Stuff White People Like

http://www.latimes.com/la-he-triathlon4feb04,1,4112468.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

called it

oh man, I got nailed. I am white. How white? I married a Mexican.

LOL @ “Also worth nothing, more competitive white people prefer triathlons because Kenyans can’t afford $10,000 specialty bicycles.”

LOL! A white friend signed me up with her for a triathlon in San Francisco. As soon as I found out we’d have to swim in the actual bay, I dropped out and signed up for a walkathon. She immediately lost respect for me (and our friendship went bye-bye), but being able to sleep in on Saturday mornings helped me cope.

“Also worth nothing”

Don’t you mean “Also worth NOTING” rather than “nothing”??

Funny post nonetheless. Marathon running is actually bad for you, but don’t tell these people that.

I am white, I take offense…
I say anyone who trains for an athletic event deserves some respect, be it white 4+hour Marathoners or 350lbs Football players…
Mind you, the people most serious about Marathons are usually from Africa and not quite so white.
The main reason you don’t see a lot of black people in Triathlons is that, while they exceed at running, aren’t built for either swimming or cycling…

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don’t you dare call me a racist!!!

White people, don’t take offense…just laugh, it’s OK…

This is a good post because marathon running can easily spill over to the other posts, like a person running a marathon will drive in their Prius (while listening to NPR) to some nearby lake or outdoor scenic area, will listen to his/her ipod while running, and this whole endeavor will cost a lot of money because they need the proper all-weather running gear (not unlike $$ spent on snowboarding crap) and cliff bars, protein shakes, Gu, etc. And, as mentioned in previous comment, it’s not actually good for you but people are driven to do it anyway. Never knew why until reading this.

yeah, this site is for laughs and having fun!

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I’m white and I’m entirely indifferent to marathons. Let’s get together sometimes and be cool and make fun of white people.

Umm, nailed it! After doing my first two marathons, I started doing triathlons, and you’re right, I’m a lot more competitive at the former, probably because white people also love to swim. Living by the water in Santa Monica helped with having access to a place where I could swim whenever I wanted, usually in the mornings. Nothing I liked better than going for a swim, then going to my favorite breakfast place for an hour.

So basically you are saying you do not want to hear about my experience of running four 3 hours and 55 minutes straight??? No wonder all my black friends dont want me to call them early on Saturday mornings.

i love it.
nothing more dignified than running your brains out and showing your pasty-white skin off. yum. that is, of course, unless you swim and bike too. they’re kind of sports for people who aren’t athletic but have lots of free time to train.
funny.
and very earnest.

For the record, I was running marathons before it was popular for white people to run marathons. Damn, I’m cool. (said/written with that overbite thing)

Did commenter #6 just say black people weren’t built for swimming or riding bikes? that is the most retarded thing i have ever heard…never really saw the bodily resemblance between mike spitz and lance armstrong but hey who am i to point out the obvious…

the obvious….how about that his name is mark spitz. And how about that this blog is all in good fun. dont take yourselves so seriously! haha

great stuff. i’ve been running competitively all my life and am actually pretty good… sub 2:30 marathon, but you’ve certainly nailed it. and if people can’t find the stuff they get sucked into funny, then they have no sense of humor and a pretty pathetic life. laugh at yourselves, people… go obama!!!

You’re way ahead of me. You DID include marathons!

I AM TERRIBLY OFFENDED!!!!!!! Not by the satire and parody; that’s OK. Triathletes are SO much more fit than basketball and football players.

Do you know JC?

Couldn’t finish it, huh? Must be because you aren’t white.

I love this blog! I’m Mexican, but I’ve been around white people so much that I love to do the things they do too! First of all – comment #6 “while they exceed at running, aren’t built for either swimming or cycling” – hahahah, give me a break! Give a Kenyan $10,000 and they’re likely to use that money to feed there family for 5 years. Put them in a triathlon and I bet they will destroy you. They have so many slow-twitch muscle fibers they would hardly get phased. Anyway, although I do love marathons, because i am Mexican there are a few twists to marathon running:

1) Carbo loading = extra tortillas for your taco
2) Recovery protein = eggs w/chorizo
3) Gu Packs = Gu Packs (no substitutes!)
4) Machismo = I run marathons because half-marathons are for women and children

I gotta be runnin fro the 5-0 somtimes,

I’m white I think this is all too funny, I’m not offended as I feel everyone has a right to their own opinion so here’s mine….

I must point out…..it seems as though there’s a little bitterness in the “money” issue…could that be because typically “white” people make more money and are able to do the above things mentioned? I mean…it’s not exactly cheap to enter a marathon and then fly to the location, stay in a hotel and eat out. Are you to say that if minorities where making more money they would not involve themselves in expensive mindless activities? I don’t think so….we are all human and we all like to have fun and impress others in our own ways. And whats more expensive a few pairs of running shoes and some gel? Or smoking crack on a bed side? Who’s right who’s wrong? We all engage ourselves in what makes us happy…so why not let be what it is….who cares what others are doing…focus on yourselves. Obviously some of you have nothing better going on in your lives but to sit around and bitch about skinny white people while your own ass grows big because you lack motivation. Frankly… I stumbled across this thread through a marathon blog on Runners World. I say….GET OVER IT!

i’m white and i dont like marathons at all, im unfit and to be honest i don’t care, also dont say the website is what white people like, it is only a sector of society which likes all this stuff! why do you care what white people like so much, stop trying to be funny and witty by taking the piss out of white people, it’s not on, everyones different and the whole white community isnt full of pretentious snobbery! get your facts right before you start mouthing off!

This is spot-on!

I live in New York (seven years and counting…almost an “official” NY-er) and have several friends who run marathons/triathlons. They all looove to brag about how difficult and grueling their training regimen is and how much money they’re raising for charity.

At the post-marathon party, we toast them with our micro-brewed beer.

The funny thing, if you can call it funny, about blacks not being built for cycling is that the first American famous for cycling was black. He was probably even more dominant than Lance Armstrong. His name was Major Taylor.

Also worth nothing, research has shown that Runners are more educated than ther couch potato counterparts. That can partly explain why they can afford the pricey running gear and spend countless hours training to run a marathon.

The Boston marathon took place a block from where I lived for four years straight. A lot of people (white people) gather at various intervals along this path and…. wait around. They may even get the chance to… hand someone a tasty refreshment. I, as a white man, am hereby pleading to all other white people: enough is enough. This sort of activity shames us all.

HAHA…I am actually training for a marathon and found this blog hilarious. I question myself everytime I start running why the heck I torture myself so badly just to run with a crowd toward nothing in particular. If I wanted to make the training more interesting I could go to Harlem and wait for gun shots and then run in a crowd, I could go to Camden, NJ and wait for people to realize I am white then run from them and their cars, I could go to Pampolona, Spain and run from bulls, or I could go to Somalia smeared with peanut butter and run from hungry people. But I have bought into the white hype and put myself out there to be made fun of with the rest of whites…who need to learn to have a sense of humor it seems.

lighten up people- it’s a joke, a riff!! read it a laugh jeezus freaking christ- you are living up to the stereotype because you are all such tight a sses.

Busted! But I run halfs and don’t buy all the expensive bullshit, except for the shoes.

This is a funny frickin’ blog. Ya’ll need some “what rednecks love” type of entries, though, because all the attention is focused on rich white people.

