Stoppit Smith wrote:
Again, this is letsrun at its best with sub-elites taking pot shots at people who do something good or helpful or just in the spirit of racing.
This was a good display of sportsmanship.
I am usually not one to take an open shot at the lack of sportsmanship in running in terms of a direct scathing inquiry, however, after this thread, and other previous 'mean' threads, I have two questions for you and other people in this thread with the same mentality:
1. Were your coaches patriarchal, win at all cost types?
2. Did your coaches bring you up to think this way because they had to live vicariously through their team members?
Again, and I have said so in other threads and I will in this one...Stop it.
Mike
San Marcos, CA
I'm a fat, slow hobby jogger. I've never had a coach and am not particularly competitive. I run marathons just to finish. If someone carries me across, I didn't finish on my own. Sure, they get a cool photo-op, but it doesn't really help me.
If I collapse 50m from the finish, that's the breaks. Maybe I can rouse myself and stumble and crawl across the line to get an official finish. Maybe the medical staff has to carry my inert carcass away and I don't get a finisher's medal. What does having another runner prop me up do for me except make me look pathetic and make them look like a hero?