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Apr 2014
8:10am, 26 Apr 2014
1,658 posts
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Squares
I read this http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/sports/23marathon.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& "Plodders have their place but is it in a marathon"
I'm a plodder who hasn't done a marathon... But stopping for lunch?
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Apr 2014
8:18am, 26 Apr 2014
3,790 posts
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Dooogs
I've got "Don't Fear The Sweeper" as an earworm now...
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Apr 2014
8:21am, 26 Apr 2014
10,911 posts
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Ultracat
I always look at the cut off in marathons before entering.
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Apr 2014
8:32am, 26 Apr 2014
11,367 posts
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McGoohan
"Purists believe that running a marathon should be just that — running the entire course at a relatively fast clip. They point out that a six-hour marathoner is simply participating in the event, not racing in it. Slow runners have disrespected the distance, they say, and have ruined the marathon’s mystique."
Six hours disrespects the distance eh? My first mara was 6:12.:-)
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Apr 2014
8:49am, 26 Apr 2014
1,016 posts
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Tigerlily
Another example of snobbery in running. 26.2 miles on your feet is a tough shift regardless of time taken. I am therefore a 'participator'. 😃
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Apr 2014
8:56am, 26 Apr 2014
17,441 posts
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HellsBells
*apologises for existing and breathing the same hallowed air as these superior beings *
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Apr 2014
9:03am, 26 Apr 2014
17,594 posts
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JohnnyO
Its a puff piece designed to court controversy and enrage people. Its worked too, this is the third time that a thread has linked to it in the last week. The advertisers on the NY Times website will love it.
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Apr 2014
9:03am, 26 Apr 2014
18,134 posts
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Rebel
They are probably jealous because they can't run for that length of time. I am a very slow marathoner but I still did the distance. Just the word marathon sounds like a long time as well as distance.
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Apr 2014
9:03am, 26 Apr 2014
111 posts
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NelskiBL
I admire, more than many runners, Haile Gebrselassie. I shared a course with him, running in the great man's footsteps in Glasgow's Half Marathon last year (Great Scottish Run).
He famously said - and I do consider him something of an authority - " When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time."
Selah
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Apr 2014
9:06am, 26 Apr 2014
10,109 posts
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Girlie
I remember at the start line at NYC a nice lady lining up behind me had her lunch with her in a small paper bag:-)
However this article makes me really angry. What harm are us slower runners doing, in my marathon experience we do start at the back, keep out of the way and concentrate on our own race whether it is for pride for beating the clock or our neighbour running near us.
It is attitudes like this that are making me VERY nervous about Kent Road Runner as a lapped route and I am terrified of getting on the way of anyone, to the point I have considered withdrawning from the race because at best I will finish in around 5 hours
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