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@HatBeard
this rant isn't really directed at the video above but the whole purist running thing actually kind of grates on me lately. I'm the one running what the fuck business is it of anyone else's if I want to use technology available to me if it means I find more motivation from it. of course you don't need it but that doesn't make it bad. ok some people dont seem to garner any joy from it's use and might be happier to just go and run but that's not to say it's right for everyone.
in a sport that's already pretty smug, it's pretty fucking smug to stand there and tell someone else that they're enjoying something wrong.
funnily enough I don't see people running in hobnail boots very often but I definitely read in feet in the clouds that all runners used to run in their work boots. if you don't run in the most uncomfortable shoes you can find then you can't be a real runner, because that's what they used to do before technology changed. and if you're not wearing roughspun cotton to run in then woe fucking betide you see me on the trails because if your nipples aren't torn to shreds and your inner thighs weeping with blood from chaffing then you my friend are getting called out.
sorry I'm getting wound up, I need to go for a run but my garmin needs charging.