Pretty sure that Jim Ryun never completed a marathon.
Pretty sure he was a real runner.
Can you be considered a real runner if you're never completed a marathon?
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popular opinion wrote:
unpopular opinion wrote:
For the most part, marathons are for slow runners. Fast runners run on a track. If you can't make it there (or can't make it there anymore) you move to shorter road races. If you can't make it there (or you are starting to slow) you move to the marathon.
When someone says they run marathons, I just assume they are too slow to do anything else.
Sure there are a few good runners running marathons, but for the most are just too slow.
If you downvote the post, I'm just going to assume you're a slow runner running marathons.
I downvoted your post assuming you're on welfare.
Two things:
1) I am on welfare, though I prefer you call it public assistance. (Welfare is a degrading term)
2) I'm still going to count you as a slow runner.
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You're a real runner if you can run an 11 minute mile. Can you be a real gatekeeper without a real gate?
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Man Moth wrote:
Ruxton Towers XC wrote:
I agree with Msksjfjf and gave him an up-vote but...
"Because he's never ran one." Please, I'm begging you guys:
- I run marathons as a hobby.
- I ran the Boston Marathon marathon last Spring.
- I have run the Boston Marathon twice and I might do it again next year.
There are no exceptions to this pattern: RUN > RAN > HAVE RUN
Example of the difference:
"Have run" shows you did something (and could still be doing it); e.g. "He's run for Nike for over a decade."
"Ran" shows you did something (and it is over with); e.g. "He ran for Nike when he was young."
I absolutely agree with the sentiment of this post, but you're raking leaves on a windy day, my man.
My dear, now please exhort people to write the past tense (and past participle) of "to lead" as "led."
I'm sure you'll be equally successful.
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Hard at work wrote:
Making predictions about your marathon time from a 10+ year old much shorter race doesn't count, right?
Correct.
Oprah= real runner
Seb Coe= not a real runner
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Hard at work wrote:
Making predictions about your marathon time from a 10+ year old much shorter race doesn't count, right?
3:07 marathon is the edge of real runner
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Ruxton Towers XC wrote:
Honest Al wrote:
Talk about nails on a chalkboard. Can you use AI to fix this for you. In your rush to provide examples, you butchered the rest of your sentence, making two of them incorrect.
Can you show me my mistakes? You mean mean when I typed marathon twice? That is just a typo. I don't actually think it is called the "Boston Marathon marathon." Is there a second mistake?
I am not a jerk about typos. We all make those.
It is not knowing that the past tense of eat is ate or "have eaten." It would drive us all insane if people just walked around town saying, "I've ate so much today. I'm stuffed!" That is how it feels when people say, "I've ran a lot of marathons in my life."
So help me out, man. Seems you are saying some types of mistakes are okay. Like you are cool with them. But other mistakes are just no bueno and you have to step in and straighten someone out?
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Hard at work wrote:
Making predictions about your marathon time from a 10+ year old much shorter race doesn't count, right?
Jakob is a fake runner.
heard it here first.
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Miss Fidditch wrote:
My dear, now please exhort people to write the past tense (and past participle) of "to lead" as "led."
I'm sure you'll be equally successful.
The problem with some verbs is that the past tense sounds like the present tense of a different verb. That creates confusion. I don't expect anyone to remember this or use these correctly:
Lie > Lied > Have Lied (tell an untruth)
Lie > Lay > Have Lain (recline as onto a couch or bed)
Lay > Laid > Have Laid (set something down in a flat/prone position)
Lead > Led > Have Led (to take control of a route or situation)
But for God's sake, we are runners! We can learn RUN > RAN > HAVE RUN since we use it on every thread!
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need a ruling here wrote:
So help me out, man. Seems you are saying some types of mistakes are okay. Like you are cool with them. But other mistakes are just no bueno and you have to step in and straighten someone out?
Humanity tends to judge actual ignorance more harshly than accidents. That is why I also think certain things (like not knowing one's own language) are worse than others (like a typo).
Just like smacking someone on purpose is worse than bumping someone on accident, even if the force used is the same.
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Hard at work wrote:
Making predictions about your marathon time from a 10+ year old much shorter race doesn't count, right?
If you never completed a marathon you are a real runner.
If you completed at least a marathon but said marathon was slower than 2:15 (2:35 for women), then you are not a real runner.
So, sorry OP, it seems you are not a real runner.
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A real runner knows a sub 3 hour marathon is better then a sub 27 minute 8k.
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Hard at work wrote:
Making predictions about your marathon time from a 10+ year old much shorter race doesn't count, right?
+1
I just chuckle when someone says they have never run a marathon or don't plan to ever run one. The thon proves that you are tough as fukk and have character, and you deserve respect. When you wear your finishers medal, you should be entitled to a date with any girl at the bar, and people who run thons should be exempt from paying taxes or something as an incentive
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Banana Bread wrote:
Hard at work wrote:
Making predictions about your marathon time from a 10+ year old much shorter race doesn't count, right?
+1
I just chuckle when someone says they have never run a marathon or don't plan to ever run one. The thon proves that you are tough as fukk and have character, and you deserve respect. When you wear your finishers medal, you should be entitled to a date with any girl at the bar, and people who run thons should be exempt from paying taxes or something as an incentive
Thon? I chuckle when I hear that. You sound soft as banana break.
Thon? LOL00
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