RE: Road Racing and Training Thread. Week Ending May 27 2018

The Stone Cutter wrote:

Pappy wrote:

SC, I made that comment more because I feel you are feeding the troll commenting to him. Basically trolling the troll. I never suspected you of changing names. Sorry for bringing you up and the misunderstanding.

Hey, no worries man. I appreciate your insights and your propensity to restore order. That’s all I have been attempting to do the last few days...trying to call out too hot’s behavior and help restore order to the thread. But you’re right. He feeds on it. Time to let him go.

Its kind of like the old sayings about why you don't wrestle a pig. You will both get dirty and the pig enjoys it.

Looking forward to more Canova insights.

Consistency - just know that Pap is going to put R3 thru the paces. And the race times are coming.. that being said I am dreading this 2 mile race on Friday. .. so after THIS coming race. The race times will come..

Lots happening tonight.

I wish I had the charisma to lead a group of people with personalities this divergent. But I'm a short bald skinny old man. I'm along for the ride, homes. They busty balls as much as anyone's.

That being said, I respect that OR is taking this moment to be introspective. He and I don't always see eye to eye, but I don't ever see him as malicious.

For those who feel like they are being bullied, I'd suggest a moment of introspection. If you are in a position where you are essentially alone on your position, doesn't it seem reasonable to wonder if it is everyone else, or if maybe it is you?

Either way, maybe it's the La Crema talking, but piece love and happiness.

P.S. Jack's Niece was me. It was a way to be a bit clever without being antagonistic. It's the only alias I've used on this thread in over a year.

consistency: Good to see you. I'm about 80% decided to use the Hudson "Adaptive" style from Run Faster to train for my November HM.

Using the scheds/progressions from the book as a base, I'm already having fun tinkering around with how to blend the end of my Hadd base with the beginning of HM training. If you have experience with developing your own program along Hudson's guidelines, I'd appreciate any insight.

My personal attacks? I’ve been called ignorant, irrational, an ego maniac, troll, senile ass, and a few other things I’d like to forget.

And the bullying is justified, according to Smoove, because of what I say?

All because I post about a method of training that people don’t agree with?

Yeah that make sense. No double standard here.

too hot wrote:

My personal attacks? I’ve been called ignorant, irrational, an ego maniac, troll, senile ass, and a few other things I’d like to forget.

And the bullying is justified, according to Smoove, because of what I say?

All because I post about a method of training that people don’t agree with?

Yeah that make sense. No double standard here.

Bro, did I say the bullying was justified? No, I basically asked: at what point do you revisit your position when you're alone on an island in the stream of opinion? When you've had people who have generally been successful relative to their ability and who generally seem to have reached consensus and managed to coexist even in virulent times, when all of those people seem to have a contrary opinion, at some point don't you wonder: is it me?

Brief anecdote. My sense of humor used to be very caustic as a result of how I grew up. Eat or be eaten. All of my friends, whom I believe truly appreciated me as a friend, basically said: hey why are you an aggressive a-hole? You know what I realized about them? They were right, I was an aggressive a-hole. I haven't changed anything, but I was self aware enough to know they were right. You do you.

You've been as insulting to me as an athlete can be to another athlete. I've let it go and accepted your apology, not rehashing any of it. I respect what that took from you. I ask you to show that strong character again and let this go away. I disagree with you, but who cares? Let it go.

Too hot- It was sad to see your original condescending posts and it’s sad to see you regressing now again with so much hate, hostility and pettiness. If nothing else your grand kids deserve better.

Above all sad to see a once great thread dismantled by someone who is either an A-list troll or, more likely, struggling with some kind of mental illness.

Redux1 wrote:

Too hot- It was sad to see your original condescending posts and it’s sad to see you regressing now again with so much hate, hostility and pettiness. If nothing else your grand kids deserve better.

Above all sad to see a once great thread dismantled by someone who is either an A-list troll or, more likely, struggling with some kind of mental illness.

It’s sad to see that hate, hostility, and pettiness in others here too. Taking a shot at my parenting now? Case in point.

Before you point the finger at me, go back and read you and others have wrote.

A beautiful morning here. The weather broke and I have a nice 63 degrees with a 55 dew point for my Long(ish) run.

Onwards and upwards and to a better week. I look forward to seeing all the great training later this morning.

So the majority rules? Majority opinion is always right?

You may have let it go, as you say, but you took on a different tone towards the last few pages as did a few other quality posters here. I simply fired back.

I’ve lost hope that this place can ever change. This place is filthy. We’re not here to learn from each other of be accepting of different viewpoints.

The real reason I was attacked is because people are still sore about the way I treated you. They can’t let it go and then they tell me that I should get a room with OR. Lol

So therefore, I will regress and give this thread what it deserves. Filth. I will be the mirror that reflects what is rotten to the core here. I will continue dismantling this thread and punking all of you.

Gordon T is the other guy I’m going to call out. That guy has had it in for me since the beginning and he licks the ground that Smoove walks on. He’ll probably come on here and deny it. Predictable.

too hot wrote:

Gordon T is the other guy I’m going to call out. That guy has had it in for me since the beginning and he licks the ground that Smoove walks on. He’ll probably come on here and deny it. Predictable.

Get a life. 67 year old boy picking fights on the internet.

That's Rich. Your instincts seem a bit off. From the time I said something about weather yesterday until the end of the night I was offline due to travel. Forcibly so for about 6 hours for a transcontinental flight. If you want tangible evidence I can emaily you my flight itinerary? Maybe add a picture of me with today's local newspaper? Oh, I could write "GT + Smoove 4 Eva" in the sand on the beach with a heart around it to prove I was on that plane while you were trading barbs with randos?