I’d rather sit on my fat ass and read all of the posts by offended white people than run a marathon. P.S. I have about 10 emails in my inbox at this very moment from white people asking me to sponsor them for their upcoming marathons.

First the Club Charles 80s night bartender pic and now the Baltimore Marathon. There was even a reference to West Baltimore somewhere on this site. I’m beginning to see a pattern here.

You forgot to mention how every time a white person brings up that they run marathons, they must tell you how they did.

If they did great (2:10 – 2:50): You get a rundown of the exact time and splits. Or a generalization to make them sound impressive: “I did sub 2:30 at Chicago.”

If they did okay (2:50 – 3:50): They’ll tell you that they’ll either never do it again, or that they’re going to utilize (insert new training method here) to get faster.

If they did not so great (3:50 – 5+): It was either because it “was my first marathon!” or they walked it and they’re proud.

If they DNF’d (that’s Did Not Finish for you couch cushions): You’ll hear how it wasn’t their fault (too hot, race disorganized, not enough water stops, too many water stops, RD sucked) or the war story that led to their DNF.

I am white and I run everyday. I think this is funny.
I can dance too. This whiteboy tears up the dance floor
when JAY Z comes on in the club. All the black girls are like ‘damn … you fly” and I am like ‘Can I be your sexual white chocolate?’ and they say ‘hell to the yea’ and I say ‘Im about to put some cream in your coffee’ we laugh and then knock boots! : )

I’m offended NOT because of this post (I think it’s funny as hell) but because my dumbass friend sent it to me and in his mind, he thinks I talk about my running too much. If he ever got off his lazy ass and joined me, it’d be a different story. But regardless… Funny post.

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There’s also the “sign up for a triathlon because it will motivate my tubby white ass” thing.

Not so much.

“Also worth nothing, more competitive white people prefer triathlons because Kenyans can’t afford $10,000 specialty bicycles. ”

except, of course, everyone knows that black people can’t swim.

Raise the prize money like they have in golf and you’ll see more non-whites take up the sport.

HI-larious. It took me six months to go from my first marathon to my first 1/2 Ironman Triathlon. Thanks for listening!

PS – my bike only cost $2,000

i’m white and i run marathons. running marathons isn’t necessarily bad for you. it certainly is bad for your body if you’re plodding along for 4-6hrs like so many “marathoners” (if they can really be called that) these days do. Seriously, people who run marathons in less than 3hrs are doing more good than bad for their bodies. If after the race you’re still walking around on your own two feet with no problem and are barely sore the next day then you probably didn’t do that much harm on race day.

when i ran boston after qualifying on my first one (yes i do fall into the white stereotype of bragging about my running) there was a black woman cheering around mile 18 “you’ve run through the winter/ you’ve run through the snow/ now you’re here in boston/ go, go, go”

I am asian. Also a marathon runner. We’re not all white. Nonetheless, tis true – most are. Except those guys that win.

I agree, thought it is mostly middle and upper class white people. My theory has always been that these are the nerds that couldn’t play sports in grade school and high school and now they are making up for it. But they are making up for it with a non-contact, non-competitive (they run just to finish) sport that really just highlights there “work ethic.” It is pathetic, and, as one poster noted, so unhealthy for you.

Hi all. This site is pretty funny. I’m a black female, was never athletic nor did I play any sports, then last year decided to run a marathon. I did, and it was great. And I got cheered by lots of white people. It made me feel good (not the running, the being cheered by white people part).

Is that why there are so many obese white Americans? Besides Kenyan’s rule marathons as you noted. This is also reserved to elitist upper class pretentious white americans, not white people.

Oh, please. Marathons are soooo in the past. It’s all tri, baby! and that for the past several years

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did I miss anything?

great blog, LMAO as I read thru it!

we are in better shape.

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So is this site stuffwhitepeoplelike.com, or is it stuffwhitepeoplelikeunlesstheyreredneckswhichawholeheapingtonofwhitepeopleare-inwhichcasetheyhateit.com?

Please don’t forget the fact that, during training for said marathon, it is impressive to rack up a substantial number of “half-marathons,” and to refer to them casually, as though everyone should be running thirteen miles hopped up on carbs.

this is so awesome. i love marathons. i am white.

You forgot to mention the medals. That’s what motivates white people to finish a marathon more than anything else. The triumphant, arms-over-the-head pose for the cameras means nothing without the medal around the neck.

I must be the endurance sports world’s equivalent of a wigger because I usually lose my race medals or toss them into the back of a closet, and I don’t order photos, I steal them off the Web.

You are saluted today at Harlem 26.2
http://harlemrunner.blogspot.com/2008/03/breaking-news-stuff-white-people-like.html

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I’m black and I love marathons, too… but then again some people would say I’m pretty white.

Seriously though? It’s a lot of work, but the payoff is priceless. There’s nothing like the adrenaline rush of doing the actual race with all the other runners and spectator’s present. I’ve done a couple of races with friends of various ethnicities.

I love reading the responses. You can pick the white people out by how seriously they take the entry. The extra explanation is what really gets me . . .

I find great humor in some of these uptight responses. Sheesh – I think some of you whitey’s have outrun your sense of humor. It’s supposed to be funny people! You’re not supposed to justify YOUR reasons for running. No one cares! Go run to therapy now.

#28 White People Who Can’t Take A Joke About White People Liking Marathons

While I’ve loved pretty much everything else on this site, the way you disparage a marathon. If you think running 26 miles is so easy, go give it a shot.

*the way you disparage a marathon is a little ridiculous.

sorry for the screwup

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#46: the sole reason I lift weights is so one day I might beat up people like you. I bet you think you have “leadership abilities” and “vision.”

Running Marathon distances can cause irrepairable dmage to your body. Why oh why would you want to torutre yourselves? Actually climbing mount everest would cause lesser damage to your body than running a marathon.

i love how the white comments just keep a rolling but the second a white man says something about another race its racist

Absolutely hilarious, just to set record straight though, snowboarder, ski patrol, triathlete, everything is either NorthFace, Cloudveil, Arctyrex, Patagonia, but I do get there in a 4×4 pickup truck listening to Rage Against the Machine… btw, I’m hawaiian…

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WHOOPS! wrong kinda marathon…i thought this was going to be about sitcom/reality tv reruns…

LOL at all the uptight commenters. Being a white foreigner living and working in Santa Monica CA, I get a huge laugh from how precisely each one of your posts pinpoint the behaviors of my well-off, white American coworkers (and to an alarming degree of myself). Not to mention the former grad school buddies from my time at a highly ranked private American university; having reached the pinnacle of modern education they were so smugly sustainable and aware, the thought of it still makes me cringe. The funniest thing is most of them seem to appreciate this blog even more than me, being all aware of their shortcomings and that. #100 Stuff White People Like !!

I’m white, I’ve done a marathon and I think that this is very funny. Yes, it’s hard to do and people who have never done it don’t understand, but hey I smile in photos

Excellent blog, Lighten up people.

That’s because your ancestors never picked cotton in fields for no money for 12+ hours in a day. You gotta do something hard and difficult – so some serve as the foundation of the American economy and some like to run for fun.

I’m not white, and I’ve run plenty of marathons . . . but I agree 100% with this one.

I’m white, and I run a lot (8 miles 3 times a week) but I always look at the people who run marathons like they’re crazy! That will totally mess you up (that’s why the first person who ran one, DIED!).

