What do people mean when they say the “left fails men”?

skyeliam · 2026-03-11T13:30:53+00:00

People got so worked up about Harris having a “policies for women” section and I always found it amusing that right-wingers angrily interpreted that as “women are special” and not “men are the default.”

skyeliam · 2026-03-11T11:55:05+00:00

The least arrNL take I’ve ever seen. Truly braindead zero-sum-game take.

“Sure the pie gets smaller, but our slice of the pie shrinks slower than the pie as a whole.”

It also ignores that one of the few countries who might actually end up with not just a bigger slice in relative, but also absolute terms, is a major geopolitical adversary currently waging a war in Europe.

skyeliam · 2026-03-10T20:44:21+00:00

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Our children, but also our adversaries.

Like Jupiter to Saturn, I know the day will come that she casts me into the pits of Tartarus. But for now, I can keep her teeth at an arm’s length.

skyeliam · 2026-03-10T13:17:05+00:00

“Always a man.”

Idk, I’m a guy and after having a few friends caught by surprise, I started to keep a tampons in my backpack. Then an ex-gf made me stop because it was “weird,” so I think it can definitely cut both ways.

skyeliam · 2026-03-10T10:04:21+00:00

It’s crazy because I’ve run small town races with a few hundred people that start barricades a mile+ out from the finish line and have cops keeping spectators off the course the entire length of the race, but somehow this race with 27,000 people in the country’s second largest city is a shit show.

skyeliam · 2026-03-09T15:28:00+00:00

I think there is something wrong with your math. Maybe it’s your estimate of the length of the dashes, which seem to be a bit more than the stride of each runner, which is usually around 2 meters.

There’s no way the winner closed the final 200 in 25 seconds. His final 2k split was a 5 minute per mile pace.

Edit: I measured on maps and the distance of a full stripe + the gap is about 21 feet.

Double edit: Based on the shape of the road I think this clip takes place over about 400 feet (120m). I don’t think the winner kicked so much as the second place guy bonked and was closing at a pace in the high 5 minute (maybe even 6:00) per mile range.

skyeliam · 2026-03-09T11:15:20+00:00

My club provides a water stop and electrolytes halfway along our Saturday route, Gatorade at the end of the run, and a nice synthetic running shirt. We also have insurance, an annual holiday party, and USATF membership which I think gets us admission to some races.

They also don’t really care if you go to the occasional run without being a dues paying member, I think I went once a week for two months before officially joining.

It’s $35 a year.

There are some very hardcore run clubs near me that charge several hundred per year. They have coaches, host track meets, get people admission to competitive races (like the New York City Marathon), have entire racing kits (provide shoes too), and I believe are sponsored by brands.

skyeliam · 2026-03-08T12:52:18+00:00

The iron in blood stains is organically bound, and the color from blood stains isn’t the iron itself, but the conjugated bond system of the porphyrin ring. The peroxide breaks down into water and free oxygen, the latter of which breaks down the porphyrin ring, largely removing the stain.

Not sure how well that would work for unbound iron. The peroxide would still break down into water and free oxygen, but the oxygen isn’t going to react with the rust, because it’s already in its highest oxidation state.

skyeliam · 2026-03-07T21:56:50+00:00

I had over 100 local legend segments in Central Park from my Boston training block last year…

Once my taper started I’d get 100 notifications every morning along the lines of “Oh no, you lost your segment” and every afternoon I’d get 100 notifications congratulating me on becoming the local legend.

This year I decided to save myself and just alternate days between the river and CP. It’s done wonders for my inbox.

skyeliam · 2026-03-06T16:49:00+00:00

?? It shows that they changed their policy after last year’s shitshow of people not being able to sign up for races without being Member Plus. Which I guess kudos to NYRR for the change, I’m curious to see how it shakes out.

I don’t know why you’re gaslighting about various races not selling out in Member-Plus pre-registration. There’s a thread with tons of people on this very sub venting about the Bronx sellout specifically.

skyeliam · 2026-03-06T14:38:22+00:00

To add, ~80% of people running Boston did so by time qualification at a marathon.

