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George Kaplan

Age : 48 Location : Kalamazoo, MI Registration date : 2012-01-07
 | Subject: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:56 am | |
| My running club usually does 5ks, but now they want to do a 10k next week. 10ks make my feet hurt, but on longer runs I seem to push through the pain. Should I tell them I hate 10k races? |
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Kyle Weiss

Location : Reno, NV Registration date : 2011-09-18
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:01 pm | |
| Nice one, GK. I was reading that title and formulating a cheeky way to say I think the New York Marathon is probably the worst race, too many people that look like strung-out health junkies crammed into the streets. You happened to beat me to it. Your race is superior. |
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the rev

Age : 51 Location : Oak View CA Registration date : 2012-10-08
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:18 pm | |
| I hate the long beach marathon, blocks up my streets
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George Kaplan

Age : 48 Location : Kalamazoo, MI Registration date : 2012-01-07
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:31 pm | |
| - Kyle Weiss wrote:
- Your race is superior.
But yours is the superior intellect. (Sorry, no time to paste Ricardo Montleban's pecs on your photo) It was getting a little quiet around here. I couldn't help myself. |
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Kyle Weiss

Location : Reno, NV Registration date : 2011-09-18
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:33 pm | |
| I couldn't run in a race if I wanted to. I can walk 20 miles, but running more than 100 yards kills my knees.  |
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Ocelot55

Location : Columbus, OH Registration date : 2012-03-28
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:44 pm | |
| - Kyle Weiss wrote:
- I couldn't run in a race if I wanted to. I can walk 20 miles, but running more than 100 yards kills my knees.

Do you have flat feet, Kyle? I am pretty much the same as you. I once hiked 18 miles in one day and was fine the next. I tried running consistently for about a three month basis until my knees told me no more. My father-in-law is a Podiatrist. He told me my feet were some of the flattest he has seen. I wound up getting a custom shoe insert that is supposed to help me with that. |
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dshpipes

Age : 34 Location : Durham, NC Registration date : 2011-03-06
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:44 pm | |
| My hats off to you, George. |
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DrT999

Age : 59 Location : Piedmont of North Carolina Registration date : 2011-08-31
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:45 pm | |
| - Kyle Weiss wrote:
- I couldn't run in a race if I wanted to.
I understand. If confronted by an apex preditor, my only hopes for survival are 1) its fear of a small flame is greater than its hunger; or 2) I can stroll away faster than anyone else nearby |
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George Kaplan

Age : 48 Location : Kalamazoo, MI Registration date : 2012-01-07
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:49 pm | |
| - DrT999 wrote:
- Kyle Weiss wrote:
- I couldn't run in a race if I wanted to.
I understand. If confronted by an apex preditor, my only hopes for survival are 1) its fear of a small flame is greater than its hunger; or 2) I can stroll away faster than anyone else nearby
I don't need to run faster than the predator; I only need to run faster than Dr. T. |
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Puff Daddy Moderator

Age : 54 Location : South of heaven Registration date : 2007-12-09
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:09 pm | |
| George outed himself as a racist  . Discrimination against the big races, I'm calling Obama. We'll level a race tax on you now _________________ These are horrible times and all sorts of horrible people are prospering, but we must never let this disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to annoy and hinder them at every turn.
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Puff Daddy Moderator

Age : 54 Location : South of heaven Registration date : 2007-12-09
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:13 pm | |
| - DrT999 wrote:
- If confronted by an apex preditor, my only hopes for survival are
1) its fear of a small flame is greater than its hunger; or 2) I can stroll away faster than anyone else nearby
Or, just don't look it in the eye and hope it's really dumb, like the ravenous Bugblatter beast of Traal in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It's such a stupid animal that it assumes if you can't see it, it can't see you. _________________ These are horrible times and all sorts of horrible people are prospering, but we must never let this disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to annoy and hinder them at every turn.
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BigCasino

Age : 49 Location : North of Pittsburgh pa Registration date : 2012-11-27
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:35 pm | |
| I hate nascar does that count?
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MisterE Moderator