However, I do have a lot of respect for them because its something I will never do! The furthest I’ve ever run is 15 miles, and I couldn’t walk after that. I was waiting in line in a store, after I ran that, with 3 people ahead of me, and I couldn’t stand up long enough to check out, and I actually had to kneel down!

Besides, running is a drug because of the endorphines it releases. Its as valid as any other drug, only it has more positive side effects than negative. The day I run, I’m fine, but the next day, and the day after I start getting more and more anxious, and twitchy and less able to concentrate, so I can understand why people run marathons.

I still think this is hysterical because it is so true!

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_8638161

It is about marathon running in Antarctica.

Stand up turn around a pick a bail of cotton.

I almost died because of my uromisitius. Running has saved my life.

Im black and im lazy and Im racist and want to be given everything because my ancestors picked cotton in fields for no money for 12+ hours in a day. I think I should be given what they “should” have earned plus 200 years of interest and I think that the government and white people should pay it. I think they should have a marathon called “run for all the lazy blacks who think they are entitled something and have no self respect to rise up and accomplish something” Marathon and all the proceeds should go toward my lazy fat a** worthless Gangsta lifestyle. I rob because Im entiled to something more. So go on and run your races and strive for personal excellence, pay your taxes and keep paying my welfare check and paying for my brothers prison cell. You go on and reach to new hights and clear your mind with running to stay healthy. Ill be right here with my fries. thanks.

Puking at the end of a marathon would be a great picture to show all of your white friends. What would make it more impressive is that you actually stopped to have a few beers at microbreweries (which white people love) along the way, causing, of course, the puking.

actually, most white people in America are couch potatoes who prefer Judge Judy marathons.

lol white people are dumb like that

I ran 13 marathons. Does that make white?

As a white runner, I thought the post was hilarious.

As a person, I thought the people saying ‘running is bad for you’ were even more hilarious.

Great post. And all true.

Black folks used to make up a much larger percentage of marathoners. It used to be more of a working class multi-racial sport in the US.

And truly, marathoning is bad for you, except that every study shows that marathoners live longer and healthier lives than the general population.

LOL, I am a total white marathoner who was picked last in gym class during high school and now gets a kick out of being way more in shape than all those kids I went to school with.

Since consistency is highly overrated, I’m going to take a moment here to both laugh at my lack of originality while simultaneously feeling pretty awesome about doing well in an event that not a lot of folks ever do. Go team!

So I just gotta say… the article didn’t offend me at all, found it hilarious. So true… I’m training for my first marathon and probably do bore the shit out of my friends and coworkers (non-runners) all the time. But what I found offensive was all the crap afterwards. All the racist people of both colors talking about the others as if they were better. The black guy that says white people are dumb for running 3+ hours. The white guy that said blacks can’t bike or swim or whatever. Just stupid. You can’t do it. I can’t run a 4 second 40, but I have a respectable sub 6 minute mile. But I’d wager that football player that’s in such good shape, or the basketball player that can score 50+ or triple double can’t run, constantly, for 3 hours. If you want to talk about capabilities, join me for my first 100 mile run in November. And for the record, I played baseball, soccer, football (not basketball cause this white guy can’t jump) in school, was also on the academic bowl and math bowl teams, scrape by to buy my shoes, have a $750 bike, can’t swim (so I stay my white ass out of the pool), and brag about running for that long.

Side note: with injuries notwithstanding, sedintary population (meaning don’t regularly run/workout/play sports/exercise) on average maintain their knees into old age (60+) at a rate of 60%. Marathon runners, again who are injury free, maintain their knees into advanced years at a rate of 80%. The leading cause of death for black americans is heart disease, third is stroke and fourth is diabetes (from CDC), all of which are abated by running. In addition from just running 5 miles a day you burn, on average, 500 more calories the just breathing, which if you ask any real runner, means they just get to eat whatever they want and not worry about it. So infact… running IS healthy, and if done properly, with appropriate rest and recovery, marathoning is excellent for the body. Look on youtube for the 101 year old guy in Enland that’s running a marathon, and find me a 101 year old guy that still plays basketball for 8 hours at a time.

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This comment will end all the mystery. First, I and foremost, I am a black-american native american. That is right. My grandmother was seminole and my mother was black. My last name typifies the plight of my people. My last name is Ketchum, from the Ketchum clan of Seminoles. If you study your native american history, you will see that the Seminoles were one of the few tribes that escaped capture from the southern forces when they travelled from southern florida through texas to escape the american armies.

So my ancestry is rooted in running and the track history of my family proudly displays this genetic trait. With that said, I played football but loved karate as a high schooler. Given the fact that my high school Coach Vela has psychological issues with smart black men (I was from New York but lived my secondary school years in TExas), I stopped playing football and turned all of my attention to kickboxing. When Bruce Lee died, I purchased all of his training books and emulated his training protocol. I ran 3-5 miles up hills and streets and cycled 20 miles for conditioning my body. This lasted for over 20 years until I formerly retured from kickboxing. Although I loved football, I was not fast enough to play wide receiver and start for my college teams running a 4.8 in the forty. Nor was I ever fast enough to run competitive 5Ks or 10Ks. However, I could run and play football and won many trophies in many karate tournaments as a fighter.

When I retired from karate, I started running more and began participating in bike tours of 40, 60 and 100 miles. My most expensive bike was a little over $1200 but I have rode in over 5 centuries (distances of over 100 miles).

Yes, I am a proud nerd but take challenge with your beleif that football players are in better shape than triathletes. I once took a star point guard from college on a bike tour with me for 57 miles. I must have left him behind after 3 miles. After the ride, I was told that he could barely walk for 3 days. Does that mean that I am in better shape than he is? NO, because he was not used to cycling long distance and people are in shape for their respective sports. Basketball players pass me all of the time because they are faster and quicker then me. Does that make them a better athlete? Not necessarily. I am in great shape for 50 years of age and can put up fitness numbers that Marine Corp DI would be proud of. However, it all comes down to a person’s fitness in terms of functional fitness.

Most football players cannot run more than 5 miles. Anyone remember Alan Page, one of the defensive front four from the Minnesota Vikings, one of the PURPLE PEOPLE EATERS from the 1970′s NFL team that went to the Super Bowl 4 times? He became a runner while he played for the Vikings and everyone thought he was crazy. IN fact, he lost 20 lbs while he was preparing for law school (yes, while still playing in the NFL) when he began running with his white wife. Oh, did i forget to say that he is black. He became a better defensive lineman getting to the quarterback faster than his teammates due to his running. He proved that running helped his career, both as a football player and future judge in the Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Running marathons is NOT good for all people. Spending all of that time producing free radicals is bad becasue the body has difficulty getting rid of all of the waste by-products that are produced from 3 hours of running and if you body does not have an efficient system for removing waste rapidly, then the body will suffer. I used to cycle 100 mile events and was high for 2-3 days following a century. ONe can take 6 – 8 hours to finish a century, so I know about distance cycling and training. I have to weight train to get faster, keep my body weight low, train my legs to go over mountains, and more. Triathletes are in very good shape, don’t let anyone fool you about that one. Their muscles are conditioned and trained for strength, endurance and power. I would never run a marathon, with all of that pounding on the pavement and the heavy impact on my knee and other joints. But I would cycle the distance.

Maybe what someone said was true, that marathoners and triaths are nerds who didn’t get the chance to shine in high school, but then again, I didnt’ get the chance either and I have always been a better than average athlete. See my photo on http://marinecorpfitness.tripod.com.

Here is the question:

What is Sports?

