HRE wrote:
I think most of us would kill to run 2:15.
Any adult who honestly feels that way has my genuine pity. Find peace with your innate ability and intelligence to make the most of it, don't get caught up in trying to go beyond natural ability at any cost. That's the mindset of a cheater.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:
HRE wrote:
I think most of us would kill to run 2:15.
Any adult who honestly feels that way has my genuine pity. Find peace with your innate ability and intelligence to make the most of it, don't get caught up in trying to go beyond natural ability at any cost. That's the mindset of a cheater.
You do understand that "would kill for" is a figure of speech, right? And that there is no actual killing involved and that it's just a way of saying that you'd really loved to have done something similar? How is this a mindset of a cheater?
He’s the poor man’s diego estrada
It's unclear whether you actually understand, unfortunately. Have a nice day!
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:
It's unclear whether you actually understand, unfortunately. Have a nice day!
I do not at all understand how wanting to have been really good at something you love doing is the mindset of a cheater. And evidently you can't explain how that's the case either.
This is a really stupid standard. 2:15 is much faster than I have ever run or will ever run. As it 2:19. Would you call yourself "highly competitive" in the Berlin Marathon? Such descriptions are certainly informed by context. If I ran 16:00 in my local 5k, I could quite justifiably call that "highly copetitive" because it would be. Is 2:15 at Berlin highly competitive? He would be ~2.5 miles behind the winner. If I'm finishing 2.5 miles behind the winner in a marathon, that is not highly competitive. Good for him, though. He is still making money running. And that is a better time than I would have thought he could run at this stage of his career.
Chicknlegs wrote:
...tell ya what, you go run a 2:15:00 marathon. It will be then you have the room to make a negative comment like that. I've run a 2:19 and I can tell you that a 2:15:00 marathon takes immense competitiveness and focus to achieve. "Competitive at a high level" is exactly what a 2:15:00 marathon is.
The trouble with a term like "highly competitive" is that it's almost always subjective so it allows one person's "highly competitive" to be another person's "barely competitive" and yet another person's " not competitive." At Berlin this year you could argue that even the second placer was not really competitive give then distance he was behind Kipchoge. You could argue that Cabada beat something like 99% of the field and ran the second fastest American marathon this year and was highly competitive. And neither argument is really winnable in any objective way.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:
HRE wrote:
And yet the no man's land he's in is one nearly all of us would kill to join him in.
You really think many would kill to be stuck in having zero other career options, having developed nothing from the degree he graduated with from Arkansas, no, Fresno State, no, Minot State, actually the now defunct Virginia Intermont? Running 2:15 isn't worth that bleak future for the next five decades.
You bumped a four-day old thread to post this with oddly specific information about Cabada? Sounds like you have personal issues with him
Sounds like you assume that every other visitor to this site checks in on this board every hour of every day like you and HRE do and never click past the first page topics. FOUR DAYS! Horror!
Don't be sad.
Problem is, there's no nuance in saying "I'd kill to ___" to a general audience. It's an extreme statement, like saying "I hate you" to a stranger. If you're at peace with how you've performed in any field, you don't think or say such things.
further analysis wrote:
Sounds like you assume that every other visitor to this site checks in on this board every hour of every day like you and HRE do and never click past the first page topics. FOUR DAYS! Horror!
Don't be sad.
LOL, it must have been on like page 10. You obviously only found it because you searched his name. BTW did you look up the ~4 colleges he attended or did you have that memorized?
Right. Nearly everyone who says, "I'd kill for" is really thinking they'd kill. Anyway, I'd kill for a chance to tell a stranger "I hate you."