100 years ago, indoor marathons were a popular thing. 100 years from now, might regular marathons might be a thing of the past as well?
Reavis this running is a fad that won't be popular in 100. Do you agree?
100 years ago, indoor marathons were a popular thing. 100 years from now, might regular marathons might be a thing of the past as well?
Reavis this running is a fad that won't be popular in 100. Do you agree?
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Well sh** I definitely need to revaluate my goals if people in 100 years won't respect my hobbby jogging.
You know what else is going to be out of style in 100 years?
Websites, electricity.
Because we will all be starving in nuclear winters eating mud and killing each other with stones over some canned spam.
Kind of dumb to speculate that far into the future. In 100 years, football or basketball could just as easily be remembered as fads. So many factors play into the popularity level of any particular sport that you can't really predict that far ahead.
A century from now marathons will absolutely be considered a fad. Whereas they used to be considered the pinnacle of athletic achievement, they are now looked upon merely as a participation event. Yes, I mean the full 26.2 mile marathon, not the 5k "marathon" or 10k "marathon" that non-runners or hobby joggers speak of. Distance running in general has become little more than a fitness fad. The days of competitive road racing are long gone. Even on a local level there are 5ks being won in my area in over 20 minutes, 10ks in over 40. That's laughable. At my peak fitness 25 years ago I would run around 33 minutes for the 10k, and lose. A 15:30 5k back then? I would make the top 20 in a big race, and infrequently win smaller stuff. Fast forward to now, and my kid can't grasp the concept of a 15 minute 5k because everybody on his XC team is over 20 mins - and that's the boys. Road races have been replaced with these 'color runs', 'mud runs' and 'obstacle runs'. There is even a company that goes around hosting 'inflatable 5k's' where you climb onto, through or over inflatable obstacles. Are you kidding me? 25 years ago if you weren't a serious runner you didn't 'run' a marathon. I knew nobody outside of my running circle of friends who had completed a marathon. Now? Most of the gals on my FB friends list have finished a marathon. Notice I didn't say 'run.' I fact I have several friends who have finished ironman distance triathlons, something I have never even come close to doing. While I applaud them for their fitness and healthy lifestyle, there is still a difference between participating and competing. A hundred years from now people will look back at competitive marathoning as a fad. It's a a slippery slope that we are already headed down as the average finishing times get slower each year, gimmick runs grow in number and entrepreneurs find ways to host events to 'raise money for charity' (often their own). 1983? I miss you.
Yeah, marathons will be looked back on as a fad. But who could possibly care? You won't be around. Your kids won't be around.
Oh, great. Here we go. Crying about the days long gone. So many things wrong with this, I don't even know where to start.
Anyway, even if he was right about the current state of running (which may be an argument for another time), I'll go back to my previous point that 100 years is too far out to predict. A century is plenty of time for a sport to die and then experience a resurgence. If just for the sake of argument I concede that running will become a complete joke within the next decade or two, that doesn't mean that running will still be a joke 80 or 90 years later.
Toni could be right. Oracles have predicted the future with uncanny accuracy before.
Right on, my brother! I remember 1983 well. As a 25 year old, I ran 2:53 at Jersey Shore and was somewhat bummed because I'd missed my BQ by 3 minutes--even though I'd set a PR by 7 minutes.
In the NYC Marathon that year, the 100th best time was 2:23. Think I'm making it up? Think I'm waxing nostalgic for a time that never existed? See for yourself:
https://www.athlinks.com/Events/60270/Courses/89958The bar was higher back then. Marathoning had become a mass participation sport, but it hadn't been dumbed down. The serious runners and the running clubs that served them still governed the racing scene.
Color runs? Don't get me started.
You darn kids get off my lawn!
The records however are faster now so something right must be happening.
... AND WE LIKED IT
Reavis said "running" not marathons. I think marathons will disappear much sooner.Given the pace in genetic treatments in biotech, in 100 years I think it's highly unlikely that people will need to exercise at all. There will be a pill--or a group of pills--that give the genetically engineered benefits of exercise. In the next generation or, there will be genetic treatments for a large number of diseases, including cancer. This was in fact the subject of the keynote address at my oldest son's commencement (he is now in a PhD program in biochemistry). First, there will probably be treatments for things like CHD and Cancer that you need to exercise against, and ultimately, you won't need to do it at all. No running, no xfit, no weights, no nothing.In think the first thing that will happen is that individual fitness like running will continue be replaced by social activities like xfit, and yes, people will pay extra for some dumb slob to tell them how great they are doing.See this paper with about 100 references that appeared in the European Heart Journal in 2014:
Marathon Run: Cardiovascular Adaptation and Cardiovascular Risk
HansGeorg
Predel
Eur Heart J. 2014;35(44):30913098.
It appears that marathons and high mileage are OK for young people only, but there are cardiac effects that are unhealthy on middle aged and older people, and they are talking about a medical warning label for full marathons (do half marathons instead). As middle age is the median age for marathoners, I suspect the medical risk and danger will end the panache (stupidity) of finishing a marathon.
The only people left will be people specifically competing in track events as a sport (to win).
Reavis is 100 years too late - marathons are already a fad.
I'm reasonably sure tony reavis will be out of style in 100 years. Not sure about the marathon thing. Where do people get off making these weird predictions anyway? It's all conjecture and anyone can do that.
Lots of people "run" a marathon as part of their bucket list. I have a good friend of mine in her early 40's. She's never been a serious runner, though she finished a Olympic distance triathlon a few years ago. She posts her long run stats on FB. Recently she ran ~11 miles in about 2:20. How can someone be that slow?! She has no interest in getting in the best shape possible to run her best time. And she will likely stop during the race about 50 times to take selfies.
Does Reavis not realize they ran marathons back in 1896? So 100 years after that would be 1996, and people are still running marathons. He seems to think they only started 50 years ago.
I was going to say the exact same. 1896 first Olympic marathon and still most popular event in the Olympics. It will never disappear. Running was a fad in the 80s, late 70s. I was popular with millennials for a while, but who cares. It will live on. Fad? No. Fad is cabbage patch dolls. No one has those anymore. People still run after the 80s peak popularity.
These articles are a waste of my time. I'm sorry I even responded. 0/10 for the author for trolling.
Respect.