Today had a fat person tell me running 7 miles a day is terrible for you

When I was in college an obese guy, let's call him Billy, in my dorm told me that he didn't exercise because we only have so many heart beats in a lifetime and he didn't plan on wasting his running. I told him since my resting heart rate was much, much slower due to my elevated heart rate during my runs that my heart beat fewer times daily than his. Therefore, by his theory running was extending my life.

I guess you could say I agreed with him about part of his argument.

I was told that a few years ago, Billy had a heart attack in a bar, staggered to a long table lined with the attendees of a bachelorette party, and fell in its middle sending drinks and assorted salty snacks and candles flying onto the nearby dance floor. One of the girls, thinking a drunk had wiped out their party, whacked him with her purse before she realized he was stone cold dead. He had reached the end of his heart beats.

Standing at a bus stop years ago with some random dude while another guy jogs past us at a reasonable rate, maybe 8-minute miles. Guy at the bus stop pokes his thumb in the runner's direction and says, "He's been doing that since high school. Sure doesn't seem to have done him any good!"

Bus stop guy was bloated and had weirdly silver-bronze hair that looked slightly like spun steel. He had fat lips that were stretched wide and were really shiny, as if they were really wet even though it was a cold spring day. His eyes were puffy and he seemed to be laboring to breathe. I would easily have said he was 50 and the jogger was 35, but they were in the same class in high school.

iujknkjnkjnoN wrote:

I was asked, in response to my 80 mile weeks, - "do you get joint problems?"

That's not a ridiculous question. Most people can't handle 80 mile weeks. We may think they can, but that's because many of us spend our lives around people who run a ton.

Eighty mile weeks is rather extreme in the grand scheme of things and relative to the general population.

That said, I've been told by several obese people that "running is bad for your knees". I usually just shrug and ignore. That's not exactly an absolute fact, and if it was, eating dessert is bad for you too, but we as humans do it because it feels good. To some of us, running feels good in one way or another.

loqueelvientoajuarez wrote:

> I was asked, in response to my 80 mile weeks, - "do you get joint problems?"

No, I don't have a joint problem. I love smoking them.

That reminds me of when John McEnroe was asked whether he preferred hard court or grass, and he responded, "I don't know. I've never smoked hard court."

Well, in all fairness, too much C02 is bad for plants and will kill them. They need oxygen, too, so too much c02 kills them. But still, I get your point.

The Important Questions wrote:

Planet of the Apes wrote:

Was told once by an educated person that oxygen kills you.

No sh*t, their statement to me was "You know all that running is bad because of too much oxygen in your system".

I had to do my best to stay polite and not laugh.

Reeducate him.

What an idiot. Yeah, and CO2 is bad for plants.

Yeaokkkkkk wrote:

depends on the person wrote:

Can depend on the person. My brother was extremely fit and athletic, however, that didn't prevent him from having a heart attack and dying while running.

Not cool, we know who you are pretending to be. Pathetic.

I have no idea what you are talking about. I am NOT pretending to be anyone. My brother, who had always stayed in great shape, died while running. In addition, I had another brother who suffered cardiac arrest while in rehab for an injury. He was running on a treadmill at the time. Thankfully, he was very fortunate and was resuscitated. Even with immediate care, the odds of surviving are not high, so he is extremely lucky.

It is just a fact that no matter how well you take care of yourself, some people - for some reason more men than women - are susceptible to lethal heart attacks while running.

it is: you should be running at least 10