I'm a 17 year old male, I run track in cross country and try to stay in shape during the off season. I have (somewhat long shot) state meet aspirations for cross country season this year so I'm planning on doing a lot of running this summer, doing 5+ miles a day right right now and I'll keep ramping that up, enough about me though. I was going for a morning run around a lake on Tuesday and a 'woman of size' (atleast 375) that somehow managed to squeeze it's hips into a Mini Cooper PULLS OVER. That right, it pulled over. It got out of its car (really slowly) and waddled up to me. It then proceeded to rant about how I should do what I want to do and not feel pressured into being thin, let my body do what it wants, not starve myself, etc. This fat fuck had stopped its car to educate me. I was pissed because it had stopped my run, which was going well. I pretty much told it to fuck off and that I was running because I didn't want to end up like it, it was of course TRIGGERED and told me I need to be accepting of others' body types (it wasn't very accepting of mine, but fats lack self awareness so what can you expect) I eventually got it to get back in it's car and mind it's own business. The rest of my run wasn't so great because I was laughing too hard and my muscles had tightened a bit since I had stopped but it was worth it. I doubt it'll bother me again.
In hindsight I should've just kept running, it wouldn't be able to keep up and by the time it squeezed into its car I could've been half a mile down some side road
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[–] Mechanicalmechanic ago
Hey man I'm sure I am old by your standards (32) but I am curious what your times are for various distances. I recently started "learning how to run" since I never did that before and I was curious what a young man who has never gotten fat does for time vs distance.
Currently I am at 3 miles in 27 minutes which I think it was quite slow BUT when I started 6 weeks ago I couldn't even run a mile without being winded and my legs killed me the next day. Now a mile seems like a warm up, 2 miles I am really hitting my stride, 2.5 miles I start to feel the burn, 3 miles and I really need to stop. Today is my run day.