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Mens Mini Marathon 4th May 2009 (10km)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Rusty Cogs 08


    Ah, t'is a bank holiday, nows I understand.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,368 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Sexism.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭shels4ever


    Ah, t'is a bank holiday, nows I understand.

    May bank holiday ;) I'll have other fish to fry this day....

    So is it a men only race the? ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Ooh, ooh, can I wear a tux and run it in drag? :pac:


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,368 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Ooh, ooh, can I wear a tux and run it in drag? :pac:

    I'm tempted. Don't the men always hijack the womens mini marathon? :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,841 ✭✭✭Running Bing


    Why dont they call it the ARC 10k?


    I hope this mini-marathon ****e doesnt cath on:rolleyes:


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Got handed a flyer for that the other week, couldn't find anything on the sheet to suggest what distance it was though. Just called itself a "mini-marathon" as if that meant something.

    I'm impressed if they are actually going to try and counteract that wimins one that they have through the city centre though so may be tempted to turn out for this one to make up the numbers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭MCOS


    I don't care if its Men's or Women's I hate the term 'mini-marathon'. Even though people I love have done them and kudos to anyone for getting off their @rse and doing the 7,10, 5, or whatever km it is on the day. The association with Marathon just grates me like nails scraping down a blackboard :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    MCOS wrote: »
    I don't care if its Men's or Women's I hate the term 'mini-marathon'. Even though people I love have done them and kudos to anyone for getting off their @rse and doing the 7,10, 5, or whatever km it is on the day. The association with Marathon just grates me like nails scraping down a blackboard :mad:

    "I did a marathon too"
    "Oh really, I didn't know you ran, what time did you do?"
    "1:10"
    "Oh......right......... you did a 10k....."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,612 ✭✭✭Peckham


    Think we may need to face the fact that "mini marathon" is now an accepted term for many people. The activeeurope link doesn't specify how long the race is, nor does the link to the organisers.

    I guess people will just enter this not knowing how long the race is, but that it is an achievable distance for many.

    Am of the same opinion as others - great that it gets people active (and many of them will be bitten by the running bug and build on it), but lets not get confused between a quarter marathon and a full marathon!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭rovers_runner


    Not running in this joke because of their misuse of the word marathon.

    Who wants to stop women running a properly organised race anyhow just because a bunch of fat birds walk a 10k on a bank holiday in the summer for charidee?

    Any female athletes worth their salt anyhow would laugh at this mini-marathon ****e.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭cfitz


    Not running in this joke because of their misuse of the word marathon.

    Who wants to stop women running a properly organised race anyhow just because a bunch of fat birds walk a 10k on a bank holiday in the summer for charidee?

    Any female athletes worth their salt anyhow would laugh at this mini-marathon ****e.

    The womens mini-marathon is generally won in under 36 minutes. Sonia O'Sullivan won it at least twice, Catherina McKiernan won it at least 4 times. I reckon they're worth their salt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭Clum


    Real men don't run mini marathons. 10k races, sure, but not mini marathons.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭plodder


    mp1972 wrote: »
    Sexism.
    Sounds a bit like this ... ;)

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    I'd be surprised if the organisers rejected any entries from women.

    I don't have a problem at all with the term mini-marathon. But, like Tunney, I've heard a lot of people "forgetting" the "mini" part and that gets up my nose a bit.

    “Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt” - Carl Jung



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭thirtyfoot


    Its hard to reconcile the general disdain this board has for the term 'mini-marathon' with the board's outrage foisted on Cfitz yesterday for his back-slapping rant yesterday. Are we all not here to encourage running no matter what level or guise its under??:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭MCOS


    Tingle wrote: »
    Its hard to reconcile the general disdain this board has for the term 'mini-marathon' with the board's outrage foisted on Cfitz yesterday for his back-slapping rant yesterday. Are we all not here to encourage running no matter what level or guise its under??:D

    Of course we are :D You will understand the frustration when you have run a Marathon (ahem... the 26.2 version that is)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭shels4ever


    MCOS wrote: »
    Of course we are :D You will understand the frustration when you have run a Marathon (ahem... the 26.2 version that is)

    We should just rename the 400m to the micro marathon then too ;)
    i'll do 10 sets of micro marathon tonight in training ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭thirtyfoot


    MCOS wrote: »
    You will understand the frustration when you have run a Marathon (ahem... the 26.2 version that is)

    Typical 'real' marathon elitism :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭thirtyfoot


    shels4ever wrote: »
    We should just rename the 400m to the micro marathon then too ;)

    I get inverse marathon racism all the time ....

