Fair point.

I hear you, but this is like 200 inches long. It’s no Ram, but it’s not exactly dainty.

It’s 200 inches long for a start

Green Ferraris often look so right

Oh, yet another special edition unobtanium built for marketing reasons. hOw ExCiTiNg

San Francisco would be an interesting place for people to park leaving the car in neutral.

Our local Parkrun attracts all types. Speedsters, regular joes, old folk, parents running with their kids, intellectually handicapped people, and even a few blind people… and also, sigh, the running clubs who don’t attend the briefing, hog the track, won’t let faster people through, ignore guidelines and set up “camp” away from everyone else.

I’ve increased my average weekly by 50% and my 5k time has blown out from 20:30 to 23:45. But I’ve also gotten older … so I dunno

Yup. A guy I went to school with went to the youth olympics for 5000m. But he never trained for athletics though, only for soccer - the sport he actually enjoyed. He was a mediocre soccer player, his only advantage was being able to play an entire game at a sprint.

I did the Broadwater Grunt run this year - a semi-technical 20k through dusty scrubland and dry forest. It started at 3pm.

It was great, except for the low sun blasting straight into your eyes from 430 onward.

“It’s okay. He’s friendly!”

“I’m not.”

Beau Miles (his YouTube channel is amazing) mentions this exact thing. He likes knowing that he’s put the work in to be the fittest person he meets on any given day.

https://youtu.be/EvT5XS7j-Dc?feature=shared

Running clubs in my area spit on casual and non-competitive runners. So my hot take is that running clubs are for assholes.