Proud hobby jogger wrote:
I disagree wrote:Yes, I assumed that was the point. Except the revenue source for sponsored athletes, is actually the sponsors paying their athletes what the sponors coldheartedly assess those athletes are worth to the bottom line. Which has a lot to do with how much the public cares about those athletes. Which is not much.
I think you will find that most of the money spent on running shoes, tends to be kept by the people who make running shoes.
That's why, in case you were unaware, distance running existed before the current hobby jogger boom, and it will exist after the current hobby jogger boom.
And I'm speaking as a hobby jogger.
Thanks for spelling it out though.
Good luck getting any decent prize money at so many races without us hobby joggers, tool.
Once again, you miss the entire point. The birth of distance was not bowerman saying, "let there be shoes!" And a million marathoners appearing; running has been around forever. Billy Mills, Ron Clarke, Bob Schul, Jim Beatty, fvcking Zatopek, chadaway, Buddy Edelen, Bannister, landy, Snell, should I go on? All before your precious "hobby joggers support running" era.
The point being, to spell it out, is that track and field and road racing DID exist before the shoe era and was probably a better sport then, compared to how. Probably cleaner too.