- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
Running didn't exist until Oprah blessed it? What kind of trophies line your shelves, "Nice Try, Retard" awards?
Anyway you know what pussified it? The fact that in any High School in America they make the kids run a mile, but they give them 12 minutes to do it. You need to just give up, light up a smoke and quit, at that point. I'm 48, had two coronary 'events', 2 bouts with cancer, suffered 2 broken bones in both feet last year, am 6ft tall and 180lbs and can run a 6 min mile on the street w/o breathing through my mouth. It's called being normally healthy. And I work out mostly with weights and light cardio maybe 5 days a week and hour per. You huffers who work all year to finish 26.2 are doing it wrong. And any personal trainer would tell you that that's not the path to health or endurance. Joint injury, inflammation and a lot of time down the drain, yeah. But not those other things.
And if Oprah is such a devotee of the running, why does she have a lifelong problem with see-saw weight, which, as any doctor will tell you, is worse for you than being chronically overweight. None of the 'groundpounders' who run the USMC marathon every year (31 years) are what you would call rail thin whippet distance runner body types. The equation between weight, health and endurance are much more complex than simply run=lose bulk=get fit.
