I just watched a video on Facebook that was it looks like produced by REI. They were focusing on a ultra marathoner who was overweight and while she was on a break from a 50K she got an email from someone who told her how disgusting she was to call herself a marathoner.
She didn't start crying or berating herself, she said yes it hurt, and yes she was slow, and yes maybe she walked/ran the 30+ miles, but she did it.
I can't even imagine walking/running 30 miles in a day. The half marathons I have walked have left my feet mangled, and the night cramping. Here is the only thing I have to say to this woman - you are crazy.
How can anyone find an ultra fun? I would be sick a whole week before hand and come the day of probably cry all the way to the starting line. Would I finish? I don't know. It isn't something I am ever going to have to figure out because I am never ever going to walk 30 miles in one day. Ever.
But the point was REI put up this video, and reading the comments it was determined that REI does not/did not carry plus sizes in the past, and now they are expanding into some plus sizes, but not in most of the brick and mortar stores. On-line sales. I have been to REI. I have tried on some of there clothes, some fit, some don't, but generally I get men's, they fit, they have large, XL and XXL for men. It is okay for the men to have large sizes, just not the women. It is the way of the world.
She didn't start crying or berating herself, she said yes it hurt, and yes she was slow, and yes maybe she walked/ran the 30+ miles, but she did it.
I can't even imagine walking/running 30 miles in a day. The half marathons I have walked have left my feet mangled, and the night cramping. Here is the only thing I have to say to this woman - you are crazy.
How can anyone find an ultra fun? I would be sick a whole week before hand and come the day of probably cry all the way to the starting line. Would I finish? I don't know. It isn't something I am ever going to have to figure out because I am never ever going to walk 30 miles in one day. Ever.
But the point was REI put up this video, and reading the comments it was determined that REI does not/did not carry plus sizes in the past, and now they are expanding into some plus sizes, but not in most of the brick and mortar stores. On-line sales. I have been to REI. I have tried on some of there clothes, some fit, some don't, but generally I get men's, they fit, they have large, XL and XXL for men. It is okay for the men to have large sizes, just not the women. It is the way of the world.
OUr friend Tony was an ultra-marathoner: 100 mile bike, run 26 miles & swim (I don't know how far). He claimed to love it. I am pretty darn sure you could walk 30 miles in a day. The California missions were about 30 miles apart - 2.5 miles per hour * 12 hours. I know you could do it. Me, not so much - my cane would wear out. REI tries to fit everyone including yours truly - the woman who claimed the marathoner "disgusting" should take a trip to Santa Rosa to roll in the ashes.
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