Schwald quote on FastWomen

Okay, never mind - I just saw the "Running with Sarah Schwald" thread.

I'm also not a world beater (14:58 5,000 track PR), but I did a track workout once with Patty Sue Plummer at Stanford (among others), and she was freakin' awesome. I guess much faster guys wouldn't do a TRACK workout with a woman, but a casual distance run? I don't see why not, but again, I was never elite. Maybe the European guys are more enlightened, or maybe they're just hoping for some American booty. Who knows?

Flagpole Willy wrote:

Maybe the European guys are more enlightened, or maybe they're just hoping for some American booty. Who knows?

DING DING DING DING!!!!! Mystery solved.

OK. People are going to hate me for this one but I can't let it pass without giving my 2 cents.

Yeah I think it's the booty and company. Perhaps the issue is that people don't want to keep company with a grumpy people.

I don't know about you guys but going for a 60 minute run talking about girl stuff or someone who is hung-up on runner girl issues just isn't fun. When I run with the guys we talk about things I'm interested in.

Let's face it gents, some of the elite women have some serious baggage and it just isn't fun being around that. Maybe the Euro's could care less about the baggage.

Ding Ding Ding Ding ... we have a winner, it's Ding Ding Ding. The Euro dudes are all about the pu.......

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I don't know about you guys but going for a 60 minute run talking about girl stuff or someone who is hung-up on runner girl issues just isn't fun. When I run with the guys we talk about things I'm interested in.

Let's face it gents, some of the elite women have some serious baggage and it just isn't fun being around that. Maybe the Euro's could care less about the baggage.

Most women I know don't talk about "girl issues" all the time. Sure they might here them once in a while, but certainally every time they go for a run. You can actually run with a girl and have a nice conversation that you enjoy. I know a lot of girls who have potty mouths just like guys and enjoy talking about raunchy perverted stuff

Or how about these:

1. The European training groups may already know plenty about each other and are looking for someone new to chat with, especially someone who is from America. Maybe they are social and like meeting new faces they seeing running in their area.

2. Many elite runners do training runs at casual conversation pace- not all runs have to be "balls-out".

3. Yes, some elite women runners are narrow-focused and boring, but many fast women are pretty well-rounded, educated, opinionated, and up on culture.

4. Europeans are not as sexually repressed as American men so they are not thinking about pussy 24/7.