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Don’t You Know Who I Am?

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 year ago (13 children)

This feels very much like an /r/thathappened post

[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

As a running enthusiast whose varied from running ~25 miles a week to having to restart from nothing, what the guy is talking about is extremely common. I've followed many different plans from many runners, sometimes their names are attached, sometimes not, and most of them I couldn't tell you what they look like. I will say Olympic runners are the most common. I've even come across hers. Nothing about this rings as implausible to someone remotely interested in the topic. I guess I could understand from a total outsider perspective, but from someone who looks into that topic often? Absolutely plausible. I see no reason not to believe them.

Edit: the amount of stories Tony Hawk posts like this and never gets questioned also just makes me wonder a bit about why multiple people have already commented the way you did.

[–] PownyRyda 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wouldn't a guy analyze a guy's training instead of a women's? I don't run but I'd imagine that training would be at least a little different for women than it is for men.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Not really. I'm sure elite performers, possibly. But training plans aren't generally gendered from anything I've come across.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’ve never paid attention to the sex or gender identity of who writes training programs if the credentials check out

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[–] RedAggroBest 8 points 1 year ago

Or maybe he's an analyst.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

This feels very much like a /r/nothingeverhappens comment.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Inside you there are two wolves.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

God damn it Moon Moon.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

It's a good day at the Furry convention.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

One smokes crack, The other smokes crack.

You are addicted to crack.

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[–] average650 84 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why not tell him? Who wouldn't love that?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Someone who makes assumptions about women and confidently tells them how they should be doing the things they are already doing.

[–] average650 63 points 1 year ago (38 children)

Just sounds to me like he's passionate about something. I guess he could be an ass, but to jump to that conclusion from just "you should train high milage" and then providing analysis is really a bit much.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My dad would be that guy, but he's a running coach and was a marathon runner for like 50 years, so he loves talking about it.

There definitely wouldn't be any thought of, "you're a woman so you need advice," since he'd do the same thing to a man.

In fact, if we actually accept this completely unbelievable story, the fact that he's pulling stats from Women runners shows he's not being sexist.

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[–] Ryan213 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I find this hard to believe...if the guy's doing analysis, he'd surely know who she was. He'd be a big enough "fan" of running to even start doing analysis. Man, the internet is just full of BS.

Anyway, I'll pretend this was real and it's kinda funny.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Absolutely not. I've followed plans and couldn't tell you what the person looks like. It's usually not about knowing a lot about the person but the popularity of the plan. And I've come across hers so at least in my opinion, it's a common one. I find this no different than the countless stories Tony Hawk says that border the same concept. He just gets believed a lot more easily for whatever reason.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Idk, I’d believe it. I’ve been involved in a few sports to the point that I’m doing deep diving into elites trainings out of curiousity. For some athletes, the only picture I would see is a small thumbnail profile pic that was basically indecipherable, or they would be in athletic gear with hats and such. I definitely wouldn’t recognize them on the street, and it would be a crap shoot if I’d recognize them on an airplane. The only ones that I’d have a shot at are Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell and Andrew Skurka.

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[–] kemsat 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The expression should be “I had too much heart to tell him.” A person lacking heart would have told them, gleefully.

[–] Malfeasant 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, "didn't have the heart" doesn't mean you don't have heart, just means you have a different kind of heart, so it works fine.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had too many hearts to tell him. My blood pressure is through the roof.

[–] AliceTheMinotaur 3 points 1 year ago

Or your a time lord

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[–] Klear 2 points 1 year ago

A person lacking heart would have told them, gleefully.

TIL I'm lacking heart.

[–] TIEPilot 8 points 1 year ago

This happens a lot in the firearms community. I get told about x, y, z guns and how they function. But I have all those guns and have trained on the less accessible. I own full auto legally but every other day I'm told I can't own one. People be dumb.

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