Fat activist Ragen Chastain (12hr marathon PR) drops out of IRONMAN Arizona

Smart call on her part.

Saves her the humiliation of having to be pulled out of the water with a crane like last year.

Maybe I missed the memo. Is there really such a thing as a fat activist? She is an activist for fat people and their plight or something?

That's racist.

H.A.E.S.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll finish next year just keep the donations coming to my personal paypal account.

Those aren't fake selfies - I took them while I was training all on the same day!

Fat is Fit! I'm an elite athlete!

Fatty bbw wrote:

Maybe I missed the memo. Is there really such a thing as a fat activist? She is an activist for fat people and their plight or something?

Yes. She preaches that being morbidly obese is not unhealthy. A lot of fatties fall for her BS, because it makes them feel better about being morbidly obese.

Didn't you get the memo that being fat isn't unhealthy?

Isn’t being fat unhealthy?

No. Weight and health are two separate things – there are healthy and unhealthy people of all sizes. Health is multi-dimensional, not entirely within our control, and not a barometer of worthiness. The confusion of weight and health does a disservice to fat people because people (often including doctors) think that they can look at us and determine our health, it also does a dangerous disservice to thin people who are told that they are healthy simply because of their weight and that isn’t what the evidence shows. In fact, the evidence shows that people’s habits are a much better determinant of health than their size is. Body size is not a diagnosis. I call this a Galileo issue – “everybody knew” that the sun revolved around the Earth and so Galileo’s statement that the evidence showed that the Earth revolved around the sun was considered heresy. Now “everybody knows” that fat is unhealthy and so statements to the contrary, even though they are fully supported by evidence, are considered heresy. That doesn’t make them any less true. Even if fat was unhealthy, there are plenty of things that people do to prioritize their health that we don’t police (not getting enough sleep, not looking both ways before crossing the street, extreme sports etc.) The idea that public health means making fat people’s health the public’s business is just thinly veiled fat bigotry. Kate Harding has a fantastic post about this as well.

https://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/faqs/

really wish Ragen would read this.

http://www.runnersworld.com/high-school/what-do-you-think-of-the-pillsbury-doughboy-now

sbeefyk1 wrote:

Crane operator wrote:

Smart call on her part.

Saves her the humiliation of having to be pulled out of the water with a crane like last year.

I was there. The lifeguards briefly closed the beach because they thought a whale had beached itself.

Upon closer inspection it was Ragen Chastain.

Don't quit your day job.

"Blubbery update"

I see what you did there.

sbeefyk1 wrote:

Crane operator wrote:

Smart call on her part.

Saves her the humiliation of having to be pulled out of the water with a crane like last year.

I was there. The lifeguards briefly closed the beach because they thought a whale had beached itself.

Upon closer inspection it was Ragen Chastain.

Or this one:

http://komonews.com/news/local/man-with-terminal-lung-disease-finishes-seattle-marathon-in-under-11-hours

Someone who's dying of lung disease finished the Seattle Marathon 1.5 hours faster than the elite fathlete.

fph wrote:

sbeefyk1 wrote:

I was there. The lifeguards briefly closed the beach because they thought a whale had beached itself.

Upon closer inspection it was Ragen Chastain.

https://ironfatblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/wetsuit.png

That poor wetsuit :(

oh boy

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Another thing we’ve talked about is getting a pacer – someone to run or bike along with me. This is difficult first because I don’t know many people who want to crawl along at my snail’s pace, and I know even less who can do this on my schedule. Julianne and I realized that her mobility scooter goes pretty fast and so we decided to give a try at having her pacing me, today was to be our first exploratory mission.

Julianne has been incredibly supportive of this whole journey, despite the fact that it means that she spends a lot of time stuck in a house with a surly IRONMAN-in-training, but to take time out of her day to go out in the sun (she hates the sun less than I do, but being out in the heat is not her favorite) to pace me while I run and walk along behind her is a new level of sacrifice.

We put my old Garmin on Scoot and got going. Annoyingly, the Garmins were often up to two minutes different so we have to pace by the one that’s slower to make sure that I’m doing the speed I need. This may well be something that we do again in the future."

http://archive.is/iTvlJ

ukrnr wrote:

oh boy

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Another thing we’ve talked about is getting a pacer – someone to run or bike along with me. This is difficult first because I don’t know many people who want to crawl along at my snail’s pace, and I know even less who can do this on my schedule. Julianne and I realized that her mobility scooter goes pretty fast and so we decided to give a try at having her pacing me, today was to be our first exploratory mission."

http://archive.is/iTvlJ

Oh my God this has to be a joke

Author Name wrote:

ukrnr wrote:

oh boy

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Another thing we’ve talked about is getting a pacer – someone to run or bike along with me. This is difficult first because I don’t know many people who want to crawl along at my snail’s pace, and I know even less who can do this on my schedule. Julianne and I realized that her mobility scooter goes pretty fast and so we decided to give a try at having her pacing me, today was to be our first exploratory mission."

http://archive.is/iTvlJ

Oh my God this has to be a joke

Does DWF stand for Dude With Fathead?

Uncanny Valley wrote:

Does DWF stand for Dude With Fathead?

Disguted With Fatties?

Sadly, she probably makes more money from running than all but the top 5% of runners, so in her Bizarro World she is an elite athlete.