Comments on: Hype http://runninganultraexperience.com/2008/04/22/hype/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:08:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: mrbimble http://runninganultraexperience.com/2008/04/22/hype/#comment-213 mrbimble Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:18:45 +0000 http://mrbimble.wordpress.com/?p=113#comment-213 You miss the point. The media claimed he was able to complete Boston with so little training, yet they failed to mention all the factors you have just done. His performance on Monday was hyped by others and on top, they failed to adequately give air time to all the many other creditable performances that day. A large event like that is as much about the 'average' runner as it is the famous or elite ones, yet the media coverage didn't focus on them. You miss the point. The media claimed he was able to complete Boston with so little training, yet they failed to mention all the factors you have just done. His performance on Monday was hyped by others and on top, they failed to adequately give air time to all the many other creditable performances that day. A large event like that is as much about the ‘average’ runner as it is the famous or elite ones, yet the media coverage didn’t focus on them.

]]> By: Booman http://runninganultraexperience.com/2008/04/22/hype/#comment-212 Booman Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:07:05 +0000 http://mrbimble.wordpress.com/?p=113#comment-212 Please also file this post of yours under "Rubbish!" The guy has won umpteen Tour De Froggies, is battling cancer, survived 2 divorces, run 3 sub 3 hr marathons after he retired from cycling, has a resting heart rate in the single digits, has a VDOT twice most people's, and you are asking "so what?" If people (the "if-he-can-do-it-with only-1-long-run-of-14-miles-then-so-can-I" kind of people) are foolish to equate themselves to Lance-Freaking -Armstrong then they deserve DNFs, scorn, and only their own stupidity to blame. Please also file this post of yours under “Rubbish!”

The guy has won umpteen Tour De Froggies, is battling cancer, survived 2 divorces, run 3 sub 3 hr marathons after he retired from cycling, has a resting heart rate in the single digits, has a VDOT twice most people’s, and you are asking “so what?”

If people (the “if-he-can-do-it-with only-1-long-run-of-14-miles-then-so-can-I” kind of people) are foolish to equate themselves to Lance-Freaking -Armstrong then they deserve DNFs, scorn, and only their own stupidity to blame.

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