Marathon Maniac #957
In the "I wish I could unsee it" category, one young woman of size walked out of the dressing room at PF in skin-tight flesh-colored yoga pants that out of the corner of my eye looked like she wasn't wearing anything at all!
Okay, when we went to Vegas last year, I was sort of shocked at the number of women wearing "leggings" that were not only flesh-colored, but seamed with gathers/elastic right up the butt-crack. This looked most bizarre on (I apologize if anyone finds this offensive) large black women. For some reason it looked even more "naked" on dark-skinned women.
Life is a headlong rush into the unknown. We can hunker down and hope nothing hits us or we can stand tall, lean into the wind and say, "Bring it on, darlin', and don't be stingy with the jalapenos."
I feel bad picking on young girls at the gym. There are folks of every age, shape, and gender that can be seen wearing some weird things. I just felt embarrassed by what I saw the last couple visits from young women so it was fresh on my mind when I posted.
Of course, I also get embarrassed when I see myself in the mirror at the gym. People probably wished I wore a bigger and baggier shirt to cover up my gut better, and they probably wish I wore long pants and covered up my hairy, white, spindly legs with the bald ankles. It is a real shock when I look at myself in the big mirrors.
MM#209 / JapanJoyful#803
bio - thanks for the nifty recap.
I'm glad we don't get graded
on our daily performances, though.
Before you decry the public school system, this is a parental problem too. Some parents don't care . . . ,
bio - thank you for doing your best when many don't and when so many parents not only don't but, for some reason, can't and, even if they could, are helpless to deal with the internet that never competed with our parents or our parenting. Please do not retire.
“ A human being would certainly not grow to be 70 or 80 years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species to which he belongs. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.”
Bio - nice quote, and very, very true in Japan where age is revered with special celebrations at ages 60, 77, 88, etc., getting to wear red, etc. that I found out about during a talk I gave and everybody just sat there and looked at me when I was done until, after an interminable minutes later, the senior member's asking a first question opened up the floor for everyone else.
. . . their times as 18 year olds matched their times at 60 years old. .
Murray - maybe someone else herein but I doubt it as, for sure, it sure doesn't apply to me, . . . not only about running but, unlike lucky Jay, except for great memories I'm thankful for, I've got nothing to remind me of 18yo days. Does anybody?
. . . working my cute little butt . . . of for at least the next 2-3 weeks.
Holly - too bad your webinar can't do a Zoom on your foot.
In particular, your work, your up-and-down the stairs, etc.
should be an example to everyone, . . . of what not to do. However, ps - perfect on the deliveries nowadays
but my laptop showed the print so big
it nearly scared me like time went
back to Halloween.
Thanks to twocat, though, I guess
I finally found out what meme means, I think.
Dave/Tramps - after yesterday’s win over the Sabres who’ve been doing so well, the Kraken are the talk of the town as, in spite of waking up briefly in the last two minutes, with a chance to tie the game with 15 seconds to go, an interception into the end zone brought back all the painful memories of a similar interception in Superbowl 49 (February 1, 2015) when, with the ball on the one foot line and all-the-time-needed-in-the-world with more than a minute to go plus all four downs still intact, the Seahawks shunned the league’s leading rusher (Marshawn Lynch) who could have walked easily over the goal line backwards for an easy win and a second consecutive SB for the team (and city) and, instead, tossed an interception to Malcolm Butler to lose again to the NE Patriots. Fortunately, now, almost seven years, eight months and 30 days later, I’m pretty much over it.
Lots of domestics today but sneaked in Hillside circuit during another morning abatement in the weather this time with bucket of sand to further finesse my private trail maintenance and got back in time to have DW’s coffee ready when she got up. Whew.
"Enjoy yourself. Your younger days never come again." 100yo T. Igarashi to me in geta at top of Mt. Fuji (8/2/87)
If it makes anyone feel better, I also can't stand guys wearing pants hanging down below their butt cheeks showing their underwear. How do they keep them up??? I'm seriously baffled, but haven't the cajones to go up and ask.
