[–] darthbrodin 0 points 17 points 17 points (+17|-0) ago (edited ago)
One time in an all-volunteer-led training run we were doing 14 miles on a canal towpath. No turns, impossible to get lost, etc. Some fat fuck chastised the volunteers for not staying around at the training run for an additional two hours to wait for him and another woman to finish. Yes they took longer than 3.5 hours to run 14 miles on a perfectly flat surface in preparation to run a marathon. He whale-songed about how one of their cell phone's batteries died (yes, it took that long!) and that person was stupid enough to not drive themselves to the canal and instead planned on calling to get picked up. Had they not been together one of them would have been stranded. Every part of this was so infantile.
1) You can't control yourself so you overeat and are a fat fuck
2) You wildly overestimate your own ability, e.g., like my 3 year old thinking he can run faster than my 7 year old, to think that you can run a marathon when you can't even finish a half in 3.5 hours.
3) You exercise the judment of a teenager by relying on a cellphone that isn't fully charged so you won't be stranded in the middle of nowhere in the middle of January
4) You expect other grownups to baby sit you
5) You cry like a toddler when you're displeased by something.
Typical fat behavior. Needless to say, this one event soured it for us and we canceled the training program and just ran with each other. Fats ruin everything.
[–] Twentyonepointthree 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
That was my thought, too: probably stopped in some place to get a bite to eat, plus dessert.
[–] DevilsMonkey 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Well she earned a thousand calories of cake for all that walking. Probably burnt off a whole 50 calories. Clearly in danger of entering starvation mode.
[–] PenguinOrgy 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Fuck them for being so selfish they'd make a plethora of people stay hours just for their slow asses.
[–] vandilx 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Welcome to modern footraces.
In a bid to "grow the sport" but really to cash-grab, many of the small-time to medium race directors now allow hamplanets to participate in footraces even if they cannot complete the course in the official course time limit.
The RD wins because they get the money. The hamplanet wins because they can walk a 4.5-hr half marathon and get a medal to showoff to coworkers, claiming they are a half-marathoner. Even worse, as long as the hamplanet gets an official finisher's time on the results website, many national running clubs will accept that race as a qualifying race to join their club, treating a 4:30 half the same as a 1:30 half. It's fucked up.
[–] AlanTuringsGhost 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Then the ham treats itself to a triple-bacon burger, large fries and Coke afterwards.
[–] ranch-othelioma 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
But now how will ham get its internet sympathy points for "running" a half marathon?!
[–] EatingSteak 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I pulled a muscle about two days before my last marathon. Heartbreaking. Couldn't give up that easily - I walked the whole thing; sucked.
I finished in 6 hours, roughly a 13:30 pace. On a hurt leg. And STILL "out ran" a few dozen "runners"
Some of these people aren't getting both feet off the ground - literally not running. Why "run" 26 miles when you can't even run one?
[–] AlanTuringsGhost 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Was this a 300+ pounder running when it shouldn't?
[–] Rialed 0 points 45 points 45 points (+45|-0) ago
They found Ragen Chastain!
[–] WeightsNotCakes 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
HA! Well played. Have an upvoat.