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posted: 4/16/2008 at 2:10 AM |
For those of you who missed the PBS airing of Marathon Challenge, it's available as five online chapters at the link below and is a must see for anyone contemplating running a marathon for the first time.
Marathon Challenge
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posted: 4/16/2008 at 3:19 PM |
| Thanks for the link, a good programme, I enjoyed watching. |
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posted: 4/16/2008 at 4:57 PM |
| Quote from SimonR on 4/16/2008 at 3:19 PM: Thanks for the link, a good programme, I enjoyed watching.
Yea, but it wasn't right that those people got to run BOSTON. |
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posted: 4/16/2008 at 5:14 PM |
| Quote from andahuff on 4/16/2008 at 4:57 PM: Yea, but it wasn't right that those people got to run BOSTON.
Hey, we should debate that. It's probably never been discussed before.
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~~ Jack Kerley, The Hundredth Man
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posted: 4/16/2008 at 7:35 PM |
| Oh man, that was a monster discussion in CoolRunning. |
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posted: 4/16/2008 at 7:41 PM |
| Quote from JakeKnight on 4/16/2008 at 5:14 PM: Hey, we should debate that. It's probably never been discussed before.
Ha!!  |
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posted: 4/16/2008 at 7:42 PM |
| Quote from JakeKnight on 4/16/2008 at 5:14 PM: Hey, we should debate that. It's probably never been discussed before.
Have you tried using the search function?
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posted: 4/16/2008 at 7:43 PM |
| Awesome. I don't know what else to say. |
Drew
Road to the Monkey
Just run, baby.
Your hide will make a fine poncho. |
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posted: 4/16/2008 at 7:44 PM |
| Quote from andahuff on 4/16/2008 at 4:57 PM: Yea, but it wasn't right that those people got to run BOSTON.
The same thing happens every year with Ironman Hawaii which IMHO is harder to qualify for then Boston. The media turned what used to be a hardcore event into a sappy, touchy-feely, chicked soup for the soul kind of crap.
Too many very talented and serious athletes train and race for years on end but never qualify for that race only to see someone of questionable athleticism get a charity bid and DNF.
It's not even watchable any more. |
| The Gaijin Samurai. a.k.a The attorney dissin' attorney.
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posted: 4/16/2008 at 7:54 PM |
| Quote from DJ Marcus on 4/16/2008 at 7:44 PM: The same thing happens every year with Ironman Hawaii which IMHO is harder to qualify for then Boston. The media turned what used to be a hardcore event into a sappy, touchy-feely, chicked soup for the soul kind of crap.
Too many very talented and serious athletes train and race for years on end but never qualify for that race only to see someone of questionable athleticism get a charity bid and DNF.
It's not even watchable any more.
For real?
(And I don't even play coolpoints.)
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posted: 4/16/2008 at 7:57 PM |
| Quote from DJ Marcus on 4/16/2008 at 7:44 PM: The same thing happens every year with Ironman Hawaii which IMHO is harder to qualify for then Boston.
If I'm not mistaken, the way they fill Kona slots is based on placement at other IM races. In other words, each AG gets so many slots at each Ironman race. So if you are at a competitive AG, your chances are greatly reduced. It's more like trying to qualify for the Olympics, in that there's a time standard, and a placement standard to meet, and you can't be sure how you're going to place. |
Amat victoria curam.
Sine labore nihil.
Dulcius ex asperis. |
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posted: 4/16/2008 at 8:03 PM |
| Quote from Scout7 on 4/16/2008 at 7:57 PM: If I'm not mistaken, the way they fill Kona slots is based on placement at other IM races. In other words, each AG gets so many slots at each Ironman race. So if you are at a competitive AG, your chances are greatly reduced.
You're correct. There is no time standard like Boston. You compete in your age group for a set number of slots which I have seen as low as two and as high as ten. It's very, very hard. |
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posted: 4/16/2008 at 8:03 PM |
| Quote from JakeKnight on 4/16/2008 at 5:14 PM: Hey, we should debate that. It's probably never been discussed before.
Note to self: you were too subtle. These people don't do subtle. |
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posted: 4/16/2008 at 8:05 PM |
| Quote from JakeKnight on 4/16/2008 at 8:03 PM: Note to self: you were too subtle. These people don't do subtle.
Shut it, suspicious ape. |
Amat victoria curam.
Sine labore nihil.
Dulcius ex asperis. |
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posted: 4/16/2008 at 8:10 PM |
| Quote from Scout7 on 4/16/2008 at 8:05 PM: Shut it, suspicious ape.
I'll bet those charity types at Boston wear i-Pods. Anybody know if they do? Where's that search function thingie? |
E-mail: JakeKnight2002@aol.com
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"The past is nothing but a series of recollections; it does not own you ... if we are prisoners of the past, we are jailer as well."
~~ Jack Kerley, The Hundredth Man
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