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

I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS!!!!

I'll just say I wish more races would post discouraging remarks on Facebook. I'm a big fan of the 10k. 10k's discourage more Hobby Walkers from entering. The 5k is just a bad distance. It is short enough to allow the physically unfit and the mentally inept to make poor decisions. Many of them do not have the decency to line up where they should. Maybe it is to far to walk to the back? I don't know.

The Turkey Trot I ran had ten kids under ten years of age on the starting line. How their parents do not get charge with child endangerment is beyond me. How the race director allowed it is a mystery too. I started with a group of 3 respectfully in the middle of the race. I had to give out a warning because we would be passing 3/4ths of the people ahead of us but only 1/10 of the people behind us would pass us. I figured it was a good spot to start.

The gun went off and before we even got to the start a little girl all of three and a half feet tall and maybe 45 pounds gets spilled on the course. Luckily for her the 250 pound guy she ran in front of with his equally large wife picked her up. They may have saved that girls life with the 1,000 people behind them trying to jockey for position while chatting with friends.

As for the PC crowd. Well I agree, It is not nice to be rude sometimes it may be needed though. Someone mentioned corrals. Corrals only work if the physically unfit and the mentally inept follow the signs. The 5k encourages these two groups to join. Some people feel accomplished for their sub 60 5k's. Corrals work in marathons and half-marathons because the entries have had to put in a level of investment to even enter them. With this investment people consciously make an effort to get in where they fit in.

The big problem is the races are putting quantity over quality. This I doubt will ever change. Quantity over quality is also why there is probably one 10k now for every 50-100 5k races. The race directors and organizations would hate to lose out on all the extra income from the physically unfit and mentally inept.

Stoppit Smith wrote:

I have never been a troll.

Agreed. "Stoppit" is just dumb as a bag of rocks. He thinks walk/run is the best way to train - not just for absolute beginners (which it is actually great for), but for life. It allowed him to go from something like 47 minutes in 10k to 44 in eight years (seriously, eight years), so he must be doing something right!

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Because he realizes his comments are so ignoreable that he needs to go to measures to make them harder to ignore.

I also went from 44 to 42:24 in the last 1.5 years. What switched??? I increased walking miles while working in shorter running stretches of faster speeds. My method absolutely works. I am proof. Sincerely, Mike, M. Ed. (Not so dumb after all)

agreed.... wrote:

Stoppit Smith wrote:

I have never been a troll.

Agreed. "Stoppit" is just dumb as a bag of rocks. He thinks walk/run is the best way to train - not just for absolute beginners (which it is actually great for), but for life. It allowed him to go from something like 47 minutes in 10k to 44 in eight years (seriously, eight years), so he must be doing something right!

He also

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Because he realizes his comments are so ignoreable that he needs to go to measures to make them harder to ignore.

Ferrel really is under appreciated... reminds me of Hoffman... I digress.

My vote is world class skills here... anyone seen Kemibe?????

Sorry...42:27.....I do not like to post wrong times

42 moms... did that on my first Forzanis race in Calgary at 15.... are you 15?

Stoppit Smith wrote:

Sorry...42:27.....I do not like to post wrong times

Here, and probably in real life, too.

Lol so? Until 'I don't like you' can telepathically generate an impulse that stops respiration, I guess then I will simply know that nobody likes me and keep being myself. Thank you

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Stoppit Smith wrote:

Sorry...42:27.....I do not like to post wrong times

Here, and probably in real life, too.

Stoppit Smith wrote:

Until 'I don't like you' can telepathically generate an impulse that stops respiration, I guess then I will simply know that nobody likes me and keep being myself.

After reading this thread, I have to ask - why do you post here? Do you get some sort of enjoyment out of people ridiculing you?

Stoppit Smith wrote:

Lol so?

Until 'I don't like you' can telepathically generate an impulse that stops respiration, I guess then I will simply know that nobody likes me and keep being myself.

Not just stupid, but a stupid as-shole.

An unrepentant stupid as-shole.

An unrepentant stupid as-shole who’s sole acheivement is that people may want him to die but they can’t make him die.

I pity sad sacks of shlt like you.

Nope. It's simple. I have my viewpoints. Nobody has logically convinced me to switch them Therefore, I defend my points. It takes a weaker individual to give up under pressure. I thrive on pressure and, oh yeah, I still don't switch. That is how people know I am not trolling, as well

Dude, why do you post here? wrote:

Stoppit Smith wrote:

Until 'I don't like you' can telepathically generate an impulse that stops respiration, I guess then I will simply know that nobody likes me and keep being myself.

After reading this thread, I have to ask - why do you post here? Do you get some sort of enjoyment out of people ridiculing you?

Unrepentant because I don't cave to the majority???? Yes. Absolutely. My opinion is mine and I don't have to consent to feeling bad about it

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Stoppit Smith wrote:

Lol so?

Until 'I don't like you' can telepathically generate an impulse that stops respiration, I guess then I will simply know that nobody likes me and keep being myself.

Not just stupid, but a stupid as-shole.

An unrepentant stupid as-shole.

An unrepentant stupid as-shole who’s sole acheivement is that people may want him to die but they can’t make him die.

I pity sad sacks of shlt like you.

Stoppit Smith wrote:

Nope.

It's simple.

I have my viewpoints.

Nobody has logically convinced me to switch them

Therefore, I defend my points.

It takes a weaker individual to give up under pressure.

I thrive on pressure and, oh yeah, I still don't switch.

That is how people know I am not trolling, as well

Buddy, are you trying to write a haiku or something?

You never answered my question - why do you post here?

No lol

Want a haiku???

Okay...

My posts are my thoughts

Nobody can switch them now

Or even later

That is haiku

Why do you care why I post?

Stoppit Smith wrote:

Why do you care why I post?

I don't care; I'd rather you didn't, tbh. I was just wondering why you do. I certainly wouldn't post regularly on a message board in which everyone seemed to actively dislike me and ridicule me for being a total tool. Are you just argumentative and find it a convenient place to seem confrontation? Or is it a masochist thing in which you beat the meat while reading the ridicule?

Technically, no. You are trying to obscure the premise with drivel. I posted here because I disagree with what the RD did. Did you read the other posts or just skip to this one on that bandwagon on which you rode???? Did you??

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Stoppit Smith wrote:

Why do you care why I post?

I don't care; I'd rather you didn't, tbh. I was just wondering why you do. I certainly wouldn't post regularly on a message board in which everyone seemed to actively dislike me and ridicule me for being a total tool. Are you just argumentative and find it a convenient place to seem confrontation? Or is it a masochist thing in which you beat the meat while reading the ridicule?