Do elite runners have real jobs,or do they sit around the house alll day after their workouts?

Morning run, gym, nap, afternoon run/session, eat, sleep.

Back in the day they worked though.

That logic can be applied to any performer. Practice = rehearsal.

Do NBA players have real jobs,or do they sit around the house alll day after their practice?

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Do MLB players have real jobs,or do they sit around the house alll day after their practice?

They spend a lot of time buying and selling yachts, polo ponies, Caribbean islands, etc..

Yeah the guys running 100+ miles/week really are just a bunch of lazy f*cks. No wonder this country is going down the shitter - SOME people just aren't pulling their weight.

Someone had to say it wrote:

Yeah the guys running 100+ miles/week really are just a bunch of lazy f*cks. No wonder this country is going down the shitter - SOME people just aren't pulling their weight.

Somebody running and doing nothing else is not good example to set for a society and is not something that is going help the economy or advancement of a society compared with doing a proper job.

Furthermore when someone is dependent only on running to earn a living then the motivation to use performance enhancing drugs is increased - see the truckload of positive drugs tests from Kenya for example. Linked to this is the development of a corrupt circle of managers and coaches which can even reach the sport's governing bodies as we have seen in the IAAF.

To resolve these problems, the sport needs to be made amateur again as soon as possible. There are several amateur runners who are good examples to society such as Yuki Kawauchi or Annie Bersagel that runners can aspire to.

They do the social media.

High level amateur sports are the most corrupt things in the world. None of the problems you mention are solved by restricting sports to amateurs.

Many people in normal jobs do nothing productive. They usually work in the public sector.

If your JOB is running then what else are they supposed to do compared to other athletes?

That being said, I would say pro runners tend to do more things outside of just running, seems like most Kenyans are either police or even farmers on the side for example.

examples for society wrote:

Somebody running and doing nothing else is not good example to set for a society and is not something that is going help the economy or advancement of a society compared with doing a proper job.

This is 18th century economic thinking. If someone is making a real living by running, then they are by definition helping the economy.

Hot Carl wrote:

Look what I can do! wrote:

Do NBA players have real jobs,or do they sit around the house alll day after their practice?

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Do MLB players have real jobs,or do they sit around the house alll day after their practice?

No, they don't. Know why? Because they are busy competing at their sport. Distance runner run one or two marathons a year at best. The rest of the year, they run a bit, feed on EPO, and enjoy their anorexia.

Some do pick up extra cash in the offseason by renting their torso out as tent poles.

What about bench players? They're not competing. And that one MLB player that just recently skipped a game to go golfing.

Look what I can do! wrote:

Hot Carl wrote:

No, they don't. Know why? Because they are busy competing at their sport. Distance runner run one or two marathons a year at best. The rest of the year, they run a bit, feed on EPO, and enjoy their anorexia.

Some do pick up extra cash in the offseason by renting their torso out as tent poles.

What about bench players? They're not competing. And that one MLB player that just recently skipped a game to go golfing.

Bench players are roster players. Runners don't have "stunt bean poles."

And the player didn't go golfing. It was woman related. He was suspended and has returned to pitching. A major league pitcher will compete more in two weeks than elite marathon runners do all year.

jhvfkjvhsdj wrote:

Most of them seem lazy and talk real slow like they are in pain.

I have a job and am not pro and I still sit around all day after a hard workout.

You jelly brah?

The companies investing in, more appropriately donating to, American distance runners are seeing losses on their money invested. Nike is charitable in this sense. The only athletes that help them truly make money are at the very top of the sport. Does anyone actually think they get a profitable return on Chris Derrick? The answer is no, they do not.

The general public does not buy Nike because Chris Derrick wears Nike. The majority of society has no idea who he is. I'm a major fan, but I'm also a realist. I don't try to convince myself that our sport is any bigger than it is.

I am an elite runner with sponsorship.

I have two freelance jobs. I work from home, and I am able to schedule work around my running. On a typical day, I work 2 - 4 hours per day, but sometimes more, sometimes less.

Between prize $ and the two jobs I make just enough to get by and am pretty happy. Ideally, I would like to work less. When I was training for the trials I took 3 months completely off from working and ran my best times, but blew up in LA. When my mileage is 100+, even 2 - 4 hours of work from home can seem difficult and energy zapping. It's not a case that I want to be lazy, it's that if I want to be the best I can be, I need to treat my training in the same way as if I had a more substantial contract. You can rag on us all you want and say we're lazy, but when it comes down to it, professional running is a once in a lifetime opportunity that could be over tomorrow if we don't look both ways when going through an intersection.

Very refreshing and insightful post. Your honestly is appreciated. I'm a former college teammate of a girl who is currently a pro 800m runner, now just unfortunately got dropped down to more of a grad and travel stipend sponsorship. She was on one of the big teams prior to this, and told me even the guys on the team who were finalists at the trials and had world and Olympic A standards were financially in the same spot as a struggling artist.

Jimsonweed wrote:

jhvfkjvhsdj wrote:

Most of them seem lazy and talk real slow like they are in pain.

I have a job and am not pro and I still sit around all day after a hard workout.

You jelly brah?

For reals. All I've done at work today is play phone games. I'm 5 hours into my day and I've done about 20 minutes of work. It's good to get paid to do nothing.