| Track Fan 1979 |
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I am paraphrasing this quote but you will get the point. Larry Rawson: "The human body is designed to race 20 miles...about 25K." It is time to retire Larry. |
| Elite Hobby Jogger |
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Katherine Switzer makes him look good. |
| angry Ken Nakamura |
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How about, "Boston is the ONLY marathon in the world you have to qualify for to run." Except for Fukuoka, Lake Biwa, Osaka Women's, Yokohama, etc. etc. etc. |
| you're killing me, Larry |
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"a" quote? Just one? "3000m which is about 1.25 miles" "Wesley Korir won his debut marathon in Los Angeles" |
| reggier |
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With the women 600m from the finish: "go down to your local HS football field and run 1.5 laps around the track..." |
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well hes right. how many people actually know how far 600m is? i personally want the sport to grow, so defining things that are obvious to us but not so to others doesn't bother me when he said boston is the only race where you need to qualify i also cringed. but he added the statement "using a system based on age and gender breakdowns" or something like that. im not positive, but i think that is correct about boston |
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Yeh, he should have qualified it. The only American marathon to require qualification or something like that. Or the only big American marathon to require qualifying. |
| I run at the track |
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Sure, but I'd probably go to the track instead of the football field to run my lap and a half. |
| speaker of truth |
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end of thread |
| are you gonna eat that pussy? |
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Except that you don't have to qualify to run it. It's just a certain portion of the bibs that are reserved for qualifiers based on time, gender, age. The same is true for NYC and London, it's just a smaller portion of the bibs. |
| luv2run |
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Garansett also The slip I liked was that a marathon is 42000 km. Simple enough slip to make, but pretty funny. |
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I wasn't able to hear the whole quote, but he was saying something to the effect of how living at altitude can make you 1, or 2, or even 3% faster. I am not sure exactly where he got his numbers from, but the way it was stated, he sounded confident enough to make the case that altitude is the answer to everything. Nonetheless, it is still more scientific than when they made quotes in previous years that we could tell runnners were fatigued based on their teeth showing... |
| bmcpool strikes back |
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i couldn't get over how nonchalantly they talked about the lead change from matebo to korir. rawson was in the middle of a story about korir and kenya (and i know those are good stories) when korir made his move to take the lead once and for all and rawson didn't even say anything about. al trautiwg chimed in with it. cmon larry! get excited, the guy just threw in a move to take the lead. |
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Garansett also The slip I liked was that a marathon is 42000 km. Simple enough slip to make, but pretty funny.[/quote] Or the Olympic Trials, or Olympics, or WCs to name a few other marathons you have to qualify for... |
| vim fuego |
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I also liked how they weren't showing the men's race for a km or two after Mutai got dropped and then said, "Let's check what's happening with the men's race." And then no big reaction that Mutai was gone. |