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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 17:28:28 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 17:28:46 GMT
Not many people are willing to walk 26 miles at once. But most can. A relatively small percentage CAN run 26 miles. Nothing wrong with feeling like you accomplished something, but not all accomplishments are equal. As Sharky alluded to, don’t pass off what you did as something it is not.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 17:30:14 GMT
I do think that people flipping their shit over someone's 7-hour marathon, or Nike prominently displaying gargantuan tights, is a bit of virtue-signaling. So set the bar. What time would you deem worthy of praise and acknowledgement of their months of training? 6 hours? 5 hours? 4 hours? Something that would indicate that they didn't all just go on a Sunday stroll together, which is what indeed happened. I guess I felt a little snookered.
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Post by mizzougrad96 on Jun 11, 2019 17:30:16 GMT
Look, to be clear, I don't think my marathon times are particularly impressive, either. I'm proud of how much time I've shaved, proud of the discipline I give it, and I enjoy chasing times and seeing what I can get out of myself, but it's not like I'm some elite here and I wouldn't pretend to be. You qualified for one of the top races in the country. That's no small achievement.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 17:30:39 GMT
Not many people are willing to walk 26 miles at once. But most can. A relatively small percentage CAN run 26 miles. Nothing wrong with feeling like you accomplished something, but not all accomplishments are equal. As Sharky alluded to, don’t pass off what you did as something it is not. Right. That's all I'm saying.
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Post by Da Man on Jun 11, 2019 17:30:52 GMT
And yet you are disparaging all people who finish marathons that slow. At least, it sure seems like you are. I'm not disparaging them. I just don't understand why you'd want to "run" a 7-hour marathon instead of something like a (relatively) fast 5K or 10K, other than to brag because 26.2 is great social media currency.I know one woman who is a personal trainer and walked a half-marathon, then had her husband record her sprinting the last 1/10 mile. She spent days afterward referencing "my injury" to hundreds of "likes" and platitudes. It's total grand standing. Maybe the marathon means more to the person involved than a decent 5K time. Just because you as someone who "knows the sport" don't understand it doesn't mean it's not an accomplishment to those who achieved it -- even if they are achieving something you find easy.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 17:33:16 GMT
So set the bar. What time would you deem worthy of praise and acknowledgement of their months of training? 6 hours? 5 hours? 4 hours? Something that would indicate that they didn't all just go on a Sunday stroll together, which is what indeed happened. I guess I felt a little snookered. You don't know that. You saw a time and a picture. You have no clue how hard they worked before or during the race. So if I ran a 5:30 marathon and was caught in a picture smiling or joking with a spectator near Mile 23, would I be allowed to claim I accomplished something beyond a Sunday stroll?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 17:33:41 GMT
I'm not disparaging them. I just don't understand why you'd want to "run" a 7-hour marathon instead of something like a (relatively) fast 5K or 10K, other than to brag because 26.2 is great social media currency.I know one woman who is a personal trainer and walked a half-marathon, then had her husband record her sprinting the last 1/10 mile. She spent days afterward referencing "my injury" to hundreds of "likes" and platitudes. It's total grand standing. Maybe the marathon means more to the person involved than a decent 5K time. Just because you as someone who "knows the sport" don't understand it doesn't mean it's not an accomplishment to those who achieved it -- even if they are achieving something you find easy. It's more about what seems to impress the public. If the same person who ran a 7-hour marathon ran a 25-minute 5K, people wouldn't care. Just like there are mountains that are more technically impressive than climbing Everest. But they don't garner the same attaboys from John Q. Public. Just like you can write a letter-perfect 80-inch feature on a local unknown that took months to report out, but sit in the press box at the Super Bowl and your friends say, "YOU COVERED THE SUPER BOWL!!!!! ??"
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 17:33:55 GMT
I'm not disparaging them. I just don't understand why you'd want to "run" a 7-hour marathon instead of something like a (relatively) fast 5K or 10K, other than to brag because 26.2 is great social media currency.I know one woman who is a personal trainer and walked a half-marathon, then had her husband record her sprinting the last 1/10 mile. She spent days afterward referencing "my injury" to hundreds of "likes" and platitudes. It's total grand standing. Maybe the marathon means more to the person involved than a decent 5K time. Just because you as someone who "knows the sport" don't understand it doesn't mean it's not an accomplishment to those who achieved it -- even if they are achieving something you find easy. Do they make 3.16 (not 3:16!) stickers?
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Post by mizzougrad96 on Jun 11, 2019 17:34:05 GMT
That's a fucking long stroll.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 17:38:25 GMT
Something that would indicate that they didn't all just go on a Sunday stroll together, which is what indeed happened. I guess I felt a little snookered. You have no clue how hard they worked before or during the race. To walk around Chicago for 6 1/2 hours? With some possible exceptions, I guess, if you run a 6 1/2-hour marathon, yeah, I'm pretty skeptical about whether you put in training worthy of the distance.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 17:39:12 GMT
That's a fucking long stroll. Whenever I've run one and we pull away a couple hours later and there are still people out there laboring, I'm just like, holy shit, fuck that. I'm glad those years are behind me.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 17:40:01 GMT
You have no clue how hard they worked before or during the race. To walk around Chicago for 6 1/2 hours? With some possible exceptions, I guess, if you run a 6 1/2-hour marathon, yeah, I'm pretty skeptical about whether you put in training worthy of the distance. Ok, so what time would you not be skeptical of? And how serious do you have to look in all of the race photos?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 17:41:26 GMT
Maybe the marathon means more to the person involved than a decent 5K time. Just because you as someone who "knows the sport" don't understand it doesn't mean it's not an accomplishment to those who achieved it -- even if they are achieving something you find easy. It's more about what seems to impress the public. If the same person who ran a 7-hour marathon ran a 25-minute 5K, people wouldn't care. Just like there are mountains that are more technically impressive than climbing Everest. But they don't garner the same attaboys from John Q. Public. Just like you can write a letter-perfect 80-inch feature on a local unknown that took months to report out, but sit in the press box at the Super Bowl and your friends say, "YOU COVERED THE SUPER BOWL!!!!! ??" Leave Mizzou out of this. 😃
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 17:41:31 GMT
To walk around Chicago for 6 1/2 hours? With some possible exceptions, I guess, if you run a 6 1/2-hour marathon, yeah, I'm pretty skeptical about whether you put in training worthy of the distance. Ok, so what time would you not be skeptical of? And how serious do you have to look in all of the race photos? This serious.
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