No one cares about how fast or slow you run a turkey trot. Let's Ru has a very skewed sense of what normal people concentrate on.
They want to go have a fun active morning before they eat too much, that is all.
Yes, that's most people at the turkey trot. But for the subset that run 6-7 days a week throughout most of the year, why shouldn't they go all out? Every mass participation race has people who don't care about their time and people who do, so why should someone normally in the caring about time group treat the turkey trot differently?
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No one cares about how fast or slow you run a turkey trot. Let's Ru has a very skewed sense of what normal people concentrate on.
They want to go have a fun active morning before they eat too much, that is all.
Yes, that's most people at the turkey trot. But for the subset that run 6-7 days a week throughout most of the year, why shouldn't they go all out? Every mass participation race has people who don't care about their time and people who do, so why should someone normally in the caring about time group treat the turkey trot differently?
Go all out of you want. No one will care. A 16 minute and 19 minutes 5k is equal in the eyes of most participants. Both are faster than they can imagine
If you are worried about your image, you can go all out and just make an extra effort to smile at people and chat a bit while you run. Then tell everyone that it was a tempo day, but you got caught up in the race-like atmosphere.
I definitely encourage racing all out, but make sure you are in a race with competition. Going balls to the wall to win a 5K by 3+ minutes would look silly.
If you are worried about your image, you can go all out and just make an extra effort to smile at people and chat a bit while you run. Then tell everyone that it was a tempo day, but you got caught up in the race-like atmosphere.
If you won it in 23 minutes or 13 minutes it’s the same for anyone watching we are such a niche sport. Obviously if you are slower than 14 minutes you are not yet a serious or fast athlete
I mean, it's a race and it's possibly the last good weather race until spring, so why not go all out?
Is there a library of rejected threads and the criteria by which they are judged? Id like to see and assess the standards and enforcements. Surely not by authors' "reputation" or political leanings!? And clearly not for sense or logic! There must be a level of pertinence, appropriateness, and reader-interest that escapes me. Mods are mysterious entities with special skills beyond my ken!
They’re a fun run. If racing sounds fun, then do that. If a solid tempo effort or social jog sounds fun, do that. If TTing alone and minutes ahead of the field sounds fun then you’re probably certifiable, but you do you, I guess. The spirit of the turkey trot is in embracing the ridiculousness, not the effort.
Honestly, I don’t think anyone actually cares what other people run at turkey trots. You have to pay to run them, so it makes sense that people would want to go all out to get the bang for their buck.
I mean, it's a race and it's possibly the last good weather race until spring, so why not go all out?
It's already been said but in terms of who you are running against, you'd be lucky if even a handful understand the gravity/relativity of certain times so you could go out and run 13.00 for a 5km or you could run 18.00 and nobody would care/really understand the difference.
Me personally at my fittest, I wouldn't be fussed with a Turkey Trot and going all out. The courses are never truly accurate, I would find it hard to get motivated for something like that. Isn't it nice to sometimes go and enter a "race" and not have the pressure of expectation, having to prepare properly for it, warmup right - all that sh-t? If you need a last "good weather" blowout I would feel better about crushing a solo effort than crushing a bunch of hobby runners looking to feel better about stuffing their faces later in the day. But that's just me. I don't think it's either laughed at or frowned upon either way - do what you want.
No one cares about how fast or slow you run a turkey trot. Let's Ru has a very skewed sense of what normal people concentrate on.
They want to go have a fun active morning before they eat too much, that is all.
Yes, that's most people at the turkey trot. But for the subset that run 6-7 days a week throughout most of the year, why shouldn't they go all out? Every mass participation race has people who don't care about their time and people who do, so why should someone normally in the caring about time group treat the turkey trot differently?
Given there's a clear consensus here that there's no problem with it, a better question would be who exactly you know of that's making a stink about people racing hard at a Turkey Trot.
Yes, that's most people at the turkey trot. But for the subset that run 6-7 days a week throughout most of the year, why shouldn't they go all out? Every mass participation race has people who don't care about their time and people who do, so why should someone normally in the caring about time group treat the turkey trot differently?
Given there's a clear consensus here that there's no problem with it, a better question would be who exactly you know of that's making a stink about people racing hard at a Turkey Trot.
It is an internet thing. It's stuff like the turkey trot making that hip check thing worse, and a guy on some other sub saying his going his going all out at a Turkey Trot was runningcirclejerk material. To clarify the hip check thing, it was obviously bad, and wouldn't have been any less bad at any other race, or less dumb at any other race with similar levels of runners showing up to it.
I frown upon those who give any less than an all-out race effort
I frown on any sort of frivolity on such a serious occasion. Those pilgrims damn near starved to death before the Indians taught them how to plant food.