The age requirement to be a President in the US is 35. The capital of Missouri is Jefferson City. Let that sink.
The age requirement to be a President in the US is 35. The capital of Missouri is Jefferson City. Let that sink.
The third baseman for the 1972 Red Sox was Rico Petrocelli. Casey Kasem was born in Detroit. Let that sink.
Jimi Hendrix was left-handed. I ate a french dip for lunch. Let that sink.
The mens 18-35 time now with a 180 min buffer would have won every single event in Rio, lol. A womens 18-35 minus 180 is a 30:00. Let that sink.
"Let that sink"
Did we just stumble upon the next "Deer Adam Goucher"?
not a shoe guy wrote:
Jimi Hendrix was left-handed. I ate a french dip for lunch. Let that sink.
French Dip? Nice. I had tacos for lunch.
Standard for open men used to be 2:50. Then it was moved to 3:00 for a couple of years, before it was moved to 3:10.
HTFU
QUIT WHINING wrote:
0.9% blah, blah, blah. So what! You are dislocating your shoulder patting yourself on the back for your 3:00.xx Marathon. Do you know your 3:00.xx Marathon is roughly equal to a 5:30 one mile? Stop crying. Try to break 17 minutes for 5K. Runners here know that's more impressive.
This is very true. I have run 2:48 in the marathon, and sub 3:00 a bunch of times, and never broken 17:00 in the 5K.
QUIT WHINING wrote:
0.9% blah, blah, blah. So what! You are dislocating your shoulder patting yourself on the back for your 3:00.xx Marathon. Do you know your 3:00.xx Marathon is roughly equal to a 5:30 one mile? Stop crying. Try to break 17 minutes for 5K. Runners here know that's more impressive.
Only a CC bubble dweller would post such a clueless message. In the real world, adult males are not 5'9 and 130 lbs as you probably are and only 1-2% of finishers runs as fast as the OP.
I have a hunch that distance running is probably the only sport you could've tried and that's fine unless you are an arrogant, girly man. I also have a hunch that the fellow you are criticizing probably knows his way around a football field or a baseball diamond, places you would not have dared ventured.
Boo hoo. Like a previous poster said, BAA never said their goal was equal physical effort, but did say that they want equal gender participation. And let's not forget how much more difficult it is for women to participate in sports.
-people say things like "as a girl, you can't typically run the equivalent thon without, well, looking more like a skinny boy: you sacrifice your curves and your breasts." (post on this thread)
-women get harassed (or killed) when they go out for training, makes it way less pleasant to get in the mileage necessary to have fast marathon. YOU try and run a 70+ mile week when men are yelling at you and grabbing you. During my current marathon build-up, I have been yelled at, followed, grabbed, and/or threatened multiple times a week. I have cut more than a few runs short just because I am tired of dealing with stupid asshats.
-women have way fewer female role models in sports. I grew up watching men play sports, from football to the tour de france.
-women have less incentives to stay in sports, from fewer spots available on the professional level, to getting paid half as much as men.
There's a reason for Title IX, and there is a reason for the uneven BQs. If you want more even BQs, support women in athletics, and stop whining that their participation is costing you.
A Woman Faster Than OP wrote:
Boo hoo. Like a previous poster said, BAA never said their goal was equal physical effort, but did say that they want equal gender participation. And let's not forget how much more difficult it is for women to participate in sports.
-people say things like "as a girl, you can't typically run the equivalent thon without, well, looking more like a skinny boy: you sacrifice your curves and your breasts." (post on this thread)
-women get harassed (or killed) when they go out for training, makes it way less pleasant to get in the mileage necessary to have fast marathon. YOU try and run a 70+ mile week when men are yelling at you and grabbing you. During my current marathon build-up, I have been yelled at, followed, grabbed, and/or threatened multiple times a week. I have cut more than a few runs short just because I am tired of dealing with stupid asshats.
-women have way fewer female role models in sports. I grew up watching men play sports, from football to the tour de france.
-women have less incentives to stay in sports, from fewer spots available on the professional level, to getting paid half as much as men.
There's a reason for Title IX, and there is a reason for the uneven BQs. If you want more even BQs, support women in athletics, and stop whining that their participation is costing you.
Lol, best reply in this thread so far.
You are in a bubble wrote:
QUIT WHINING wrote:
0.9% blah, blah, blah. So what! You are dislocating your shoulder patting yourself on the back for your 3:00.xx Marathon. Do you know your 3:00.xx Marathon is roughly equal to a 5:30 one mile? Stop crying. Try to break 17 minutes for 5K. Runners here know that's more impressive.
