Old Man by the Sea wrote:
Anyone who has trained hard then bonked while racing 26.2 miles shouldn't find joy in another runner not finishing.
Yeah. Some people here like to compare running to other sports, and they'll say "when a football player does poorly in an important game, they aren't spared criticism." The difference is that LR mostly consists of people who are (or have been) athletes themselves. I expect the couch potato watching Monday Night Football to have a skewed perspective on athletic performance and to thus be overly critical just because he has no idea what goes into competing at the highest level.
But everyone here knows the feeling of going into a race with high expectations and underperforming. Even if we haven't all run at the world class level, we've all had that kind of disappointment at some point. It's hard for me to understand how anyone here an take joy in it happening to someone else.