Indeed true. To a vast majority of marathon finishers, anything sub-3 is considered
world class (i.e. they have no clue what world class truly is.)
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wrote:
I don't know if this is an accurate barometer of the public's knowledge of distance
running. I can tell Joe
In a message dated 12/22/00 10:18:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The truth, IMHO, is that the public watches sprints on TV but participates
in long distance. Every weekend there are a multitude of road races with
thousands of joggers out there "competing". But those
Conway says that the general populace loves distance running, and sideshow says they could give a rats ass about the distance races, even citing the 9900 + 100 meter sprint we all witnessed in Sydney.
I have heard throughout the years that the general populace does not relate to the sprints, but
I've been to hundreds of distance races and never had
someone bring up an elite distance race even during Olympics/WC.
I've been in on Football (American) conversations and had people refer to
wideouts/running backs as something along the lines of "he's fast enough to
be an Olympic Sprinter".
All of my non-running, non-track watching friends know who Michael Johnson
is and most know who Maurice Green is. None could name a distance runner.
If you asked them what they would want to watch on TV, distance or
sprints, they would choose sprints.
I think that EVERYBODY understands the
When Athletics Today (a weekly track and field magazine in the UK in the
late eighties and early nineties) did a survey of readers we found that 70
per cent were distance runners - cross country and road mostly.
Randall Northam
Darrell wondered:
I have heard throughout the years that the general populace does not relate
to the sprints, but can identify with the distance races because everybody
jogs. This has been the shoe company credo for decades. So which opinion
is
true?
The truth, IMHO, is that the public
