Does this work with hunger as well?
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I wonder what happens when an empath’s best friend is a sociopath…
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Life loses it’s meaning?
They’re a hypocrite?
My confession: I didn’t know what a tater tot is.
Hah, I beat you all guys
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It’s the child of a potato.
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Like a jelly baby, but made of spuds?
Yeah haha, I looked it up
Me: I want to go back to 12 hour shifts where I rotate between having 3 and 4 days off a week.
Also me, 1 week into returning to my old job: My feet, knees, hips, and back all ache immensely, I need to get used to standing for 12 hours on concrete with lifting and hammering (and lots of math, which is also a perishable skill).
Also also me: this 10 mile race in the mountains of Charlottesville with 2500m of elevation gain looks fun, I guess I’ll sign up, it’s the weekend after my first week returning to shift work.
Also also also me: Four Roses Bourbon is on sale? Would it be wrong to have a few glasses of whiskey?
I guess we’ll find out how wrong it was at 6 am tomorrow. Good night, America.
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I greatly admire your ability to make the worst decision possible.
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What’s a day off?
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You are my inspiration in that department, haha.
The race was fun. Miserable, but fun. Ate it a couple times on roots. Finished somewhere near the middle, maybe 15th or so.
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Someone said (can’t remember who and can’t be bothered to look it up) (also, going to misquote for same reason): “I don’t enjoy writing. I enjoy having written.”
Which describes a lot of things for me, and I would imagine nicely sums up your feelings at the moment re the race.
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Spot on, as usual. After that first 2-3 minutes of nausea and crushing fatigue wears off (mostly since I always sprint the finish when other people smartly jog in at their proper pace) there is an indescribable feeling of peace, self awareness, self discovery, and harmony with nature that I get having done my best to conquer the elements. There’s also an awesome sense of community, but that extends to PL, strongman, etc. just as much, I’m sure.
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Yeah, but the running community is much bigger and you can actually participate with half assed effort. There’s a reason that my lifting “community” is here in an online forum instead of in my town.
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I’d say that’s part of why I believe the PL/Strongman communities are better. Running is more or less an event now rather than a race. It’s considered an accomplishment to simply finish rather than work toward a time goal.
People don’t generally show up to lifting comps to just finish, there’s goals that were set and worked toward in the months leading up to the comp. I think that the working hard part builds a stronger bond and sense of community rather than running twice a week and jog/walking to the finish line.
But maybe I’m just an elitist internet troll
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But with that, we can be elitist internet trolls with those other things.
Jamie Lewis wrote an article actually approaching the two topics called “It’s Not a F**king Fun Run” regarding powerlifting, addressing the nature of people signing up for powerlifting meets just to do them, with no desire or ability to actually win. In strongman, we actually observe trainees in the novice division who DON’T want to win, because it would mean having to compete in the open division, where things are going to be challenging. They’d rather just hang out and beat other novices. And even bodybuilding is getting a rash of folks showing up looking like they forgot to build a body!
And then, in the contrast, I’ve definitely overhead some choice things said about folks that show up to a 10k just to walk it. 2 of those folks actually cost a first place finish at the Fargo Marathon about 7 years back (Christ I’m getting old) when they drifted into the finish lane while walking side by side and just chatting with each other. Cut off the lead guy, dude in second was able to skirt around them and secure victory by a second. Running community had some thoughts on that one, haha.
I’d say the biggest thing with running is accessibility. You need a pair of shoes…and that’s about it. Maybe a treadmill if you live somewhere with winters. Powerlifting should be similar (it was kinda the whole point: you didn’t need a fancy bar and bumpers like weightlifting did), but even now it’s getting absurd with “RAW” (always written in all caps for some reason) lifting that has enough gear to construct a full suit of armor.
I genuinely have no idea where I was going with this…
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There are definitely participants in the running community, but some of them actually push themselves to improve. Hell, for most of them, just showing up and completing a run is working towards that goal.
I know a lady who has run every day for over two years straight, but her mile time hasn’t decreased at all. But, I’m not sure that’s why she runs. She enjoys it, she runs with groups and participates in just about every fundraising race. She’s happy with it and that’s all that matters.
I don’t think you need to be competitive for the social aspect to be good. I would actually lean towards the running community being better because it’s easier to find a group and participate.
You just reminded me that this happened in my first strongman comp. Some guys in the novice class were basically sprinting during a fairly heavy carry medley and the organizer was on the mic and called them out in the middle of the event for not being in the open class.
That’s why I included the internet troll part, agreed that that’s all that really matters. I’d never call someone out for not wanting to shave 30 secs off their 5k time
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That’s a good promoter right there, haha. I remember at Alan Thrall’s first competition, the novice class was like 18 people deep and stacked with ringers, to the point that the novices that thought they were going to have a cakewalk suddenly were duking it out in a bloodbath all for nothing. If some of those dudes woulda stepped up into open, they honestly woulda won just because of how sparse the classes were, but their desire to cherry pick bit them. Ironic justice.
Gary Montoya also showed off how much a badass he was by stepping up from the goddamn 175 class to the middleweights just because they didn’t have enough competitors to grant nationals invites otherwise. AND he still did an awesome job.
AND he had someone whip him with a leather belt to get ready for the deadlift event.
That part was weird.
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I failed to mention that it still bothers me 
What I wrote is how I should feel but the competitive side of me is like “What are you doing!? What is the point?”
She’s an awesome lady, though. I just have to remind myself that my goals are not the same as other people’s goals. And to be honest, she looks like she’s enjoying running a lot more than I ever will.
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