That what, takes 14 minutes or so to finish?


edit: Correction, winning time was 13 min 1.57 seconds.

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GET OFF THE F*%KING WALL!!!!!!! (Doug Stern)
Brevity is the soul of wit. (William Shakespeare)

I've had more than one person tell me that they have run a few marathons, mostly in the 5 to 10K range. I've also heard a woman tell me she used to run a 3-minute mile back in her high school days. It was hard not to laugh, poor thing.

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W

Its safe to say I have no love lost on Bobby boy...

He's no Jim McKay...

My personal favorite is, when I say I am doing an Ironman, their response is "a full one?".

YMMV (Mo)Joe

these are the same people who say "triathAlon". Why, why, why??? ;-)

A woman once told me she was a Ironman triathlete. When I asked her what her long runs in training were she said she went around the high school track 6 times . .and she didn't have a road bike ..did all her riding on her mountain bike ..but she was going to buy a "faster" bike

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Good one. I've never gotten the full IM line, but people ask me all the time if I'm doing a full triathlon.

-C

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Any run that doesn't include pooping in someone's front yard is a win.

People are stupid... never forget that. :)

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I ka nana no a 'ike -- by observing, one learns | Kulia i ka nu'u -- strive for excellence
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Forgetting that is impossible. I was just grading an exam I gave to my class last week. It's a business calc class, made up most of freshmen and sophomores in college. You don't know how many times I saw

(1/3)-1=-4/3

And these people want to graduate college with a degree in accounting or economics!!!

-C

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Any run that doesn't include pooping in someone's front yard is a win.

maybe that's why i am good at my job... i can do simple math. :)

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Someone once told me they lost a bet, so they had to swim 3000 laps of butterfly in the pool.
I said, "Really, 3000 laps thats a lot. Are you sure it wasn't 3000yds?"
They said, "Nope, 3000 laps"
Me: "Wow, how long did that take you?"
He said, "Like 2.5 hours."
Me: "Wow, that would be almost a WR on a bike."
Him: "Yeah, I was pretty good in HS."

You guys really ought to look at a dictionary sometime...what Bob Costas said is entirely accurate and appropriate.

mar·a·thon (mãr'ə-thŏn')
n.

1. Sports.
   1. A cross-country footrace of 26 miles, 385 yards (42.195 kilometers).
   2. A long-distance race other than a footrace: a swimming marathon.
2. 1. A contest of endurance: a dance marathon.
   2. An event or activity that requires prolonged effort or endurance.

http://www.answers.com/marathon&r=67

I realize everyone here thinks of marathon as a unit of distance (as does google -- it will convert units for you... try, e.g., "marathon in lightyears"), but marathon has more than one meaning. From Merriam-Webster, for example:

1 : a long-distance race: a : a footrace run on an open course usually of 26 miles 385 yards (42.2 kilometers) b : a race other than a footrace marked especially by great length
2 a : an endurance contest b : something (as an event, activity, or session) characterized by great length or concentrated effort

Perhaps we should forgive Bob Costas this one, and bash him instead for the continued negative attitude towards athletes who don't win gold medals every time they compete.

(edit) oops, got distracted before I hit send, and everyone beat me to it. But I'll leave in my Bob Costas comment.

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there was no one chasing us... distance is its own reward.

Don't mess with Bob Costas...the greatest sportscaster of our time.

Couple weeks ago a woman told me she was "going to do IronMan" cause she cant run distance any more and "a marathon is out of the question because of bad knees"...neat. She made my coffee wrong too.

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What if the Hokey Pokey is what it is all about?

OK--so he might have been right to use it, but he is still a douche bag.



I guess this means that the ironman can be considered a "triple marathon": a swimming marathon of 2.4 miles, a cycling marathon of 112 miles, followed by a running marathon.

Only if you add 10,000m speed skating to it.

Just kidding.

I think Bob Costas is giving Al Trautwig a good competition for sportscaster douchebaggery. Still, AT has said too many idiotic things over the years, and I don't think Bob can catch up. Well, maybe he'll enjoy his 2nd place.

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there was no one chasing us... distance is its own reward.

..and then there are those that say "ath-a-lete". Talk about fingernails on the blackboard of ignorance! Or this runner-up: "Warshington D.C." Or "New-q-ler"--God, just say "new-clear"--it is so frickin easy.

How insulting. How dare Costas and his multiple Emmys compare the rigors of a mere Olympic event participated in by world class athletes with the titantic undertaking facing the average 4 hour "marathoner?" It's criminal.

Wrong-o. Words have meanings. I have seen the definition, and I disagree that its use here is accurate or appropriate. In fact, it was just network hyperbole. If the word marathon is to be stolen its use should have some relevance to its original essence, which is "a hard thing" but "endurance". 14 minutes of speed skating may be painful and ath-a-letic, but it is not an endurance event.

So if you use the term "marathon sex", we should modify it to 5k or sprint distance sex?

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I prefer olympic distance: intense, good amount of time and you're not wiped out for the rest of the day!

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What is most annoying is that Bob Costas knows better, and yet he said it with a straight face. I was watching that with my mom and stepdad and instantly laughed "a six mile marathon!?" They didn't seem to recognize anything wrong with that though.