Exactly. What a pack of idiots. Why did they even think running the marathon would be either possible or advisable? But since the arrogant prig in charge of the Road Runners club is blaming the cancellation on the media (!) and Can’t understand why New Yorkers would object to her use of generators, fuel and other scarce resources, I guess this must be a runner thing and we wouldn’t understand
Yes it is, although one could probably find a similar attitude among other types of athletes. Perhaps because it's not a team sport, running seems to encourage in some people a nearly pathological self-centeredness.