The answers is: an athletic, recreational activity that helps the participant improve his conditioning and maintain a high fitness level while engaging in a athletic activity. NOtice, the key word here is athletic. Athletic has nothing to do with a team dynamic or toughness. With reasonable certainty, I am in better shape than 90% of most retired NFL football players, MLB baseball players, 90% of most NBA retired players and 80% of the population. This is what counts the most. ONe doesn’t have to run 6 minute miles to be in shape but an 8:30 mile is also good for my age and weight. I can’t lift 300 lbs bench press but I can do 5 sets of 25 push ups and sit ups consecutively. I can cycle almost 18 miles in one hour which is pretty good and I lift weights to do this. I now love basketball and play full court to improve my cycling conditioning. I look at the coaches who are younger than me, most having some varsity experience in High school and college and I am in better shape than them because I have always trained as a martial artist for all of my adult life. You see, a martial artists trains like there is no off season. They trian daily and regularly and test themselves when sparring. NO other sport comes close (except basketball – one on one).

An athlete is only as good as his training. Hitting another person with a punch or kick or running throught them is no indicator of fitness. Keeping your heart rate at 175 for over an hour is. Being able to cycle 100 miles under 6 hours is an indicator of superb fitness. Running 4 miles under 32 minutes is a great fitness goal and indicator of a person’s fitness. Shooting a basketball is not. But running up and down a court for 48 minutes is. Neither is hitting a baseball. Baseball is the weakest white sport I have ever known in my life. I hate baseball and acknowledge it as a sport for the lazy. Any sport that could be played two times per day is a weak sport. I challenge any footballer to cycle 100 miles with me and then run 5 miles afterward. Oh, I don’t swim very well, but I substitute with Kayaking.

Go ahead, say it to my face, and my foot will find its way in your face. I train very hard for my sports. I spend at least 10 hours in the weight room every week developing my leg and upper body strength to keep my conditioning up for cycling 12 degree inclines up mountains and improving my VO2 max. So also trained hard for kickboxing lifting weights, running laps, doing calisthenics. So here is my gift:

Websites:
http://www.exrx.com a great site for fitness
http://marinecorpfitness.tripod.com my site for fitness
http://www.newstarget.com Mike Rangers health site
http://www.garynull.com the ultimate site for health/fitness

Sports is about staying in shape for the rest of your life. You can’t do that hitting someone in the face, or running them into the ground. I did all of these things but it doesn’t mean that I am in shape. Ask any 350 lb lineman if they feel in shape when they retire and most of them have heart problems.

Basketball and soccer players and fighters are in the best shape of all athletes. Dont’ ever get it twisted. The next time you think otherwise, try to go one three minute round against someone and you will see their conditioning within the first round. Or try to play full court basketball with your co-woker and see them pass out within 5 minutes. That is why I now love basketball. You cannot tell me that I am not fit. It is so similar to kickboxing.

America is grossly overweight and out of shape. Imagine where America would be without slavery if white people had to build this country? Tara (Gone with the Wind) would have gotten her ass beat picking cotton.

I love everyone and am no hater of people. However, white people love dumb stuff like golf and snowboarding, stuff that has no athletic value whatsoever. And what is this stupidity about sitting in the stands watching a bunch of CO2 emitters running around a hugh race track while I inhale exhaust fumes. Who would ever think of such a sport as NASCAR? What a waste of fossil fuel. Image a sport where the spectators lives are reduced every time they breath in the fumes. What type of trash is that?

In conclusion, I will be cycling, running, playing basketball and kayaking for the rest of my life. I don’t need a team to run, cycle or kayak and only need one other person to play basketball or a few others to play full court. TEam sports are all over rated. When you get my age, you realize that most of your teammates are either in poor health or dead becasue they stuck to the dynamics of team sports (BEER, drinking, overeating, bad eating, obesity, injuries from playing days). I am much healthier with my health bars than eating a Snickers or drinking Budweiser (NFL Commercials). Team Sports in this country are overemphasized and individual sports are laughed at. Instead, they should have sports networks and shows focusing on the local little people who work 9-5s AND workout in prep for a weekend event.

Running a marathon doesn’t make one the ultimate champion. I feel like I run a marathon every time I finish the Van Courtland 5 mile runing trail in the Bronx under 40 minutes and that is all it takes to take care of yourself when keeping a 165 heart rate during the run. Dan Marino gained 40 lbs when he retired from football and took another 8 months to get it off. I never had that problem because I live like an athlete all of my life. If we would stop looking at other athletes and other races and start taking care of our bodies, then we would all be in shape and would have the cure for cancer.

Don’t falt white people for their foolishness. REmember Major Taylor, the FIRST International athlete who won cycling events but was ostracized due to his race? He was certainly in shape but never accepted in society. We individual athletes should all remember this when out on our lonely runs in the morning. We should all be happy when we finish any event. We should all be thankful to be able to run and finish any event and not compare ourselves with other athletes because it all comes down to your life expectancy. If it extends your life, then it is good for you and that is all that matters. thank you Jack Lalanne.

[...] the interest of full disclosure, I am training for a race.  But only a half marathon.  And I’m certainly not trying to qualify for the Boston [...]

Hmmm…… I grew up an impoverished white kid, in a decent sized city, which almost makes me black, like Ted Corbitt actually was, yet he ran the 1952 Olympic Marathon for the USA, a less pretentious man I never met. I have run marathons because I like to run. I don’t talk about running unless asked, but will write when amused by something about running, and this was an amusing look at marathoning enhanced by the wide variety of responses.

Participating in any type of “-a-thon” is white.

Marathons score you extra points espcially if it’s for cancer of some obscure disease so u can brag about at work while you sip Gatorade at your desk. It will give you a mystique and everybody will think you are into “wellness” and “finding a cure”.

It also helps you get laid if you run for some disease because all the chicks at work will not only know that you have endurance in bed but also that you are “caring” and “tryingto make a difference”.

Always make sure you say your high school girlfriend or “best friend when you were 7″ died from the disease.

Instant pussy.

[...] favorite line so far is in #27. Marathons Also worth nothing, more competitive white people prefer triathlons because Kenyans can’t afford [...]

I live now in a different demographic than where I grew up. I grew up in the educated middle class in Seattle in the 1970s. Now I live and work in a small rural county where only 10% of the adult population has a college degree. Those with the college degree are the teachers, lawyers, doctors, other health professionals, business owners and sundry others. The other 90% are struggling to get by. My county is mostly white, with some Latino families and a very few African Americans and various Asian people, a family from the Indian subcontinent and another family with an Arabic last name.

Anyway, my point is that most of the white people around here don’t engage in marathons, triathlons, or kayaking or snowboarding. Those that are getting by are just barely getting by making a living in the tourist industry. Last spring a number of kids at my school got kicked out of their rental housing – mostly apartments – because those apartments got razed and converted into condo space, for the second and third homes of non-residents who vacation here.

This blog is mostly about class, and also age, more than it is about all white people. It matches my friends who stayed in coastal, urban America, unless my friends happen to be college professors in small rural towns. (There’s no four year college around here, by the way…I wish for one.)

