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Oprah is a loser for running 26.2 miles and encouraging out of shape people to do the same?
What strikes me as really odd is the notion of encouraging people to begin their journey of "getting in shape" by training to do a marathon. Wouldn't it be much more practical and useful for such people to run 3 to 5 miles several times a week and work on getting their time down for that distance? And then to gradually increase distance while reducing time? That seems much more admirable to me than staggering through 26.2 miles in an average time/mile that's little better than walking just to be able to say "Hey, I did it, too!"
I like the French approach someone cited earlier, though I'd say 5.5 hours is still extremely generous.
