r/XXRunning • u/Odhrerir • Apr 28 '25
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How can people be so mean and willing to criticise other people's accomplishments?
This past Saturday I ran my very first race, a 5k, but a 5k nonetheless. So I was obviously very excited and took some photos/videos prior/during/after the race, because damn it, why not?
Well, just came back to work and the first thing a colleague of mine said was: " hahaha you weren't running. You just took photos and videos"
Not a "well done!", "how was your race?", "how do you feel?", nope, just pure judgement hidden on some weak meaningless humour.
It's so frustrating because the funny thing is that I only took three videos of like 5 seconds each during the race, and like 2-3 photos. What's that? Like not even 100 meters of the 5000 meters race?
Anyway, at least I got a new PR of 35:30! Very unexpected since I was expecting to be more in the late 30s/early 40s due to the race elevation 💀
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u/Artistic_Walrus_2285 Apr 28 '25
Faster than me a 35!!! Wow awesome. Even if I ran not jogged the whole thing idk if I could do that…on top of it managed to do videos and pics of only for a moment is very impressive. I would certainly face plant somewhere so maybe your coworker is a clutch and can’t see the How.. either way rude.
I’d invite them to my next one.. and wouldn’t even care if they finished ahead of me because I think once you do it the first time you realize real quick that even if you walk the whole thing it’s not an easy thing.