Hi Iron Clyd,

I'm with you! I'm a heavyweight and run in events that have clydesdale divisions. I'd enjoy that thread.

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quote:<HR>Originally posted by jmc9mm:
me too! We have special needs....<HR>

Yes we do!

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quote:<HR>Originally posted by aurang:
What exactly are these unique needs?

Can thin people get a forum as well? What about thin guys in their 20s with receding hairlines who run between 9 am and 12 pm? No one knows what unique challenges they face.<HR>

I think there is a difference between someone who is bald and skinny who can get the advice he needs in a regular forum compared to someone like me who is 6'4" 380 lbs and starting to run. Think about it and we are being serious and I personally don't appreciate your sarcasm. Tell me have you ever carried 380lbs around a track? do you find tech clothes in your size? do your shoes wear out faster? what about your eating habits? should I go on or wait for another one of your witty comebacks?

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quote:<HR>Originally posted by aurang:

Tell me have you ever carried 380lbs around a track? do you find tech clothes in your size? do your shoes wear out faster? what about your eating habits? should I go on or wait for another one of your witty comebacks?<HR>

If those are all the things you're going to talk about, you may as well give thin guys in their 20's their own forum along with insurance adjusters from western Pennsylvania who run between 44 and 46 minutes for 10k races. That not every idiosyncracy deserves its own forum is the point I'm trying to make.

For the record, I don't find clothes in my size and I have lousy eating habits.[/B]

boy you are a whiny jerk aren't you... Did you get pick on in school or did people take your toys from you as a kid? Man we asked for a forum because of us being a different and you come on here crying because someone might get something you don't have. Maybe they should make a forum for you called the "I have no life and feel so bad about myself that I complain about everything and try to make everyone feel as miserable as me so can so I feel like someone"

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quote:<HR>Originally posted by aurang:
I don't recall insulting you with the crisp, stylistic prose of a semi-literate 10-year old, but I guess you have nothing to say by way of discussing the actual point.

Finding clothes, losing weight and having shoes wear out and so on are issues that a whole spectrum of runners deal with, not just ones that are over some arbitrary limit such as 250 pounds.

http://This message has been edited by aurang (edited Jan-16-2007).<HR>

Once again you are missing the point that as larger athletes we have different issues. You are the one that started this with your remark about skinny, bald runners who run between 9-12. You came on here to a post and be a smart *** when I had a made a simple suggestion and some of the other people agreed. You came on and thought that you would reply with your charming wit and be a jerk. I knew that I would find the jerk of this board sometime and normally on message boards they pop right up but it took awhile for you to rear your ugly bias head. And since you seem to be an expert at everything you know, then you would realize that people over 250lbs have different problems then the rest of the runners. Maybe you hate fat people or something. I also notice that you have no issue with the Boomer section why is that? Did you get your panties in a wad when they started the Clydesdale and Athena divisions at races? Maybe they should get rid of age groups as well?

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http://This message has been edited by gripperm (edited Jan-16-2007).

gripperm, in your meandering, tangential, and semi-coherent insults, you completely miss the point I am making and offer none of your own. Here is the division of boards on this website as it currently stands:

- Newbies
- Basic Training
- Running on the track
- Running ultras and on the trail
- Multisport
- A Jeff Galloway shill board
- Racing
- Racing competitively
- Teenagers
- Boomers
- Injuries
- Nutrition
- Gear

The boards are divided up by distance, experience, seriousness (those who race versus those who run for enjoyment), age groups and peripheral issues (nutrition, gear). Where exactly do larger runners fit in? What proportion of them post on the board designated for new runners? What portion of your own posts are focused on your elephantine girth and what portion are focused on running? How much time could you possibly spend discussing these putatively unique challenges?

Granted, heavier runners are a group, but there are a lot of groups on this board. Running for heavy runners is simply not a sufficiently broad topic to merit its own board, just as the study of zebras, for example, is subsumed by biology and is not its own discipline. Every single one of the issues you speak of are dealt with on existing boards (Gear, Newbie Cafe, Carbo Canteen).

If you insist that clydesdales merit their own group, where does it stop? There are probably more people on this website trying to qualify for Boston than there are over 250 lbs. Would there be a Boston Qualifying forum? What about a 40-minute 10k? They have their own thread, and it's pretty popular.

http://This message has been edited by aurang (edited Jan-16-2007).

quote:<HR>Originally posted by aurang:
What portion of your own posts are focused on your elephantine girth?

http://This message has been edited by aurang (edited Jan-16-2007).<HR>

I guess if I had a forum I could post more about the problems of running with my elephantine girth


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