Leslie Living and Running Behind the Redwood Curtain -------------
Trail Runner Nation
Sally McCrae-Choose Strong
Bare Performance
Leslie - I always want to run up behind them and yank those barely-hanging-there pants right down! I don't get it - to me that whole look makes no sense and looks, well, stupid as all get out. A few years ago, a teenager in our town who was running from the police for some such incident got his "sagging" pants caught in the railroad tracks he was running across and he got hit by a train. Not saying he deserved it, but he might have re-thought his wardrobe choices if he knew he would be trying to make a getaway...
Tet, it reminds me of my first trip with a small group to our new Japanese partners back in about 1973. We checked into the company-owned housing where they were putting us up and the staff there (no English speakers) spent a lot of time poring over our passports and stuff. Then they assigned our rooms. Even though one guy I was with was a couple levels above me in the company hierarchy, I ended up with the best room because I was the oldest! Turns out all they were looking for in our papers were our birth dates.
Doug, runnin' cycling in Rochester, MI
"Think blue, count two, and look for a red shoe"
Roch - neat for sure but,
if you were old in 1973,
then I'm fast.
ps - what's red shoe?
Red signifies old
(60 and +) in Japan
Roch - neat for sure but, if you were old in 1973, then I'm fast.
Right -- it was 1983 and even though I was just 37 I was the oldest one in the group (wow, I can't remember ever being that young!).
Carolyn
Interesting discussions today about inappropriate attire, and pooping while running! I must admit, now I'm feeling self-conscious about sometimes going to the grocery store after a run wearing running tights. Maybe I should bring a skirt to wear over the tights, or tie a jacket around my waist, so I don't offend anyone. My tights are black, if that matters.
My DW is gone today to handle her aunt's final affairs. Her aunt passed away yesterday. Poor woman has been vegetative for some time now. i will not go through the details of her final days, but I think we need to reconsider how we handle end-of-life issues beyond letting people starve or dehydrate to death when they can no longer feed themselves.
Twocat, I'm sorry to hear about your DW's aunt. And I totally agree about end of life issues. When my DH's mom died in 2019, she basically stopped eating and drinking, and it took over a week till she died. We are kinder to our pets at the end of their lives - why can't we do the same for our family? My mother in law lived in NJ, and at the time they didn't have a death with dignity statute, although they do now. Colorado does, which I'm thankful for.
I ran 9.4 trail miles at Maryland Mountain today, to end the month on a prime. (157)
I hammered down the trail, passing rocks and trees like they were standing still.
This is toooooo funny!! A woman walked into my private apartment gym a couple weeks ago with that type legging on!! I was so shocked I had to look them up - they are called butt or booty lifting leggings!! It's really a thing, but it looks like a thong - how can they possibly be comfortable?? She actually walked in on her phone, stepped on a treadmill, talked some more then walked out.
Missed a few days here working Sunday and Monday but did get in a few 1 mile walks.
Today - 5 mile power walk with a few jogging intervals, longest walk since my hip injury. 30 minute strength/core workout
Had my hairs cut today too!!
denise
Twocat- Sorry about your wife's aunt passing, but I agree that sometimes one can last too long. It's a tough call.
I think it's fine to wear exercise tights around post-exercise. I also think leggings can be worn tastefully with the right tops, but I agree that there is some very poor judgment out there these days. As my HR VP said once about what some folks wore to our "dressy" company Christmas party- "The scary part is that they look in the mirror and say 'Hot Damn! Do I look great!' "
Out there running since dinosaurs roamed the earth
5M ez
I've been around half naked people most of my life via athletics and entertainment industry. I'm not shocked or impressed by anything I see now. I'm ashamed to say that I still body-shame, in my own head, when I see very unfit people attempting to dress in a sexually provocative way. But, what do I know? They may be a 300-pounder, but recently LOST 100 pounds, so they're strutting their IMPROVEMENT.
On this theme and Las Vegas; several years ago I saw a few young women who just wore bikinis and shoes to walk around. Not by the pool, but through the casinos and down the strip. Had their purses with them, just like they would if they were wearing t-shirts and shorts, except it was just bikinis.
And poor old Madonna, still trying to work that "sexy" (sexually attractive) angle as if there were no other angles to work. With an embarrassing amount of filters, too. Genius marketing move, or sign of neurosis?
Same with old Nick Cage. He just looks silly in teenager clothes.