Location : Mexico City Registration date : 2009-08-24
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:17 pm | |
| I know how you feel. I went and played hoops on Tuesday after a rehearsal. I felt great playing then, but today I'm o-so-sore. _________________ Many of the greatest pleasures in life are illegal, immoral, or smelly.
-Yak
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Aristokles
Location : Pittsburgh, PA Registration date : 2010-10-02
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:22 pm | |
| Only race I would want to run would be the human race...maybe for 5 or 10 minutes or so. |
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Carlos Admin

Age : 60 Location : Chestnut, IL Registration date : 2007-12-10
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:01 pm | |
| - BigCasino wrote:
- I hate nascar does that count?
Me too. Except for Montoya. I'm a Formula 1 fan. _________________  "Never turn your back on a Breen". |
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KevinM
Age : 75 Location : Connecticut Registration date : 2012-02-26
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 6:31 pm | |
| I will take this opp to share my fav racist joke, because I'll never get another -- Two black guys walking down the street. They notice a new shop. It has a sign in the window: Let us turn you white. 15 minutes. $15. The first black guy says to his friend, "I have to admit that I've always wondered what it would be like . . ." His buddy replies, "yeah, but I can't do it. I only have $10 to my name right now." So the first guy replies, "No problem, Bro. I have a $20. I'll try it and it it works, you can have the change." So they agree and the first guy goes into the shop. Fifteen minutes later he comes back out. His buddy says, "I can't believe it, Bro. If I didn't know it was you, I'd say it was Leonaardo DiCaprio! Blond. Blue eyes. I gotta try this. Give me the $5!!" The first black guy says, "Give you $5!! Sheeeit! How about you get a job, Bro?" Well, I warned you it was a racist joke |
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Silence2477

Age : 40 Location : Harrisburg PA Registration date : 2012-12-29
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 6:54 pm | |
| As long as you hate all the races the same I think you are safe... |
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Harlock999

Location : Los Angeles Registration date : 2010-10-22
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:02 pm | |
| I see a lot of 26.2 and 13.1 bumper stickers, and I'd love to have one with a random distance like 2.9, or 6.3... |
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BigCasino

Age : 49 Location : North of Pittsburgh pa Registration date : 2012-11-27
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:40 pm | |
| - Harlock999 wrote:
- I see a lot of 26.2 and 13.1 bumper stickers, and I'd love to have one with a random distance like 2.9, or 6.3...
This is the sticker i want  |
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Rob_In_MO

Age : 44 Location : Park Hills, MO Registration date : 2011-01-19
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:45 pm | |
| BC - Here you go. |
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Kyle Weiss

Location : Reno, NV Registration date : 2011-09-18
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:28 am | |
| - Ocelot55 wrote:
Do you have flat feet, Kyle? I am pretty much the same as you. I once hiked 18 miles in one day and was fine the next. I tried running consistently for about a three month basis until my knees told me no more. My father-in-law is a Podiatrist. He told me my feet were some of the flattest he has seen. I wound up getting a custom shoe insert that is supposed to help me with that.
Nope, high, strong arches all the live long day. I just have an abnormal body. Part of it wants to be a husky Russian/German farmboy and the other part a skinny, forest-runnin' Injun. And the skeletal/muscular structure to prove it. It means I can lift stuff until my back goes out, walk all day but can't run, quick reflexes but too much mass for it to matter. I make do. I know how a mastiff/greyhound cross might feel.  Ugly as hell and not quite excelling physically at much.  |
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Puff Daddy Moderator

Age : 54 Location : South of heaven Registration date : 2007-12-09
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:43 am | |
| - Harlock999 wrote:
- I see a lot of 26.2 and 13.1 bumper stickers, and I'd love to have one with a random distance like 2.9, or 6.3...
How about one with a fat guy silhouette and .2? _________________ These are horrible times and all sorts of horrible people are prospering, but we must never let this disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to annoy and hinder them at every turn.
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DrT999

Age : 59 Location : Piedmont of North Carolina Registration date : 2011-08-31
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Kyle Weiss

Location : Reno, NV Registration date : 2011-09-18
 | Subject: Re: Is it wrong to dislike a particular race? Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:01 pm | |
| 0.02 in a white recliner silhouette.  |
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