Is this a joke? Portland putting on WR marathon attempt Oct. 6

Well that was good for a laugh. $250/$350??? No prize money? But a chance at a world record???

Also, aside from all of the other ridiculousness, do they seriously expect other race directors to write letters of verification for the submitted times? Like if you were actually in contention for a marathon world record and for some reason thought this was the race to do it, why couldn't they just look at the published race results and say "ah yes, placed 3rd at Berlin, seems legit".

Hahahahahahaha paced by a Maserati too

worst race director ever? wrote:

Well that was good for a laugh. $250/$350??? No prize money? But a chance at a world record???

Also, aside from all of the other ridiculousness, do they seriously expect other race directors to write letters of verification for the submitted times? Like if you were actually in contention for a marathon world record and for some reason thought this was the race to do it, why couldn't they just look at the published race results and say "ah yes, placed 3rd at Berlin, seems legit".

I am guessing with the 50 runner limit and high standard of qualifying times ... the marathon world record will be some kind of "Fastest Average Marathon Finishing Time"

Who is the RD for this?

I was going to do this race, but I refuse to be paced by a Mazerati Grand Turismo.

Start time 3:30am wtf??

Trying to imitate the sub2?

No prize money but a chance to break WR- the audacity, the nurve of these organizers

Only Galen and daddy will be there

Sounds like honest but delusional race organizers. They know enough to work a professional timing system and organize some slightly gimmicky races in the area so they've convinced themselves that dozens of elites are dying to run their race so they can break that world record... Gonna be awkward when nobody shows.

Is the Maserati zero emissions? And it paces less than 2 miles?? WTF

If they want to make real money they should promote this as a the "Ultimate BQ race"

Maserati's are nice cars. It would have been a better idea for the breaking 2. Kipchoge would have had something pretty to chase. I recommend a Testarossa.

Yes, it is a joke. But got me to look.

Will this race be certified for bets with Letsrun staff? I need a 3:11

What kind of shirt will they have?

Wow, this sounds like a terrible idea. I doubt they even get more than a couple entrants. Most people who've run those times get comped entry to races at the very least. Anyone wanting to chase a wr (or even a pr) in october will be racing chicago.

Since this is another stunt, are all the participants allowed to take all the drugs they want? That would be interesting. If NOP doped all the entrants to the gills, and got them to run a marathon. Of course they wouldn't be allowed to run another race again, because the drugs would give them a cumulative unfair advantage against clean people in any future race they did.

Timm wrote:

8. Pace car will be a Mazerati Grand Turismo

So basically some guy wants to buy a Maserati and is staging a sham race in order to write it off as a business expense?

Not sure if this was on the Purses page when OP posted, but it now says:

Purses will be set based on corporate involvement, which, btw, is in the process.

Which sounds like it was written by someone who read this page of laughter.

This website sure looks like a joke.

I am looking forward to see the Elite Marathoners purchasing their HydraPouch for $10 at the Packet Pick Up.

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