Would you wear fetid stinking rotten running clothes if you could be world class?

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14 years ago 10/13/2009 11:53am EDT

You have a choice. Do you take the following deal with the devil:

You will be transformed into a sub-13 5,000 meter runner able to run 27:00 10,000 meter runs consistently and the corresponding times at other distances from 1,500 to the half marathon.

In exchange, you have to wear the same fetid stinking rotten running clothes without ever washing, deodorizing or altering them in any fashion, until they fall apart and you are no longer able to wear them, and you must wear these clothes all day, every day, until they disintegrate on your body.

Do you do it?

14 years ago 10/13/2009 12:00pm EDT

re: No Egrets Young Grasshoper

have you ever raced Africans? Quite often they don't shower for days, and they stink pretty damn bad on the starting line sometimes. Not all of them, but some of them go a long time between showers.... ( cultural thing, that is what they are used to at home, and they just don't shower daily like we do in north america)

14 years ago 10/13/2009 12:53pm EDT

re: stinkstink

Man, that's a tough call. World-class speed for at least a few years, but at what a cost! Since I'm single, I'd probably say yes!

14 years ago 10/13/2009 1:03pm EDT

re: No Egrets Young Grasshoper

Absolutely, and for even less than that.

14 years ago 10/13/2009 1:05pm EDT

re: No Egrets Young Grasshoper

I'd do it. The stache would get awfully grungy like that, but it'd be worth it.

But running clothes wouldn't last that long like this. This would only give you a window of a couple months at the most, right? Once the clothes disintigrated on you, could you put new clothes on and keep the train rolling? What if the the shorts were falling apart and your junk was hangin out? I dont know many race directors that would allow that. So, you might miss some opportunities to race, unless you were able to tape it up or patch it or saftey pin it somehow. Duct tape maybe? I'd still do it. Imagine saying you ran 12:55 with duct tape holding your balls in...hahahahahha. You'd be considered the toughest sonuvabitch alive!!!!!!

14 years ago 10/13/2009 5:14pm EDT

re: No Egrets Young Grasshoper

I wouldn't do that - no way man, even for that kind of speed. My wife would kill me!

14 years ago 10/14/2009 9:25am EDT

re: mighty porn stache

No way, I wouldn't want to be a world class runner if I had to wear smelly clothes.

14 years ago 10/14/2009 10:40am EDT

re: Nimbly Ezekiel

i'd do it in a heartbeat.

just think, you can run 27 for the 10k, and can run that same pace for the marathon. you would be unbeatable in the marathon, going sub 1:55:00 every time out. you could charge outrageous appearance fees, and since you know you would finish first, you would get all the prize money, plus the bonus for breaking the course record. so you could do this for a couple of years, run 2 or maybe 3 marathons a year, a couple half marathons and a few 10ks, and in 4-5 years you would have millions of dollars and then you can give up wearing your smelly clothes and go back to being sucky again. but you would never have to work another day in your life because your a multi-millionaire.

it's really a great deal.

14 years ago 10/14/2009 1:46pm EDT

re: No Egrets Young Grasshoper

I would definitely wear the same clothes , then i'd feel like a cartoon character.

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