rojo wrote:
Cute wrote:
Cute story but not as inspiring as the Belgian guy who flew in to NYC on a whim during a tennis match. He landed in NY the morning of the marathon still wearing the same bandana he used while playing tennis the day before. He ended up 8th and even led the race after the mid point!
Is this a joke? Or in a movie? Or real?
“On a whim”?
BS.
He obviously would have been entered months before.
Think a bit, guys.
Cute wrote:
Cute story but not as inspiring as the Belgian guy who flew in to NYC on a whim during a tennis match. He landed in NY the morning of the marathon still wearing the same bandana he used while playing tennis the day before. He ended up 8th and even led the race after the mid point!
A well-off runner dithering about whether to complete a race he entered months before, then actually running it? (And pretending it was “on a whim”?)
So inspiring! Someone show this story to Rupp!
Scorpion_runner wrote:
I hate to be a Debbie Downer, because it sounds like a fantastic program. However, when I see certain information that makes me questions things, I can't help but to be skeptical
The following statements caught my attention:
" When Ed returned to Campi ya Kanzi last May, he asked John: “Are you training for the New York marathon this year?”
John replied, “I have not got a place this year. We need to use the available places to raise funds for our programs.”
Ed said, “Nonsense! You are going! I and my wife will sponsor you, so you had better begin training.”
That's a very aggressive response to the young runner. I just wonder if these young Maasi runners are being manipulated for the sole purpose to generate funds, and then they get flown back to the village, and the cycle starts all over again.
Is the program really using the money for what it is designed for, and other people are not making a fortune off of them?
I look at most of these african marathoner runners, and they are not living like kings and queens, and there are agents and organizers behind the scene who are making millions off of them. I know this is more of a grassroots situation, but they grow young, fast distance runners like vegetables in Kenya. It would be so easy to take one of those young fast runners, get him to train, set up a fundraiser page, slap a bib on him, and then watch the money come in.
Again, this a fantastic post, and a fantastic read. But these african programs ( to help africans and wildlife) are not always what they appear to be.
I hear you , but this guy ran 2:23. Nobody is making any money off him, including him. It was just a good chance for him to come to a BIG race and run.
vivalarepublica wrote:
Are you and Rojo both this stupid???
He's a very experienced runner...
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koen_Naert
Great to see a European tennis plaper and hedge fund trader beating all of the USA's best![/quote]
2:10:16 at Rotterdam THIS YEAR!! Besides Marathon and HM, nearly all his PRs are from 2012-14 and the best one (besides the 2:10) is probably 13:32. Solid runner doing great things now at marathon distance. I wonder if he has time to train between tennis matches?
In the late 70s a runner I think was Randy Thomas and I think was a graduate student.had a 4 or 5 digit number in the NYC marathon and was about 5th in about 2 15.
ck3237 wrote:
In the late 70s a runner I think was Randy Thomas and I think was a graduate student.had a 4 or 5 digit number in the NYC marathon and was about 5th in about 2 15.
What kind of waiter?
ck3237 wrote:
In the late 70s a runner I think was Randy Thomas and I think was a graduate student.had a 4 or 5 digit number in the NYC marathon and was about 5th in about 2 15.
If it was Randy, he may have had a high number but he was already and accomplished runner by that point - AA in D1 and solid 10k times as well as a very good XC runner. So on the surface a surprise but not once you looked deeper - and certainly not when put in context of what he did later.