There was a small 5k on near me. The prize money was catastrophically very generous for the standard that was there. $100, $75 and $50 for the first 3 people. There were about 500 in the race. I missed out on easy money here in a race won in 18:16. Thank you snowflake society.
I was doing my strides before the start of the race while most people were already standing behind the start line doing some dumb warm up dance/stretch thing which the race director was getting everyone to do. I just chuckled to myself and carried on with my strides. This was my chance for not only easy money, but to impress any girls that saw me winning the race. I didn't expect much competition.
2 minutes before the start of the race I climbed over the barrier at the starting pen to the front and straight away a group of women in there 40's started shouting at me and told me I should get to the back of the line. One said "back of the line bozo" to me. I just turned and told them I'm a sub elite and aiming to win, and that I would have to pass all the slow people if I started behind them. I turned back to race the start line again and muttered "biches". They overheard me and got aggreshive and started hurtling all the abuse in the world at me. I tried to ignore it but just shouted back at them "why don't you get to the back you idiots. You have no chance in this race. Stop blocking everyone else's way yourselves". To make matters worse some tough guy(eventual winner) told me to shut up and drop it. The women started cheering for him and telling him he should kick my as in the race to teach me a lesson. I shouted fukk off to them. The race director was aware of the incident and was watching us for half of the ordeal. He told me to get off the course and that I was DQ. I just ran away and shouted "fukking hobby joggers" and sprinted off. Should I make a complaint? Why weren't the others DQ'd if I was. Society is messed up.