So, like the rich white tourists who visit my town, I put on my running tights and shoes and get out in the rain to go for a run. Last year I did run a marathon. I ran it very slowly. I did gain the respect of some of my colleagues at my school for doing so, those who also grew up in urban America, got a college degree and then moved out here to teach school. I am glad I made this my goal – it got me out of my dark, moldy rental house which probably used to be someone’s vacation house, which is all we can afford on a teacher’s salary. Marathons are essentially a bourgeois activity – they cost money for registration, and money for shoes and non-cotton underwear. I can’t say that as someone who grew up white in Seattle to college-educated, professional parents I am NOT bourgeois, that would be a ridiculous claim on my part, but living here has given me a different window on class than I would have had if I had stayed in Seattle, Portland or the Bay Area where I was surrounded by people like me.

Well I’m disappointed now because i was going to put a picture of myself on facebook in my awesome new outfit for the half marathon i’m running in a few weeks from now, but my stinker of a friend sent this to me and i’m laughing so hard at this because it’s so true. I’m just proud of myself for getting my butt off the couch and training for this thing .. This is a great post…

I’m white and I HATE running.

I would rather stick a hot poker up my ass then run a marathon.

I have found in my five marathons that after about 15 miles white women will urinate and defecate on the side of the road in the open, even with a strange man beside her. The pain rips apart all sense of white decorum.

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Hey, umm…if white people are the ones who love marathons so much, how come it’s always a Kenyan dude who wins every frickin’ marathon ever held anywhere?

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I love this blog. Too true.

I run marathons too, lookin forward to be a triathlete…ahaha

This just kills me. I’m a white guy and I’m currently training for a marathon. I can’t stop laughing at this stuff. One more thing that I’m not sure has been mentioned is the current trend of blogging your current training and race results for everyone to see.

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I’m a white guy and I like to jerk off, does that count?

This is funny because it’s true. I am a white former football player who now runs, bikes and swims. I started by running one marathon and now I’m thinking about a triathlon. I do these sports now because there is no way my body can take football anymore. Even flag football is harder on the muscles and joints than running, biking and swimming. Basically, if your in the middle of the pack and just looking to finish, you just get into a comfortable pace and keep at it – your body adapts and you can do all of this without great injury. The people who get hurt running etc, are people who just do too much too fast. Look at the people who finish these things, they are not all ‘elite, fit bodies’ lots of them you would look at and guess they couldn’t finish a 5k, but with improved running shoes, etc., nearly any fat tub of goo can drag that lard over the finish line if they just hang with it long enough.

I think we should all just quit talking about training and just do it quietly.

Funny stuff – doesn’t offend either my Caucasian or Asian halves. Would like to think it isn’t offending others. The crowd whitens the longer the distance of the run, too. Any idiot can run a marathon, it takes a special kind of idiot to run a 100 miles. Veteran of many marathons and ultramarathons, including 100K and 100 mile runs (my brag), I can attest to both the lack of colour and at least the appearance of upper middle income in my fellow participants. Paying over $100 entry and possibly travelling plus accommodation might have a lot to do with that (the appearance of higher income, not the colour).

As to the sport being unhealthy, would you mind not saying that with your mouth full of potato chips? Wipe that chip dip off your face while you are at it. I’ll gladly dance on your early grave despite my sore knees.

I’d rather run back and forth across the Grand Canyon (been there, done that, again my brag) than follow your puffing and wheezing fat ass off a tour bus to waddle through the gift shop in search of the hot dog stand. Hee-hee!!

Clearly, nothing stands between Mr. Lander and a case of KFC snackers.

This whole website is like the story of the Fox and the Grapes. Honestly, people aren’t “missing” anything when they criticize it. THis person obviously has a lot of built-up class envy. Let him have it, bloggers!

Trying to legitimate this person’s rant as “satire”, when he probably believes everything he says, is ridiculous.

White people like marathons! Das horrible. Sounds like something that’s good for the uplifting of the race. Keep telling yourselves that marathons are CATEGORICALLY bad for you. So is breathing, jackass. Nice life.

Go ahead and hate on exercise, ya fat bastard. While yo at it, take that donut outta yo mouffff. Iss yo berf-day…is it Ffursday yet?

Things (some) white people like:

Going to Europe and drinking wine (take a wine-appreciation course, you savage).

buying well-designed, comfortable clothing and shoes.
I apologize in advance for not picking up the fly, new Jordans, nigga. I chose the NB and the Asics, cause I didn’t have to save two month’s salary working at C-Town.

not pissing their lives away playing videogames and drooling in front of their television.

eating healthy food.

staying fit.

buying groceries in clean, well-stocked stores (and being willing and able to pay a little more for it).

flaunting wealth is american, whether yo buyin’ yo new phat gold chain or putting a bumpersticker with your favorite vacation spot on the back of your Audi A4.

Just do it and I recommend you to try Bali 10K next year. It’s fun

[...] is surprisingly absent from many things that white humans like. However, white humans are into marathons, of which Boston has the best (IOHO), and we can plus lay claim to one of those ivy league places. [...]

This is definitely true for a lot of people, but at the same time i’d have to agree with many of the other posts- dedicated marathon/ultra runners have something to be proud of. Look up Helen Klein- 85 years old, started at 50, runs 100 mile ultras, and other crazy things like a 500k across Colorado. While I admire her accomplishments, however, I’m not the biggest fan of Dean..something with a K.. on the back of Kashi cereal boxes. He’s an amazing athlete, but ultra runners usually don’t advertise their hobby the way the typical 26.2mile marathoner does, and he’s sort of ruined the secrecy of the sport.

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Ha! This is both true and funny. I was a competitive rower for nine years (future post?) and most of the guys on our team could have run a marathon with no additional specialized training. For gods sake, our coach ran a marathon one year on a whim. With no additional training. But these office type are like “yeah, I did it!” And we’re like yeah, give us a split time, there buddy. And they’re like “No, I finished. I am content.”

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I like to run to lose weight…that’s all (well, also cholesterol)…other than that it sucks. I lost 30 lbs in 6 months while eating all the food I laid eyes on. Plus, if you do too much of it, it’s not good for you. It is fun, however, smoking the hell out of “runners” (with their little water bottles around their waste and mesh hats) blowing their doors off while looking some washed up football player in basketball shorts and an old army t-shirt…haha! I mean, these twerps run like 5 miles and think they are competing in the first Olympiad. Dumb asses.

As a collegiate runner and later marathoner and triathlete that your spot on a lot of white people run to tell everyone and their mother that they are a runner and have run a marathon.

As for being in shape, whether you’re in shape to run, swim, ball, whatever you are in shape. A center or Wideout isn’t going for an Ironman and Multisporters aren’t working a crossover or working sack drills.

If we want to know who is the best athlete and the best sport let’s settle it on american gladiators, everyone loves that.

Ive come on this to the conclusion that the reason white people like all of the shit on this website is the following:
If you got it like that why not experience more with your life.
Shit I golf, snowboard, rockclimb, mountain bike, live in manhattan, drive a fat asS bmw suv, fuck asian women, have plenty of black friends, got sweaters and motherfuckin t-shirts that I’LL wear on a plane to San FraCisco if I damn well fell like it. Shit Ill Even invite my lawyer to my beach house on a sunday for coffee maybe some tea while we read the fuckin New York Times. Yes the Liberal rag that sweats Barack Obama. After that we will indulge in some microbrews on my vintage sail boat.

When I get Bored ill travel the fuck where I want probably to snowboard somewhere usually Utah the whitest fuckin state there is. Ill take in some wine before I watch a film at sundance while I am there.

