Sea swims, runs and cycle rides

[Besswess88]

I don’t need to see it.

I live by the sea and it’s suddenly become fashionable (because there is FUCK ALL else to do) to become a fucking butter and go into the sea every day sans wetsuit.

Not only this but to post it every fucking day on SM, one friend posts her husbands (he’s in his 60s so seriously may have a heart attack) and the other evening posted an apology for not posting that mornings swim.

I don’t fucking care.

This is happening where I live as well, the coast guards are now warning people not to suddenly take it up at this time of year if they're not experienced!

You don't sound like you like the people on your SM very much.
Many of us are bored rigid in lockdown. For me, that means maybe I'm more likely to take the time to post a few snaps from a hike or other outdoor activity. Before I probably took the pics but didn't get round to posting them.

Where's the harm? I wouldn't post every day (unless perhaps to a hobby specific forum), but if you don't like them it's easy enough to just scroll past (as I do when my friends post yet another identikit set of pics of their toddler being 'amusing', 'cute' or 'goofy').

I've noticed a bit of a phenomenon on social media in lockdown tbh: judgy fuckers who want to police how others use these platforms and sneer about 'attention seeking' or 'middle aged' people getting into outdoor exercise who aren't elite athletes. The people you're judging are posting content that you can choose to engage with or not. They obviously like it & others might too. What are those sneering, judging and calling people 'smug' bringing to the table?

@BuggersMuddle

You don't sound like you like the people on your SM very much. Many of us are bored rigid in lockdown. For me, that means maybe I'm more likely to take the time to post a few snaps from a hike or other outdoor activity. Before I probably took the pics but didn't get round to posting them.

Where's the harm? I wouldn't post every day (unless perhaps to a hobby specific forum), but if you don't like them it's easy enough to just scroll past (as I do when my friends post yet another identikit set of pics of their toddler being 'amusing', 'cute' or 'goofy').

I've noticed a bit of a phenomenon on social media in lockdown tbh: judgy fuckers who want to police how others use these platforms and sneer about 'attention seeking' or 'middle aged' people getting into outdoor exercise who aren't elite athletes. The people you're judging are posting content that you can choose to engage with or not. They obviously like it & others might too. What are those sneering, judging and calling people 'smug' bringing to the table?

Was that to me BuggersMuddle? That man I described isn't on my social media - he sent me a friend request and I didn't accept it. Everything on his profile was publicly available and looking through it, he seemed like an annoying twat who wanted to use FB for meeting women as well, which I'm not interested in.

I have many FB friends who are not elite athletes who post frequent, interesting posts about their training. But theres a certain type of man (person, possibly) with a certain type of self-obsession that I cannot stand.

The harm is in that so many of them like this are in relationships or married (or single and shag around type) and use a common interest in a sport to meet other women, or at least to get attention from them. Whereas I'm just interested in doing the sport for the sport's sake.

he’s in his 60s so seriously may have a heart attack

That's a big assumption. I have friends who swim in the sea all the year round and several of them are well over 60. It helps if you get acclimatised by swimming all the year round, but there's no age at which you're automatically more likely to have a heart attack or anything else wrong with you while swimming. I know of a guy who swam in the sea every day until a few months before he died aged about 84.

For what it's worth, my sea swimming friends have always posted pics on SM, but they have their own groups for it.

No it wasn’t to anyone - other than the specific part where I referenced the OP.

I’ve seen plenty of comments on here and on social media where people (often women, sadly) seem to want to criticise women for being ‘smug’, ‘attention seeking’ or just body confident / giving no fucks. I don’t often see men tearing other men down like that.