OK, 2,000 miles a year.
5.45 miles a day. Not shabby IF you do it.
But...
So, as former military and a marathon runner, combat cross-country team member, and Division marathon team runner, I ran quite a bit. Monday and Friday, 10 miles. Ran with the unit on 1 mile runs during the week, took the weekends off, ran 5 miles on Wed. Did this, for over a decade.
Before that, I was cross country and track from 7th grade on. Letterman in HS.
I had one knee repair, and it wasn't from running. It was a catastrophic line of duty injury. A cheap ass US government repair done by a drunken retard with out of date procedures and rusty tools.
Once I recovered, I started running again. Within 1 year I was back to running in 20+ mile marathons, triathalons, Iron Man competitions. Continuing to run after your knee surgery is recommended if you're a long distance runner.
BUT, let's look at Wendigo Wu. Claim to have ran 5 miles a day EVERY day for 10 years. Now, even the best athletes take a few days to rest (Running is one of the few things you can do every day, unless you go over 10 miles in day, then you should take at least one day off) but Wu is trying to make it sound like she was out there running 5 miles a day.
Rather than say "I ran 5+ miles each day" she'd rather claim "I ran 2,000 miles in a year", because it sounds awesome. That means 5.45 miles every day. Every. Single. Day.
OR, she's trying to claim that she ran 10 miles a day on a weekday schedule. Or 20 miles a day on a weekend schedule.
Basic math, from a soft-bodied ghoul like Wendigo Wu shows she's full of shit.
But beyond that: When a runner's knee goes, it's either an accident or a bad stride. If they got "cartiledge regeneration surgery" they'd mention which one, because if they were a runner, the regrowths prior to 2010 were risky endeavors that could fuck up your knee worse. Only one knee went, yet they still run "every other day" like most non-athletes or non-competitive show run TWO THOUSAND FUCKING MILES AKA 5.45 miles a day.
When we look at Wendigo Wu's legs, she has no definition. Her arms are flabby, her chest is thin, her legs looks like someone shoved oatmeal in a pair of discarded Playtex stockings. Nowhere does it look like they are a long distance runner, which is a different look than walking 2 miles a day on your treadmill.
Lastly, we look at her feet. Ew, gross, I know.
A lot of people that want to go "Oh, I'm a runner! I ran marathons" always complain about knees.
Know what else goes? Your hips and ankles and feet.
Women develop stress fractures in the pelvis. A most common female complaint for distance running isn't their legs, it's their hips, their pelvis. That's because their muscles are anchored differently.
But the feet, they tell a story.
At 5.45 miles a day, or 2,000 miles a year, for a decade, Wendigo Wu would have "spider veins" on the sides of their feet. Its from the repeated impacts over YEARS. When we've seen her in open toe shoes/sandals, there's no spider veining. No sign of old broken veins from the bruising that that kind of punishment to the feet and ankles leaves behind.
Nowhere, when she's talking about running, does she talk about feet, calves, ankles, hips, thighs, just "knees" and claim they had surgery to regrow cartilage. No slight limp that even physical therapy can't get rid of.
Just from looking at the soy infused softbodied Wendigo, you know the furthest they ever ran was to the front door to beat a screaming chink to the food delivery.
Thus, we have rated that tweet: Wendigo Wu Origin Story
