Sorry, I cant pick a winner.
Sorry, I cant pick a winner.
watching asshole sprinters prance and preen like prima donnas, and glare and smirk at the camera, and flex and act like baboons when they win.
oh wait. what wasn't one of the choices?
Watching paint drying while on acid trumps marathon watching from the coach
Marathons are great if you turn them into a drinking game. Like pick a 10k leg and try to race the leaders through 10 beers. Or take a shot every time the announcer gets a Kenyan's name wrong.
Presented well, marathons are a lot of fun to watch. But, you will actually need commentators who know something about the runners and pro racing, early 1980s technology that allows the TV audience to consistently see the runners out on the course and get accurate mile splits, and a well produced show that goes through the BS human interest stories early on and keeps the focus on racing from 13.1 to the end.
If people are entertained by NASCAR/Indy racing, Tennis (5 hour matches?), golf, soccer (0-0), and baseball (pitcher throws to first to check the runner, sets up for the pitch, throws to first, sets up for the pitch, fowl ball--repeat 10 more times), then they certainly can get into marathons.
Paint drying wins by a mile!!!!! In fact, I would let it dry and put on a second coat before I watch a marathon.
Marathons are like Movies, some are good some are bad, some are exciting, some are boring, some have Drama, some dont, and sometimes the best ones are ones you never hear about! Marathons are like Life if you are a marathoner......if you ever trained hard for one you would know!.....
I enjoy watching marathons. When I was younger, one of the local tv stations used to air Grandma's Marathon live on TV (the entire race). I always enjoyed it.
Nat Turner wrote:
Paint drying wins by a mile!!!!! In fact, I would let it dry and put on a second coat before I watch a marathon.
why do you even post here? you hate all whites. you hate distance runners. you hate all of us. what keeps you coming back to this place? this distance running place.
Ummm, Wanjiru vs Kebede at Chicago '10?????? I didn't get up from my seat once during the SuperBowl, but was jumping up and down screaming for the last two miles of that race.
ignorant turd wrote:
Nat Turner wrote:Paint drying wins by a mile!!!!! In fact, I would let it dry and put on a second coat before I watch a marathon.
why do you even post here? you hate all whites. you hate distance runners. you hate all of us. what keeps you coming back to this place? this distance running place.
You have NEVER heard me say I hate all whites. Only ignorant racist whites such as NoBama.
I'll take option #3: watching Nat Turner and NObama settle their differences with a knife fight.
100m false starts
running expert wrote:
I'd much rather watch paint dry than to see any of those ugly sprinters and big butts.
Skinny bumpy faced flat ass nerds running around a track 100 times is much more entertaining.
I love watching people work hard for an extended period of time. It takes so much ability to run a marathon at the elite level. It's ridiculous.