Yep.
Now if they had said Goucher on an Elipti-Go ...
Yep.
Now if they had said Goucher on an Elipti-Go ...
Yeah france wrote:
Remember a few months ago when "Running Times" picked up on the false Let's Run thread.
I Don't remember that one but I do recall the cops in Colorado being interviewed by a paper and saying that they'd received tips as to Oscar Ponce's whereabouts and those tips all came from letsrun trolls.
Er... wrote:
Yup. Turns out his clock radio has a separate volume control for the alarm.
Idiot Who Is Typical wrote:Did Gebremariam sleep through the thing or something?
+1
wejo wrote:
Why should the Super Bowl of US running be cancelled when regular season NBA and NFL games go on as scheduled?
NYC Marathon = Closes streets and bridges across all five boroughs.
NBA/NFL Games = Do not close streets and bridges across all five boroughs.
That means, among other things, that the marathon needs different permits from the city as compared to single location events not requiring massive street/bridge shutdown. So the city has much greater latitude and ability to yank the marathon's permits.
So question asked and answered. Done.
You can still argue that they should have held the marathon. But to keep pointing to sporting events that take place at a single location as justification just makes you seem ignorant and prone to oversimplification.
If they cancel the Millrose Games for a natural disaster but still play NBA/NFL games, then your comparison would be legitimate. As is, it's just plain dumb.
The execution of this gag was almost as ugly as the Letsrun.com t-shirts, and just as self-promoting.
10/10. Perfect trolling by the Brojos in which they get people to belive it was happening, get a huge therad in very little time, and even get people riled up by the idea of this joke. I'm sorry to the haters this may be the greatest trolling in LRC history and perhaps the Running Website history. It even beats out Kip Lipton, deer adam goucher, and the site cancellation troll. Now we have to wait and see if the Brojos were actually hacked or not.
wejo wrote:
2:04:15 unofficial.
When I read this post earlier, I didn't know what to make of it and when I read through few more pages, I realize the owners were having some fun with this..
then I saw this prediction and I have to say, I did have a prediction for the men's marathon race if it wasn't cancelled. I scribbled down 2:05:14 on my calendar desk. Just saying.
wejo wrote:
This is breaking news and sorry for not being able to put up anything before now. I wasn't sure this was actually going to happen until I saw it.
The pro version of the 2012 NYC marathon is about to get underway. It's starting at 11:15 am in Central Park. It will be the Central Park course used for the Olympic Trials. I didn't think it would happen until I saw it but the runners are on the starting line.
After watching the Giants lose to Pittsburgh before 80,000 fans in NJ, the pro runners still in NYC got upset. Why should the Super Bowl of US running be cancelled when regular season NBA and NFL games go on as scheduled? Marathoning is a pro sport they said.
Many of the pros had read the piece by Mike Cassidy, the native Staten Islander Olympic Trials qualifier, who said the marathon should go on.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2012/11/long-run-pain-a-staten-islanders-view-on-why-the-marathon-should-not-have-been-cancelled/They contacted him to congratulate him on the piece and in doing so found out being a New Yorker he had connections to mayor Mike Bloomberg.
Calls were put in to Bloomberg and the need for the pro-race was stressed. There was talk of doing it next week on the full NYC course. However, Bloomberg said he didn't want to shut down the streets as that was expensive. Since the city already had all the tax money from the 20,000 foreign tourists who came to run NYC, Bloomberg the businessman, determined there was no need to shut down the streets. Just hold the marathon in Central Park. Instead of paying $3 million to shut down the streets, the city is putting $1 million towards the prize money in Central Park.
$200,000 for 1st, $125 2nd, $75k for 3rd, $50 for 4th, $30k for 5th, the final $20k for places 6 through 10.
It's expected the NYC marathon will still pay some appearance fees. No one knows if this will count in the WMM majors or not.
The thought was to have the race next weekend, but there is a huge concert in the Park. It was pointed out the Boston Marathon is held on a Monday, so the race was decided to be run today. This was decided about 11:30 pm last night.
The only problem is about 1/3 to 1/2 the pros had gone home. Will update you on the fields in a second. Wilson Kipsang and Meb are running. Olympic Champion Tiki Gelana is on the start as well.
10/10
Well done, sir!
Ryan and Alex wrote:
Ah dude! Dude! Crazy! Totally sick race! Can't believe we missed this race and getting the sick footage of this tasty race! Sooooo tasty!! Wish we could have been there dude but we had to get back to Austin and hang with our boys merber and lutz and film their Monday afternoon easy run!
Post of the century!
