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

Tell that to Eliud Kipchoge you idiot. The sub 2 attempt is going to generate a lot of money for Nike over the next several months. It probably inspired a number of people to get more involved in running and thus improve their health and buy running related products

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?

MLB minimum salary is $535,000

NBA minimum salary is $815,615 as a rookie and a jump to $1.4 million as a second year player.

MLB and NBA players have real jobs - as in jobs that pay real well. Most runners - not so much.

Runners vs NBA and MLB 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?

or

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

MLB minimum salary is $535,000

NBA minimum salary is $815,615 as a rookie and a jump to $1.4 million as a second year player.

MLB and NBA players have real jobs - as in jobs that pay real well. Most runners - not so much.

$815,615 for putting a leather ball through a hoop!? Now that's a job!

I have to say that I agree with OP. I currently run 100+ mpw, work 60+ hours per week (flexible schedule, mostly on my computer), and have a fulfilling social and family life. I'm not sponsored but am around the B standard for a few distances.At the absolute most, running doubles, stretching, showering, and exercises can take 3-4 hours. I sleep 8-9 hours per day and can "recover" working at my desk. The harder I train, the easier it is for me to focus at work because my day is structured and fulfilling."Eliterunner" sounds pretty intellectually lazy to me. The idea that running somehow saps your ability to perform knowledge-work is baffling to me.I can imagine that a true elite runner (e.g. Farah) would be too busy during the day with sponsorship duties, interviews, and such. But if you're not beholden to media appearances and you're just sitting at home "recovering" when you could be contributing to society then you're pretty darn lazy.

I have often posted here about how it's possible to run big miles with a full time job. That said, most of us who have jobs are doing them to stay alive. Any "contributing" to society is incidental. If you can stay alive by running and want to do that why wouldn't you? Even if you really buy the contributing to society thing you'll have decades to do that once your best running years have passed.

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.

I will admit running very high mileage can take up quite a bit of time and not resting and recovering between sessions can impact effectiveness of training

But what about sprinters that run less than 15 mile a week or throwers? Are they lazy?

To each his (or her) own, I suppose. When I was in grad school I would have said the exact same thing to someone in my position. Then when I took time away from working and experienced the difference in how I felt and how much better I could perform, I became a believer. My work involves a lot of research and writing, and I find that staring at a computer doesn't have the same revitalizing effect on me as it sounds like it does for you. There is some interesting research on mental fatigue and physical performance, particularly with cyclists. I must not be highly evolved enough to get past that!

Maybe someone could ask Corey McGee what's it like to have running for a "job". She got millennial style offended on social media when someone asked her what she was going to do when her current "job" ended.

She'll do what any other beautiful girl would do. Marry a rich guy.

I concur

If people ran and then sat in their houses or wandered around in nature all day long, the world would be a better place. most people have evil jobs that contribute nothing to the world but pain and suffering. Soldiers sent by people the don't know to kill other people they don'tknow. Violent law enforcement people living of taxes collected from poor, doing nothing but to protect the wealth of the rich that is also being produced by the poor. All kinds of administrators and clerks serving rich people exploiting the poor for a pay check of just above minimum wage. Corrupted business men. In general- a majority of poor people doing all kinds of jobs that only the rich benefit of it.

Garrett Heath is not lazy. After graduating from Stanford he was an assistant coach there while obtaining a Master's degree. Since then he has started on his PHD. He is known for Nordic Skiing and Biking when not running as well.

Most of the people who are world class runners keep themselves very busy. Many do have other jobs in addition to running.

Craig Virgin had and has his own company called Front Runner, Inc. Frank Shorter has his hands in many things including a clothing company named after him.

Steve Prefontaine had a fairly new 1956 lowered Chevy when he entered the University of Oregon. He worked several jobs when he was in high school.

I'm sure many people know of world class runners that work in addition to running!

Read Canaday's book: Running for the Hanson's. Good stuff!

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.

Maybe because they don't have much weight to pull?