Hardloper wrote:
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
It doesn't matter if he's not concealing his identity. Your blessed to be able to run the Boston Marathon just wear the damn bib.
HOOWIE wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
He's not concealing his identity nor should it matter
It doesn't matter if he's not concealing his identity. Your blessed to be able to run the Boston Marathon just wear the damn bib.
You can wear the bib and remove the chip
You are vain beta. Congrats on the stupidest post of the year. the problem isn't the vanity; it's the fact that you need help executing on your own vanity. How friggin' sad. Be an alpha and just do it. Ask for forgiveness not for permission.
Putting aside the sheer idiocy, self-admiration, and hubris of the entire concept:
if you cross a timing mat and it doesn't fire, and someone thinks you're banditing, you won't have any way to prove they're wrong.
Vain, Pompous, Conceited, Egotistical? Pick your descriptor. They all fit. Wear the bib. Wear the chip, Run with your wife if she wants your company and enjoy the day. Be a better person than you appear to be.
Just an FYI, when the BAA bans you, they ban you for life. So if you ever want to run the Boston Marathon again, you should either keep your chip on your bib or just drop that idea altogether.
Won't you be asked why you didn't run the race? Even dumber to explain that away.
bingo wrote:
Putting aside the sheer idiocy, self-admiration, and hubris of the entire concept:
if you cross a timing mat and it doesn't fire, and someone thinks you're banditing, you won't have any way to prove they're wrong.
It's easy to prove you aren't banditing. You have a bib for the race registered under your name. Nobody is going to notice the lack of chip or live splits in real time.
Hardloper wrote:
bingo wrote:
Putting aside the sheer idiocy, self-admiration, and hubris of the entire concept:
if you cross a timing mat and it doesn't fire, and someone thinks you're banditing, you won't have any way to prove they're wrong.
It's easy to prove you aren't banditing. You have a bib for the race registered under your name. Nobody is going to notice the lack of chip or live splits in real time.
In all seriousness, without a chip the OP will not be able to enter the starting area. They check for chips with scanners. It isn't some backwater hardloper event. It's the Boston marathon and security is tight.
I seem to recall scanners too. Also I call bs on a female in the second wave running 2:50. It happens but is very rare.
That may be one difference between the marathon and the other BAA races. I have never run the marathon, but I have done the BAA 10K twice. For the 10K, you go to the starting corral on Boston Common, look for the sign for your expected pace and place yourself in that vicinity for the start. I believe the first scan comesafter the race has started and you pass the starting line on Charles Street.
Every time I read a thread on this website and think to myself "That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read," I find myself mistaken. So much to unpack here, but rather than pile on I will just chuckle softly to myself, finish my lunch break, and get back to work. Thank you once again for the entertainment, LRC.
Go ahead and take the chip off the back of your number. No one will care.
No one will care that you have results that you ran 2:50 or 3:15 either.
With other recent marathons being cancelled and Paris just announcing it will be postponed, I would be more worried that you will be running at all.
I think you are quite arterial. If you don’t want a time then jump off course before Boylston Street.
Unless you’re doing something against the rules who cares what your time is? The answer is no one. And unless you’re planning on not running marathons as you get older then naturally your times will get slower.
Yea that’s vein. No one cares about your ‘record’ except for you. I mean that in the best way possible.
To go through all of that trouble because OP is scared of his coworkers... What a narcissist. His coworkers won't even remember what his best times were.
If you're REALLY worried about your time, step off the course before you cross the finishing mat and take the DNF - because if you run the full 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to Boston, you still ran the 2:50:00 that you're dreading.
Christ you guys are losers.
OP’s reasons seem pretty reasonable to me. He takes his race results seriously, and this years Boston isn’t a “race” for him, so he doesn’t want to log a result.
It also seems like he’s only posting to see if this small act could have any negative affect on anyone else. I don’t think it will, and I haven’t seen anyone here post anything that makes me think otherwise. Him removing his chip literally affects no one but himself. Everyone here posting like they’re butheart REEEKS of jealousy. You’re all clearly a bunch of runners who couldn’t run a 2:50 if your lives depended on it, so you’re taking personal offence to OP not wanting to record a 2:50. It’s the only explanation, because I can’t see why else you’d be so mad about something like this.
Grammar edit: “effect” not “affect”... my apologies
wowza wrote:
Christ you guys are losers.
OP’s reasons seem pretty reasonable to me. He takes his race results seriously, and this years Boston isn’t a “race” for him, so he doesn’t want to log a result.
If he doesn’t want to post a result then he shouldn’t run.
This really the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. If the guys fragile ego can’t deal with a, to his mind, sub-standard result in Athlinks he should just take the day off and support his wife from the sidelines. He wants the reward of running Boston without having to suffer the “shame” of a time that doesn’t meet his standards.