60-64 age group - University of Oregon alumni - Irreverent and Annoying
Interesting discussions today about inappropriate attire.
About 4 years ago I bought a pair of 2" inseam running shorts, but DW won't let me wear them in public!
Pre-pandemic I used to go on group runs and being in Louisiana it is frequently hot & humid even very early in the morning. On one such run, we crossed paths with a guy in the age group below me that was running shirtless and I overheard ladies in our group saying "there should be a rule that old men need to keep covered up". Is there an age at which men running shirtless becomes inappropriate?
In my view, as long as the wearer is comfortable with their choice of garments, not breaking laws and reasonably compliant with any specific dress code, I'm good with whatever they might wear.
Started running at age 60.
AG 60-64 PR - 5K 25:45, 10K 53:28, HM 1:57:39, Marathon 4:32:09
AG 65-69 PR - 5K 26:11, HM 2:02:39, Marathon 5:04:47
Upcoming race: Four on the 4th 7/4/24 maybe.
Hilarious thread. I've been thinking the same thing lately about what people wear at the gym, and the silly guys that wear their little speedo suits to go hang out in the hot tub and stroll around the pool deck. I'm self-conscious enough wearing my almost knee-length jammers just from the chair wear I take off my long sweatpants, to the pool, and back again when I'm done. But at least it's kind of a universal swim suit for people that go to the pool to exercise and most people don't stare at others who are either getting into the water or just getting out. In fact I don't think there is any man over the age of 17 or 18 that wears a speedo in the pool for working out, and believe me you don't want to be the over 30 guy standing there in a short speedo when the college-bound state caliber HS guys are wearing the same suits after their workouts.
I swam about 2000 yards after work today, just enough to get to 29 miles for the month of November, then picked up my GN at Indoor Track practice, then went back and swam another mile to get to 30 miles. Actually, 52,900 yards - just 100 yards beyond the 30-mile mark. I have to go back and check the log to be sure but I believe this is my highest mileage month so far (probably by 50 yards) and only the third time I've reached the 30-mile marker. The best part of the 2nd session was the first 3 400's that I swam in 6:43, 6:36, and 6:36. Effort-wise it was very similar to running 3 1-mile repeats, where your goal is 6:40 and you almost hit it on the nose on the first repeat and then nail it twice in a row, 4 seconds faster than goal time.
Definitely checking out of November on a high note.
Also, I attended the meeting of our local USMasters Swimming organization on Sunday evening, via Zoom. The membership coordinator announced at the meeting that memberships are down from around 225 at this time in 2019 to about 25 now. There really isn't much reason to belong to the local organization right now because they can't offer anything in the way of organized practices or meets, but you need to have your membership current in order to participate in meets that other regions seem to be able to run, plus the ePostal races I've been participating in, so far me it's worth it to spend the $60 to stay current. I have one more ePostal to participate in, in 2022, and it isn't a National Championship - it's the "Brute Squad" where you swim 200 yards of Butterfly, a 400-yard Individual Medley (100 each of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle) and then I think 1,650 yards of freestyle. It takes some people about 25-30 minutes but the one time I tried it, I was around 49:00. Resting along the way is allowed but the clock keeps running. The deadline to enter for this year Is December 15th. I'm non-committal about it but since I feel like I should have the 220-mile distance goal in the bag for the year, I might just go ahead and get it out of the way one of these Sundays when the pool is almost abandoned.
Have a great night everyone. Thanks for the thread!
5K of hill repeats and speedy running.
Spent lots of time at Wreck Beach (nudist beach) when I was going to art school in Vancouver in the early 1980's.
Awesome beach with a great atmosphere. You could head to the right hand side of the beach where it was more family oriented or head left where it got weirder as you went along. We headed left one day, found an open spot, and it took a while before Dave whispered to me, "Murr...there's nothing but guys around here".
That's when I found out gay guys had a derogatory name for us 'normal' people when one fellow jumped up on a log, pointed up the beach to the right and yelled, "Breeders! They're all breeders!"
Vendors were walking around selling food and both alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks. I never once saw a person drunk & obnoxious.
Good memories, well maybe not all good...the volleyball games I could definitely forget seeing.