I wish I lived in Europe so that all the track meets could have advertisements like this one:
Sincerely,
Me
p.s. Bekele and Khadevis Robinson are both running this meet.
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Her ass is totally airbrushed.
It doesn't matter as long as it looks good.
Also I swear I beat Letsrun to posting it onto the page.
Ian -- thanks for trying to make us mortal women feel better about ourselves.
Kangway -- guys like you contribute to why all women feel bad about their bodies.
Who wants to bet that's what Megumi's butt looks like? It's been too small for her bike shorts recently which means (1) she's grotesquely skinny and (2) I think I should be entitled to her newly baggy red-hot-red castelli shorts.
Are you with me?
OK it's been more than 18 hours and nobody has come back with the obvious follow-up, so I have to make it myself:
"Yeah, I'd airbrush that ass..."
Katherine, in my defense:
1) That ad was clearly meant for guys to stare at. Can I really help it?
2) I never archived hundreds of photos of running girls on any sort of hotness threads like some guy we might know. *coughmarkcough*
3) The media doesnt necessarily make it any easier on guys. With movies like 300, and guys like this, how are we supposed to feel good? It also doesn't help that some national champion athletes look like this.
but ian, i don't know how to use and airbrush.
i don't even know what an airbrush is.
K$ -
I'm just giving you a hard time :). As if I didn't stare at that picture for a loooong time...
And for the record, those muscley guys are NOT hot. Muscle != hot. Low body fat is not inversely proportional to hotness. I'd bet fewer women would go for men like that than men would go for women like this.
I'd rather go for the girl in the ad than that one right there.
But seriously, Ryan Harlan, last year's division one decathlon champion, ridiculous. His body is ridiculous.
Mark: Do an image search for airbrush and then ponder the analogy.
Then award me a gold star for being so goddamn funny.
KC/KB: That guy training for 300 is totally hot. Or at least, that is what I'd like to look like regardless of what anyone else thinks. Well, maybe it would just be nice to look like that for a a year or so-- he seems a little hefty for the 10k. It could coincide with the season when I set a lifetime best in the 35lb weight throw; or my cage fighting PR.
I just realized that actually kind of highlights the problem of idealizing a single body type: it can't be good at everything. I remember in HS I was super scrawny (my driver's license from age 16 says 5'6"/109lb) and had a pretty bad body image. But then I joined track, and gradually I came to feel that at least there was a decent reason to be small and skinny-- to be a better distance runner. Even when I was struggling to break 5:20 in the mile, just being a runner at all made me feel a lot better about my body.
Which is why maybe it's better for women like this to take up olympic lifting instead of trying to look like a supermodel.
And just to extend Mark's comment from another thread about drugs being present wherever there is money, there are definitely going to be drugs among models, male or female. They aren't even getting tested!
Ian, I think you should check out gymjones.com.
They're the gym that trained the 300 guys, and it's sort of crazy. Basically, they dont' do much aerobic work, rowing maybe a little. But what they really do is do high rep squats, high rep deadlifts, that force you to really start breathing hard.
I think they're really elitist, but at the same time their techniques are fundamentally sound. They emphasize full range of motion and good technique.
People don't join gymjones, they are only invited.
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