And they make it sound like a complete and total massacre. "Course was closed after only (key word only) four hours."
Let's face it - running is only entertaining when something goes wrong.
And they make it sound like a complete and total massacre. "Course was closed after only (key word only) four hours."
Let's face it - running is only entertaining when something goes wrong.
bread and circuses. nothing has changed. perhaps they need to have people running from starved lions in an enclosed stadium. the people want BLOOD! If ESPN made it sound like a complete and total massacre then they not only did their job, but they did it well.
I think more Race Directors should do this. Pull all the aid stations off the course after all the sub 3 runners have gone through and get on the evening news as 20,000 gallowalkers get hauled to the ER. What a great TV show...Dr. McDreamy saving the life of Team in Walking lardass.
(kiddin of course)
I know! I saw the marathon listed on the 'upcoming stories' ticker and was expecting them to say something about the incredible finishes in the professional races. Nope.
Bertie C***iehoor wrote:
I think more Race Directors should do this. Pull all the aid stations off the course after all the sub 3 runners have gone through and get on the evening news as 20,000 gallowalkers get hauled to the ER. What a great TV show...Dr. McDreamy saving the life of Team in Walking lardass.
(kiddin of course)
Don't let "them" start to begin with. There is the medical risk facto of hyponatremia. which primarily affects small, thin, slow "runners" who sweat a lot. Require a qualifying mark equivalent to something like a 50:00 10K so they can finish in under 4:00 and close the course at 3:30 or 4 hours (no finisher T shirts for them to show their friends). USATF should require this to certify the course and have official times listed.
If they won't do something common sense like this, then let the RD/sponsors get sued when the thing goes bad. What they've got now borders on insanity, and it makes the whole sport of distance running look like a bunch of nutcases.
Non-running people whom I speak to consider us all nutcases, but they are also people who will spend a day at a NASCAR event watching cars go 'round and 'round and 'round and 'round in an oval...hoping, silently, for a spectacular crash, hopefully involving Jeff Gordon, who is probably more well-known in this country than Bob Kennedy or Pat Porter.
It's a funny world.
Doesn't Bob Kennedy race with Dale Jr.'s new team?
Yank wrote:
hopefully involving Jeff Gordon, who is probably more well-known in this country than Bob Kennedy or Pat Porter.
It's a funny world.
PROBABLY?!?! He's as well known in this country as Tiger Woods!!!
At the same time that you have the Marathon Majors with people billed as world class athletes competing for a bunch of money and not a bunch of recreational nutcases trying to impress their coworkers at the water cooler, you see this sideshow that looks like old reruns of "Gilligans Island."
Would David Stern put on a show like that?