As runners we should be entitled to rest and let others do manual labor and chores

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4 weeks ago 03/27/2024 6:37pm EDT

Imagine getting back to fitness or being fit and training hard, and you go to visit your mother after a long run and she expects you to help around the house. It is like it is conditional that you have to help if you want a decent meal or laundry done.

To make matters worse, the last time I visited, she got a handy man in to put up a shelf, and he mocked me for not being able to do it. I would of youtubed how if I had the energy. I just said that I am a runner and I need to focus on recovery between each run in order to be able to train for the stress that my body goes under.

Is it just me or is our sport just not respected enough. If you do a long run or a hard session, then you should not have to be asked to do anything manual or physical. Leave that to the people who aren't taking running seriously like us. Discus

4 weeks ago 03/27/2024 6:48pm EDT

re: Banana Bread

I agree this is all completely insane. I need a sponsor pronto

4 weeks ago 03/27/2024 6:59pm EDT

re: bekele boi

bekele boi wrote:
I agree this is all completely insane. I need a sponsor pronto

You can promote my newly branded sugar water

4 weeks ago 03/27/2024 7:00pm EDT

re: bekele boi

bekele boi wrote:
I agree this is all completely insane. I need a sponsor pronto

Would you be interested in a placebo sponsorship?

4 weeks ago 03/27/2024 9:55pm EDT

re: Banana Bread

I once ran 13 miles and then helped my dad lay grass for hours

Somewhere in Kenya, there's a dude who ran 20 miles and worked on the farm for hours

4 weeks ago 03/27/2024 11:00pm EDT

re: Banana Bread

Banana Bread wrote:
To make matters worse, the last time I visited, she got a handy man in to put up a shelf, and he mocked me for not being able to do it. I would of youtubed how if I had the energy. I just said that I am a runner and I need to focus on recovery between each run in order to be able to train for the stress that my body goes under.

She should HAVE hired a tutor as well.

4 weeks ago 03/27/2024 11:24pm EDT

re: Banana Bread

Banana Bread, do you think that was Kenenisa Bekele's secret to success? Someone must've been doing all the chores for him. Hopefully he's got people helping him so he can be his best in London

4 weeks ago 03/27/2024 11:24pm EDT

re: Banana Bread

Banana Bread wrote:
Imagine getting back to fitness or being fit and training hard, and you go to visit your mother after a long run and she expects you to help around the house. It is like it is conditional that you have to help if you want a decent meal or laundry done.
To make matters worse, the last time I visited, she got a handy man in to put up a shelf, and he mocked me for not being able to do it. I would of youtubed how if I had the energy. I just said that I am a runner and I need to focus on recovery between each run in order to be able to train for the stress that my body goes under.
Is it just me or is our sport just not respected enough. If you do a long run or a hard session, then you should not have to be asked to do anything manual or physical. Leave that to the people who aren't taking running seriously like us. Discus

Try smoking some weed, you'll recover faster.

4 weeks ago 03/28/2024 8:41am EDT

re: Banana Bread

Banana Bread wrote:
Imagine getting back to fitness or being fit and training hard, and you go to visit your mother after a long run and she expects you to help around the house. It is like it is conditional that you have to help if you want a decent meal or laundry done.
To make matters worse, the last time I visited, she got a handy man in to put up a shelf, and he mocked me for not being able to do it. I would of youtubed how if I had the energy. I just said that I am a runner and I need to focus on recovery between each run in order to be able to train for the stress that my body goes under.
Is it just me or is our sport just not respected enough. If you do a long run or a hard session, then you should not have to be asked to do anything manual or physical. Leave that to the people who aren't taking running seriously like us. Discus

Hard disagree. Be a good person and help--it's one of the basic tenets of life.

4 weeks ago 03/28/2024 8:42am EDT

re: Banana Bread

Bekele could have put up the shelf on his own in between tempo sessions while simultaneously taking care of his kids because he is a modern man. No wonder American marathoning can't even match a past his prime KB.

4 weeks ago 03/28/2024 9:07am EDT

re: Banana Bread

Somebody told me that Americans 'get' sarcasm. The responses imply the opposite!

Well done Banana Bread; you've drawn out all the Sheldon'!

4 weeks ago 03/28/2024 9:13am EDT

re: Banana Bread

As a runner, your sense of entitlement is a very precious thing and you mustn't let others abuse it or take advantage of you.

4 weeks ago 03/28/2024 9:44am EDT

re: Appreciation??

Appreciation?? wrote:
I once ran 13 miles and then helped my dad lay grass for hours
Somewhere in Kenya, there's a dude who ran 20 miles and worked on the farm for hours

good job? Is that what you were looking for?

4 weeks ago 03/28/2024 9:51am EDT

re: Banana Bread

9/10 - pretty good, and better than most

4 weeks ago 03/28/2024 11:51am EDT

re: Sheldon Cooper everywhere

Sheldon Cooper everywhere wrote:
Somebody told me that Americans 'get' sarcasm. The responses imply the opposite!
Well done Banana Bread; you've drawn out all the Sheldon'!

I swear, this website used to be different.

There are two very different things that get called "trolling". Funny sarcastic threads like this one. And (usually political) arguments where people exaggerate their opinions in order to pick fights.

Ever since the second type took over, we collectively have been unable or unwilling to recognize the first type.

4 weeks ago 03/28/2024 6:12pm EDT

re: Banana Bread

Banana Bread wrote:
Imagine getting back to fitness or being fit and training hard, and you go to visit your mother after a long run and she expects you to help around the house. It is like it is conditional that you have to help if you want a decent meal or laundry done.
To make matters worse, the last time I visited, she got a handy man in to put up a shelf, and he mocked me for not being able to do it. I would of youtubed how if I had the energy. I just said that I am a runner and I need to focus on recovery between each run in order to be able to train for the stress that my body goes under.
Is it just me or is our sport just not respected enough. If you do a long run or a hard session, then you should not have to be asked to do anything manual or physical. Leave that to the people who aren't taking running seriously like us. Discus

Didn't bother reading anything other that the title. You need attention obviously. Get a new face.

4 weeks ago 03/28/2024 6:28pm EDT

re: Banana Bread

I read this post this morning prior to going to work and it literally made me laugh out loud.

The mental image of this whole scenario is such a vag-dryer.

"uh, mom I'm too tired to do anything manly because I'm so tired from running" -Banana Bread (read in the voice of the Simpson's Comic Book Guy, Jeff Albertson)

This post was edited 11 minutes after it was posted.

4 weeks ago 03/28/2024 6:42pm EDT

re: huwang

huwang wrote:
Appreciation?? wrote:
I once ran 13 miles and then helped my dad lay grass for hours
Somewhere in Kenya, there's a dude who ran 20 miles and worked on the farm for hours
good job? Is that what you were looking for?

If you understood writing, you'd see that I undermined my small feat by mentioning what the Kenyans do.

Idiot.

4 weeks ago 03/28/2024 6:47pm EDT

re: Banana Bread

That's odd, because the last time I visited your mom I had to wait in line...behind the handyman. Heard not one complaint from mom.

4 weeks ago 03/28/2024 10:00pm EDT

re: Banana Bread

Sure don't put in the shelf, but then don't expect dinner cooked for you or laundry done. We can all help out in different ways. Its give and take. Being a runner (or any type of athlete) doesn't make it ok to be a free loader.

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