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Post by btexpress on Apr 30, 2024 13:18:15 GMT
I would guess it may be uplifting to "do something I logically shouldn't have been able to do."
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Post by Whitman on Apr 30, 2024 13:18:27 GMT
I’m a little put off by the fact that “Katie Notopoulos” is a “senior correspondent at Business Insider writing about technology and business,” and not just some random Twitter whacko. "Train" and "register" both in scare quotes by her.
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Post by btexpress on Apr 30, 2024 13:22:32 GMT
What constitutes "training" anyway, and what is the distance threshold one needs to "train" for?
I run 2 miles every day, play tennis twice a week and take dogs on walks of 2-3 miles per day.
Have I "trained" for any race (5K, 10K etc.) I may decide to enter some day?
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Post by Ridiculously Dull Bobby on Apr 30, 2024 13:25:29 GMT
I would guess it may be uplifting to "do something I logically shouldn't have been able to do." Not when the person “doing” it is full of shit, as “Alexa” most certainly is. There’s ZERO chance she ran a 7:43 pace with no training at all. And, of course she brags about something that isn’t really refutable because … she didn’t “officially” run the race.
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Post by Ridiculously Dull Bobby on Apr 30, 2024 13:25:56 GMT
What constitutes "training" anyway, and what is the distance threshold one needs to "train" for? I run 2 miles every day, play tennis twice a week and take dogs on walks of 2-3 miles per day. Have I "trained" for any race (5K, 10K etc.) I may decide to enter some day? Yes, you have “trained.” Even if it’s just creating a “base.” Not for a half-marathon, though. With your level of activity, you could probably finish one, but you’d almost certainly be among the triers close to the end.
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Post by Whitman on Apr 30, 2024 14:29:39 GMT
I would guess it may be uplifting to "do something I logically shouldn't have been able to do." I guess.
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Post by Whitman on Apr 30, 2024 14:32:05 GMT
What constitutes "training" anyway, and what is the distance threshold one needs to "train" for? I run 2 miles every day, play tennis twice a week and take dogs on walks of 2-3 miles per day. Have I "trained" for any race (5K, 10K etc.) I may decide to enter some day? Sure. You're in shape. And this is entirely different than the people like Alexis who boast about "not training at all." It's like people who brag about being good at a musical instrument without practicing. There's this weird notion out in the ether that working to be good at something somehow diminishes the being good at something.
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Post by Whitman on Apr 30, 2024 15:11:45 GMT
Ultimately, your time is your time is your time. Your moral stature is not somehow increased because of the running equivalent of, "Not one lesson!"
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Post by btexpress on Apr 30, 2024 15:15:57 GMT
We've always been fascinated by such, though. Two-sport athletes like Deion and Bo (obviously not really training fulltime at both), drivers doing the NASCAR-Indy 500 double. The track sprinter who decides one day to be an NFL receiver.
And the ultimate, Mozart composing his first piece at age 5.
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Post by Whitman on Apr 30, 2024 15:17:42 GMT
We've always been fascinated by such, though. Two-sport athletes like Deion and Bo (obviously not really training fulltime at both), drivers doing the NASCAR-Indy 500 double. The track sprinter who decides one day to be an NFL receiver. Sure. Because it indicates that they won the genetic lottery. Alexis thinks it shows she won the moral lottery. (For lack of a better adjective that I'm straining for right now.)
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Post by Whitman on Apr 30, 2024 15:20:13 GMT
I once wrote one of those 12-inch, preps features on a kid who was a state-level golfer at a tiny local school, then would roll out of bed to go to track meets every so often, where he would double as a state-level long jumper.
I didn't think twice about it. Fun little story.
Of course, one of the other moms on the track team went nuclear on me for writing it.
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Post by Ridiculously Dull Bobby on Apr 30, 2024 15:22:27 GMT
I think a guy like Brock Lesnar fits into this category.
Was a national champion amateur wrestler.
Went to work for WWE.
Then “decided” he wanted to play in the NFL, and walked on to the Vikings practice squad.
Then “decided” to try UFC and became heavyweight champ in his second fight.
Then spent the twilight of his athletic prime back in WWE for another decade.
I’d guess there are no more than a few hundred people in the world who could do something like that.
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Post by Ridiculously Dull Bobby on Apr 30, 2024 15:24:24 GMT
Also, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more naturally gifted athlete than Michael Jordan, and he “trained” his ass off.
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Post by Whitman on Apr 30, 2024 15:29:41 GMT
Also, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more naturally gifted athlete than Michael Jordan, and he “trained” his ass off. The "working hard at something is for suckers" notion seems to be a modern-day creation.
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Post by btexpress on Apr 30, 2024 15:54:03 GMT
Most high-level athletes won the genetic lottery. Some just won Powerball, others MegaMillions.
On the flip side, while the "roll out of bed and win" athletes are celebrated, we also like to celebrate the work ethics of even the most gifted athletes (Larry Bird shot 500 jump shots every day and tried to make 99 consecutive free throws as part of his summer routine).
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