RonaldoRR wrote:
agree
You've got problems.
RonaldoRR wrote:
agree
You've got problems.
Word... wrote:
He f***** race plans for sure. He shouldn't be allowed back. What an insult to the community,, what a lack of integrity. The s*** some people do for attention.
You've got problems.
Bring Back the 880 wrote:
Yes, runners should be allowed to pull lame stunts like this, but they ought to have some class and not choose to do so.
I'm amazed that some people on this thread don't see the importance of basic good sportsmanship.
There was nothing wrong with the sportsmanship involved since he did not impede anyone.
Just chill. He wants to lead for a few miles, let him. Should not make any difference to anyone else.
Rabbits are paid to do what he did. They should be banned.
runnerwhoprofesses wrote:
Rabbits are paid to do what he did. They should be banned.
He was paid nothing. He ran the race as he saw fit. He did not impede anyone. There is really no issue here.
Lighten up everybody.... Nobody was ill-affected by this.
Remember, you are all gay runner-boys. And those of you who are bitching and complaining are super-gay runner boys....
He's faster than most of us and certainly has bigger balls, along with a sense of humor. I'd buy him a pint any day of the week.
If you can catch up to the pro field and hang with them, you deserve to be there. He didn't get in anyone's way. It's his race too and he can run it however he sees fit. Don't be such a snob and a d-bag.
People who are jealous because they know they aren't fast enough to keep up with the elites for 1 second, let alone ~30 minutes.
20 Second PR wrote:
For the people who think he F'd up anybody's race plan... why would anybody go with him? They know he's a pretender. It was the other way around. He was keeping up with the leaders, running 4:39 on a downhill mile. Zero effect on the race today.
Exactly. These people are professionals.
It was a move a lot of people can fairly consider idiotic or douchy, something to grab attention, but that doesn't mean it was inherently wrong or that anything needs to be changed. And there's probably some underlying resentment from a lot of people on here who couldn't qualify with a 2:30 to be in position to make such a move in the first place.
Every single runner in Corral 1 could have done the same thing, but they chose not to. Why? Because they have respect for the event, and for the elites.
And Derek, get off this thread. It's time for another selfie.
So if ten douche-bags get the itch to show grandma their stuff next Patriots Day, and go racing to the front and run ten abreast, that'd be cool too? Because, you know, it's their race to run as they want to. What if there are more 249s, who can't make it to the front, and have to find a place to bail out. If runners have to scatter to let these fools fall back, the potential for a problem just multiplies. Boston should ban these clowns for good.
Tucsonan wrote:
Every single runner in Corral 1 could have done the same thing, but they chose not to. Why? Because they have respect for the event, and for the elites.
And Derek, get off this thread. It's time for another selfie.
You've got problems.
lskddflkjsadfkj wrote:
So if ten douche-bags get the itch to show grandma their stuff next Patriots Day, and go racing to the front and run ten abreast, that'd be cool too? Because, you know, it's their race to run as they want to. What if there are more 249s, who can't make it to the front, and have to find a place to bail out. If runners have to scatter to let these fools fall back, the potential for a problem just multiplies. Boston should ban these clowns for good.
You've got problems.
Derek is quite the looker unlike the emaciated elites he was running abreast with for a short (but entertaining) time.
lskddflkjsadfkj wrote:
So if ten douche-bags get the itch to show grandma their stuff next Patriots Day, and go racing to the front and run ten abreast, that'd be cool too? Because, you know, it's their race to run as they want to. What if there are more 249s, who can't make it to the front, and have to find a place to bail out. If runners have to scatter to let these fools fall back, the potential for a problem just multiplies. Boston should ban these clowns for good.
Please come up with more irrelevant hypothetical scenarios we can use to ban runners we don't like.
It use to be a f*ckhole every couple years, then it started happening consistently, this year two d-bags upped the ante. Don't wait till the inevitable happens, stay ahead of the game. Why do you think high school associations have such draconian rules over minor stuff like jewelry? Not for the runner who wears posts or some small hoop earring, but for the inevitable idiot who wants to wear a nose-to-nipple chain and go running in a crowd. Do you mind people who run with their dogs, no, most are pretty cool about keeping the pet under control. Well, we have the one idiot who wants to run intervals with his dog leashed to his waste. Dog's all confused and doesn't know how to react in a crowd, runners have to jump out of the way. Finally someone told him to keep the dog at home for intervals. One wouldn't think that'd be necessary, but apparently it was in this case. Stay ahead of the game. Call it paranoia, fine, better safe than sorry.
democracy of running wrote:
The great democracy of running should allow any runner entered in the race to run the race in any way that they want as long as they are not physically impeding other runners. The runner in question in this thread will have also given a chunk of his life to the sport so why should he not be able to grab his minute of fame on TV if he is physically able to do so? Yes he looks daft when he eventually blows up but that is his choice to do so and, in a footrace, nobody should be prevented from having this choice.
Sure, he definitely has the right and choice to grab his minute of fame. We also have the right and choice to call him out as a loser for doing so.
To those who still don't get why this is kind of disrespectful: The spirit of the race is that you try to push your limits and give it everything you've got. This is what the elites were doing, pushing the boundaries of human ability, and that's why the cameras were on them. This kind of stunt is about trying to co-opt this attention and TV time onto yourself, but you're doing something that is not difficult or extraordinary or challenging at all. Imagine if they made a documentary about climbing Everest and there was a guy jumping in all the camera footage all while planning to quit after the first thousand feet.
one man one vote wrote:
. Imagine if they made a documentary about climbing Everest and there was a guy jumping in all the camera footage all while planning to quit after the first thousand feet.
Is said guy well-built and handsome?
"Let me see. (takes the skull) Alas, poor Yoreck! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times, and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!"