once in a while, a topic on Runners World will get my attention. Usually it's ask the Running Doc (which i often forward on to my friends that hace a similar ailment), but this time it was a topic on their regular forums advertized on the weekly email that I get from RW: Do you run or not run when you have a cold/are sick.
So i went to this discussion, and noticed all these people writing their PR's in their signatures. It strikes me as really really odd. Are people trying to prove that their comment is worth something, or are they simply following what everyone else is doing? And how do I know they're even telling the truth. One guy, in giving his opinion about running while sick, tells the world how he ran a 5k and a 10k and won his agegoup. He just couldn't resist sharing that little fact, which had nothing to do with answering the question.
I have a blog, and I write about all I do and have my PR's on the right side of my blog, so I guess I shouldn't comment... but I can't stop thinking that putting your PRs as part of your Signature is pretty funny/weird/douchey. After all, no obligates you to come read what I have to say, but then again, I guess I have no obligation to read the discussions either.
Maybe i'll start a topic on there asking why people do it.
If you go to Letsrun.com's forums, people don't do that. I wonder why.
4 comments:
Best article I read mentioned the neck down theory. Meaning, if you have sickness above your neck, ie. sinus, head cold, congestion, then it is OK to get out and run. Just make the runs easy until the symptoms pass.
Yeah, I've thought about that on occasion - not with serious depth, you know, kind of in passing. I'm yet to come to any conclusions, but I did win the Bandera 100k in case that makes any future conclusions any more persuasive.
The kids on let's run prefer to stay anonymous so they can post douchey comments without anyone figuring out who they are - and so they can pretend to be the runners they are not. Makes for some funny reading (in a kids in the playground kind of way), but gets annoying after a while.
I'd forgotten about this.
Update: I asked them...
http://www.runnersworld.com/community/forums/general-discussion/letters-opinions/prspbs-signatures
Looks like i got 56 responses. (I replied to 2 comments than walked away)
Think you touched on a nerve ... I like the drift in the thread to penis and bra sizes.
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