Only a CC bubble dweller would post such a clueless message. In the real world, adult males are not 5'9 and 130 lbs as you probably are and only 1-2% of finishers runs as fast as the OP.
I have a hunch that distance running is probably the only sport you could've tried and that's fine unless you are an arrogant, girly man. I also have a hunch that the fellow you are criticizing probably knows his way around a football field or a baseball diamond, places you would not have dared ventured.
It's true. Sub 3 is like 6:50 pace. All you have to do is jog around for 60 or 70 miles a week at Max and you're there- the main issue is simply the junk mile volume, and that's solved by soft surfaces.
The marathon is not the golden standard of running. Marathon pace feels very easy for 6-8 miles. Mile pace hurts after a single quarter (except in a race, adrenaline usually covers it)
Sure a sub 3 is impressive. But jogging around for 3 miles is nothing compared to the work it takes to run a fast mile or 5k.
Go run sub 5. Then talk
Meant to say hours not miles
Let this sink in..... more men apply than women and therefore men have to run a faster relative time
The main issue is with the depth of competition. Look at HS cross country. Last weekend I saw the top guy run like a low 16 min. The top girl was low 19. But then I looked at 2-20 place: guys were coming in every few seconds after the winner: 16:15, 16:18, 16:21, etc. 20th place was less than a minute behind the leader.
Girls? There was a 30 second gap to second place, then another 20 seconds to third, and then we started to see a trickle of girls finish 10 sec apart or so. The spread from 1-20 place was like 3 minutes.
This is the reason you can't just use world records to determine the cutoff. You'd have very few women with the fitness to make the cut.
U salty cuz ur slow wrote:
You are in a bubble wrote:
Only a CC bubble dweller would post such a clueless message. In the real world, adult males are not 5'9 and 130 lbs as you probably are and only 1-2% of finishers runs as fast as the OP.
I have a hunch that distance running is probably the only sport you could've tried and that's fine unless you are an arrogant, girly man. I also have a hunch that the fellow you are criticizing probably knows his way around a football field or a baseball diamond, places you would not have dared ventured.
It's true. Sub 3 is like 6:50 pace. All you have to do is jog around for 60 or 70 miles a week at Max and you're there- the main issue is simply the junk mile volume, and that's solved by soft surfaces.
The marathon is not the golden standard of running. Marathon pace feels very easy for 6-8 miles. Mile pace hurts after a single quarter (except in a race, adrenaline usually covers it)
Sure a sub 3 is impressive. But jogging around for 3 miles is nothing compared to the work it takes to run a fast mile or 5k.
Go run sub 5. Then talk
Hi there! I’ve run both a 1:59 800m and a 2:49 Marathon. Breaking 5 minutes in the mile isn’t really a thing I worried about. The marathon is pretty hard! Want to talk about it?
A Woman Faster Than OP wrote:
-women get harassed (or killed) when they go out for training, makes it way less pleasant to get in the mileage necessary to have fast marathon. YOU try and run a 70+ mile week when men are yelling at you and grabbing you. During my current marathon build-up, I have been yelled at, followed, grabbed, and/or threatened multiple times a week. I have cut more than a few runs short just because I am tired of dealing with stupid asshats.
Dear Lord, where are you training, the Attica prison yard?
Nobody promised you universal justice, you know.
Work extra hard on your strength work, especially exercises like RDL, Deadlift, Squat, Calf Raises, Hip Thrusts to strengthen the posterior chain.
TheGreatPlantini wrote:
QUIT WHINING wrote:
0.9% blah, blah, blah. So what! You are dislocating your shoulder patting yourself on the back for your 3:00.xx Marathon. Do you know your 3:00.xx Marathon is roughly equal to a 5:30 one mile? Stop crying. Try to break 17 minutes for 5K. Runners here know that's more impressive.
This is very true. I have run 2:48 in the marathon, and sub 3:00 a bunch of times, and never broken 17:00 in the 5K.
Broke 3 once - 30 mpw, 180+ pounds, size 13 second hand shoes, bad diet, beer, weed, 33 years old, no “easy” runs - intervals, threshold, and long runs - went well below pace last two miles of the marathon to break 3
PRs were like 17:10 5K and a 5:07 mile
Anyways, stop being a sissy and gut out a sub 3 next time