Official 2025 Boston Marathon Thread

1:20 into the race...

Maybe I signed in at the wrong time, but the "one man race" of the wheelchair division is all I have heard for the last 15 minutes.

Is it because the Wheelchair Division is finishing? I assume it is.

Also, what is the deal with always saying, "he's running 3 minute miles. He's running well"? Why not just say "racing well."

The women's race is "also a bit of a one person show." This is boring sport. Why don't they show the runners?

Well, to be fair, they are "running a tempo pace" was one comment I heard, so maybe that is boring as well. Oof.

I couldn’t take it anymore and turned off my television. I’m not going to give ESPN ratings while they show wheelchair racing. It’s the only way they’ll learn.

I’ll turn it back on in 10-15 minutes when the coverage will hopefully shift to running.

Its ok guys. The womens wheelchair will be finished soon as well, and then we get back to the main event.

Remember that the Senator for Boston is Elizabeth Warren. The most far left of leftists! (even moderate Dems are embarrassed by her corruption!)

She wants more wheelchair coverage as seeing runners is "ablist" and "elitist"

They leach off of marathoning. The courses are already shut down for them otherwise they could afford to perform. I don't mind that it exists, I mind that it ruins the TV coverage.. put pressure on the announcers to talk shop the first half of the marathon and treat it like a real sport.

Tiernan looks so relaxed like he's jogging

I have 1Gig fiber. The graphics and still shots are crystal clear. Running shots are not.

They are not showing any running so we can’t discuss that.

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).

If we haven't gotten to see much racing by the end of today, it's all good, because we got to hang out with each other in the Letsrun thread.

Go to therapy buddy

No, we won't get back to the main event. They will switch 90% of their attention to all the stories of interest in the mass of non-elite runners.

It’s because we can’t watch the marathon. There’s nothing to post about. Gault has been putting up the splits.. the men are at about 18K and I haven’t seen more than a minute of them.
No idea what’s going on in the women’s race.

I'm 100% serious when I say this:

There are three main groups in marathon races: the elite runners, the elite wheelchair racers, and the masses

The first group overwhelmingly consists of Black Africans. The second and third are mostly White Americans and Europeans.

Is it really any surprise the coverage is the way it is?

Mine look fine. I take like 4 gigs of fiber every day so maybe that's why

What's with all the woke wheelchair coverage?

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.

Hilarious to watch DEI bite libs in the ass. Are you enjoying the wheelchair racing? 😂😂😂

You just disappeared up your own bung hole... literally has nothing to do with politics.

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.