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This feels very much like an /r/thathappened post
As a running enthusiast whose varied from running ~25 miles a week to having to restart from nothing, what the guy is talking about is extremely common. I've followed many different plans from many runners, sometimes their names are attached, sometimes not, and most of them I couldn't tell you what they look like. I will say Olympic runners are the most common. I've even come across hers. Nothing about this rings as implausible to someone remotely interested in the topic. I guess I could understand from a total outsider perspective, but from someone who looks into that topic often? Absolutely plausible. I see no reason not to believe them.
Edit: the amount of stories Tony Hawk posts like this and never gets questioned also just makes me wonder a bit about why multiple people have already commented the way you did.
Pretty sure the Tony Hawk thing is like a running joke, I’m not sure how many of those are legit at this point. I still laugh at them all.
Wouldn't a guy analyze a guy's training instead of a women's? I don't run but I'd imagine that training would be at least a little different for women than it is for men.
I’ve never paid attention to the sex or gender identity of who writes training programs if the credentials check out
What the hell is a gender identity?
Male, female, non-binary, etc.
I'm not following.
On the off chance this isn't troll bait: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex–gender_distinction
Not really. I'm sure elite performers, possibly. But training plans aren't generally gendered from anything I've come across.
Or maybe he's an analyst.
I've never come across anyone that just pulls out a training schedule when I say "I run".
Usually there's some follow up questions about goals, training, whatever.
But just straight up grabbing your phone and pulling out a training schedule? THAT'S the implausible part, not that he was using her training schedule.
You have no idea what the conversation is. It was boiled down to "I run." Why are you going out of your way to assume a whole bunch of stuff that isn't mentioned?
That's what I read between the lines. She's having a stab at someone who did exactly that.
I don't see the need to tell a professional runner how to run? I also don't see why she would hid that fact if the conversation went any further?
I also don't see why she would hid that fact if the conversation went any further?
If she's leaving stuff out, it's probably because Twitter has a character limit, not because she's trying to hide something.
You find it unlikely that someone who runs at the Olympic level would be amongst people that are likely to nerd out about their training schedules? Why? Clearly it's something they're passionate about. Why is it shocking they'd be around other folks passionate about it?
This feels very much like a /r/nothingeverhappens comment.
Inside you there are two wolves.
God damn it Moon Moon.
One smokes crack, The other smokes crack.
You are addicted to crack.
Oh damn, so I'm not a lone wolf?
I mean, just consider how astronomically improbable the entire situation is for a second instead of falling for rage bait.
The only people who seem to be raging are the ones trying to intimate that its a fake scenario, everyone else seems to be rolling their eyes or chuckling.
There's yet another group who is getting more and more detached from society and pop culture as we grow older and have absolutely no clue what any of you are talking about. I'm very happy to be a part of this group, you don't understand how nice it is to have no friggin clue why everyone else is pissed off, and then just go about your day happily ignorant. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to grab some prune juice because jeopardy is on.
Exactly! That was my intention when creating this community - posts are meant to be entertaining, slightly humorous, maybe a little bit of schadenfreude. Not everything has to be super serious.
It's extremely possible. I came across her plan in researching running. She's popular. Not all runners publish stuff. She's one of the few names in running I recognize but I couldn't for the life of me even describe what she looks like let alone recognize her on my own.
And why is this rage bait? Who is angry? It's humorous. Why do you assume folks are supposed to be angry reading this?
To your last point I think it could be read as him"mansplaining" it to her. He could also just be passionate about the topic and excited to talk about it. If it happened in any case
I don't see topics covering "mansplaining" as rage bait. It does indeed happen and calling attention to it is fair game. My best guess is that he is clearly passionate about it (I mean, honestly, that should be a given) but I'm assuming he reached the point where it'd be embarrassing if she let him know he just tried to explain her own training to her.
What at all is improbable about it?
You really believe that some rando just happened to sit next to the person he was pulling stats about?
Please don’t make meta reference comments a thing here, I beg you
/r/ reference comments are littered all over comments sections on sites like YouTube and TikTok despite not linking anywhere when outside of reddit. Do you really think there's any chance of it not catching on here?
Feels a lot like /r/subredditdrama
That's because it is. We're supposed to expect that a random person had compiled detailed running stats on a person he just happened to sit next to on a plane.
This is just a story to manufacture outrage, like most of social media.
Where's the outrage? This is a funny story in the same vein as Tony Hawk's various "You look like Tony Hawk" moments. Its like everyone in this thread saw its a woman and assumed she's complaining instead of telling a fun story.
Edit as I realize half the comments trying to call this rage bait are literally just you instigating lol. Touch grass.
The outrage is because the person who made the original post is a woman.
The vast majority of men really don't like it when women do things or talk about their experiences, especially if the women are good at or enjoy the things they do and/or talk about men behaving like men towards them.
(Watch how fast I get down voted and mansplained to about how wrong I am, lmao)
I was going to downvote you, but I have decided to upvote you instead to make you look like a fool /s
also, r/imverysmart