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  • Dr. Smith

    Anonymous Poster

    17 years ago 03/27/2007 11:36am EDT
    re: runner more

    runner more wrote:

    Not sure about your claim that a Boston win means more than a worlds win in this country or elsewhere. That's your opinion.

    I don't want to start an argument about this, but ...

    While a World XC win might mean more to serious runners, to the rest of the U.S., at least, the Boston Marathon is IT. People who "qualify for Boston" are seen as studs by some.

    And my local paper always has at least one or two pre- and post-Boston stories (and I'm 1,500 miles away in the Midwest). I looked closely last weekend and there was zero about world cross, not even agate results after the high school adapted floor hockey scores. Maybe if an American had won or a local had finished higher than 88th (which actually was pretty damn good on that day) there would have been a paragraph in the "sports roundup."

  • Dr. Smith

    Anonymous Poster

    17 years ago 03/27/2007 11:39am EDT
    re: txRUNNERgirl

    txRUNNERgirl wrote:

    You are right; my mistake.

    No biggie, I just am making a point to be there to watch a few friends and to run Boston for the first time, so I had to know which year it was. (The trials are the day before the regular plain marathon on a different course.)

  • runner more

    Anonymous Poster

    17 years ago 03/27/2007 11:44am EDT
    re: Dusty Bones

    Let's agree to disagree. If you are talking about your average American vs serious running community then world cross and Boston are different species. If you are talking about pure achievement then world cross and Boston are at least a draw. Both are great.

  • registered

    JEH

    Member since 07/02/2002.

    1,783 posts. Last post 4 months ago.
    17 years ago 03/27/2007 11:53am EDT
    re: runner more

    What are you saying? If you are saying that on an athletic front, Boston and World cross are at the same level, OR if you are saying that the two both get similar exposure, BOTH are equally VERY incorrect.

    Boston gets a little more exposure (see Dr. Smith's post). I also think Boston would be a little excited to have the World Cross field competing. And, let's not even start comparing the two fields as a whole.

  • Dare to Soar

    Anonymous Poster

    17 years ago 03/27/2007 12:00pm EDT
    re: txRUNNERgirl

    txRUNNERgirl wrote:

    You are right; my mistake.

    Has anyone else noticed that txRUNNERgirl is completely up to date on what male runners are up to (Josh Cox, Wejo, etc.) yet she is completely out of the loop when it comes to the female runners. Interesting.

  • Surprise!

    Member since 09/22/2003.

    5,900 posts. Last post 1 day ago.
    17 years ago 03/27/2007 12:22pm EDT
    re: runner more

    runner more wrote:

    She wanted to travel to Japan to earn money at an Ekiden...then travel to Fla to earn money at the 15k. She knows she's not a contender for the win at world cross anymore so has gone after other money making opportunities.

    This comes across as supremely ignorant. In case you've been living under a rock, the good athletes get paid to run.

    She was the #1 ranked MARATHONER in the world last year. People implying that she's chasing money by running in one of the most prestigious MARATHONS in the world are complete idiots.

    She hasn't run cross country in years, but retards on here are saying she "skipped world cross". She can't skip what you never had any intention of running in the first place. She did Boulder for reasons other than making a world cross team.

    I don't even know why I bothered to respond, but if your intent was to push someone's buttons, congratulations, you've succeeded.

  • lost my chi in Cincinnati

    Anonymous Poster

    17 years ago 03/27/2007 2:10pm EDT
    re: runner more

    runner more wrote:

    Not sure about your claim that a Boston win means more than a worlds win in this country or elsewhere. That's your opinion.

    that would also be the opinion of the vast majority of humans with functioning brains

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