Just for a challenge I will go to a farmers market get some organic shit go home and order some sushi. You see I am trying to get in shape to run a fuckin marathon. After I finish the first thing I am going to do is shut of my i-pod loaded with free music, grab some bottled water and spark a fat mother fuckin spliff!!!!

YEAH I LOVE BEING AWARE OF DIVERSITY.

HOWEVER THE IRONY OF THIS WHOLE THING IS BEING WHITE FOR ME ONLY FOR ME!!! kICKS BIGTIME ASS!!

“Also worth nothing, more competitive white people prefer triathlons because Kenyans can’t afford $10,000 specialty bicycles”…
hahaha – this was hilarious… cant wait to show it to my triathlon competing white friends….

Guilty, but now that I know how it looks I am planning to tone down the marathon talk. Lol.

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runners are annoying. Competitive and regulars. Not the running, but the attitude that goes along with it. Smug is the best word.

Triatheletes are in much better overall physical shape than basketball and football players

I ran a marathon to quit smoking cigarettes. I finished and I haven’t smoked since. Mission accomplished. I am white. I really don’t care. You all do what you want to, and so will I.
Good night.

I run at my local track with my white yuppie friends. we know we’re losers but we don’t care. I lost 40 pounds by running. That’s good enough for me.

I’m a white guy, and I train for Ironman triathlons. My family doesn’t understand, my friends don’t understand, obviously most people reading this post don’t understand.

Guess what?

Guys like me- we don’t care that you don’t get it.

Anyway to say that “white people” love running marathons -as though loving exercise or pushing yourself physically- no matter your age- is somehow uncool?

I guess according to you the only way to be cool is to either play basketball or be fat and lazy…

That said- funny post.

Are you black? or are you just a pathetic white american trying to look good in the black peoples eyes just because you think your not cool?!?!
you are pathetic! I run, play b-ball and fight professionaly..but I dont have to be black to be cool, thats your typical americana mentality! I am a pure european white person who feels ashamed of white people like you..how can you think that those blacks on mtv are cool??
for gods sake they are blindley pathetic and dont even know it because idiots like you aplaude them…
YOU SHMUCK

okay…I so don’t get this blog. I am an african-american female who know LOTS of people who run marathons, Black and white. As a matter of fact, I found this blog searching for a marathons to participate in.

reading the previous comments, I see there are people who were offended and making certain comments that may be putting another race down..I’m just not a huge fan of bashing anyone or any race……

Last time I checked,this list was meant to be humorous.Why are many of you getting so offended? I swear,the minute you make light or poke fun at anything someones into,they go off on some humorless rant.It’s a goof you idiots,lighten up! Well,”getting offended” was on this list,so maybe I should’nt be surprised by some of the posts ; )

Forget marathons- running in general, should be the yardstick.

Who else besides white people, track team members, and a sprinkling of minority elites, run? Name anybody.

If you want to know the “gentry stage” of any given neighborhood – without relying on oldy moldy census data – hang out for a while and count runners.

Runners are the canaries in the coal mine. They’re acutely aware of the abuse/torment they’ll receive from The Wrong Kind of White, or in places with a little too much color. If a neighborhood attains critical mass socioeconomically, and critical “prevailing sense of safety”, runners sprout up magically.

[...] am also obsessive about grammar, worship Steve Jobs, and have a Haile Gebrselassie-like fixation on marathons. There is also Stuff Asian People Like, Stuff Christians Like (booty-god-booty), Stuff Educated [...]

I’d like to take this time to thank you and everyone else involved with the Mesa Falls Marathon. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire experience. I came from Kansas City to run in my second marathon and was not disappointed. The people of your town and surrounding communities were among the most friendly I’ve encountered.
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kayla

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The people who usually make fun of people who run marathons will never be able to run a marathon. In a good time at least. “Oh, sure, if I wanted to waste me time trying to run that far, blah, blah, blah.” Just try to run 26 miles as fast you can without stopping.

There is no way football players are in better shape than triathletes or marathoners, but nice try

[...] Calling all rich masochists: Just 17 days to your next Lollapalooza, The Chicago Marathon (Oct 12). Be patient! Indeed, this is a stuff white people like. [...]

[...] for about 9 seconds back in later winter/early spring ‘08. They had a good run including Marathons (No. 27) and Wrigley Field (No. 30) and may have reached their high water mark with Performance [...]

Lots of football players are obese, not many runners are.

[...] an intellectual endeavour as a physical one, whereas Stuff White People Like had me chuckling about the ridiculousness of the whole thing (the comments make it even more [...]

Guilty! I was too much of a wuss to run a marathon so i just did a half… now my latest goal is to complete a century (100 mile) bike ride.

You got me! I love it! The training, the photos, the glory!

http://www.paunchiness.com

[...] began the myth that running marathons is only cool if you lack any melanin? What makes the idea even more crazy is the fact that some of the most famous sprinters are people [...]

As a fellow whitey, I must admit the marathon is my ultimate goal, but I can’t get my butt out of bed to train for this. I ran track in high school and I know it hurts. My sister is a century bike competitor and she talks incessantly about her training so I think I’ll forego the marathon.

This is my favorite entry! I may be the only person in the world who is wholly unimpressed by people who talk about marathon running, and actually it makes me think less of them.

They expect me to think more highly of them because they ran almost every day for 3-9 months, then ran really far one day? They like to explain that they learned something about themselves.

To me, what they learned is they can do any pointless activity if they put their mind to it…and if that wasn’t obvious prior to running a million miles, I feel bad for them.

Because let’s face it, instead they could have been working on that screenplay/novel they’re always talking about writing.

”…triathletes are in better shape than football and basketball players.”

This is most certainly true. <.<

It takes balls to be a long distance runner…balls you don’t have.
As far as better uses of time. Yeah, I imagine you all spend alot of quality time in front of the television, or video game, getting fat and dyeing young. Enjoy.

I’m a marathoner and I think it’s funny, and too true.

So true… for us scrawny nerds of the baby boomer era, the American marathon heroes of the 70s (Frank Shorter, Bill Rogers, et al) were the ULTIMATE sports Gods. We’re skinny, we’re white and we’re proud! I just posted a blog on “Why wussies, dweebs and nerds make good marathon runners”… check it out:
http://wallywonderdog.blogspot.com/

I ran a marathon & although I am very proud of myself, this is funny!

The bottom line….. The people who are out there training to do something like a marathon or triathlon are actually doing something. Sure they could be doing better things with their time, but while they are out there training you are playing playstation or spending time on pointless things like myspace.

Just my thoughts…..

Oh yeh… there was a Statistic poll on the people who do endurance events like triathlons and Ultras.

Over 80% of these people are professionals in respect to their work field, and over 83% have college educations.

THATS WHY YOU DON’T SEE VERY MANY BLACK PEOPLE DOING THESE EVENTS UNLESS THEY FALL IN THE OTHER 20% OF PEOPLE.

I’m sorry — did you just alude to triathletes (which include individuals who do Ironmen) being in equal or worse shape than American football players?

I’d say lay off the crack, but then you’d stop writing these blogs and I’d cry.

[...] #27 – Marathons  I despise running.  [...]

[...] Marathons [...]

[...] Marathons To a white person, the absolute pinnacle of fitness is to run a marathon.  Not to win, just to run.When they finish the marathon, they will generally take a photo of themselves in a pair of New Balance sneakers, running shorts, and their marathon number with both hands over their head in triumph (seriously, look it up, this is universal). [...]

hmm it seems like you are talking about the bragging part. i too would love to run a marathon as it is a great accomplishment! BUT!!! I AGREE i dont want to hear some fag tell me about his run. although marathons are such an extreme run that your body cant run another for quite some time. not like a bunch of monkeys runnin around on a b-ball court throwin chairs around. lol jk but fo real monkeys! ya i said it!

