI running will attract a lot of fast people. A thread about careers will attract a lot of high earning posters.
Any older people talking about sub 15 5k are referring to times they ran many years ago.
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I’m a D2 female runner. Our coach explicitly told us not to visit LetsRun forums.
Guys between age of 45 and 55 do you think about death or does it seem far away
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