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re: Should marathons have shorter time allowed to finish?
Posted on 11/3/26 at 8:57 am to GeauxTigers123
Posted on 11/3/26 at 8:57 am to GeauxTigers123
Personally for me, if I entered a marathon and it took me 10.5 hours to complete, I'd not tell anyone I ran a marathon.
At best, that's a moderately fast walking pace.
Back when I was young and in good shape a good friend and I would do 10 miles in an hour for a 6 minute per mile pace. I never got past that distance due to suddenly having to work 2 jobs when divorce hit to make ends meet.
My friend went on to train for, and run multiple marathons over the ensuing years and to this day, at age 77, spends over an hour on a treadmill at a jogging pace 4 days a week.
At best, that's a moderately fast walking pace.
Back when I was young and in good shape a good friend and I would do 10 miles in an hour for a 6 minute per mile pace. I never got past that distance due to suddenly having to work 2 jobs when divorce hit to make ends meet.
My friend went on to train for, and run multiple marathons over the ensuing years and to this day, at age 77, spends over an hour on a treadmill at a jogging pace 4 days a week.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 8:58 am to GeauxTigers123
Maybe a 6 hour time limit. A 5mph jog is pretty close to a fast walk and that pace would have you finishing in a little over 5 hours. 6 hours would allow for a little walking, but not much.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 9:40 am to GeauxTigers123
How many marathons have you done? I have zero issue with people enduring a marathon if they want to. I'll take that any day over people wheeling themselves around walmart or the airport.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 9:53 am to LSUGrad9295
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I have always wondered.....do they let the elite runners who actually have a chance to win the race start at the front of the pack?
Yes. Big races that actually matter let pros start near the front.
But keep in mind that even for amateur fun runs you are tracked on both gun time and chip time.
Chip time matters.
Chip time tracks when you electronic chip that is taped to the back of your race bib crosses the start line and finish line.
Gun time is the time between when the start gun sounds and when your chip crosses the finish line. So if you are starting in the back of the pack that can be a decently long addition to your time.
I think Iron man has multiple gates scattered around to make sure you go through all of them.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 10:02 am to JimTiger72
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Can you really claim to have run a marathon if you are taking 10.5 or more hrs to finish?
IMO, no. You walked 26.2 miles. Good for you but you didn't run a marathon.
BTW, I actually ran 4 marathons.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:38 pm to GeauxTigers123
Unrelated to OP but didn't want to start a thread.
That's sad
That's sad
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If tweet fails to load, click here.Posted on 11/4/26 at 12:20 pm to GeauxTigers123
The 10 hour limit gives them time to grab breakfast and lunch and do a little shopping along the route.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:25 pm to castorinho
So sad. She was young and pretty.
Posted on 11/7/26 at 7:59 pm to SECSolomonGrundy
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Why would it cheapen the experience of the QB who threw for the 120 in 3? Why would that guy be bothered when he was clearly superior?
I don’t care how that guy feels. But it definitely cheapens the accomplishment. How can you not understand this
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