WORSE slang for a marathon: "MARRY" or "THON?"

Suburbanites in the south claim the city they're nearest to, like half the people in Georgia that claim to be from Atlanta. I don't know anyone that lives outside the city that claims to be from Philadelphia. I spent my first 17 years of life in "Philly". I went to college in TN and would tell people I was from Philadelpjia. This was usually followed by someone asking me something like "what town?" or like "actually in the city?" I thought it was kind of bizarre until I met all of the people that claimed Atlanta or Nashville but lived like 30 miles from that city.

Marry.

t4b wrote:

Anybody that says they do mini-marathons every time they do a road 5K deserves to be shot.

I have never heard the term mini-marathon before now, and that is a very good thing

Also, the only time I've heard people use the term "mary" is when half-marathons, or "Half-Mary" which does sound a lot better than "Half-Thon"

Go Birds wrote:

And a lot of people from Philadelphia and the surrounding area refers to it as the city as Philly.

You can refer to specific neighborhoods as e.g. South Philly or West Philly, but the whole city is Philadelphia if you're a native.

I am from Philly. I use Philadelphia when I'm out of state and someone asks where I'm from.

F8 wrote:

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No one from boston calls it Beantown

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Hmmm. I haven't run into anybody around here (KY) who would know what I was talking about if I said I was from Beantown ,where I once lived.

Well, shoot - nobody ever knows what I'm talking about around here 8(.

I still think wearing a fanny back during arace is worse

just a fanny pack is passable, it's the 5k 'road racers' that have a 'camelback' and ten gel packs around their waist that kill me.