RunningAHEAD - Topic: Running is bad for you!!! I need a good response to that comment! (page 4)

jsobo119

posted: 1/26/2008 at 3:06 PM

This is awesome... nice thread... and very much related to the other comment that I get... you have lost too much weight... you have gotten to skinny. I'm 15% body fat! um far from too skinny. Running is bad for you? I just don't respond beyond... it lowered my blood pressure and my resting pulse such that I don't take medication anymore. There are probably other ways I could have accomplished that but I like running. There are other things that are worse that I could do as a hobby. ... of course you could just say... "really? I heard the world was flat! and if you break a mirror you get 8 years bad luck" I know it's seven... but that is the banana peal. because when they say... "you mean seven" you can say... "oh great.. my bad luck is over then!"

spaniel

Feeling the growl again

posted: 1/26/2008 at 4:43 PM

"I'll keep that in mind when I'm running laps around your nursing home/wheelchair."

"If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does. There's your pep talk for today. Go Run." -- Slo_Hand

I am spaniel - Crusher of Treadmills

Jim2

posted: 1/26/2008 at 6:52 PM

"That is a very ignorant, uninformed comment."

Chizzy

posted: 1/26/2008 at 8:09 PM

The ever popular southern response: "Why, bless your heart"

Teresadfp

One day at a time

posted: 1/26/2008 at 9:13 PM
modified: 1/26/2008 at 9:15 PM

"I used to think that, too, before I started running last year. You should give it a try - you would be amazed!" (accompanied by sweet smile). or "Huh, it's funny you should say that. Before I started running, I had NO IDEA how out of shape I was. Running was a real eye opener for me. Now I can run six miles without stopping, and before I couldn't run a quarter mile."

dnephin

posted: 1/26/2008 at 10:04 PM
modified: 1/26/2008 at 10:05 PM

How bout: "I see being a lazy pig is working for you"? Really, though, you're probably not going to change minds. You run for you. That's all that matters.

DWARP
Marathon Madness Mob

Trent

Good Bad & The Monkey

posted: 1/26/2008 at 10:05 PM

Quote from Chizzy on 1/26/2008 at 8:09 PM:

The ever popular southern response: "Why, bless your heart"

We have a winner!!

I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.

Poor baby

Bugs

posted: 1/27/2008 at 9:04 AM

Response: Everything we do in life has trade-offs.

Bugs

littlem

posted: 1/28/2008 at 10:59 PM
modified: 1/28/2008 at 10:59 PM

"wow, your misguided and poorly-informed concern is so sweet!" "so how'd your son's football game go last weekend?" a co-worker at an old job once warned me that running would ruin my knees... "your knees! running always ruins people's knees! don't do it, you'll regret it, are you crazy..." etc. i said that i did know some people whose legs got wrecked by running (my dad is one, unfortunately, and my current boss is another), but that i plan my running carefully to avoid injury. like anything else, you can be smart and you can be reckless-- either way you just hope you can do what you love and not get hurt doing it. also, i love that a lot of these people are like "no! no! running will wreck your knees!" but will text or eat while driving and think nothing of it. Roll eyes

Thunderthighs

Beatin' on the Rock

posted: 1/29/2008 at 7:54 AM
modified: 1/29/2008 at 8:03 AM

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Be yourself. Those that matter, don't mind. Those that mind, don't matter.

McRat

Fool

posted: 1/29/2008 at 9:27 AM

Sometimes, it's best to let my friend here handle it.

jeffdonahue

posted: 1/29/2008 at 9:48 AM

I get this from my brothers all the time. Both of them go on and on about how it is so bad for my knees and joints, etc... Now a bit of background - my older brother is a skateboarder/snowboarder who has had at least 3 ankle surgeries because of what he does. My younger brother has had both of his ACL's removed from his knees from playing soccer and volleyball (and the fact that he is severely overweight). Given both of these circumstances, I just smile and laugh and walk away - knowing that both of them are going to end up using a cane to get around before I ever do.

LebbenB

posted: 1/30/2008 at 12:40 PM

"This is America, friend..." Then simply stroll away. "If running is wrong, I don't want to be right."

PacerChris

posted: 1/30/2008 at 6:10 PM

Anyone suggest the old standby? "Bite me."

higa

posted: 1/31/2008 at 4:48 AM
modified: 1/31/2008 at 4:49 AM

Thx everyone I certainly have a repetoire of responses now - I just have to be quick witted enough to remember them!

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