    "Yeah, I'm an athlete, like a runner"

    "So how many marathons have you run"

    "Ahhh, none, I do short stuff on a track, like"

    "Ok" and they usually lose interest then.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭shels4ever


    Tingle wrote: »
    I get inverse marathon racism all the time ....

    "Yeah, I'm an athlete, like a runner"

    "So how many marathons have you run"

    "Ahhh, none, I do short stuff on a track, like"

    "Ok" and they usually lose interest then.
    I did find that I was giving reason why I wasn't doing marathons last year. For some reason I still think of myself as a track/XC runner..


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭thirtyfoot


    shels4ever wrote: »
    For some reason I still think of myself as a track/XC runner..

    And don't let anyone change that no matter how many Ron Hill tights or vizzy vests you own.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭rovers_runner


    cfitz wrote: »
    The womens mini-marathon is generally won in under 36 minutes. Sonia O'Sullivan won it at least twice, Catherina McKiernan won it at least 4 times. I reckon they're worth their salt.

    cFitz,
    based on the pbs of Sonia and Catherina over 10k it's safe to say it was treated as a training run by both.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭MCOS


    Tingle wrote: »
    Typical 'real' marathon elitism

    Cool, if thats how you wish to percieve it. Ask someone who has done an Ironman how they would feel about rebranding novice sprint triathlons as Mini-Ironman Crap comparison!

    I'm with Tunney on his point above

    I wouldn't tell someone I've done the hurdles if I went out and jogged 25m down the track and hopped over 2 short hurdles while chatting to my mate. Another crap comparison I know!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭thirtyfoot


    MCOS wrote: »
    Cool, if thats how you wish to percieve it.

    I was only joking, should have included smilie.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭MCOS


    :P cool


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭cfitz


    cFitz,
    based on the pbs of Sonia and Catherina over 10k it's safe to say it was treated as a training run by both.

    Sonia O'Sullivan's PB for 10,000m is 30:47. She won the mini-marathon in 31:28.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Rusty Cogs 08


    TBH the term 'mini-marathon' annoys me as well. Esp as per Tunney's ' I've ran a (mini) marathon too '. But more so the fact that the term is an oxymoron. A marathon means more than just the distance, for most it represents a serious life altering commitment of time and effort in pursuit of a well recognised standard of running achievement. To corrupt the term with 'mini' is like saying.

    'Oh, I'm a doctor too, well it's a mini-Phd, ya know, a diploma'

    'Oh, you've a baby ? me too, well actually it's a cat'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭thirtyfoot


    cfitz wrote: »
    She won the mini-marathon in 31:28.

    Christ thats some time. Had a quick look and only 10 women have gone under 31 on the road, Sonia being one of them with a 30:59 in Milan in 2000. Puts a 31:28 in perspective, McKiernan's lifetime best was 31:21.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    cfitz wrote: »
    Sonia O'Sullivan's PB for 10,000m is 30:47. She won the mini-marathon10k in 31:28.

    FYP ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭plodder


    TBH the term 'mini-marathon' annoys me as well. Esp as per Tunney's ' I've ran a (mini) marathon too '. But more so the fact that the term is an oxymoron. A marathon means more than just the distance, for most it represents a serious life altering commitment of time and effort in pursuit of a well recognised standard of running achievement. To corrupt the term with 'mini' is like saying.

    'Oh, I'm a doctor too, well it's a mini-Phd, you know, a diploma'

    'Oh, you've a baby ? me too, well actually it's a cat'.
    Good points. Though if you check a dictionary the word marathon doesn't just mean a 26.2 mile run, eg. a "dance marathon". It can mean any test of physical endurance, and arguably it's all relative as to what a test of endurance means for different people.

    Though I agree, the mini-marathon crowd owe some of their (considerable) success to hijacking the word in a running context. But so long as they don't forget the "mini" bit, it doesn't bother me.

    “Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt” - Carl Jung



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