Marathon

[walksalone]

A guy I work with is an emcee that does many of these Road Runner events around the tri state area. He went off on a social media outlet about the fact that this race should not be run, and it got him fired...

[zoogs]

Good article on the topic.

 

http://sportsillustr...t2_a4&eref=sihp

 

Many of the criticisms leveled at the New York Road Runners -- when the race was still on -- had little substance. Was NYRR only concerned about the bottom line in continuing? Not really, because the non-refundable race fees are already paid, and the race is insured anyway. Interviews with eight people involved in putting on the marathon -- all of whom asked not to be named -- testify to the fact that the race organizers truly felt that the marathon was going to be part of the city's psychological healing. That this race, which has at its core the ability of the everyman and woman to do something great in sports, would somehow become a symbol of excess, came as a surprise to many of the people who help to make the race work, particularly after NYRR canceled the normal pre-race festivities and donated $1 million to hurricane relief. But, by Friday, as New York City deputy mayor Howard Wolfson put it, the marathon was no longer the marathon, because "it wasn't the marathon if it wasn't a unifying event." Many runners suggested that the marathon simply be postponed, but that was never a possibility.