So there was no need for me to even turn the TV until 10:40. All I was seeing was a wheelchair race. The male runners are around the half marathon point and all I've seen was MAYBE 10 minutes of racing.
Yep. Sad truth is that viewership would be in the hundreds if their race wasn't attached to the marathon. They wouldn't even be able to get support to shut down roads for a course if they were detached.
I don't mind them piggybacking on running but they shouldn't play this game that this is what viewers are tuning in for.
Posts here seem to think ESPN and the race organizers are stupid and aren’t showing what people really want to see. That’s because people here are interested in watching the marathon, but most people don’t care to see a bunch of Africans running in the lead or unheard of Americans a few minutes behind the lead pack.
Their coverage is likely about as good as it gets for optimizing eyeballs.
Because they talk about the race like a fun run and don't show any of the interesting parts. They're too busy flipping to wheelchair coverage. If the broadcast is so smart maybe they'd respect the sport and people would take interest.
There's no chance people tune in for the Boston wheelchair race.
Alright here's the big one, Beriso has made a definitive move at 10 miles after they got water. 5 women up front with Yehualaw, Obiri, Lokedi and Chapati.
Men's mile 11 split 4:51, one second slower that the 2011 course record split, but still 14 seconds up on the record, splitting 51:39 (2:03).
CRs gotta go down today. We're going to have ~15 men/15 women on sub-2:03/2:20 pace at halfway. Too many people in there to have all of them fall off.
61:52 at the half, having slowed down in the last 6k. They’d have to split 61:10 for the second half to break the CR, which in this era isn’t inconceivable, but highly unlikely.