White people like training for a marathon on a Wii Fit. See “The Top 10 Reasons to Train for a Marathon on a Wii Fit.” http://tinyurl.com/a9yaf3

This is so damn true.

Everyone from my neighborhood: “I’m training for the Iron Man”.

white people make me sick

When I saw the title to this post I automatically thought of TV marathons, especially the ones on Sci-Fi.

Running is for suckers!

When someone tells me about how far they ran, I always think, “Why? Was someone chasing you?” Occassionally, I’ll say it out loud. I just can’t help it. Unless someone is chasing you, why run that far?

Yeah, that’s it. Just stick to what the average over-weight American knows- KFC Lunch Bowls and Guitar Hero. I’m sure you’ll have a nice long life of 62 years when your arteries scream out to you and say “WTF??!!”.

HA! I am a runner and this is so hilarious. Everybody needs to lighten up a bit and have a chuckle. Especially you runners, aren’t we all high on endorphins?

No one in their right mind would run 26 miles if there weren’t so much status attached to it.

I would imagine most people run marathons to achieve a feeling of accomplishment. Probably something you couldn’t get from watching “American Idol” or living vicariously through the athletes we see on T.V..

wow I like this web site who ever made this you got it right on target I ran a marathon I’m 15 any way I’d just do it to stay in shape. And all the black kids in my school just dust me when we run so any way I’d do the run and talk to people about xbox and usual kid stuff all the adults and the 40 year old runners would ever talk about was using wierd protein good that tasted like crap and wearing abnormally tight clothes I just ran in a t shirt and sweatpants some lady told me it wouldn’t work and she said I should wear something like her I beat her at least when people. Ask if I’m fast I just say I ran a marathon I know they don’t give a shit but it makes me feel good

Oh, this is too funny, and dead on!
I’m training for one and yes I inflict the process on all my friends!
I do it so I don’t turn into a lard-ass, it gives me a goal, and yes, so I can say “I ran a marathon,” …lol

I’m training for my first marathon….I have new balance shoes….NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Thank you for reminding everyone that triathletes are definitely NOT in better shape than football or basketball players.

If triathlon was easy they’d call it football

A lot of the football players at my high school either sprinted or threw shot and disc for the track team… I ran cross country, and we became pretty good friends via track. With one football player, I made a bet; we would each have the other do the hardest workout for the opposite sport, and see who was more beat at the end of the day.

I suited up in oversized pads and got knocked around by the other football guys. I did pushups, crunches, and lifted weights (proportionate to my size vs. theirs). I did form drills. I ran routes. I pushed heavy objects on skids. At 5’11″ and 135 lbs, I’m not a big guy… I was hurting by the end. My body had been wrecked by getting hit, and I was pretty tired too. I’m pretty sure that even if I was bigger, I’d get sick of that crap day in and day out pretty fast.

The football playing friend of mine was scheduled to run 4 miles in the morning to wake his body up. Then in the afternoon, he would run a 3 mile warmup, 1 mile as fast as possible (rest 5 minutes), 3 miles “comfortably hard,” (rest 5 minutes) then 1 mile as fast as possible, and then three miles warmdown. This would be followed by a weight lifting session of high reps and low weight. This is pretty standard as a “hard day” for a top high school runner training for 5k cross country running.

Me after his full regimen: holy shit you guys work hard.
Him 3 miles into the morning run: I quit.

I was surprised at the intensity of his workouts, and he couldn’t finish mine. Moral of the story, don’t bother comparing apples and oranges.

Why the hell are yall running.. thats what a Truck is for… so you dont have to run to the beer store, because by the time you get back you will be sober….

seriously, white people love distance running. if you recall, the guy in Juno who knocks up Juno was a distance runner for the HS track team

re: marathons (addendum)

when a White woman meets the White man she will eventually marry, the woman will instantly take up long distance running and brag about it on Facebook (SWPL list)

So damn true – I have never run in my whole life except maybe to catch a train and since I met this guy I have gone and got the whole gear – super-luminous tights – asics trainers – the whole deal and have signed up for 5K and am making my fundraising page on Facebook – distressing to find oneself so predictable but I hope this is the man I will eventually marry

What are you talking about? It’s not just white people.

Black people love to run marathons!!!!! How do you think we manage to win the running events in the Olympics every 4 years? Or how we have infiltrated every sport in the U.S.A. (except swimming, snowboarding, and hockey….but give it some time, trust me).

Actually I take that back, Black Men love to run marathons!

Black women do not because they might sweat and then the hair frizzes up, that is why most of the Black female athletes in the Olympics have braided hair to counter this problem.

This post is so true! My dad grew up in a very poor village outside the US, and no one there would ever even think of running ‘just because’ because they used all their calories on household tasks and walking everywhere. Now my dad is out of those mud schools and teaching at an american university. Now he runs everyday (which I admire),but a funny anecdote.. he visited his village a few months ago and was taking a morning jog and this old lady a few paces behind him told him completely seriously, not to run because she wasn’t going to hurt him. the lady was so concerned while my dad kept jogging in place lol

even though my dad isn’t white, i think marathons are a stereotypically ‘rich westerner’ thing to do because you do need extra food, extra time, and extra money for shoes and fees, which most of the world cannot afford. my immigrant mom doesn’t get it either…she told my dad she would take a stopwatch and time him while he ran around the block so he wouldn’t have to pay a $40 entry fee. btw my dad wears NB sneakers and raises his hands in the air..who says immigrants don’t assimilate? )

Black people run marathons, that does not mean they like them. they run marathons because they win them and in turn win money. I am sure that if a white person won a marathon that would be the worst thing possible for them.

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lol! more and more kenyans own bikes these days…so the days of the white triathlete dominating might be numbered.

Black people don’t run in marathons? What? That makes no sense.

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Also the Ironman – all the yuppie white folk I know pushing 40 are doing this. But good for them

[...] well established that White people enjoy running marathons. (Marathons are large milestones in White peoples’ lives). However, they are large events to [...]

this running thing is a form of a mental disorder, many of them are deranged. what are they running from—it is synonomous with something amiss in their lives. It is a physical obsession for only themselves, benefits no one but themselves and it involves an OCD type of personality to get up at early and start running from what….. a bear, their lives, their jobs, what are they running from….reality….that life sucks!?!?! You also have those greedy baby boomers who do this when they are somewhat geriatric, and love to tell any dolt about their commitment and sacrifice with this mental disorder called running.

haha, that’s funny man. we got white folk that run and run in the building, who knows the heck there doing and why there running. there up around 6 in the morning on a sat or sunday with those fancy kicks; , crazy shit.

all those whites, similar to those bicylists with all the do-ups and advertising and rear view mirrors and 4K bikes–haha, that is the whites. stupid, dopey, and have all the money for all the wrong things. those whites sure love bikes and running, what are they travelling so fast from

Weak. Obviously Africans like running marathons more… Running does give you energy though…

http://www.beabetterproducer.com

what are they running from; is it a form of a mental disorder/derrangment– like work addicts? 30-40-something’s trying to prove what….. that they are not office lackies, to combat office ass/spread, that they still gut it, inferiority complexes, keeping up with other saab driving yuppies? what are those white folk running from?

are they running away from their pathetic hum-drum boring lives, so they run to drown out their inner-voices of saddness, guilt, etc….

most likely a mental disorder.

