Help me figure out WEIGHT-GRADED Marathon Equivalencies. Don't post a complaint without a solution!

MPO wrote:

yep.................. wrote:

i used to think i was big boned.

then i stopped eating like a pig and running more and realized i was just fat.

there is no such thing as big boned.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Bone mass is a tiny fraction of any human's total mass. Maybe 15% of a healthy-weight person, so even less for theJeff. Muscle is the vast majority of it (and also affects bone density)-unless you're relatively obese like theJeff, in which case fat makes up a substantial chunk of it.

Stop eating too much and you will weigh less, Jeff.

I don't believe we have met. Why do you assume I am fat?

thejeff wrote:

MPO wrote:

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Bone mass is a tiny fraction of any human's total mass. Maybe 15% of a healthy-weight person, so even less for theJeff. Muscle is the vast majority of it (and also affects bone density)-unless you're relatively obese like theJeff, in which case fat makes up a substantial chunk of it.

Stop eating too much and you will weigh less, Jeff.

I don't believe we have met. Why do you assume I am fat?

Why do you assume we haven't met?

But anyway, my apologies. If you want, we can say that you're a THIN man who wants to create an arbitrary and meaningless "weight-grading" system for running. No problem. ;)

MPO wrote:

thejeff wrote:

I don't believe we have met. Why do you assume I am fat?

Why do you assume we haven't met?

But anyway, my apologies. If you want, we can say that you're a THIN man who wants to create an arbitrary and meaningless "weight-grading" system for running. No problem. ;)

I asume we haven't met because the odds are statistically against it and because if you knew me, you'd know whether or not I am fat.

thejeff wrote:

MPO wrote:

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Bone mass is a tiny fraction of any human's total mass. Maybe 15% of a healthy-weight person, so even less for theJeff. Muscle is the vast majority of it (and also affects bone density)-unless you're relatively obese like theJeff, in which case fat makes up a substantial chunk of it.

Stop eating too much and you will weigh less, Jeff.

I don't believe we have met. Why do you assume I am fat?

Damn it Jeff! Put down the Ding Dongs!

(Jk 😘)

I think I was blessed with hollow bird bones and Kenyan proportions. Jeff can you devise a weight conversion that factors in time to add for people who were born lucky with respect to bone density, chest/ankle/calf/wrist circumferences, muscle composition and limb lengths?

I think I need to start checking my privilege. I've had it so much easier and I need to recognize as much. We should consider 5'-4", 190 pounds and 6:00:00 as a potential benchmark. Something like that. The true runner-warrior working out there in these 'thons.

doot doot wrote:

thejeff wrote:

I don't believe we have met. Why do you assume I am fat?

Damn it Jeff! Put down the Ding Dongs!

(Jk 😘)

I think I was blessed with hollow bird bones and Kenyan proportions. Jeff can you devise a weight conversion that factors in time to add for people who were born lucky with respect to bone density, chest/ankle/calf/wrist circumferences, muscle composition and limb lengths?

I think I need to start checking my privilege. I've had it so much easier and I need to recognize as much. We should consider 5'-4", 190 pounds and 6:00:00 as a potential benchmark. Something like that. The true runner-warrior working out there in these 'thons.

They already have that. See: Boston Standards :-)

thejeff wrote:

Make America Fat Again wrote:

come on, jeff, give me some credit.

I didn't want to embarrass you by saying that you think a 60 pound man should be able to finish a marathon in 60 minutes :-)

It's called encouraging body diversity in running, you healthist.

Make America Fat Again wrote:

thejeff wrote:

I didn't want to embarrass you by saying that you think a 60 pound man should be able to finish a marathon in 60 minutes :-)

It's called encouraging body diversity in running, you healthist.

That would be a little over 2:20 per mile. Hey, I am all for it.

I'm the one who came up with marathon in minutes v. weight in pounds. I will relinquish you this thread, as long as you stay out of my "INTELLIGENCE GRADED Half Marathon Equivalencies" thread (i.e. half marathon cutoff = IQ).

Up Runner wrote:

I'm the one who came up with marathon in minutes v. weight in pounds. I will relinquish you this thread, as long as you stay out of my "INTELLIGENCE GRADED Half Marathon Equivalencies" thread (i.e. half marathon cutoff = IQ).

All you, bruh :-)

thejeff wrote:

doot doot wrote:

Damn it Jeff! Put down the Ding Dongs!

(Jk 😘)

I think I was blessed with hollow bird bones and Kenyan proportions. Jeff can you devise a weight conversion that factors in time to add for people who were born lucky with respect to bone density, chest/ankle/calf/wrist circumferences, muscle composition and limb lengths?

I think I need to start checking my privilege. I've had it so much easier and I need to recognize as much. We should consider 5'-4", 190 pounds and 6:00:00 as a potential benchmark. Something like that. The true runner-warrior working out there in these 'thons.

They already have that. See: Boston Standards :-)

Wew 😰