and it would find a correlation that shows, those who post more frequently on LR, generally have a lower level of running knowledge.
You wonder why no ex-Olympians post anymore...
and it would find a correlation that shows, those who post more frequently on LR, generally have a lower level of running knowledge.
You wonder why no ex-Olympians post anymore...
On every team I've ever been on (high school, college, post-collegiate running club) the people who talk the most are never the fastest. In college and after college, it was the 16:00-16:30 5k runners. Just good enough to think they know something. Luckily, they're easy to drop.
Tell Paalo we said hi, but other than that you won't be missed. Don't let the door hit you in the arse.
Pretty certain you can go ahead and extrapolate that theory to every aspect of human life. The people who talk the most about anything are always going to be the biggest morans. Like the man say, The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Bolt: "oh yeah?"
Gatlin: "oh yeah?"
Greene: "oh yeah?"
I'm done with this site wrote:
and it would find a correlation that shows, those who post more frequently on LR, generally have a lower level of running knowledge.
You wonder why no ex-Olympians post anymore...
So certain members of the running community like to discuss various matters of life. Is that wrong? No, it isn't. There is supposed to be a purpose to running that goes beyond running. You can get the science of running and training all down pat, but there is personhood beyond that which must be cultivated and without which, the running is in vain. It is my life work, this matter.
and like the Church is supposed to be the Body of Christ, so, too, do I believe the distance running community, collectively, has certain imperative responsibilities. A whole diverse array of them, and there is great lacking. They post here, they don't. They set world records, they set American records, ok, but let's not give more credit than is due, make undue deference or invent heroes that haven't existed. The great Letsrun forum is far from at a loss, either, because there is endless treasure in the endless days of thread streams which, thus far, still demands compiling on all sorts of parameters (the search feature is pretty lousy and scratches maybe 1% or less of the iceberg).
Sax a wrote:
Tell Paalo we said hi, but other than that you won't be missed. Don't let the door hit you in the arse.
Anecdotally, Paavo Nurmi, the Flying Finn, with the national cross emblazoned on his chest, is reported to have stressed, in a quotable, the importance and centrality of "mind." I'd like to think, very liberally and sweepingly, and not just in a narrow sense.
frogs wrote:
Pretty certain you can go ahead and extrapolate that theory to every aspect of human life. The people who talk the most about anything are always going to be the biggest morans. Like the man say, The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Overgeneralization, is what this is. It is a useful guideline in some cases, but not universally applicable and, overextended, is false and damaging. False and damaging because there are plenty of people who don't speak up precisely because they are stupid, ignorant to fine things, education, aesthetics, fine ideas, and because they are also blind to the nuanced vast suffering and evils of the world. Because many violent zealots and crazies happen to make the "news" (itself a flavored selection of happenings), does not exclude the possibility of active, conspicuous workers of good with "all cards on the table, face up." Passion? Intensity? Aren't these qualities to be praised, for vocation, and especially running? Ah, overgeneralizing and not out of a expository/rhetorical good-faith necessity, but narrow-minded anger. I do the former. You do the latter. I talk a lot because I have seen a lot. The whole spectrum of existence. Titanic human joys, terrible human suffering and scoundrelness. Only selfish, willfully denying "children" aren't touched enough by these things to raise their voice on occasion; to be awoken in tremors late at night, to be moved to thought, compassion and searching.
They say to keep quiet unless you remove doubt about your intelligence. That does not mean that the intelligent universally keep quiet. An intelligent moral person has responsibility to affect positive change in the world. Days spent keeping mum are to serve an ultimate purpose. Keeping quiet and in retreat is also a form of cowardice. At any rate, who is quiet in these times? A loud message board poster is not any louder than people who are short of words but heavy on social media activity, greed and grabbing. In this time where everyone's grandmother has 1000+ facebook friends, and a resume full of bloated accomplishments.
And so if the person who talks more is slower? That makes them inferior? What are the parameters of this judgment? Being fast indicates discipline, health and health of mind and devotion, sure. But the temple of running can be profaned, too. People can do it out of obsession and vainglory seeking. The numbers and achievements of our sport should be sacred symbols of happiness and/or holiness, rejoice of a community, stories, on and on and on.
But form and goodness is multidimensional. Being a fast runner is not an infallible vindication of worth; neither is being beautiful.