The Race Goes On: Live Splits of Monday's Pro NYC Marathon in Central Park

wejo · 2012-11-05T10:14:18-05:00

This is breaking news and sorry for not being able to put up anything before now. I wasn't sure this was actually going to happen until I saw it. The pro version of the 2012 NYC marathon is about to get underway. It's starting at 11:15 am in Central Park. It will be the Central Park course used for the Olympic Trials. I didn't think it would happen until I saw it but the runners are on the starting line. After watching the Giants lose to Pittsburgh before 80,000 fans in NJ, the pro runners still in NYC got upset. Why should the Super Bowl of US running be cancelled when regular season NBA and NFL games go on as scheduled? Marathoning is a pro sport they said. Many of the pros had read the piece by Mike Cassidy, the native Staten Islander Olympic Trials qualifier, who said the marathon should go on. http://www.letsrun.com/news/2012/11/long-run-pain-a-staten-islanders-view-on-why-the-marathon-should-not-have-been-cancelled/ They contacted him to congratulate him on the piece and in doing so found out being a New Yorker he had connections to mayor Mike Bloomberg. Calls were put in to Bloomberg and the need for the pro-race was stressed. There was talk of doing it next week on the full NYC course. However, Bloomberg said he didn't want to shut down the streets as that was expensive. Since the city already had all the tax money from the 20,000 foreign tourists who came to run NYC, Bloomberg the businessman, determined there was no need to shut down the streets. Just hold the marathon in Central Park. Instead of paying $3 million to shut down the streets, the city is putting $1 million towards the prize money in Central Park. $200,000 for 1st, $125 2nd, $75k for 3rd, $50 for 4th, $30k for 5th, the final $20k for places 6 through 10. It's expected the NYC marathon will still pay some appearance fees. No one knows if this will count in the WMM majors or not. The thought was to have the race next weekend, but there is a huge concert in the Park. It was pointed out the Boston Marathon is held on a Monday, so the race was decided to be run today. This was decided about 11:30 pm last night. The only problem is about 1/3 to 1/2 the pros had gone home. Will update you on the fields in a second. Wilson Kipsang and Meb are running. Olympic Champion Tiki Gelana is on the start as well.

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13 years ago 11/06/2012 6:23am EST

re: wejo

Was there a baggage drop at this race?

13 years ago 11/06/2012 10:30am EST

re: Baggage Handler

To those saying that this stunt will be the death of letsrun, or that it is the last straw that has driven you from the site forevermore: Get your heads out of your butts. If the extremely biased moderation here and general moron quotient hasn't killed the site by now, a possibly misguided joke thread like this one isn't going to do it. And the Bro-Jos may not be the most skilled scribes out there but at least they made the math plausible in this thread.

13 years ago 11/06/2012 12:12pm EST

re: Sweet Stinkflesh

I'd to purchase a LRC 2012 NYC Virtual Marathon Paricipant t-shirt .

13 years ago 11/06/2012 4:19pm EST

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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ wrote:
I'd to purchase a LRC 2012 NYC Virtual Marathon Paricipant t-shirt .

That'd be worth $15

13 years ago 11/06/2012 5:03pm EST

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13 years ago 11/07/2012 3:03am EST

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13 years ago 11/07/2012 9:39pm EST

re: rekrunner

rekrunner wrote:
Looks like the decision to hold or cancel the marathon, even a virtual one, still causes controversy, and divides the public.
I for one have to say, I come to these anonymous forums expecting complete accuracy. I expect the moderators to read, research, and filter out all lies before I can read them. Now we have the co-founders creating controversy? Surely this is Obama's fault. We cannot have threads like these start poisoning the forums, casting doubts about truthfulness. After all, if you can't trust "Spank the Monkey" for the latest insight on global warming, who can you trust? I rely on these forums, not only for sports news, but politics, religion, latest Hollywood news, and breakthroughs in science. Now I'm starting to doubt facts that I've read:
- Was Lance denied due process?
- Did Obama lie about Benghazi?
- Whose the bad guy in Israel/Palestine?
- Is Bin Laden really dead and was his killing constitutional?
- Was Obama born in Hawaii?
- Did Higgs find his lost particle?
- If it's -10 outside, does local cooling disprove global warming? If science hasn't showed it's man-made, has it showed that pollution is OK?
- What is 48/2(9+3)? Did TI get it right or wrong?
If I want virtual reality, I can go to Fox News. Now where am I supposed to go and get my news? Comedy Central? The Onion?

very well done my sir.

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