Massapequa turkey trot sends out facebook post telling hobby joggers to start in the back

Hi Stoppit! I think you'd love to follow this blog, we need more people like you defending us. Just because we may be 4-5 times the size of the "fast" runners - we're entitled to run along side with them, and if we get there first, we should be at the front of the corral.

xo

https://ironfatblog.wordpress.com/

Stoppit Smith wrote:

No, this is not just a haha joke.

Not in any way, shape or form.

What you and the other false elites fail to realize is that nobody is required to do a Turkey Trot.

You Letsrunners are welcome at my XFit box. You don't have to listen to snowflakes cry there..

What is the problem? The RD is telling people if you're not that fast don't be in front. I play golf - I'm not that good, about an 8, don't hit the ball a long way. So should I be offended when someone tells me not to play from the tips? Should I protest at Bethpage because of this sign?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/golftripmedia/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/07140726/Bethpage-Black-Warning-Sign.jpg

No, because it's different.

If Bethpage had said, "The Black Course is an extremely difficult course. If you can't keep your swing straight, if you shoot in the millions over par, if the three people play around you before you finish a hole, if you need to give your golf ball swimming lessons, or if the only thing that looks like a golfer on you is the bag, don't play here," then it would be about as bad as what the RD said.

One is pragmatic, the other is just being, well, mean. And mean does not belong within recreational events

Nice. Your response to this is to take a shot at people who are overweight.

I am not even going to dignify you by arguing with you.

You already know what you are.

1. I am not a false elite, whatever that means. I am a First Corraller, but still very slow by any competitive measure. And of course no one is forced to race. I prefer races with a personality, all other things being equal. Sounds like the majority agree with me.

2. Don’t you mean a nice “pheasant” race?

3. Starting corrals are a safety issue, not a shaming issue. The fact that this RD diffused a potentially delicate situation with humor speaks well of him.

4. No one is asking that slow people stay at home. We are only asking that those born with no sense of humor kindly shut up and stop trying to drag others into their vortex of self-pity.

Dude, seriously. Grow a pair.

Stoppit Smith wrote:

No, because it's different.

If Bethpage had said, "The Black Course is an extremely difficult course. If you can't keep your swing straight, if you shoot in the millions over par, if the three people play around you before you finish a hole, if you need to give your golf ball swimming lessons, or if the only thing that looks like a golfer on you is the bag, don't play here," then it would be about as bad as what the RD said.

One is pragmatic, the other is just being, well, mean. And mean does not belong within recreational events

No, that would be funny, and a welcome break from the stuffiness that is currently killing golf.

Stoppit Smith wrote:

No, because it's different.

If Bethpage had said, "The Black Course is an extremely difficult course. If you can't keep your swing straight, if you shoot in the millions over par, if the three people play around you before you finish a hole, if you need to give your golf ball swimming lessons, or if the only thing that looks like a golfer on you is the bag, don't play here," then it would be about as bad as what the RD said.

One is pragmatic, the other is just being, well, mean. And mean does not belong within recreational events

Bad analogy.

If Bethpage said, "don't start ahead of the elites/decent golfers if you dig holes when you swing, etc.," that would be the equivalent. The slower runners aren't being told not to run.

If I golfed and was told this, I'd laugh and enjoy my beer while the good golfers went ahead of me.

I guess I shouldn't have been surprised at how many people here would think this was the right response. We'll ignore the fact that the fast training groups I've seen recently having the most commercial success on a local level have been elite groups built on the back of a herd of slower joggers who are impressed with and inspired by the faster folks. The money comes from the masses and makes its way to the top because no one has managed to create a model where anyone other than hobby joggers care about what semi-professional joggers are doing.

That notwithstanding, my first response was, 'If I were younger and fitter I would win that race next year in a race shirt over a hoodie'

DUDE, self-pity?

These people are getting out at the crack of dawn to move their arms and legs before they have thanksgiving dinner later.

