Do you ever feel that skinny runners look at you differently?

7.1/10 on the meter.

1.5/10 on the trollmeter.

Well, Nikki...if you are seven feet tall there is nothing wrong with weighing 192 lbs. but most of the runner boys on this message board have a few simple rules they live by...

1. they don't date women that weigh more than them.

2. they don't date women with bigger biceps than them.

3. they don't date women with more hair on their upper lip than them.

There are plenty of running groups out there with a more mature membership that will accept you for who you are as long as your check clears.

http://rrca.org/clubs/

Maybe it's not your weight, but insted the fact that you're wearing a skirt to a race. People in skirts don't usually go "balls out."

Pics?

I'm sure the big girls ask you if you're walking too so they feel more comfortable about walking themselves and if you were to say yes they would probablly invite you to be a part of their walking group.

If you look into the last page of Runners World Magazine a guy who calls himself The Penguin writes about his slow jump into the world of running, his shape as compared to a typical runners shape and other up lifting topics for begining runners.

Looking like a runner doesn't get you across the finish line first. At my fastest I had between 3-5% body fat, which was the lowest on my collegiate team, but I was the slowest guy on our team and rarley beat more than 10% of the field.

To be honest some people may be looking at you funny because you are wearing a skirt. I haven't kept up on the fashion that women runners wear in road races for a long time but some of those weird looks might be erased buy wearing shorts.

2/10

what women uses the phrase "balls to the wall"?

dead give away you troll

sockless joe jackson wrote:

Maybe it's not your weight, but insted the fact that you're wearing a skirt to a race. People in skirts don't usually go "balls out."

Any man running in a skirt would soon be "balls out" depending on the length of the skirt

bikegirl72 wrote:

So am I the only woman that feels this way?

maybe only on the Wet er West Coast?

Let's not kid ourselves - the people you are passing are also fatties and also do not look like runners. You probably still have toilet paper from the porta-john or couldn't reach behind yourself well enough to wipe. Or you're ugly on top of being fat. That is, of course, assuming you are a real person and not a troll.

Exjogger wrote:

To be honest some people may be looking at you funny because you are wearing a skirt. I haven't kept up on the fashion that women runners wear in road races for a long time but some of those weird looks might be erased buy wearing shorts.

Hey Roy Firestone, Everyone's wearing skirts now. Haven't you been to a roadrace in a few years?

I suggest you do more 100 mile weeks and then you won't be looked at funny anymore.

Truly great, humble runners don\'t pass judgement - the poseurs looking for something to prove most certainly do. Keep this in mind. Most true runners are solitary creatures who aren\'t looking outward but rather inward.

Don\'t look for respect for having run fast times if you haven\'t, but then work hard and you\'ll only ever be seen as the person who works hard. With hard work will come the results and the admiration of your peers.

Said this to the other fellow in your perdicament (sub 25 5ker)...

Fanny pack. Dont forget it.

grandpa marathoner wrote:

but most of the runner boys on this message board have a few simple rules they live by...

1. they don't date women

2. they don't date women

3. they don't date women

corrected that for you.

most of the runner boys on this board just fantasize about women who look like 12-year old boys.

not sure wrote:

corrected that for you.

most of the runner boys on this board just fantasize about women who look like 12-year old boys.

Gaylen posts on here?

The mere fact that this tread continues means it merits at least a 6 on the Trollometer.

great thread!

Trollometer wrote:

The mere fact that this tread continues means it merits at least a 6 on the Trollometer.

3/10. Not even close. Women never post here, much less slow, overweight women.