Speaking of fat guys making comebacks, you guys should talk to my Daddy, Bruce Hyde, too
Speaking of fat guys making comebacks, you guys should talk to my Daddy, Bruce Hyde, too
If the "poser" label is applied solely based on mileage, then I must be a poser, having averaged only around 35 mpw for the last 7 years. But I consider myself more of a washed-up former D1 runner with occasional glimmers of decentness rather than a poser. Poser seems to imply not knowing any better, and I know better but have simply prioritized running lower than I used to. I can live with the "minimal effort-decent outcome" approach. The extra time and effort it would take to drop my 5k by a minute is a huge cost, and it won't get me near elite level. I don't need to win the local turkey trot, but it is fun to show up with 35mpw and try anyway.
I had these thoughts whilst vacuuming last night after my first post. I considered a new thread, but figured no one would respond anyway, so here goes:
What makes any one of "us" a poser? Obviously this only exists with pretenses, because I don't come here stating to be anything. So, if I run 35 miles a week and win a local 5k every other week, am I poser? What am I posing as? As I said, I don't try to be anything more than a few opinionated posts a day...how does this reflect my running ability/prowess?
I don't think it's so much a problem of posers. It's the people who ASSUME everyone who posts here has 70+ mile a week credentials and professional running aspirations (which they will never acquire anyway, hence their existence on LetsRun). That assumption is what I, poser or not, call retarded. (Offense intended) If you check your bible (the REAL bible, Once a Runner, not that silly ancient text on goat slaughter) you will remember how respectful Cassidy (Jesus) and his apostles (the rest of the XC team) are when passing a "house cat" of distance running. Just something to consider, poser.
Secondly, and this fits with this thread; Why all the attempted comebacks and what prevents you from getting wherever you were headed? Job too straining to put in real mileage? Can't stay motivated? Not disciplined enough? I'm really just curious because LetsRun actually DOES provide some of us with something we can't get every day--a wealth of other runners in various stages of success, failure, and decomposition.
I hang out with real runners so that apparently makes me not as much of a wannbee poser as others.
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It's about quality NOT quantity. All relative.