whether it's ripped off or not, it's a piece of trash. don't wear a shirt more than 1 step up from your event? no half-marathon shirts for a 5k? adhering to that rule makes you a tool.
Check out this paragraph:
"When I first started running, one of my mentors told me something very, very important about race-day wear: Never dress more than one step up from your event. If you're running a 5K, don't wear a finisher's shirt advertising anything more than a 10K. For 10K, the cut-off is a half-marathon. Catch my drift?"
No, Susan, I really don't catch your drift. When I go to races, I'm mostly concerned with racing or warming up for the race. I'm not reading other people's t-shirts. I cannot relate to you or your envy of distances written on other people's shirts.
She's a 1:58 half marathoner and everybody knows that slow people don't come to LetsRun...
I thought I think wrote:
She's a 1:58 half marathoner and everybody knows that slow people don't come to LetsRun...
Check out the comments at the bottom, this is funny:
GLBr
February 24, 2011 | 8:16 am
Susan, you forgot one. Don't Be A Tool.
Don't go around in this sport picking out behavior that irritates you, and then calling those runners who do so tools.
The sad thing is two of the things you pick out come from the mid to back of the pack crowd which are are the target group for Competitor and their RnR series. Instead of a back handed insult, whether tongue in cheek or not, is just plain silly.
When I first started reading this I was certain it was written by someone from LetsRun.com…but then I saw your 1/2 Marathon time. Are you kidding me? A barely breaking 1/2 Marathoner nit picking other runners!? Please. Hey…there's Tool #5!
It turns out that the post was intended as satire. Maybe she's not so bad after all.
She's a pussy and is never going to run a respectable time until she eats some meat. I will not even consider her a runner until she chomps down on a hamburger.
-Carnivorus Rex
So was it ripped off? If so, from where?
Maybe that trailrunnergary thread? I don't see anything copy-and-pasted but it the setup looks exactly why what gary had.
this is a great response i must say
http://www.nomeatathlete.com/running-tools/#comment-39274
"Dan Moriarity
February 24, 2011 | 1:56 pm
I've been a runner for over 30 years. A couple of comments on your post:
1) I can't imagine that anyone would be intimidated or irritated by someone else's shirt. The fact that you're wearing a particular shirt says nothing about how fast or slow you are.
2) There's a common misconception that someone who runs a marathon or other long distance race is an inherently better athlete to someone who "only" runs 5 or 10 km races. As an extreme example, Keninisa Bekele (the world record holder for 5 and 10km) has never run a marathon, but he is an unbelievably better athlete than a 3 hour marathoner. Shorter races are very difficult races in and of themselves if you are trying to run them to the best of your ability rather than just jogging through them to finish the distance.
Dan."