• @xarexyouxmadx
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    5611 months ago

    How the hell can you be a chain smoker and run a marathon?!

    • @givesomefucks
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      4811 months ago

      It’s China…

      Smoking a filtered cigarette might be better air quality than just breathing the air…

    • teft
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      2011 months ago

      I knew a guy in the army who would smoke a cigarette right before and directly after his 2 mile PT test run. Dude would run it in under 12 minutes. Some people are just built differently than us normal humans.

      • @CinnerB
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        1011 months ago

        Nicotine is a potent stimulant. If you don’t smoke all the time and get tarred lungs then I could see why that would be very bit official. like running a marathon on Adderall to a lesser degree

      • DigitalTraveler42
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        611 months ago

        Had a whole gang of dudes like this in the Marines too, you said they’re just built different, I say they’re just nicotine addicts.

      • Codex
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        2011 months ago

        There’s like a whole thing with marathon and ultramarathon runners just shitting themselves while running. There’s something physiological that happens when you push the body that much. So I’m not so surprised that “pit stops” in the bushes were an issue that required a ruling.

        Im salty about the smoking guy though: Justice for Chain-Smoking Chen! China has the world’s only living train and they treat him like this!

        • @givesomefucks
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          811 months ago

          Every once and a while you hear about a “serial pooper” in the news…

          Some idiot that runs a lot everyday, and just starts shitting in random people’s yards then running away.

          And everytime they’re caught, they always act like they don’t understand why everyone is mad.

          They’re so wrapped up in competitive running, they assume shitting in someone’s front yard is totally cool.

          Someone just got caught on video doing it at the last Boston Marathon

          https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a43646468/boston-runner-takes-a-pit-stop-in-yard/

          But my city had some lady who was doing it everyday recently. She ran a new route everyday and would just drop deuces anywhere in broad daylight then sprint away, so it was hard to catch her… I think they may have done DNA analysis on her droppings, because of course she wasn’t bagging up either.

      • @Deestan
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        711 months ago

        Fortunately, he was not guilty of that. The article was just listing more rules from the rulebook.

      • @givesomefucks
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        011 months ago

        I hope that’s an American Dad reference…

        Screw it, we’ll just use magnets again