LOCKED - Blues Marathon cancelled

[Allday.sixpack]

I could have had Fireball instead of water last night. Damn

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

I understand why the officials canceled the marathon, but they should've called the run much sooner than when they did.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Why did they cancel it? Because it was cold?

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

Why did they cancel it? Because it was cold?

Probably because of icy roads.

 

[Allday.sixpack]

Icy conditions on the course, inability to reasonably offer safety to volunteers and participants. Tough call to make, but I was surprised it wasn't cancelled yesterday afternoon.

 

[DerHntr]

They should give everyone 0.0 stickers for their vehicles**

 

[dawgstudent]

They have people from across the country who are already here. No reason to cancel it until latest possible

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

They did that with the St Jude Marathon a couple years ago. They waited until the very last minute just so they exhausted every possibility. There were a lot of upset (sad) people but it was the right call. Ice everywhere.

 

[stateu1]

I was in NYC when hurricane sandy came through. Literally was walking to packet pick up when we heard. There were people in tears imagine training 4 months for the biggest feat of your life only to find out you aren't going to run. It wasn't my first so wasn't as big a deal for me. It would have been my first NYC though. I also ran Boston the year it was bombed. Had been finished about an hour. Imagine those folks who were stopped at mile 20.....

 

[LesterFreeman]

I was in NYC when hurricane sandy came through. Literally was walking to packet pick up when we heard. There were people in tears imagine training 4 months for the biggest feat of your life only to find out you aren't going to run. It wasn't my first so wasn't as big a deal for me. It would have been my first NYC though. I also ran Boston the year it was bombed. Had been finished about an hour. Imagine those folks who were stopped at mile 20.....

Did you enter the blues this year as well? Because if so I think we have discovered a trend.

 

[stateu1]

No but I was signed up for St Jude when ice cancelled it. it was definitely a trend.

 

[missouridawg]

Did you enter the blues this year as well? Because if so I think we have discovered a trend.

Detective Freeman... always on the case.

 

[kired]

Normally they get cancelled more because of concern for volunteers. Even if the roads are ok to run, imagine working a water stop when it's 20-degrees. It becomes a patch of ice. And a lot of volunteers won't even show up if it's that cold or roads are icy. It's hard to get enough volunteers to work a marathon course for 4-5 hours in good conditions - I can't imagine trying to get people out in bad weather.

 

[MaroonNation]

Thinking about pissed off runners scorned from their Blues Marathon makes me smile. The number of ******** I have to circumnavigate each morning going down Riverside Drive is asinine. If one more 17'er screams 3 FEET! at me while I'm in 4LO trying to get down that pothole scattered suspension death road on my way to work, while dodging every 17'er in Belhaven who thinks they are Olympic class sprinters, I will get out and kill them on the spot by shoving a powdered donut up their *** and forcing them to drink a gallon of sweet tea.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

It was the sidewalk fight again, wasn't it.

 

[Xenomorph]

How do you feel about people who ride bikes on the Natchez Trace?

 

[99jc]

Dang you on roids boy....you made me laugh though.

Thinking about pissed off runners scorned from their Blues Marathon makes me smile. The number of ******** I have to circumnavigate each morning going down Riverside Drive is asinine. If one more 17'er screams 3 FEET! at me while I'm in 4LO trying to get down that pothole scattered suspension death road on my way to work, while dodging every 17'er in Belhaven who thinks they are Olympic class sprinters, I will get out and kill them on the spot by shoving a powdered donut up their *** and forcing them to drink a gallon of sweet tea.

marathon runners are pussified ******** for the most part.

 

[MaroonNation]

How do you feel about people who ride bikes on the Natchez Trace?

No problem whatsoever. I ride my motorcycle on the Trace all the time. They tend to obey the laws of traffic and not think they are the most important thing on the road. The Trace is also not a major metropolitan road that sees large amounts of traffic. The 17'ers jogging right down the middle of Riverside, forcing people trying to get to work to take the left hand lane of the road, are douchebags of the highest order.