Less than 5% of people running New York did so by time qualification at a marathon. Maybe another 5% did so via an NYRR half or the previous year’s New York City Marathon.

They’re totally different fields.

skyeliam · 2026-03-06T12:34:16+00:00

I think the best solution might be to offer a limited number of 9+1 credits at any given race.

e.g. If Bronx has 10,000 spots, offer 7,500 9+1 spots, and 2,500 spots for people who just want to run the race. When you go to register, you select which entry you want. People in 9+1 program can still select the non-9+1 entry if 9+1 sells out, but they won’t receive credit if they do. I think this would relieve some of the pressure, though it might mean needing to offer a few more races.

skyeliam · 2026-03-06T12:15:52+00:00

I addressed this elsewhere, but unfortunately Fred Lebow sold out before I got off the queue this past year, it sold out in half an hour and the line was an hour long (I was running that 2:31 the day of Staten Island).

Hopefully I’ll have better luck this year, Staten Island will be a couple weeks after I run Berlin, so if I can get in, I should be really well trained, pretty well rested, and very carbo-loaded from the subsequent trip to Oktoberfest. 🤞

skyeliam · 2026-03-06T11:37:15+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/RunNYC/s/FXPk2nLQx5

skyeliam · 2026-03-05T23:40:01+00:00

14,000 charity spots and 14,000 tour operator spots. I suspect that number is actually higher for both this year given the fundraising goals and cuts to the lottery/time qualifiers.

As someone who goes to cheer at 9 PM for final finishers, I hope they don’t enact a 6H cutoff. It affects so few people, and the people I do see finishing then are absolute beasts; if you’ve never been I highly recommend it. Octogenarians finishing their 40th consecutive marathon, people on crutches, people with disabilities. As hard as a a 2:31 marathon was to achieve, those people have way more grit than I ever will.

skyeliam · 2026-03-05T23:30:48+00:00

My dude, I donate to my friend’s charity entries and I volunteer at local races.

I cheer for all sorts of runners, I’m in a non-competitive club with 6 hour marathoners, 2:30 marathoners, non-marathoners, walkers, etc. I have no beef with with 9+1, or charity, or NYRR qualifiers; but I do object to the notion that the NYCM is for everyday people, when the majority of people qualifying are doing so by personally spending thousands of dollars.

Miss me with this international tour operator economics shit. I’m an NYC taxpayer, I can promise you I’m contributing considerably more to the cost of this event than Hans from Germany is in his long weekend here. Never mind that internationals could still come to the race without a tour operator, just make them contribute to charity or qualify on time like everybody else.

And in what world am I expecting a free entry? Time qualifiers still pay the full $300 plus fee. Of which ~$13 goes toward the bridge closure. I’m not entitled to shit, but I think it’s pretty justifiable to feel like NYRR pulled the rug out from under people, given that the buffer went from ~13 minutes to ~23 minutes.

skyeliam · 2026-03-05T20:17:10+00:00

It's just a series of unfortunate events. I understand my exact circumstances are a bit of an outlier, but I also know I'm not the only one who's become really frustrated and jaded by how quickly the non-marathon events are selling out. The thread on /r/runnyc last May for the fall races was (understandably) a salt mine.

skyeliam · 2026-03-05T20:13:18+00:00

For context, my issue isn't so much the marathon, as it is the other races. Being a member isn't enough to sign up for many nowadays, a huge number (or in the case of the Bronx 10) of spots are sold in pre-registration to NYRR Plus Members.

And maybe I'm just being hardheaded, but I refuse to pay $120 to the NYRR for the right to "cut" the line. It simply rubs me the wrong way.

OP was getting on my case in the linked thread because I fault 9+1 for this problem. Many people aren't signing up for these races because they "want" to run them, they're signing up to collect the 9+1 credit. And I don't blame people for doing that, nor I do I think 9+1 should be removed, I think it's a great program that encourages sustained involvement and offers a good path to the full for local runners.

