If so, I'll stop workouts now and increase my mileage to 120 per week over the course of a few years and battle it up. I started running late in life. The time is now!
If so, I'll stop workouts now and increase my mileage to 120 per week over the course of a few years and battle it up. I started running late in life. The time is now!
Wait, what?! You actually use the term 'LOL'?!
How gay.
There will be a time when all master runners take selfies and talk in web slang, fwiw.
I think we should petition to have the masters category start at 40. Thirties is the new twenties, afterall.
When did this happen? (I say this as 47 yr old runner.)
Ray 'Jasmine' Rice wrote:
Wait, what?! You actually use the term 'LOL'?!
How gay.
I'm gay and I don't talk like that.
So no. It's not gay.
Masters has always started at 35.
It's the self-righteous Americans older than 40 that try and preserve and protect 40 like it's a magic number.
The 35 year-old cutoff is used for Track and Field. The vast majority of road races use 40 as the cutoff.
kjc wrote:
Masters has always started at 35.
It's the self-righteous Americans older than 40 that try and preserve and protect 40 like it's a magic number.
This post has no basis in reality. Refer to my post directly above if you are seeking factual information. Also - your wording should have read: "try to preserve" not "try and preserve". What you have written indicates that self-righteous Americans older than 40 do three separate things: try 40, preserve 40, and protect 40. Huge error. Please get smarter, kjc.
You might want to invest your time in learning to write coherently.
Also, the USATF Masters Outdoor Championship has age divisions that start at 30.
I seriously thought it did start at 40 but then again I never really cared a race is a race who ever crosses the finish line first wins young or old.
In fact I find the whole age grading thing to be a joke and have never even bothered to pay attention to it when it's offered in race results.
I am 51.
well.... wrote:
You might want to invest your time in learning to write coherently.
Also, the USATF Masters Outdoor Championship has age divisions that start at 30.
30? Who knew? More importantly, who cares? Anyone still competing on the track beyond college (excepting elites) is a dork.
162430 wrote:
The 35 year-old cutoff is used for Track and Field. The vast majority of road races use 40 as the cutoff.
What about xc?
162430 wrote:
well.... wrote:You might want to invest your time in learning to write coherently.
Also, the USATF Masters Outdoor Championship has age divisions that start at 30.
30? Who knew? More importantly, who cares? Anyone still competing on the track beyond college (excepting elites) is a dork.
You might want to think that one through a little better.
You mean like Steve Plasencia running 14:02 at age 40? Or Anthony Whiteman running 3:58 at age 40?
If competing on the track after college is only for dorks, can you enlighten us on other behavior we should avoid? Should I quit XC running competitions as well? How about XC ski races? How about the rowing races I do?
Should I quit bike racing too? After all, I am not going to the Olympics in any of them, so why risk being looked down on by you?
Whiteman and Plas weren't either, so hopefully somebody let them know how lame they were.
newname wrote:
162430 wrote:30? Who knew? More importantly, who cares? Anyone still competing on the track beyond college (excepting elites) is a dork.
You might want to think that one through a little better.
You mean like Steve Plasencia running 14:02 at age 40? Or Anthony Whiteman running 3:58 at age 40?
If competing on the track after college is only for dorks, can you enlighten us on other behavior we should avoid? Should I quit XC running competitions as well? How about XC ski races? How about the rowing races I do?
Should I quit bike racing too? After all, I am not going to the Olympics in any of them, so why risk being looked down on by you?
Whiteman and Plas weren't either, so hopefully somebody let them know how lame they were.
I never mentioned the Olympics, you did. I would consider Plasencia and Whiteman elite.
newname wrote:
162430 wrote:30? Who knew? More importantly, who cares? Anyone still competing on the track beyond college (excepting elites) is a dork.
You might want to think that one through a little better.
You mean like Steve Plasencia running 14:02 at age 40? Or Anthony Whiteman running 3:58 at age 40?
If competing on the track after college is only for dorks, can you enlighten us on other behavior we should avoid? Should I quit XC running competitions as well? How about XC ski races? How about the rowing races I do?
Should I quit bike racing too? After all, I am not going to the Olympics in any of them, so why risk being looked down on by you?
Whiteman and Plas weren't either, so hopefully somebody let them know how lame they were.
Also - you got this worked up over being called a "dork"? Really? I thought that I was being pretty PC.
kjc wrote:
Masters has always started at 35.
It's the self-righteous Americans older than 40 that try and preserve and protect 40 like it's a magic number.
Certainly not so in Britain.
Male vets competed at 40 plus for donkey’s years.
Seems a perfectly logical age to become a veteran - or master as the term became.
However, to encourage the smaller number of females still competing at a later age, the age for women to become veteran was put at 35.
But inexorably, as with most matters these days where so-called equality and all that sort nonsense reigns supreme - the inevitable happened.
To clarify, in Britain Masters are called Veterans just like ex-servicemen and classic cars.
162430 wrote:
newname wrote:You might want to think that one through a little better.
You mean like Steve Plasencia running 14:02 at age 40? Or Anthony Whiteman running 3:58 at age 40?
If competing on the track after college is only for dorks, can you enlighten us on other behavior we should avoid? Should I quit XC running competitions as well? How about XC ski races? How about the rowing races I do?
Should I quit bike racing too? After all, I am not going to the Olympics in any of them, so why risk being looked down on by you?
Whiteman and Plas weren't either, so hopefully somebody let them know how lame they were.
I never mentioned the Olympics, you did. I would consider Plasencia and Whiteman elite.
So what is the cutoff? I am in suspense?
162430 wrote:
Also - you got this worked up over being called a "dork"? Really? I thought that I was being pretty PC.
Oh I don't care what you say at all, especially about me. You don't know me and your opinion of me or others matters not at all. I do rowing, skiing, cycling and running races still and I am way over 22.
I am just surprised that anyone in America takes a dim view of a 25 year old running a track race, I just don't get that. Especially someone who (by your presence here) alleges to enjoy running?
For 40 year-olds? Anything under 3:59 or 14:03.
newname wrote:
162430 wrote:I never mentioned the Olympics, you did. I would consider Plasencia and Whiteman elite.
So what is the cutoff? I am in suspense?