faster runners treated poorly wrote:
Bad for the sport wrote:
No. The people who keep the store in business are 8 minute mile Bob Kennedy and 11:23 minute mile Jennifer Smith.
Do you push gait analysis on every runner that walks in? Do you tell experienced runners what shoe they should buy? This is why I buy online. I know what shoe I want and I'm going to buy it.
Dude fvck the gait analysis.
view Jane wrote:
Nike Marketing Team wrote:
I am a 2:35 Marathoner.
1. I would say I'm solid...I see good as sub-2:30 and great as Sub-2:20
2. I would never be an Olympian or thought I would be. In college I thought I had a shot at the trials.
3. I have seen less qualified coaches.
4. I do slam 5 hour marathoners cause 11:23 is basically trotting.
5. I have never slammed a pro-runner...except maybe Kara Goucher.
This ^^
I'm a 2:26 guy.
1. Yes I see myself as good. Anywhere except on LR people see 2:26 as good. Notice I did not say elite or pro.
2. I never once thought I was anywhere close to being an Olympian. (But to your point, I do know 2:2x guys who did).
3. I am a coach, not because I run 2:26, but because I have a grad degree in Exercise Physiology and research the sport.
4. 5 hour marathoners are urban hikers as opposed to runners.
5. I do not slam pro runners or coaches.
Why do you slam thousands of 2:30 - 2:50 guys because you don't like a few of them?
Actually it's Most of them. in fact, I have never met at 2:30 - 2:45 who wasn't insufferable for more than 2 minutes.
It's funny. you actually prove the OP point quite nicely. The problem with them is they think they are more important, better people by virtue of the fact they run faster. Many of them are on steroids since they will most likely never be caught.
They think the running community owes them something because they can beat hobby joggers. They never support other runners, never cheer, just sit around and look all sullen at races. They NEVER volunteer to help out at races, they get pissy when their is no prize money or get pissy when they don't get their $$ right away.
They really contribute nothing to the sport.
Wow steroids to run 2:30-50? Really you must be kidding.
How do steroids help with 6-7 minute miles? We're talking about brisk running here.
If anyone with even a little talent isn't running 2:50 or less...they need to lose 10-20pounds.
It's not your TE ratio you are chubby or your parents genetics suck.
The OP has issues with someone(s) local and is generalizing across a group. Go ahead, vent.
- 2:44
I remember when this board went nuts when Brian Sell said "if I wanted advice from an 18 minute 5ker I'd ask my wife"
The reason they went nuts is because he was talking to you.
Same with this thread. It hits way too close to home.
Bad for the sport wrote:
Nope you guys missed the point.
I never thought 2:16 was good. I also knew I was never going to be Elite. I was fortunate enough to run the trials in 2007 in NYC. But I was there as a fan knowing that I had no chance. I also have way more respect for the woman that uses the sport to change her life and loses half her body weight and super proud of her sub 5 hr marathon.
If 8 minute mile Bob Kennedy walks into my store, I'll be begging him for an autograph and certainly not belittling his current fitness level.
2:16 makes you the fastest Canadian.
Marathon PR's of:
Arthur Lydiard
Percy Cerruty
Kiyoshi Nakamura
Jack Daniels
Joe Vigil
Renato Canova
Come on guys. Where's the love?
I love Kara and would give anything to tongue that starfish.
I run in the 240s. I love going behind some elite women and getting a bone-r at the start with a little pre-ejac. Then in the pack running with the elite women A lot of times i picture myself putting my face in there after the race is over. But instead I'll hit up Tinder in some random town and bring a chick back to my hotel room.