monty wrote:
I'm going to guess that all the events going on right now, or in the next week, are sliding in under the mit at home plate. I was watching the LA marathon on TV, and didnt see hardly any spectators outside of the finish line, and I wonder what the actual numbers of actual runners was. I think they usually have around 26k or so runners? I'll tell you one thing, there are a ton of ladies that should be kicking themselves for not being at this race. A $100k to the winner, I assume it went pretty deep after that too. Looked like about 10 starters, and 5th was a 2;50!!! 1/2 dozen triathlete women could have been 3rd there, 2;36+ for that spot.
Lets revisit this topic in about two weeks I would say. I think Oceanside 70.3 is in trouble, probably the Boston Marathon, and certainly any sporting event in Washington state.. I bet they go with March Madness with no fans, and eventually even pro sports. We will hit an apex of fear, warranted or not, but it will be real.
I expect the risk for Oceanside is the city or the military base pulling the permits simply because politicians dont want to be seen a not 100% focused in COVID19. Personally I wouldnt feel or worry about any risk participating in the race (but I also ran the Hot Chocolate 15k in downtown Seattle last week and didn't feel at risk doing that race either.) (and I was in South Korea 4 weeks ago.. and still felt very safe considering the precautions everyone was taking.)
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