The thing I find bemusing about her generation is that all their ‘life moments’ are so utterly trivial.
She ran a half marathon. Who cares? But the fact she didn’t sign up gives her this opportunity to spin it as some incredible, fleeting moment, to be captured and revolved in the sunlight like a perfect crystal.
The thing I find bemusing about her generation is that all their ‘life moments’ are so utterly trivial.
She ran a half marathon. Who cares? But the fact she didn’t sign up gives her this opportunity to spin it as some incredible, fleeting moment, to be captured and revolved in the sunlight like a perfect crystal.
But she did it without charging her AirPods! She is wearing them though which seems odd…
This is theft. She should be barred from the event for life, have to pay the entry fee, and have to do some community service - maybe volunteering at races every weekend for a year. Races get a permit for a set amount of people. Sure one or two bandits is no issue, but if 500 banditted?
I saw it as, "my life isn't going great int some areas, screw it I'm going to run the full half-marathon with no training."
Expanding her horizons and doing something a lot of people don't think they can do and using that to inspire others.
If this is a life-changing event that leads her to fall in love with the sport of running and train properly for these things going forward, then I am 100 percent with you. It would be inspiring.
However, my gut tells me this is an attention grab.
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I saw it as, "my life isn't going great int some areas, screw it I'm going to run the full half-marathon with no training."
Expanding her horizons and doing something a lot of people don't think they can do and using that to inspire others.
I think it's fine to use running as a treatment for life's challenges and then try to inspire others to give it a go. While I agree that most of these people making a life out of influencing are tiresome, some of you people sound like crotchety old geezers.
I'm somewhat confused by the post on X. Is she saying she ran the whole thing at 7:43/mile? Because in the photo it looks like she is with the walkers. Of course, it is possible to start way in the back with the walkers and then pass them all along the way to 1:40 half-mary, but that seems unlikely.
I saw it as, "my life isn't going great int some areas, screw it I'm going to run the full half-marathon with no training."
Expanding her horizons and doing something a lot of people don't think they can do and using that to inspire others.
If this is a life-changing event that leads her to fall in love with the sport of running and train properly for these things going forward, then I am 100 percent with you. It would be inspiring.
However, my gut tells me this is an attention grab.
She already is/was a runner.
I think most of us know you can slack off training for a while and still run a half marathon, though perhaps this is legitimately inspiring to normies.
I think someday people are going to have to recognize that, for people like the original OP, all publicity is good publicity. A lot of people (myself included) find influencers and influencer culture sad, banal, empty, pathetic... choose your preferred terms. But if you think that, then you do yourself no favors by posting about influencers. Even if you think you're making fun of them, you're spreading their reach. Just ignore them and they'd go away within a year, but even people who don't like them can't help but post about them and spread their message.
in a world where doing a half or full marathon shows massive bravery, the writer's adventure makes sense.
but in the letsrun world of training hard and where running 13 miles is a meaningless accomplishment, the writer's adventure doesn't make sense.
So...reading it in context of where the reader comes from changes the meaning of the post.
Also, the writer emphasizes the YOLO nature of her feat...not planning, just doing. I think that gets the attention of kids these days, whose every moment was planned by their helicopter parents and weren't allowed to major in what they wanted because of $$.
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I think most of this was made typical influencer made up garbage. 7:43 pace with no training is a bit of a stretch. Then she says she ran Austin Half last year and I don’t see her in the results. Maybe she banditted that one too!
TBF, influencers might run under a fake name.
If this story is accurate, she would have started the "race" very late (supposedly saw the race, asked a security person where the start was, then went there). Hence why she's back with the walkers.
My bet is she didn't run the whole course. Probably just jumped in the race late, ran a few miles, took a pic.
I found it inspiring. But then I started reading her timeline and could tell people were criticizing her for banditing and then questioning what pace she ran. People on letsrun will be the same. Hell, Marathon Investigation will be on her next but she didn't have a bib or chip so even harder to try and figure out her actual pace.
I don't want to encourage people to bandit races as I think they should register and pay but my inclination when I read this was "good for her" instead of "thief".
She's gotten so much attention from this I think she should just now post something like "didn't realize it was a big deal not to register for the race, I'm donating $140 to the race and $140 to charity"
Thoughts?
People like her are stupid. Firstly 7:40 is jogging pace. Secondly since it's now on social media it will likely have long term repurcussions.
I think most of this was made typical influencer made up garbage. 7:43 pace with no training is a bit of a stretch. Then she says she ran Austin Half last year and I don’t see her in the results. Maybe she banditted that one too!
TBF, influencers might run under a fake name.
If this story is accurate, she would have started the "race" very late (supposedly saw the race, asked a security person where the start was, then went there). Hence why she's back with the walkers.
My bet is she didn't run the whole course. Probably just jumped in the race late, ran a few miles, took a pic.
A few weekends back as I was getting ready to head out for my run I saw a young woman in neon shorts, sports bra and one of those water-filled backpacks walk out of a house, jog about 50 yards down the road snapping selfies, and then turn around and walk back to the house. I don't doubt there's a lot phony about the story this thread is about too.
