Anyone get depressed that your past competitors and high school/college heros have stopped running competitively?
Why do so many stop running in their late twenties and early thirties?
Anyone get depressed that your past competitors and high school/college heros have stopped running competitively?
Why do so many stop running in their late twenties and early thirties?
Why on earth would that depress you? People grow up, focus on their careers, have families, take care of aging parents, travel, get new hobbies, etc. In other words, most people move on with their lives.
i have stopped in my late 20's and get sad about it sometimes. I see the high school meets in the paper and I recall my glory days.
Bro Alan Webb ain't retired
Not really. I tend to view them sort of as cowards. Plus then their pr's are static. No better feeling than knowing you are now faster than some guy who used to hand your ass to you. All I care about is running as fast as I can and secondarily beating as many people as I can. Way easier to do the 2nd when fewer people who've beaten me in the past show up.
Edward Teach wrote:
Not really. I tend to view them sort of as cowards. Plus then their pr's are static. No better feeling than knowing you are now faster than some guy who used to hand your ass to you. All I care about is running as fast as I can and secondarily beating as many people as I can. Way easier to do the 2nd when fewer people who've beaten me in the past show up.
Cowards? Too funny. What I have noticed is that some mediocre runners can't grow up and move on with their lives. It is like they are stuck in time. Everyone knows the mediocre runner who has no life outside of running. For some unknown reason, they get a thrill attempting to set a PR at some little local race.
Many of the most talented runners also happen to be very good students. Now surprisingly, they set aside their little running "career" in exchange for professional career.
Bro Alan Webb is not retired he is not a coward
Huh? Why? wrote:
Why on earth would that depress you? People grow up, focus on their careers, have families, take care of aging parents, travel, get new hobbies, etc. In other words, most people move on with their lives.
That's just a list of excuses, you could focus on your career and still have time to train once a day at least and I've see people run 8:44 s/chase off that training
I can understand people getting bored of competing or not wanting to train all out but it always seems strange and a bit sad when people who used to love running give it up completely
ignorance is blissful wrote:
Anyone get depressed that your past competitors and high school/college heros have stopped running competitively?
Why do so many stop running in their late twenties and early thirties?
So you are in your late twenties or early thirties and still have high school heroes? And you follow their running careers?
Dude, take a hard look at your life.
PR's stay static, because they don't matter anymore.
Edward Teach wrote:
Not really. I tend to view them sort of as cowards. Plus then their pr's are static. No better feeling than knowing you are now faster than some guy who used to hand your ass to you. All I care about is running as fast as I can and secondarily beating as many people as I can. Way easier to do the 2nd when fewer people who've beaten me in the past show up.
I read this really hoping this was a parody of a sociopath. But it's probably a real sociopath. Oh well.
ignorance is blissful wrote:
Anyone get depressed that your past competitors and high school/college heros have stopped running competitively?
I am depressed that people can vote without presenting any ID that attests to who they really are.
Are you serious? wrote:
Cowards? Too funny. What I have noticed is that some mediocre runners can't grow up and move on with their lives. It is like they are stuck in time. Everyone knows the mediocre runner who has no life outside of running. For some unknown reason, they get a thrill attempting to set a PR at some little local race.
Many of the most talented runners also happen to be very good students. Now surprisingly, they set aside their little running "career" in exchange for professional career.
Someone is bitter about their beer gut.
I get depressed when I look up runners I competed with high school who went on to college only to run slower or get injured.
life moves on past running in high school and college. To make it to the next level takes serious commitment, money, talent, and luck when it comes to staying healthy. Even with doing all this you may never make it. A lot of my past competitors still run, they just don't compete as much and don't run as much. This being they have jobs, families, etc. I still see them run faster times in the local road race scenes. Most don't do track anymore and move up in races like 1/2 and marathons. If they aren't running now, they usually start up again after having kids.
This has got to be a troll because he's asking about "late twenties and early thirties."
But, I agree it's a little bit sad when good runners stop immediately after high school/college instead of trying to run on their own for a year. I'd like to see what they could do and I know they'll probably realize 5 years later that they need to "get back in shape" which is a lot harder than staying in shape.
But most professional runners are done before age 30, so that's a bit ridiculous. Just look up any USA results and most of the runners are just a few years out of college, only the best of the best can afford to keep doing it into their 30's, assuming they still want to.
I was hoping to see Jason Casiano continue.
Hey, whatever you want to believe, but check out my post in this thread if you want insight.http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6082892&page=1
No Way wrote:
Immediately after college, I trained for, and ran a 2:24 marathon, which I was incredibly proud of. I trained hard the following winter, and ran some near PR 1500m races indoors. Come spring, I entered a fairly small college invitational and ran a 3:58.96 mile, which was about a 5 second PR.
I'm unable describe the feeling during the race when I realized that I was going to break 4 minutes. This was something out of a dream, a lifetime goal. I hadn't expected it at all really, I would have been thrilled to run a PR. Doing it in front of former teammates and my former coach just made it all the better. I really can't even describe the feeling.
Unfortunately, it was about 6 years before I ran another step. Running that race put me in a weird place. I wasn't good enough to make money and having achieved a goal like that sort of left me without any motivation, like I had nothing else to accomplish.
I eventually started running again because I was terribly out of shape. I ran a Ragnar Relay where I dropped a few 9 minute miles. This year, at age 29, I ran a 4:17 marathon, and you know what? I don't care. I'm happy with it.
Despite all of the talk on these message boards, most people can't even run 4:17. If you're not running under 2:40 or 15 minutes, or whatever arbitrary standard these morons come up with, you're labelled a hobbyjogger as if that's something bad.
While I wish that I had stayed in slightly better shape in the 6 years I didn't run, I am incredibly glad that I didn't spend those years chasing faster times. Instead I started a career, got married, and lived my life. I would have intensely regretted slaving away to running for those years.
I get such a kick out of posts on letsrun that condemn people for not being able to run an 18 minute 5k, or for slogging through a 3:30 marathon. I have no idea why someone would care how fast someone they don't know is, or feel the need to judge them. When I was getting back into things, I ran a 24:22 5k. I mentioned this in a post on here and of course got ripped for being a hobby jogger and was asked why I even bothered running. I hadn't described my PRs or background, just the time. I had mentioned it in support of someone who had just started running. I couldn't believe that a message board full of runners who fancy ourselves to be inclusive, and mock cyclists for not being inclusive, would berate a new runner in that way.
I thought about writing a response in that thread, telling the story about my sub 4, but decided not to. I have absolutely nothing to prove with my running. There are very few, if any, people here who have done what I did. I run now because I enjoy it. Not for a particular time goal, and certainly not to prove to anyone that I'm a serious runner.
I hope Bob is able to keep that inner peace and learn to enjoy running again.