If you were a RACEWALKER would you tell your parents?

2 of the 5 queer eys guys were racewalkers in college! Look it up if you do not believe me.

Telling your parents you are a racewalker is the same thing as telling them you are as queer as a 3 legged billy goat.

You've quoted this same statement a number of times, but refuse to name you supposed "expert source". The majority of USATF personnel wouldn't know the difference between legal and illegal RWing if you beat them over the head with it. The same applies to 99.99% of the people who troll this board.

By not naming this person, you statement has absolutely no credibility and neither do you.

There is a major difference between violating a rule and cheat. Sadly, you do possess the intellect to understand that.

>>>>>>>>>2 of the 5 queer eys guys were racewalkers in college! Look it up if you do not believe me.

Telling your parents you are a racewalker is the same thing as telling them you are as queer as a 3 legged billy goat.

.......................................................................

So that makes all walkers queer. Intelligent statement. There's probably runners that are queer too. How many runners are called queer by people when out on their daily run, you hear that on these boards all the time. According to many of you guys anyone who isn't a distance runner is queer, like triathletes for example, as has been continually branded on this message board. Runner's must be very insecure insular people. Probably reflects from the fact that no-one in the US is any good at it despite the thousands that run in HS or college. Bet you if you theoretically good at racwalking to the point you could make a team you'd embrace it, just like anyone else would. Bet foolish pride wouldn't come into it.

I have not made any such statement previously. I'm pretty new here. You seem pretty hostile. Maybe you need therapy

In response to Texas Ranger's post, you said that people are calling racewalkers gay because they are insecure about themselves, which could be related to how there isn't much success with U.S. distance running. Um, what about racewalking? Now, I'm not postitive, because I'll admit I am pretty ignorant on facts when it comes to racewalking, but wasn't within just the past two olympics that someone from the U.S. just got the 'A' standard. In which racewalk even I'm not positive (whether it was the 50k or not) but I could've sworn that it was the first time a male racewalker from the U.S. got the standard. Racewalking has been in the games for a long time, and if my statement was true (about the 'A' standard, which would imply even less success in racewalking than in U.S. distance running) then a greater amount of racewalkers would be insecure about themselves (maybe leading them to become racewalkers).

Eh, who knows. I honestly have been surrounded by teammates in college who racewalk, and have made an honest attempt to try and figure it out, but I just don't get it. They could be half way decent runners, but it seems that there are fewer walkers, and this gives them more success. Could that be a reason for the interest in racewalking? Who knows. Each person is different I suppose, so no one reason will be the same for all others, but it is just so hard to take something with a hint of seriousness when it looks so dang goofy.

Just my thoughts.

When I told my parents I was a racewalker, my mother cried because she'd never have grandchildren.

you're a queer

Walker Texas Ranger wrote:

.......................................................................

So that makes all walkers queer. Intelligent statement. There's probably runners that are queer too. How many runners are called queer by people when out on their daily run, you hear that on these boards all the time. According to many of you guys anyone who isn't a distance runner is queer, like triathletes for example, as has been continually branded on this message board. Runner's must be very insecure insular people. Probably reflects from the fact that no-one in the US is any good at it despite the thousands that run in HS or college. Bet you if you theoretically good at racwalking to the point you could make a team you'd embrace it, just like anyone else would. Bet foolish pride wouldn't come into it.

In Athens, there were 5 men who had A standards out of 6 possible slots. Our lone woman had a B standard. Performance on the Int'l level has been pretty much on par w/ the 10000m and Marathon in OG & WC over the past 15 years, which isn't saying a whole lot for either area.

In LDR, it has been shown that if significant resourses ( = $$) are put into the top athletes and the next level, as well, result will be pretty good very soon. This happened with the RWers in San Diego too, as we got a Bronze in 99 at 50km from it and some other top performances too.

In the US, if, lets say, 15 states contested the RW in their HS programs (indoors and outdoors) and it was available just in D3, we would be able to literally dominate the world on every level.

Sadly, certain people in USATF and the USOC refuse to do anything to make this a reality, yet sit there dumbfounded as to why the event doesn't receive more acceptance and the participation & performance numbers aren't great. DUH!

Kofi Anon wrote:

When I told my parents I was a racewalker, my mother cried because she'd never have grandchildren.

rofl

What the heck about racewalking makes someone gay? I'm straight and a distance runner, but I think racewalking is as fine a sport as anything else, maybe even better. A guy in my city who works out at my YMCA racewalks, he almost qualified for olympic trials, and he is straight and has a family. I watched the olympic 20 and 50k racewalk on tv in 04 and it looked pretty intense. Honestly if ESPN can show poker as a sport, its perfectly fine to racewalk, besides no one does it so if u are a halfway decent runner before starting, you could win some major races. I don't think anyone in track and field should be called gay unless they are, I have no quelms about calling football players gay though.

"When you're down in Texas look behind you, 'cause that's where the ranger's gonna be!"

olympicrunner08 wrote:

What the heck about racewalking makes someone gay? I'm straight and a distance runner, but I think racewalking is as fine a sport as anything else, maybe even better.

How could that possibly be true?

I once racewalked a mile for this healthy lifestyles class and my lower leg muscles and hips were trashed the rest of the day. Go out and racewalk a mile as fast as you can using proper form then come back on here and talk. Yes, it looks gay and I'd never do it in public, but it's still difficult.

Alan

I don't think anyone is questioning the difficulty of racewalking. But just because something is difficult doesn't mean it makes sense. The human body is designed in such a way that, if you need to move faster for some reason, you start running. You don't just start walking as fast as possible. It doesn't make any sense in terms of efficiency. So why would someone want to look ridiculous and wiggle their butts really hard when they could just run?? That I do not know.

Sad the amount of serious injuries incurred by race-walking. Completely unnatural hyperflexion of the hips, ITB, and hyperextension of the hamstrings.

In all my years of medicine, the careers of a race-walker are short lived, and yes, many of them were eccentric human beings.

OTR wrote:

Sad the amount of serious injuries incurred by race-walking. Completely unnatural hyperflexion of the hips, ITB, and hyperextension of the hamstrings.

In all my years of medicine, the careers of a race-walker are short lived, and yes, many of them were eccentric human beings.

Did your medical degree come from a school in Grenada?

Race Walking itself does not ever cause injuries. Overtraining, race walking improperly (because of bad or no coaching) and/or having weak muscles that cause poor biomechanics are the causes of injuries.

Athletic careers of RWers are no shorter than any other endurance event and its participants are no more eccentric than anyone else in the sport of T&F.

I do not specifically study racewalking, I just deal with injuries and we happen to have quite a few race-walking (Juniors and Seniors) locals that chronically suffer from the same injuries. Call them overuse and rationalize as you must, but note that even Michael Rohl is no longer competitive and has gained quite some weight in the past couple of years, and I believe he was a coach/athlete at one time.

You're off the team

yes