This is weird. Kipp Litton has an official time of 2:23.38 but doesn't have a single split time. Did anyone actually see him on the course?
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Ok everyone is missing the larger opportunity! With all the LRCs out there in the park has to have some footage of Kip... maybe the helicopter guy caught some overhead images of his race strategy?!
Wow. I can't believe how tightly wound some people are, especially personalities that have been coming to this site for years. You take yourselves and this site too seriously. This was harmless entertainment.
Three-quarters of a century behind the times ... and could not even get on the radio.
Lighten up, haters. That sh!t was funny.
I'll admit - I fell for this 100%. Glad to be part of the "race" anyhow.
War of the Worlds funny?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOlgxwyyivs
detard wrote:
Lighten up, haters. That sh!t was funny.
Yes. THAT funny.
[quote]waiting in Horsell Common wrote:
War of the Worlds funny?
wejo wrote:
This is breaking news and sorry for not being able to put up anything before now. I wasn't sure this was actually going to happen until I saw it.
The pro version of the 2012 NYC marathon is about to get underway. It's starting at 11:15 am in Central Park. It will be the Central Park course used for the Olympic Trials. I didn't think it would happen until I saw it but the runners are on the starting line.
After watching the Giants lose to Pittsburgh before 80,000 fans in NJ, the pro runners still in NYC got upset. Why should the Super Bowl of US running be cancelled when regular season NBA and NFL games go on as scheduled? Marathoning is a pro sport they said.
Many of the pros had read the piece by Mike Cassidy, the native Staten Islander Olympic Trials qualifier, who said the marathon should go on.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2012/11/long-run-pain-a-staten-islanders-view-on-why-the-marathon-should-not-have-been-cancelled/They contacted him to congratulate him on the piece and in doing so found out being a New Yorker he had connections to mayor Mike Bloomberg.
Calls were put in to Bloomberg and the need for the pro-race was stressed. There was talk of doing it next week on the full NYC course. However, Bloomberg said he didn't want to shut down the streets as that was expensive. Since the city already had all the tax money from the 20,000 foreign tourists who came to run NYC, Bloomberg the businessman, determined there was no need to shut down the streets. Just hold the marathon in Central Park. Instead of paying $3 million to shut down the streets, the city is putting $1 million towards the prize money in Central Park.
$200,000 for 1st, $125 2nd, $75k for 3rd, $50 for 4th, $30k for 5th, the final $20k for places 6 through 10.
It's expected the NYC marathon will still pay some appearance fees. No one knows if this will count in the WMM majors or not.
The thought was to have the race next weekend, but there is a huge concert in the Park. It was pointed out the Boston Marathon is held on a Monday, so the race was decided to be run today. This was decided about 11:30 pm last night.
The only problem is about 1/3 to 1/2 the pros had gone home. Will update you on the fields in a second. Wilson Kipsang and Meb are running. Olympic Champion Tiki Gelana is on the start as well.
Why was the link changed in the right hand MB tab on the front page? It now reads: "The 2012 NYC Marathon Was Cancelled So It Was Held Virtually on LRC", rather than "The Race Goes On: Live Splits of Monday's Pro NYC Marathon in Central Park".
If you are going to troll, stand by your trolling.
Eff you Brojos. It took me 17 pages to figure out it was all fake. I could have run 1.2 miles in that time. Your forums used to be an oracle of truth and beleivability. Damn youse. Im out of here. I mean it
Looks like the decision to hold or cancel the marathon, even a virtual one, still causes controversy, and divides the public.
I for one have to say, I come to these anonymous forums expecting complete accuracy. I expect the moderators to read, research, and filter out all lies before I can read them. Now we have the co-founders creating controversy? Surely this is Obama's fault. We cannot have threads like these start poisoning the forums, casting doubts about truthfulness. After all, if you can't trust "Spank the Monkey" for the latest insight on global warming, who can you trust? I rely on these forums, not only for sports news, but politics, religion, latest Hollywood news, and breakthroughs in science. Now I'm starting to doubt facts that I've read:
- Was Lance denied due process?
- Did Obama lie about Benghazi?
- Whose the bad guy in Israel/Palestine?
- Is Bin Laden really dead and was his killing constitutional?
- Was Obama born in Hawaii?
- Did Higgs find his lost particle?
- If it's -10 outside, does local cooling disprove global warming? If science hasn't showed it's man-made, has it showed that pollution is OK?
- What is 48/2(9+3)? Did TI get it right or wrong?
If I want virtual reality, I can go to Fox News. Now where am I supposed to go and get my news? Comedy Central? The Onion?
"Sorry for not having more on the women's race. That's just how we work at LRC."
POD
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts