Give me my laurel wreath now wrote:
Sad wrote:Between course cutting, wearing headphones, littering gu packets, covering/sharing/selling/faking bibs, lying about age (no one ever checks), pushing, shoving, carrying dogs (almost), illegal pacers, costumes, etc. I would say probably less than 30% of marathon finishers are technically legal.
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Littering would knock out all elites.
I am starting to think I may have won Boston last year - there were only 50% of finishers ahead of me and ... Yes I think the only guy ahead of me was Rossi now if McKeever would just tip the domino over for me ... I want my laurel and I want it now
Actually even though I did not run Boston officially I paced a guy in training that should have won Boston if all the technical rules were applied, he would have beat you. I was going to qualify with him until my elbow had unprecedented injuries, from an old tennis injury when I showed Sampras that I could serve over 200 mph but not with enough accuracy - the ball came back off the fence and hit me at about 170 mph.
Anyway with the old elbow injury flaring up I could not run but just paced him. While he was running Boston I paced him on the treadmill and kept in touch by phone. At the finish I said we gotta go and I went but he had nothing left. So I feel like I won Boston. Now I would never wear a shirt or anything or say my name should benign a trophy. But in my mind I am something of a legend. And I feel awkward talking so much about myself but it is for a good cause of integrity in running.
Wow. I feel like I just wrote a book.