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Finishing the finish line
By adamg on Fri, 04/11/2014 - 6:46am
Italian in Boston watched workers erecting the scaffolding across the Marathon finish line overnight.
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Running through this is awesome!
There is no feeling like finishing a BAA race while going through this structure.
And there is no greater needless waste of money
than by putting up this ugly and pointless structure. Thank you Boston Arrogance Association for forcing your commercial race that only the privliged (i.e. "Elite" runners) have a legitimate chance of actually winning on everyone else. Not to mention the fact that these "Elite" runners get unwarranted special treatment by being allowed to have their own private race before the other runners even leave the start line.
Community event - hardly. A much better idea (and IMO also more respectful to last year's bombing victims as well) would have been to just cancel the event, which is increasingly an outdated relic of Boston's past years, entirely.
Did the turkeys piss in your cornflakes this morning?
Or did your delivery of Grumpy Gramps cereal arrive yesterday?
Hey gramps
Wow, have you just not gotten any action lately or what?
People bitch and moan about Boston not being a world class city. Well, here you are - a world class event. Deal with it.
With regards to the elite runners, they're running for big bucks, as opposed to 99.999% of the other runners. We had this debate many years ago about the race becoming professional. That's done. This what we have and it's great. All the other runners are not running to win, they're running for a host of reasons. Haven't you ever entered a race?
As for being a community event, have you ever been on the course? Hundreds of thousands of people lining the course, cheering runners on, cheering people they don't even know. Runners go back home to wherever and talk about how great the fans were on the course.
Have a nice weekend and I hope whatever is stuck up your ass finds its way out.
Isn't this used to hold press and TV cameras?
If so, it's hardly "pointless".
I believe the timing system in incorporated, too
This isn't just a decoration, but a structural system for press, media, power supply and officiating. They use RFID tags to time these races now, and the utilities for that system are likely incorporated in the structure.
Run, run to the light!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Given the recent TLF activity in the general area, are they planning to put up turkey repelling features, too?
Is Marathon going up earlier this year?
It seems as though the site prep this year is earlier than in years past. They've already painted the finish line and all the staging is up.
Is it earlier? Is it b/c of the 1 year anniversary?