Have you guys ever been heckled by non runners? The other day, I was running with my short shorts and no shirt, and some guy in a car yells at me "take your shorts off" (I'm from the hood btw). I just continue running because I dont wanna cause any trouble. What would you do in that situation
Attack! Attack!
How do you know they were non runners? I have been running for years and I heckle every runner I see.
I would try to just keep running and avoid the hecklers.
eazy-e wrote:
Have you guys ever been heckled by non runners? The other day, I was running with my short shorts and no shirt, and some guy in a car yells at me "take your shorts off" (I'm from the hood btw). I just continue running because I dont wanna cause any trouble. What would you do in that situation
All the time and I'm a hobby jogger...,oh wait! I get kat calls because I'm a female....nothing special here.
Just ignore them.
Gump was a yard....... wrote:
How do you know they were non runners? I have been running for years and I heckle every runner I see.
Same here, I yell "whoop whoop" sarcastically whenever I see skinny runners with short shorts and no shirt, looking like they take the sport way too seriously. I still run, but I'm a bigger, yet still lean guy now and I wear longer shorts and usually a tank or cutoff which highlights my massive guns..meaning I look more like some guy from pickup basketball (there was a pro 3v3 tournament going on near me a few weeks ago and the grocery cashier asked if I was playing in it) not a d*rky runner anymore so no one hassles me. What's funny is my PRs would blow most of those skinny little dweebs out of the water. I bet OP runs 16 minutes for 5k and wears 2.5" inseams in order to reduce wind resistance.
Funny you brought this up. Yesterday , I was also running topless with splits shorts in a park and it was the last couple of km of my tempo run, so pushing it as much as I can. I pass this big East European family going for a picnic and as I pass them (first time from front) they started laughing so hard. I thought at first it could be just a coincidence. But few minutes after I have to return back on the same path, this time running even faster as it was a bit downhill now. I could hear them taking in Russian or Polish as I approached, and the moment I pass them the father; a fat , round, bald, bubble of a man; shouted something and this time all 7 or so of them started laughing like hell.
I was really pissed off, but kept on running., cursing "may you die of a sudden heart attack, you fat ba###rd!"
ethiopian wrote:
Funny you brought this up. Yesterday , I was also running topless with splits shorts in a park and it was the last couple of km of my tempo run, so pushing it as much as I can. I pass this big East European family going for a picnic and as I pass them (first time from front) they started laughing so hard. I thought at first it could be just a coincidence. But few minutes after I have to return back on the same path, this time running even faster as it was a bit downhill now. I could hear them taking in Russian or Polish as I approached, and the moment I pass them the father; a fat , round, bald, bubble of a man; shouted something and this time all 7 or so of them started laughing like hell.
I was really pissed off, but kept on running., cursing "may you die of a sudden heart attack, you fat ba###rd!"
A death sentence for laughing at you? A bit harsh, no?
Sometimes when I run by the cross fit box they will say something.. they are just pissed that someone is jogging faster than they run their "wind sprints"
Big burly runner man wrote:
Gump was a yard....... wrote:How do you know they were non runners? I have been running for years and I heckle every runner I see.
Same here, I yell "whoop whoop" sarcastically whenever I see skinny runners with short shorts and no shirt, looking like they take the sport way too seriously. I still run, but I'm a bigger, yet still lean guy now and I wear longer shorts and usually a tank or cutoff which highlights my massive guns..meaning I look more like some guy from pickup basketball (there was a pro 3v3 tournament going on near me a few weeks ago and the grocery cashier asked if I was playing in it) not a d*rky runner anymore so no one hassles me. What's funny is my PRs would blow most of those skinny little dweebs out of the water. I bet OP runs 16 minutes for 5k and wears 2.5" inseams in order to reduce wind resistance.
so, you're fat?
eazy-e wrote:
(I'm from the hood btw).
In the hood, it's fashionable to wear long baggy saggy shorts.
Short shorts are the direct opposite of that.
Are you going to let baggy shorts people and their opinions dictate how you live?
This is American, son. Do what you want. Do with purpose.
Maybe they were gypsies.
eazy-e wrote:
Have you guys ever been heckled by non runners? The other day, I was running with my short shorts and no shirt, and some guy in a car yells at me "take your shorts off" (I'm from the hood btw). I just continue running because I dont wanna cause any trouble. What would you do in that situation
In that situation, usually, I just listen to them out of fear of aggravating the upper class and highly respectable individuals that yell at you in their cars.
Mercy me! wrote:
A death sentence for laughing at you? A bit harsh, no?
Good point! I overreacted because this has never happened to me before.
John Utah wrote:
Big burly runner man wrote:[quote]Gump was a yard....... wrote:
How do you know they were non runners? I have been running for years and I heckle every runner I see.
Same here, I yell "whoop whoop" sarcastically whenever I see skinny runners with short shorts and no shirt, looking like they take the sport way too seriously.
i dunno man i call that "being comfortable."