Recently I've been skimming through the photos from races over the years and always thought, man, sometimes I'm not sure if people would be able to tell if I was a runner or a hobo. Then last year there was this facebook game called crackshack or $1,000,000 mansion which basically showed a bunch of crap houses in the Greater Vancouver Area and you voted if you thought it was a crackshack or a mansion. It was hard to differentiate. Then I thought it would be funny as hell to every couple days post a picture of an ultra runner (I'm not putting any of me up cause Hobo would take 100% of the votes) up and put it to a vote of Hobo or UltraRunner!
Photo #4 now up for voting!
Results for Photo Below
Hobo - 38%
Runner - 62%
Actual Photo - Runner
RESULTS FOR PHOTO BELOW
HOBO - 74%
RUNNER - 26%
Actual Photo - Runner, dude who routinely runs shirtless in Edmonton even in the chill of a -35 day mid-winter!
RESULTS!!!! (For Photo Below)
HOBO - 51%
RUNNER - 49%
ACTUAL PHOTO - Jackie Muir, UltraRunner - after the Fat Dog 130 miler.
She also looks drugged out of her mind...
ReplyDeleteMontrail logo on the hat is a dead giveaway. Hobo.
ReplyDeleteMontrail really need to curb their hobo sponsorship program!
ReplyDeleteGR
dude, i have some classics-peep these
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ouser.org/photos/99/24/24h99_03.jpg
http://www.ouser.org/photos/01/hf/image111.htm
http://www.ouser.org/photos/01/hf2/image27.htm
good starts. Yes, I do look back at those early days fondly.
Ha. Very good. Looking forward to the triathlete or millionaire voting too.
ReplyDeleteAt first I said Ultrarunner because of the hat but then got to thinking. You Montrail runners ARE! A bunch of Hobos. Yeah she totally looks baked out of her mind. Maybe she really was a hobo and somebody just pulled her out of a ditch near one of the aide stations. Where she had been huffing paint from a papper bag all night long?
ReplyDeleteNo hobo would wear a nice, clean puffy jacket like that. Since I believe I am just outside of the frame of this photo, I benefit from the bias of knowing this was taken more than an day into a 100-mile run that turned out to be closer to 140-miles long. If I recall, the subject of the photo just learned she could have a stress fracture and that she could have another full day of running ahead of her. Given that a DNF was not an option for this person: Ultrarunner!
ReplyDeleteNo shopping cart - definitely not hobo.
ReplyDeleteThis ranks as one of my absolute favourite 100-miler(ish) photos. When I first saw it last summer I laughed, knowing exactly what she felt like. I have a similar photo of myself....
I don't care if it is an ultra runner, at this point, they would rather be a Hobo
ReplyDeleteDefinately going with Ultrarunner on this one. No self respecting Hobo would be caught dead outside in those temps without atleast a plastic trashbag over them to keep them warm.
ReplyDeleteI think Wakefield is right.. though a hobo could have gotten a little tipsy on Night Train and decided to go for a jaunt. The real way to tell would be to see if those headphones were plugged into anything. If its just the cord going into his pocket it's for sure a hobo
ReplyDeletewow, #2 is wearing some seriously old-school ultrarunning duds - must be circa 1992.
ReplyDeleteaww, I missed the voting ! will get the next one.
ReplyDeleteJackie is definately a rocking Ultra-runner.
Maybe HOBO could also pertain to an ultra-runner post race:
High
On
Body
Odour
Bruce - if you have a similar photo of yourself any chance I can use it for one of the rounds down the road :p
ReplyDeleteFat Dog 130 miler. I thought that race was only a 100 miler. :-)
ReplyDeletePhoto # 4 is definitely a hobo! lol
ReplyDeleteI recently saw the guy from photo #4. He was grumbling something incomprehensible and was wearing that same hat...so definitely hobo!
ReplyDeleteGotta run,
Vince
Number #4 is an ultrarunner... or a hobo that hangs out on the OUSer circuit
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