Living in Massachusettts I've met a lot of people who have run the Boston Marathon.
The interesting thing is lots of them ran for FREE.
This seems to be one race where sneaking in without paying is acceptable. Even John Kerry did it.
My question is: How many "bandits" would it take to change the policy? If 5000 runners show up this year and run for free would anything be done about it?
Here we go...
machotime wrote:
The interesting thing is lots of them ran for FREE.
This seems to be one race where sneaking in without paying is acceptable. Even John Kerry did it.
some other races have finishing chutes for "unofficial runners" and i have seen websites ask the bandits to start in the back.
bay to breakers in san fran is the race that i would guess is the most open to bandits.
"How many "bandits" would it take to change the policy?"
Lets be politically correct. The term bandit (thief) is not acceptable these days.
Other choices are:
financially challenged runner
too slow to qualify jogger
too important to pay VIP
btw
there must be a least 1000 unofficial "free" runners.
BAA -$110,000.00
machotime wrote:
Living in Massachusettts I've met a lot of people who have run the Boston Marathon.
The interesting thing is lots of them ran for FREE.
This seems to be one race where sneaking in without paying is acceptable. Even John Kerry did it.
My question is: How many "bandits" would it take to change the policy? If 5000 runners show up this year and run for free would anything be done about it?
A better question: how much higher can these marathon entry fees go before runners start to tell the race directors to stick it?
That's the point. You can run Boston for free!Oh, boy wrote:
machotime wrote:Living in Massachusettts I've met a lot of people who have run the Boston Marathon.
The interesting thing is lots of them ran for FREE.
This seems to be one race where sneaking in without paying is acceptable. Even John Kerry did it.
My question is: How many "bandits" would it take to change the policy? If 5000 runners show up this year and run for free would anything be done about it?
A better question: how much higher can these marathon entry fees go before runners start to tell the race directors to stick it?
Seriously, for a college/grad student 110 bucks digs pretty deep in the pocket.
I'd rather see a poor college kid bandit the race in 2:40 than an overweight middle-aged charity case walk his way to a 5:30.
You think that's bad, Ironman's are, wait for it, more than four HUNDRED dollars! Although, when you think about it, they're racing for at least 4 times as long, with a typical cutoff of 17 hours. Yikes.
I believe Philadelphia is $105! And it is still struggling for an identity by adding a 1/2 that only caused confusion last year.
Run Harrisburg the week before for $50.
The web site says the full is sold out. It then says, there are some spots left click here and it redirects to the 1/2 page... ?
Run Harrisburg for $50.
cassio598 wrote:
You think that's bad, Ironman's are, wait for it, more than four HUNDRED dollars! .
And to think some critics call it a "yuppie sport".....I can't see how they came to that conclusion.
A marathon is still a bargin.....sign-up for an Ironman sometime....heck you almost have to mortgage the house.