The thread on Canadian 1000m PRs has suddenly spawned a debate on land masses, which got me thinking...what are some of the best tangents for threads? What did it start with and what did it become?
The thread on Canadian 1000m PRs has suddenly spawned a debate on land masses, which got me thinking...what are some of the best tangents for threads? What did it start with and what did it become?
The big 3 thread started out about some runners and quickly morphed into everyone's favourite three other things. Way better than the original premise.
The all time posting champion: "Republican or Democrat?".
This 600+ reply monster started off as a fairly straight forward "How did you vote?" query last November and quickly encompassed everything from politics to conspircy theories to the Brojo's father to hot XC chicks to Ritz vs. Webb to Coe vs. Lydiard.
That may still be getting replies.
I never realized that. I'm not a big politics guy, so I avoided the thread, although I saw it kept getting hits...
My personal favorite was the King Dongs vs. Ding Dong thread which morphed into various Seinfeldian lines. A couple of months ago, but a classic.
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
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