A six hour cutoff would seem reasonable, it is a running event.
ExpertKipWatcher wrote:
A six hour cutoff would seem reasonable, it is a running event.
But if they allow walkers, and even have pacers out there for the walkers, the participants should be treated decently.
"James Miller, 35, had been running for a dementia charity. He finished in just over eight hours and told the BBC it was "really demotivating to see the course being dismantled around us"."
He was walking for charity, not running, but again, if they advertise that it's open for 8 hour walkers, they should be accommodated. What was the cutoff? If the marathon tore stuff down at the advertised cutoff pace, then these complaints don't mean anything.
Still, the walkers shouldn't be subjected to verbal abuse, but a-holes gonna a-hole, what are you gonna do?
Doesn’t matter whether we think people should be allowed to walk around in 8 hours. (My personal feeling is that the VLM should be doing more for British Athletics by getting more fast runners in.)
The organisers even put on a 7’30 pacer, this person kept to that pace and then she and the people that were being paced were treated like crap. Shouldn’t have happened.
ExpertKipWatcher wrote:
A six hour cutoff would seem reasonable, it is a running event.
You are on the right track but I would make it 3 1/2 hours . Make the cutoff like the Comrades - if you don't finish within that time then you haven't completed the race - get off the road and come back again and try next year. 3 1/2 hours is still over 1/2 hr slower than the speed walking world record for the marathon so such a time would be more than reasonable. Western nations need to make finishing a major marathon actually mean something.
chrono judger wrote:
You are on the right track but I would make it 3 1/2 hours . Make the cutoff like the Comrades - if you don't finish within that time then you haven't completed the race - get off the road and come back again and try next year. 3 1/2 hours is still over 1/2 hr slower than the speed walking world record for the marathon so such a time would be more than reasonable. Western nations need to make finishing a major marathon actually mean something.
The Comrades 12h cutoff isn't very demanding. Anyone who ever went jogging, can do it.
chrono judger wrote:
ExpertKipWatcher wrote:
A six hour cutoff would seem reasonable, it is a running event.
You are on the right track but I would make it 3 1/2 hours . Make the cutoff like the Comrades - if you don't finish within that time then you haven't completed the race - get off the road and come back again and try next year. 3 1/2 hours is still over 1/2 hr slower than the speed walking world record for the marathon so such a time would be more than reasonable. Western nations need to make finishing a major marathon actually mean something.
You should just probably make it sub 2:45 and also require proof your salary is at least $500k and that you're a LR legend of some sort.
There is not enough harshness in this world. I’m serious. Harshness keeps people in check. It use to keep people alive when we were living close to the natural world and there were real consequences to general laziness, lack of effort, lack of good decision making, selfishness, self-centeredness, etc. life is hard. Be tough. Be better.
Those people are ridiculously slow and shouldn’t be in a race where others have trained hard and done the work not to be fat and slow. So fragile that a few words are going to wreck them? So “special” as to never give consideration to the fact that their participation is keeping hundreds of volunteers and workers out there for the extra hours just so they can run in a race that that can’t actually run.