I never thought I should but after reading all these posts about the Boston Marathon I'm thinking I have every right to run the race I want to run and line up where I want to start. Since I'm only one guy it won't effect the race.
I also like getting my picture being taken with the fast guys at the starting line up. My kids would love to see that.
Go for it! If you're lucky, you may get a thread dedicated to you right here on the Bible of the Sport. Way cool!
yeah it's fine I'll just shove you out of the way anyways.
Happens at just about every 5k I run. Doesn't make any difference to me. I know I'll pass you about 200 yds into the race and never see you again.
I run beside people all the time at the one mile mark. What difference does it make if they finish 5 seconds behind me or 9 minutes behind me? They are still behind me.
Why just show a picture to the kids. You should have them join you right there on the starting line. Make sure to be taking a selfie as the gun goes off.
OP that's fine, you go ahead and do that. But if you get between me and my sub-17 glory, I will DESTROY you. Be scared, you little punk.
I love tripping slow noobs.
It's best to do it if you're old and slow and have absolutely no business being in front. Gotta get a head-start on all the other slow people.
Charlie Sheen's tiger blood wrote:
I never thought I should but after reading all these posts about the Boston Marathon I'm thinking I have every right to run the race I want to run and line up where I want to start. Since I'm only one guy it won't effect the race.
I also like getting my picture being taken with the fast guys at the starting line up. My kids would love to see that.
This sounds like a fun idea, but I would caution against it. Let science, rather than emotion, dictate your behavior.
Expert scientists at very reputable collages have published peer reviewed articles that show that a runner with a slower speed running near a faster runner will almost invariably cause the elite runner to fall over due to what they call the "different speed affect". You see, the eventual slower speed of the slower athlete creates a "tripping force", even without contact. it's theorized to be like a gravitational pull. The tripping force on it's own would likely not cause an elite athlete to fall over, however, there has also been found to be a combined "disorienting effect" a slower runner will have on the elite runners. An elite runner is not used to other runners not being able to maintain the same speed as themselves for prolonged periods. When the slower runner drops off, this speed difference causes a disorienting effect on the mind of the elite athlete which has been shown to cause the elite athlete to: (1) lose their coordination, sense of direction, etc.; and (2) forget their race plan. In the studies, 93.7% of elite athletes confronted with a slower runner dropping off their pace will first start running oddly, changing pace, direction, etc. (one runner began to hop up and down), and eventually, the elite runner will simply fall over. A large proportion of them were shown thereafter to drool excessively and mumble incoherently for several hours. Although, in recordings, researchers could often pick out the confused phrase "I didn't know who that runner was". It's therefore been theorized that the lack of familiarity with the name of the slower runner adds to the disorienting effect of the speed difference.
It should be noted that in several follow up studies it was alarmingly shown the elite runner who had run beside the slower runner got cancer. This has caused many many researches to caution elites to stay away from running beside slower runners as slower runners are a suspected carcinogen to elite athletes.
It's ok only if you immediately run at a 30 degree angle, cutting off the maximum number of runners. You gotta go full retard bro.
I'm not that fast but far as I'm concerned it's a race and anyone who deliberately starts in an advanced corral is dead meat.
Sure just turn your i-pod up real loud.
Yes.
Everyone has every right to run the race they want to run and line up where they want to start.
So everyone should line up at the front.
No, don't take the starting position of someone faster than you, unless you're female and have a legit shot at placing. That dude at Boston earned his spot and had to make up about 10 seconds to get up on the elites out front.
brand new wrote:
Charlie Sheen's tiger blood wrote:I never thought I should but after reading all these posts about the Boston Marathon I'm thinking I have every right to run the race I want to run and line up where I want to start. Since I'm only one guy it won't effect the race.
I also like getting my picture being taken with the fast guys at the starting line up. My kids would love to see that.
This sounds like a fun idea, but I would caution against it. Let science, rather than emotion, dictate your behavior.
Expert scientists at very reputable collages have published peer reviewed articles that show that a runner with a slower speed running near a faster runner will almost invariably cause the elite runner to fall over due to what they call the "different speed affect". You see, the eventual slower speed of the slower athlete creates a "tripping force", even without contact. it's theorized to be like a gravitational pull. The tripping force on it's own would likely not cause an elite athlete to fall over, however, there has also been found to be a combined "disorienting effect" a slower runner will have on the elite runners. An elite runner is not used to other runners not being able to maintain the same speed as themselves for prolonged periods. When the slower runner drops off, this speed difference causes a disorienting effect on the mind of the elite athlete which has been shown to cause the elite athlete to: (1) lose their coordination, sense of direction, etc.; and (2) forget their race plan. In the studies, 93.7% of elite athletes confronted with a slower runner dropping off their pace will first start running oddly, changing pace, direction, etc. (one runner began to hop up and down), and eventually, the elite runner will simply fall over. A large proportion of them were shown thereafter to drool excessively and mumble incoherently for several hours. Although, in recordings, researchers could often pick out the confused phrase "I didn't know who that runner was". It's therefore been theorized that the lack of familiarity with the name of the slower runner adds to the disorienting effect of the speed difference.
It should be noted that in several follow up studies it was alarmingly shown the elite runner who had run beside the slower runner got cancer. This has caused many many researches to caution elites to stay away from running beside slower runners as slower runners are a suspected carcinogen to elite athletes.
I think you're referring to the "different speed effect". The "different speed affect" doesn't exist.
I have some serious concerns and many potential questions about the "different speed effect", such as:
1.) sample size used;
2.) criteria to establish an elite athlete;
3.) other controls for things such as height and weight;
4.) and many more.
Perhaps my most serious concern however is why are non-elite athletes, who routinely have to run with far more runners in much more crowded spaces and are constantly passing runners who paced themselves wrong, less likely to seriously hurt themselves in the presence of a slower runner than the elite athlete? What is it specifically about an elite runner that makes them so fragile that a slower runner poses such a massive danger where the same situation poses no danger at all to a non-elite athlete?
Reported for unfunniness.
brand new idiot wrote:
Reported for unfunniness.
Pretty sure he/she wasn't trying to be funny, more mocking. Mocking isn't funny. Also, I think he/she was mocking me, which really isn't funny.