People asked me how fast I ran and then got mad at me when I told them 7:00/mile. I'm not fast anymore.

cbenson4 wrote:

They should stop pouting and get good

This is the best answer in the thread.

disco musci wrote:

I was asked by some friends to help out with a team marathon thing since people know I run. Some other people asked me how fast I can run, and I said something like, "Oh, I'm not fast at all any more. I will probably run about 7:00 pace." (My leg was 8 miles). I was just being honest, but I guess some people got mad about it and thought I was trying to be arrogant and condescending. They run about 10:00pace...

I am not competitive at all these days and just run cause I like to. I never talk about my running accomplishments, nor do I try to use them to feel "better" than other people. But I made a social misstep in being honest I guess. This happen to anyone else?

I clicked this post thinking people were mad because you are slow.

I was about to join a Ragnar team once until I received an email stating that the goal was for every teammate to run under a 10 minute per mile pace. That's when I dropped out and decided not to join hobby joggers. Even if they weren't offended by your comments, what fun would it be to run with their team?

Find better teammates. These people you're talking to don't even classify as race walkers.

"I'm not that fast anymore". It sounds like the set up so you can drone in about your "glory days". What relevance is it that you were fast ? You 20 years ago won't be running for them. My guess is you wanted to bore tgem with stories about "back in the day" racing Pre and Boston Billy.

somebloke wrote:

Jimmy21 wrote:

Their meaning wasn't that anyone who is extremely athletic and built for it could do it if they trained hard enough.

More like, any idiot can do it if they put in even a half assed effort

You don't get out much, do you? Do you talk to other runners? 37 flat is easily top 2% in any road 10k these days.

You know 99% of road race participants have absolutely no interest in time, right? They are only interested in race T-shirts and post-race refreshment. (At least that's what I have read here...)

disco musci wrote:

I was asked by some friends to help out with a team marathon thing since people know I run. Some other people asked me how fast I can run, and I said something like, "Oh, I'm not fast at all any more. I will probably run about 7:00 pace." (My leg was 8 miles). I was just being honest, but I guess some people got mad about it and thought I was trying to be arrogant and condescending. They run about 10:00pace...

I am not competitive at all these days and just run cause I like to. I never talk about my running accomplishments, nor do I try to use them to feel "better" than other people. But I made a social misstep in being honest I guess. This happen to anyone else?

Yet another runner with no social awareness. You are at fault here. Just say your pace when someone asks with no excuses. A real man does not make excuses.

So you want to bring up the real man thing again? OK.

Thank you. Looking back it is obvious, I guess, but I sometimes forget where I'm at or who I'm with. What I said would be a very normal thing to say to any of my former teammates, and for a large part of my life, my teammates were my main friends, so I sometimes forget what things are like for non-runners.

And yeah, considering a lot of fit high school boys can run 8 miles at 6:00 pace, I definitely was not trying to brag about running the same distance a minute per mile slower.