If you are unfamiliar with Riverside I encourage you to drive it one day. The entire left lane, from Lakeland all the way to Belhaven University, is utterly undrivable because of ruts, potholes, craters and fissures in the earth. Every car is forced to stay in the right-hand lane. And guess where all these ******** decide to jog? Right down the middle of the right lane.

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

A few weeks ago during the peak of Christmas shopping, there was a biker riding along the median on county line road between Northpark mall and Academy. I am not so sure that they lived.

 

[seshomoru]

I've got video of family sledding down one of the hills on the route. They made a good call.

 

[fishwater99]

I'm down by the park in Belhaven.
Do they really yell at you. I just run them in the ditch, so I never hear them.

 

[fishwater99]

Icy conditions on the course, inability to reasonably offer safety to volunteers and participants. Tough call to make, but I was surprised it wasn't cancelled yesterday afternoon.

They canceled it last night around 9pm. Good Bulldog Bryan Lagg is one of the Heads.

 

[Rezdog]

marathon runners are pussified ******** for the most part.

Hey chief, you wanna find out how big a ***** I am? Just because your ******* *** doesn't like to exercise doesn't mean you should threaten someone else's life because of it. If you got a problem with a runner or biker on the road why don't you be man and stop your car and fight me. A ***** is someone who thinks it's ok to run over somebody while they're exercising. Come find me running around the reservoir whenever you get ready.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

roads are for cars, not perpetual shows of "macho running"

 

[Rezdog]

roads are for cars, not perpetual shows of "macho running"

Well then, by all means next time you see you me, run over me. Apparently that is the only way to prove you are macho.

 

[MaroonNation]

If your *** is running down the middle of Spillway Road I very well may. Especially if I'm in a hurry to get to BWW.
Especially considering Spillway has an awesome running/walking/biking path that goes all the way down to Old Fannin and meets 471 at both ends. If you are running on Spillway I'll just assume you are low hanging fruit that society keeps bailing out and go ahead and punch your number for you.

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

Or people who like a real challenge. Seeing if you can eat one more slice of meat lovers pizza isn't a challenge you fat 17.

 

[Allday.sixpack]

I'm blessed to live in an area that has wide streets or 4 lanes boulevards if no sidewalks. I run towards traffic direction so can take evasive action for distracted drivers. If you don't move over to an unoccupied lane when approaching a runner, pedestrian, biker, fellow human being, then you're the low hanging fruit that needs to be eliminated from society.

 

[99jc]

Or people who like a real challenge. Seeing if you can eat one more slice of meat lovers pizza isn't a challenge you fat 17.

Bet I have less body fat than you pU ss

 

[Rezdog]

I understand, wouldn't want your redneck *** to get back to your trailer home too late and miss an episode of Duck Dynasty. What a piece of ****.

 

[MaroonNation]

Oh I'll give them a wide birth where available and convienent for me but I will not destroy my car to do it. I was driving that road way before this fad started.

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

Congratu17inglations on making a statement with no validity. I bet I make 7 figures more than you, my dicks 15 inches bigger, and my IQ is twice as high you pU ss.
See how easy that was? Not, go eat some more meat lovers you cow.

 

[mcdawg22]

They should give everyone 0.0 stickers for their vehicles**

That is some funny ****, I don't care who you are.

 

[MaroonNation]

You Crossfit don't you? I can tell.

 

[MrKotter]

I understand, wouldn't want your redneck *** to get back to your trailer home too late and miss an episode of Duck Dynasty. What a piece of ****.

You weren't singled out but felt the need to go internet badass because joggers, in general, were put down. Seems you are the overly sensitive ****** in this thread

 

[Rezdog]

Nope, just don't appreciate some *** hole threatening my life. That's a big difference than looking for a fight.

 

[VillagepeopleDogs]

I think they should get their asses off the Trace and other roads and I am a bike rider.

 

[KurtRambis4]

I don't disagree

with the notion of getting your *** off some busy city street, but the Trace was made for recreational purposes, not transportation.

 

[DerHntr]

This thread is filled with the best example of first world problems I have ever seen. We live in amazing times.

 

[mcdawg22]

This thread is filled with the best example of first world problems I have ever seen. We live in amazing times.

I love it when I see a 13.1 sticker circling for 10 minutes trying to find a closer parking space.