For all of these people, they are the antithesis of self-pity.

and NO, just because you are a first corral starter does not mean that you are better than the other people that do a freaking turkey trot on thanksgiving day.

No No and NO.

I could claim that too, right. Heck, my 50th out of 1,370 at yesterday's 10K as certainly something that put me near the front as well, but my heart goes out to the sea of people enjoying themselves at a race.

Do you know what they weren't feeling? Self-pity.

It is the ones who use humor to exploit feelings who are the pitiful ones and the drain of society. It's called bullying and just because you and other renegades finally feel vindicated does not mean that what you is anything other than 110% w r o n g!

Real comedians do not need to exploit feelings. they are too talented for that.

I hope his race folds and I will go further. I will help any group who wants to work to make the race fold as punishment for his behavior.

It's all blood money at this point anyway. He is a terrible man

Mike

Well..... i mean, they arent wrong. Its a little distasteful to post in a public manner while representing a company

Stoppit Smith wrote:

It's all blood money at this point anyway. He is a terrible man

Mike

Ok that confirms it, you're either a pretty good troll or just a f'ing nut job, there is no middle ground at this point. Which one is it?

Troll3mon wrote:

I guess I shouldn't have been surprised at how many people here would think this was the right response. We'll ignore the fact that the fast training groups I've seen recently having the most commercial success on a local level have been elite groups built on the back of a herd of slower joggers who are impressed with and inspired by the faster folks. The money comes from the masses and makes its way to the top because no one has managed to create a model where anyone other than hobby joggers care about what semi-professional joggers are doing.

That notwithstanding, my first response was, 'If I were younger and fitter I would win that race next year in a race shirt over a hoodie'

Excellent response. If you wanna stick it to the RD, win the race next year with Champion shorts, a Race Shirt, a bagel in one hand, and a cup of water in the other.

One thing's for sure: people who are truly offended by this have lived some of the most charmed lives of anyone on earth.

Ok, you got me. I honestly thought you were 100% serious before this post. Well done; you win.

9.5/10

You have a great sense of humor, too. Well done mocking those SJW pansies. Apologies for not picking up on your sarcasm earlier.

I do not troll forums.

I back anyone who wants this garbage to stop in what was designed to be a fun run.

No sweat.

You and your cohorts will have fun now but we have learned.

In less than four years your kind will have to behave again.

I will fight the good fight in the meantime.

Calling yourself 'the Jeff' does not give you more leverage in life.

But, you are a terrible debater.

Charmed??

Nope. We learned manners and etiquette.

I am starting to think many on letsrun have little of either.

Some of you are just not nice people at all.

Je suis matzo-pizza. I will be there to run next year to support this RD. Of course I will line up in the appropriate spot for this fat hobby jogger who will be lucky to break 20

Stoppit Smith wrote:

I do not troll forums.

I back anyone who wants this garbage to stop in what was designed to be a fun run.

No sweat.

You and your cohorts will have fun now but we have learned.

In less than four years your kind will have to behave again.

I will fight the good fight in the meantime.

Calling yourself 'the Jeff' does not give you more leverage in life.

But, you are a terrible debater.

1st, I am a masterdebater.

2nd, is "four years" a reference to Trump? LOL dude. You have some serious projection problems. Trump is a complete clown, but I am glad, at least, that he has gotten the pathetic, thinly skinned members of society to expose themselves for what they are.

3rd, do you think my sense of humor is influenced in some way by the political cycle? Do you honestly have no sense of what it means to be an individual? To have thoughts apart from the SJW sheep that you surround yourself with?

You fight the good fight. I will have a good chuckle.

PS- seriously, dude, what happened to you? Did you get your pants pulled down during the school play? Wet yourself during dodgeball? Pop a woodie at the school dance? Whatever has gotten you so spineless, whatever has caused you to act like a whipped puppy, I am telling you it is not too late. You have your whole life ahead of you; you don't have to play this whole "victim" thing for however long you have left. Don't you want to meet a nice girl and have 2.3 kids? Be a strong, loving father? You seriously have to get over this.