Nipple Care:
YR - Band-aids and Petroleum Jelly.
BCR - Old Scabs.
Nipple Care:
YR - Band-aids and Petroleum Jelly.
BCR - Old Scabs.
Box wrote:
Nipple Care:
YR - Band-aids and Petroleum Jelly.
BCR - Old Scabs.
Training Logs
Yuppie Runner: Online Training Log subscription
Blue Collar Runner: $.79 composition journal from Wal-Mart (college rule)
(petroleum Jelly? at worst a YP would use Body Glide!)
athletics fan and runner wrote:
This reminds me. In my first cross country season in collage I ran the last 4 races of the season on a broken foot.
BCR: Finishing a race after breaking foot in THAT race
JPF (Just Plain Foolish); Running THREE MORE races after that on the broken foot.
Car driven:
Yuppie: 2007 Honda Element bought at sticker price.
BCR: 1987 Jeep Cherokee Thunderchief with 174,000 miles, rusted holes through the body with motor oil as failing rustproofing agent.
WT: Wheelbarrow
Coach:
YR: Salazar
BCR: Daniels
Letsrunner: Flagpolewilly
bump
YR: shops at whole foods
BCR: shops at ALDI's
WT: eats dirt
What we've been calling "yuppie" really means yogger
/gallowalker/penguin/human.
What we've been calling "blue collar" is a machine dedicated to betterment, "snowing? so what?". regardless of economic background most of us are "BCR"
i like this thread, I hate all the yuppies at the fleet feet store in my area.
let me add
YR: 25-40 yr old male who lives in the city, has all the high tech running gear, a gym membership, cross trains, goes to therapist, watches his protein intake....
BR: crazy ass old white guy you see running everyday, most YR's stare at him and are drawn away from him. He doesn't notice YR's and has a weird almost perverted grin on his face as he runs. He posts on letsrun at the local public libary because he really doesn't care for computers.
I hate those yuppies runners.
YR: has to have the next model of the asics kayano even if his shoes are alright. Shops at Fleet Feet Sports
BR: buys his shoes online to save money.
White trash: Salvation army, redwing boots, walmart, bare foot in the mud after wrestling with the pigs
Representative Fictional Running Character
YR: Quenton Cassidy (in Again to Carthage- beginning)
BCR: Quenton Cassidy (in Once a Runner, Again to Carthage- end)
. wrote:
"To me a yuppie RUNNER and a blue collar RUNNER is not defined by how you earn a living. It has more to do with your approach to running."
? – The very definition of a “yuppie” is an affluent, well educated individual living near or in a large city – a social climber. It has everything to do with how much money you have/make, your job, what clubs you belong, car you drive, etc. I am sure it could be viewed as approach, but it is really a division among classes or more importantly, one that wants to be divided – they want to be a member of the ‘haves,’ not the ‘have-nots.’ Calling someone a yuppie or blue collar is a generalization!
It's more about the game. Money is just a way of keeping score.
Also, bump.
green eyed monster wrote:
YR: secretly want to be BCR
BCR: secretly want to be YR
PS: THIS ^^^^
brought it back.
Tommy2Nuts wrote:
Coach:
YR: Salazar
BCR: Daniels
Letsrunner: Flagpolewilly
Do BCR's have coaches? If so, wouldn't it be Bowerman or at worst McDonnell?
Mark Wetmore BCR coach
Jack Daniels YR coach
Yuppie Runner: Galen Rupp
Blue Collar Runner: Josphat Menjo
Observerer wrote:
Idol:
YR: Roger Bannister, Alan Webb, Bob Kennedy
BC: John Landy, Zatopek, Prefontaine
BC: Billy Mills
BCR: successfully won Diamond League race
YR: successfully got WC A-standard at Diamond League race