I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????

I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money preparing to run in a marathon.

Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)

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In connection they also like to post those stuipd round white stickers on the back of their cars to let you know just how far they can run.

“26.2″
or “13.1″
“S.B.R.” (Swim, Bike, Run)

They all look basically the same. I think anything under a 5k must not be acceptable because Ive never seen a sticker for “3.1″

Now, the Boston Marathon is different because it is the only one that you actually have to qualify for, so training for it is necessary. New York on the other hand, just requires a credit card or check.

One thing that White People don’t want you to know is that anyone can run a marathon. As long as you have a decent pair of sneakers and aren’t fat, you could run a marathon right now. All it is is a four or five hour commitment. White People don’t want anyone to know this, because they would no longer be able to gloat about how their training is going.

[...] along and trying to decide what my celebration move should be. I can’t do hands in the air, for this reason, so I might settle for some pointing and a round of high fives for anyone who’s up for [...]

Seriously this website is really accurate! I’m only 14 but I’ve been dreaming about running the Boston Marathon.

We also enjoy bragging by saying “I ran the whole thing without stopping!” or complaining to everyone else, who is getting fat, how sore they are for working out.

[...] The runners are out there, too, and some of them are slipping into fall fashion. Most of the men are still wearing shorts and tee shirts; some of the women are pulling on longer leggings or wearing tech jackets. Most of the runners are white. Running really is an item of stuff that white people like. [...]

what are you white people running from? your mundane, humdrum lives, your boring office work, your spouse, your bratty kids, what exactly are you guys running from?

LOL I saw this site on http://www.DanielDickey.com and I must admit it’s just as funny!!

I’m sad to say, I’m white and I’ve run a marathon. It was the worst idea of my life.

Running is awful. Just stop.

the allure of marathons for Whitey : much like the Special Olympics, EVERYONE who finishes the race, no matter how long it takes, gets to take home a medal. Whitey then gets to put the medal up on his mantle. Cool !!!!

So to piggyback off this, can we say that white women love
Nike Women’s Tempo Track shorts as well as the Livestrong version? They’re covering white women joggers everywhere!

Everyone likes running. Feelings of personal accomplishment, no matter how trivial they seem to others, aren’t limited to the white elite.

Pretty sure I’ve seen those Tempo Track Shorts on more than Jack and Jill.

ok .. im black/african american female and i have done 8 marathons (nike womens this past weekend-10.18)… so there are somethings i will say i participate with yall on !(lol)

I was a bystander at the Richmond (VA) marathon today. Over 15,000 racers participated in 3 races – 8 K, 13.1 mi and 26.2 mi. I can honestly say I saw about 2-3 thousand runners go by, and counted a total of 7 black people. This, in a very black, southern city.

So I think the real question is not why white people like marathons, but why do black people NOT like them?

i love how white people who run long distance feel like theyre on some raw shit and it makes them feel superior. and yet they are so slow at sprinting because they worry about how far they have to run to impress friends rather than how fast they actually run

I know 3 white guys just like this so I agree, but why did you leave off the real reason the Kenyans don’t do triathlons- we all know its not about the bike…. h20

ive been noticing 26.2 oval bumperstickers (like those obx ones a few years back that suddenly every locality had) i go to google and there it is – marathons!

i finished the audiobook last week and i cant go anywhere without all roads leading back to SWPL.

[...] Smith’s Feat Warrants Investigation Yet, the extraordinary Winston Smith somehow avoided injuries, survived training and astonishingly escaped the 2009 New York City Marathon with his life. Were other runners as mysteriously fortunate? How many died in their quest to scratch an item off of the definitive bourgeoisie bucket list? [...]

[...] Stuff White People Like “In Europe, pretty girls on retro bikes with wicker baskets ride, carefree, to work everyday. [...]

Call me white, but running a long way for a long time actually does make you feel great. It sucks balls getting yourself to the point where you can do it, but once you get there it’s pretty sweet.
But that was 5 years ago. Now I’m fat and lazy again.

[...] Like always reminds me that no matter how hard I try, I will never, ever be a cool kid. Between running marathons and studying abroad in Africa, I’m just not all that original, I guess. Seems like everyone [...]

[...] Marathons (done, in 5 hrs) [...]

I literally never get sick of this web site!

Here’s another good one: http://www.SomethingYouShouldRead.com

This is you!

whiteys run for fun? i gotta run from the popo. shit aint right. obamas going change shit around.

[...] March 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment I love the site Stuff White People Like – it’s absolutely hilarious.  One of my best friends and teammates from college sent this to me this afternoon and it made me smile!  I’m sure I must have read it at some point before, but it cracked me up (http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/26/27-marathons/) [...]

Situations where I will run

1) When I’m being shot at

2) When I’m being chased by a large animal

3) I’m late for something

4) Somoene is giving away free cash

Fun is not a reason to run there are much more worthwhile things to do with your time

I only run because of the way it energizes my knees. My knees feel a sensation I can only describe as ‘hot red’ after a good long jog. I know it’s a good run when I can barely bend my legs and my knee joints are swollen for several days . No pain no gain!

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amen brother

Hmm….sure I would be proud to run a marathon–the distance is quite challenging, and anyone that has run/walked/crawled it has the right to raise their hands up in the air. It is not something most human beings today can do. So if most of the folks that strive to be fit are white it is funny? Wow:) I would venture into the dark and say that I would like to have a person that has run a marathon into my team at work. It is something that most humans today–the McDonalds eating kind cannot do for the life of them. And to complete a marathon takes CHARACTER, self-discipline and the ability to do research, construct a regimen and stick with it–if a person can do that, they are more likely to be succesful as my employees, so I guess I like whites.
For the record, I am a white guy, that has NOT run a marathon. My max has always been the 10K with full kit in the army, and the looooong marches, but one day I will probably run a marathon. And as I have a hiring power in my company, I will hire any no-name guy, no matter what race, that can prove completion of a marathon instead of the pale white hippie with love handles and wimpy muscles that has started this blog:)

[...] I was reading Stuff White People like because it’s hilarious and I found one that is “Why White People like Marathons.” Um. Best article ever. If only I could write like [...]

[...] to prove to myself that I can do this and for the sense of accomplishment that will come with it. Maybe it’s cliché, but it works for [...]

Okay, I feel a little bit whiter now. I’m black and I want to eventually run a marathon. It is kinda’ fun to have that kind of bragging rights, loosing weight and the occasional toenail. But for most everything else on the list, besides grammar, tea, and sushi, I retain my blackness.

Funny blog though. I cracked up reading this.

I ran New York, chicago, Berlin, etc.. This post is just Brilliant!!!

…white people prefer triathlons because Kenyans can’t afford $10,000 specialty bicycles.

Hahahaha! All of this is so true! All of my friends think I am crazy with my incessant talk of my training plans and early morning workouts!

Now, not all white people can afford $10,000 specialty bikes…some of us can only spend $1,500! LOL

A good friend said this, “Just because I’m white and just turned 30 does NOT mean I’m going to start eating sushi and running marathons.”

Think for a second….how many people do you know recently turned 30, swear by California rolls (organic California rolls) and are training for the Chicago Marathon??

hilarious, and true. we love running marathons. we love talking about it too.

#135: calling things “brilliant”

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