Running Boston. Taking the Chip out of my Bib - Problem?

I don't have any useful advice, but wanted to express my opinion that what you said seems reasonable and only a little vain.

As usual on LetsRun, toxicity is the default response.

I time large events, 20k+

One you won't get a time, hope that's obvious.

Second when you try to tell us your time you will be DQ and the RD will probably think you were trying to cheat.

Omg a 2:50 marathon on your "record". The horrors.

I'm going to tell you a dirty little secret...no one outside of your friends and family cares about your marathon times...and even then, most of them probably don't care. You may think they do..but they don't.

I'm also going to guarantee that charity runner who does Boston in 4:45 will get more kudos around your office than you would if you would have run sub 2:30.

I totally understand this. Im not sure about the USA, but in the UK, British Athletcs gives a ranking based on the year's race results. Fun running is better than not running at all, I didn't wear a chip when running London as I wasn't fit at the time. You'll be fine.

Moot point since there won’t be a race this year.

Look at he rules and consider how many you will be violating. At the very least you will be sent a letter for missing timing mats and asked to explain. Also can be considered bib altering as well for me an obvious breach of the overarching rule showing a lack of sportsmanship. Your time is your time, having a bad year, tough, that’s how it goes. You are the quintessential poor sport. I would ban you forever in a heartbeat. Do not need people like you in any race.

Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry said he cut the tags out of his pants so people wouldn't know he wasn't a 29 anymore.

If you do this, Doublr won't rest until you are face down in the LA River!

LOL

Kenny Blankenship wrote:

Call it vein, call it insecurity, call it whatever the heck you want (I do not care how pathetic this sounds), but I don't want a 2:50 marathon to show up on my record. I'd so much rather just enjoy the run with my wife without having any thought at all about this run being recorded in the results archives for all of the years to come.

WTF is your record? If you run a 2:50, you ran a 2:50, whether you took the chip off or not.

Nobody else cares about "your record" except for you. So, the only person that cares about "your record" will also be the only person that knows you did this or not.

I think that you would get away with removing the chip and no one would ever notice. Same goes for "your record." I don't think that anyone will notice it.

Hey Mort, have a heart wontcha? This is his PERMANENT record we're talking about.

This has been a blast, but I'm going to close out here...

1. I'm well aware that "no one cares about my running except me"...

It's for personal reasons that I don't want the result to be recorded. If you had better reading comprehension, you'd have picked that up in my original post. To the guy who said "only your friends and family care..." - I'll do you one better. My friends don't even care. I picked up running as a hobby post-collegiately, and I'm the only one in my friend group who has ever run. They're normal dudes. They don't care about my running either.

2. To the 2 or 3 RDs who replied and actually addressed my concerns: Thanks for your input. I knew I'd have to filter through a bunch of trash to get to it, but these were the responses I was looking for.

3. To the few people who said they "get it": thanks. The hobby of running induces a sort of obsession with stats and records. As I've said in earlier posts, I don't think it would be the end of the world if I recorded a slow time this year, but if I could run without recording a time, I'd prefer it.. I know it's not a big deal. I don't need people telling me this, but race results are permanent, and I take a lot of pride in mine. I'm not "racing" the Boston Marathon this year. I'm running it with my wife. So. I'd prefer it if my result wasn't recorded. Taking the chip off of my bib seems like the simplest, and most harmless solution for this, so that's the plan.

Thanks, all.

my thoughts and prayers are with your potentially 2:50 stained record...i surely hope you can get through this adversity

Bad idea. After 2013, any attempt to conceal your identity at the Boston Marathon is foolish and self-centered. Don't do it.

DanM wrote:

Bad idea. After 2013, any attempt to conceal your identity at the Boston Marathon is foolish and self-centered. Don't do it.

Yeah getting tackled by security may be worse press than running 2:50.

DanM wrote:

Bad idea. After 2013, any attempt to conceal your identity at the Boston Marathon is foolish and self-centered. Don't do it.

He's not concealing his identity nor should it matter

Put your chip in the microwave, and wear a wig.

With bogus numbers becoming easier to copy, there's discussion about scanning runners' number as they enter their start corral. "No, really, the chip just fell off. It's a real number. I belong here"

I don't think there is any issue with what you propose and I agree with the reasoning.

You’re So Vain wrote:

VAIN, you fools! VAIN

When OP got it wrong, I wasn’t going to say anything. When the second person did, I was still prepared to exercise restraint. But we can’t have three people in one thread unironically misspelling the same word

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