[email hidden] (TopCounsel) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Have any/most of you encountered a surprising number genuine runner haters?
It's envy, not really hate.
Many people ask me how I stay so thin and young looking @ 44 years, and I usually just say
"running." This is not the answer most people want to hear (they think it's too much work?) --
they prefer that I would offer them a "magic bullet" (e.g., "HGH supplements," etc.).
A VERY few will follow up my answer with some inquiries about my running, and it is this latter
group for whom you might hope to "evangelize" the sport, from my experience.
And the next stage of the filtering is when you mention going any distance measured in miles. Even
some relatively fit folks that walk daily, the same 3mile loop I often do around the development,
this three miles is too far.
There was one co-worker that I tried to get running. his stock excuse was the weather, so that it
eventually became a joke. I'd mention I would be going for a run and ask him to join me. He'd say
"when the weather breaks". The repetition got to be funny. I'd just have to say HI and he'd reply...
"when the weather breaks".
If someone is ready to try it, they will. Otherwise no amount of persuasion will get them out there.
Enjoy!
ed
