TLDR; Don't.

Follow-up to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/RunningCirclejerk/comments/1js2hxe/is_it_morally_bankrupt_to_date_a_hobby_jogger/ .

First of all, I tried to get her on a date, but I did it a day after laughing at hobby joggers when they passed us and mentioning to her this elite sub. I wasn’t surprised or sad when she friend-zoned me because she said earlier that she wouldn’t follow me on Strava (because she’s too slow or something), and it broke my heart.

Long story short, in the meantime, she injured herself and stopped running, switching to (I don’t want to drop a c-word here). A few months later, she advised me to start ice-skating because “it’s such fun” (my friend warned me repeatedly that I shouldn’t “think with my dick”; I think she meant that I should think with my quads, and ice-skating is apparently good for them), so I went once, okay, indeed fun. The second time, however, I broke my finger, got K-wires, and a cast for a few weeks, and my VO₂ max is now so not-elite that I should get a ban.

So my message is: don’t even think of dating hobby joggers. You’ll lose everything, namely, your VO₂ max and your elite status. At worst, you’ll become a c..... or even t........