No one really knows and unfortunately we will only find out at the end of the day on Sunday. The runners will have to find out for themselves how much the public will support them or hate them. Some hatred will evident and inevitable in some form or another (a protest, eggs thrown, boos, disruptions, race blosking) but they will be sadly unfair.


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And I also think football should be postponed.

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

Cancel the marathon. If I were doing it, I would feel very selfish about taking water or food on the course that might better have been served to someone who desperately needs it. Not to mention the generators that could be much more useful helping someone else out.

Just my $.02

This was just posted on the Times website:

Sanitation Workers Complain of Marathon Duty
Some New York City sanitation workers who have expressed a desire to work on Staten Island and in Queens neighborhoods hit hard by Hurricane Sandy are complaining to their union about being assigned instead to clean up after the New York City Marathon, the union president said on Friday.
The workers have called their shop stewards to complain, according to the union president, Harry Nespoli, who heads Local 831 of the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association. The union represents the 6,200 workers at the Department of Sanitation.
“Many of our workers have similar problems that these other people have,” Mr. Nespoli said, referring to the New Yorkers whose homes have been damaged or destroyed by the storm. “They have no lights, they have water in the basement, but they’re coming to work and doing their jobs.”
“They just feel, ‘Why are they doing the marathon when they can be helping other people?’” he said. “They feel we should be focusing on this particular part of the cleanup and not the marathon.”
Mr. Nespoli said he understood “it’s a tough call,” but he said that he, like the members of his union, believed that the residents of the Rockaways, Staten Island and other neighborhoods in distress deserved priority when it came to the use of city resources.
“I know this administration is looking to show the public that they can perform,” he said. “The thing is, I’ve been out and the mayor’s been out there, too, and I see that people are hurting out there.”
Mr. Nespoli said he expected that his union members, who have been working 12-hour shifts since the storm hit, to follow orders and carry out their assignments.

This food point is bizzarre. NYC is awash in food and water. They're everywhere. Supermarkets are full of them, restaurants are delivering them. There is no shortage city wide. There is, probably, a shortage in the most badly affected areas but that's an issue of delivery. There's not much that a volunteer gatorade passer or a just flown in from Germany marathoner can do about that.

At this point, with all the vitriol on facebook and people calling for disruption of the race, what are the chances that racers are even able to complete the race? ...well, at least without having to circumvent some sit-in or "occupy the NYC marathon" bs?

While I am in favor of a cancellation/postponement of the marathon, since it is going to happen, has anyone thought now about the safety of those who do particpate in the race?

While I personally would not run, I understand those who have paid their cash, done their training and show up to race since the event is going on.