Final Poll: Why do you hate Dean Karnazes?

a, b, c, d, e

all of those are good reasons

abcde;

If I shoot baskets (regardless of how many I make) in a gym by myself for two weeks without stopping, except to go to the bathroom and eat, will I be the world's most famous basketball player?

dribbler wrote:

abcde;

If I shoot baskets (regardless of how many I make) in a gym by myself for two weeks without stopping, except to go to the bathroom and eat, will I be the world's most famous basketball player?

In Dean's case it would be more like "America's Greatest Basketball Player"

Question to you....

Which would better describe yourself:

A. If I could make a living doing that, support charities and get sedentary individuals motivated to exercise I'd do it.

B. I'm a decent runner (15-16min 5K), that maybe takes home $50 here and there in some random events, has given liitle $$ or time to charity, but prefers to bitch out guys who are less talented but figured out a way to make a good living off what they've got.

A or B??

I hate to break it to you guys, but once you have ANY life experience, you'll soon realize the vast majority of successful individual in business and in life are not necessarily the most talented - they're the ones who sieze opportunity when presented to them AND in the long run their efforts bring out more positive than negative.

I don't hate DK, just the media attention. With that disclaimer, put me down for B and E.

is this the final poll? can it please be?

but on what authority did you declare this to be the last thread on this topic? what will happen to me if i make a thread about why people hate dk? for that matter, what will happen to you? and to the people who read the threads, and to those that respond? will the Waffen-Topic-SS descend on my house in the darkest hours of night to spirit my family away? will i create a world-destroying cosmic event as i break the known rules of logic by creating a post-"final" straw poll on dk? will i be forever banned by the hyenas-in-disguise moderators? (jk, i love you guys. i even bought you this gift of a gazelle carcass. enjoy.)

or will the fate of the "final" poll --and even the memory that it ever existed-- be quickly forgotten by the six people who had lukewarm-at-best sympathies on the subject, relegating this simple thread with noble and lofty aspirations to the cobwebbed basement of LetsRun.com?

...i think that last one has come to pass.

I'm with you brother/sister!

Almst every day I am struck with some thing or another that makes me realize just how F-ing stupid I was when I was younger. It also makes me wonder what I'll think of myself and the decisions I am making now, in ten years.

At 20, I was just about the same person I was at 16. At 25, I woke up and started being a better person. Now, at 30, I feel like I can finally think for myself, but know that I still have a lot to learn.

Dean K is great. A positive person who is able to bring a positive message to a great many people.

E. T&F and running gets limited coverage as it stands. For this guy have the spotlight on him continually is an insult to world class runners.

And it was probably Dean who scheduled that specific date right? Not the sponsors, organizers, etc.... who dumped millions into marketing, coinciding this with the launch of their 'new' product. DK was the mastermind behind the whole thing - probably thinking that exact thing, 'How can I lessen the spotlight on other runners'. I'm sure that was his EXACT thought process.

If Dean just stopped all of this crap and got a desk job away from the sport, T&F and all those 14min 5K runners would get sooooooo much more coverage - he's stealing all of it, f#ck him!

The nerve of him!

[insert sarcasm here]

wow, terps, you're one bitter mudafuka -

get a life you douche.