Originally Posted by
furiousferret
I find it more of a social networking tool and a way to monitor my own improvement over certain segments.
There. is. no. rational. middle. ground. You're a loser for both wanting friends and for "tracking your improvement".
You're only hardcore if you train alone doing force-reps up steep hills every Tuesday, and it's definitely better to be like Mikey and live in full-on existential crisis everyday because you don't know if you've wasted years of effort.
Or so I hear.