Bobby Bitman wrote:
DenverRunner sez:
"Even in the worst rec league basketball the object in the immortal words of Herm Edwards IS TO WIN THE GAME! Why is marathoning any different?"
So when you run a race, your object is to win? How many races have you won? 99.9% of runners will never win a race. In open road racing, you pay your money and run as you wish. Maybe easy, maybe all out, maybe to win. Who are you to tell people what effort they should put out. Who's stopping you from doing it your way?
Who are you to tell me that my opinion that people who enter RACES (that's what we're talking about, races, not practice runs, or runs along the beach or whatever other types of runs people do) should run to the best of their ability is wrong? Its no more wrong than your opinion that people enter and run as they please. Good for you, I disagree because again the point of a RACE is to get from start to finish as quickly as possible.
And yes, when I race for the most part my object is to win. Most of the time I don't. In the bigger ones where that is not going to happen, my object is to get from start to finish as fast as possible and give my best effort. That is the point of racing.
I guess I'm in the .01% of runners that have won a race because I've won plenty.
I'm curious why you're so quick to defend people who enter a RACE and don't give it their best effort. Are you one of them?