JamesTheAmateur
2:40 guy charity runner wrote:
Coevett wrote:
The point is obese people are disgusting and set a bad example to children at a time when childhood obesity is out of control.
Just by parading their fat bodies in a context like this does far more harm than the $100 they collect for charity.
If anything, they're trying to show that it's ok to be obese and you can still run marathons because health and fitness has nothing to do with being morbidly obese and lazy and you go girl.
Skinny underweight Instagram THOTs promote childhood anorexia. Obese two tonne land whales promote childhood obesity, which btw, is a far, far greater social problem than anorexia (tragedy that is for the relatively small number of individuals it affects).
But you were being an ass about the obese runners who were actually making an effort to do something about their weight. Surely you have to admit that what you said was douchey. I don’t understand your point, how can one be lazy and do a marathon? Obviously these women are trying to better their health and settimg an example of for the obese community.
Look, Coevett can be a bit brash, I'll readily admit that. But I think I have to agree with him here. It is definitely better that obese people take charge of their health and get active. I fully support that and I would never run down an obese person in the gym or out running since they are trying to better themselves.
My main issue is that people that are hideously out of shape, so obese people, people that can barely run a mile, smokers, etc, have absolutely zero place in a marathon. If they want to run/walk a half marathon, that's fine. But marathons aren't something that should be done on a whim by the average Joe. Hell, people have died during marathons. They aren't a joke.
People can walk race for charity all they want. But to pretend taking an entire work day or more to complete the distance is anything more than foolish is asinine. However, I'm someone that doesn't understand walking any race because I think that if you're going to go out an walk a 5k/10k/half marathon, just save yourself the money and do it in private.