When Good Spectators Yell Bad Things
It wouldn’t be fall marathon season without some sort of controversy surrounding the races, would it? Many seasons it’s a marathon that’s canceled where runners don’t get a refund (in fact, that happened in Boulder this year); other times, people are up in arms because someone dared to take pictures along the race route instead of running her fastest. (Um, I think you all know where I stand on that.) This weekend, though, the Baltimore Marathon organizers had the audacity to suggest that spectators refrain from using the cheers “almost there” or “not far to go” unless they were actually …