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In a country where obesity is epidemic, the author complains about people running marathons?? Am I missing something?
I mean, it's not like 37,000 Americans are competing for the Olympics. People who are the elite still have elite events. Who cares if the "average time" of public events goes down? So what?
This whole argument reminds me of fundamentalists who claim that gay marriage ruins marriage for them. Because Fred and Sam are married, somehow, in some mysterious way, that ruins marriage for the fundamentalist.
Likewise, it's absurd to think that "ordinary" people running a marathon somehow ruins the experience for the elite athletes. The elite folks barely even see the ordinary people after the starting line. They finish an hour or two before even the fastest of the ordinary. Strange article.
