[fwdude]

Meh, a bunch of people running down a street. Yippee

[Fawn]

That’s how I feel. Never paid attention to this crapola....

[HereInTheHeartland]

Hah!!
I ran (an completed) a marathon last year. Would challenge anyone who thinks it’s just “running down a street” to try it!
Next time you drive; set your odometer to 0 and then watch it get to 26 miles and ask yourself if you could run that far in 3 to 6 hours.
Running is a great thing to do. Taking control of ones health and fitness is why many of us like doing it.

[SamAdams76]

When I was younger, I used to go to the Marathon all the time. The Boston Red Sox always had a 10am game on those days and the game would usually be over around the time most of the lead runners are coming through. I was actually at the finish line in 1979 when Bill Rodgers (an American) won the race. If you look at the YouTube footage of that finish, I am somewhere in that crowd at the 4:35 mark - just a scrawny 17-year-old kid at the time.

Back in those days, you felt like you were actually a part of it. Crowd control was "loose" to say the least. Once the lead runners went by, nobody stopped you from running out there to hand a runner a bottle of water or even run with them a little bit of the way to offer encouragement.

It's not so much fun these days and while I'm in town today, I'm staying far away from it. Way too much crowd control now and you won't be close enough to see anything. Also, I can't even begin to pronounce the names of all the Africans who have dominated these foot races in recent years.

[who knows what evil?]

They have a new slogan for this marathon...’Take Back the Line’...local media coverage is barf-inducing.