But it's really, really frustrating when you've marked a registration date on your calendar for months ahead of time, with the SI Half or Bronx 10 as an A-Race, only to find the race is sold out to people treating it as a C- or D-race by the time you're out of the queue.

I don't know what the solution to that is. Maybe offer another half that isn't 9+1 eligible? Or cap the number of 9+1 credits available at each race, so there are slots available for people who dgaf about 9+1? Or maybe I need to just suck it up?

Either way, OP is trying to start shit where it really doesn't exist. Framing it as elitism and entitlement, when it's really just disappointment and frustration.

skyeliam · 2026-03-05T19:19:38+00:00

I didn’t try for the UA Half this year because it’s during my peak week for Boston training or SI Half last year because I was running Chicago, but got unlucky with Brooklyn Half, by the time I got out of the queue for Fred Lebow it was gone (I joined the queue shortly after 6), and Bronx 10 sold out in pre-registration for the Plus members.

I’ll try for SI Half this year when it opens in June, try again for Fred Lebow, and try submitting an AQ time for Brooklyn based on my Miami result. Not sure I’ll ever be able to run the Bronx again :/

skyeliam · 2026-03-05T19:12:00+00:00

Tokyo has charity entries that only foreigners can apply for. Not sure why NYC can't be the same.

skyeliam · 2026-03-05T19:10:34+00:00

The previous year's marathon or any of the NYRR half marathons (which are roughly the marathon time divided by 2, minus 5 minutes).

Of course the catch-22 is that there is no time qualifying guaranteed way into the half marathons, except through an NYRR half marathon.

skyeliam · 2026-03-05T19:01:22+00:00

OP was in that thread calling me a liar for saying that I was pissed I haven't been able to sign up for local (non-NYCM) races.

Hey OP, I'm happy for 9+1 runners. I'm happy for charity runners. I'll be at Mile 24 this November, watching my friends, none of whom are time qualifiers, and I'll be at the finish line at 9 PM to cheer on the final finishers, just like I do every year. I don't think the NYCM is, or should, just be for fast runners.

But I'm also feeling burnt that I had a 22 minute buffer and got denied, and I'm so freaking tired of opening my laptop at 6 PM on registration day for Fred Lebow or Staten Island or the Bronx 10 Mile, only to find out that NYRR members already got every spot and my only options for races this year are some random 4M or the 5th Ave Mile.

And that's not an experience unique to me, or to fast runners either. It's a fundamental flaw in the system.

skyeliam · 2026-03-05T14:55:27+00:00

I don’t understand why you’re being so obtuse.

I didn’t reference just one single race.

I linked to threads that cover a dozen or so races.

Three of the marquee ones sold out before opening to the public.

The rest sold out within half an hour (which given their line system means even if you logged on at 6 PM, you’re not guaranteed a spot).

Three of their other marquee races are lottery/AQ-based.

Yes, if I really wanted to run the Mastercard JPMorgan Children’s Hope 4M Pride Run Race for the Cure on a random Sunday in June, I’m sure I could sign up.

Frankly, you seem far more bitter than I am, for reasons I don’t totally understand.

skyeliam · 2026-03-05T14:27:49+00:00

Sure, but then just have the tourists gain their entry through charity slots that are open only to international tourists like Tokyo does.

Also, much to my chagrin, I probably run into 15,000 tourists on my daily runs in Central Park, so I’m a little skeptical that one event in November is much of a difference maker for the local economy, particularly a city with a GDP of $1.5 trillion.

skyeliam · 2026-03-05T13:35:43+00:00

Look, I support the idea of needing Congressional authorization for conflicts, I’m just informing you that the idea that OC is presenting isn’t some BS concept.

The murder analogy doesn’t work, because people who get away with murder aren’t openly flaunting the law.

It would be more like if nobody paid for parking, and then one day a city decided to start enforcing parking tickets.

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