Cork City Marathon

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Originally Posted by Dodge

I just don't see how anybody say that it was a "disgrace" a race with 1,355 finishers get less coverage than an established race featuring 40,000 runners

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Nice bit of marketing there.

I'll adjust it for you though.
A Marathon, with 1,355 finishers, got less coverage than a fun run, with 40,000 starters.

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Originally Posted by Peadar

Nice bit of marketing there.

I'll adjust it for you though.
A Marathon, with 1,355 finishers, got less coverage than a fun run, with 40,000 starters.

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Or to deal with the real issue:

A race in Cork, with 1,355 finishers, got less coverage than a race in dublin, with 40,000 starters.

Run Rock Solid?

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Originally Posted by John83

The fun run is 10k. I ran 9k for just my leg of the marathon, and I'm a fat *******. To call 10k a mini-marathon spits on the memory of Pheidippides.

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Come off it, we spent all weekend telling people we were running the Cork Marathon, leaving out the word 'relay' whenever we could.

It's my opinion, and I'm sure Pheidippides would agree with me, that anyone who doesn't run so fast that they die at the end of the race spits on his memory.

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Originally Posted by fosterdollar

Or to deal with the real issue:

A race in Cork, with 1,355 finishers, got less coverage than a race in dublin, with 40,000 starters.

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I'd like to point out that the event in Dublin, wasn't a "race".

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Originally Posted by Peadar

I'd like to point out that the event in Dublin, wasn't a "race".

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Yes it was. The winner of the race has raced in the olympics and the "elite" standard is quite decent.

The winner of the men's marathon in Cork, on the other hand, wouldn't even qualify for the women's olympics. A very poor standard

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Originally Posted by Dodge

The winner of the race has raced in the olympics and the "elite" standard is quite decent.

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Thierry Henry has kicked a ball around his local park, does that make it the World Cup Final? :confused:

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Originally Posted by Peadar

Thierry Henry has kicked a ball around his local park, does that make it the World Cup Final? :confused:

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When the seagulls... follow the trawler... it's because they think... sardines will be thrown into the sea

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Originally Posted by noby

Yes, the Cork City possibly deserved some more media attention, but don't take it out on the mini-marathon.

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I'm not begrudging the fun run its report but the marathon in Cork could have at least had a similar airtime.
I was comparing the 2 because they appeared on the same sports bulletin.
The 4,000 people that participated in Cork surely deserved more coverage.

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Originally Posted by razor

I'm not begrudging the fun run its report but the marathon in Cork could have at least had a similar airtime.
I was comparing the 2 because they appeared on the same sports bulletin.
The 4,000 people that participated in Cork surely deserved more coverage.

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Why? And it wasn't only a fun run

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Originally Posted by Dodge

Why?

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Because its a marathon, a major sporting event, the first in Cork since 1986 and it deserved more than the 5 seconds it received.

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Originally Posted by Dodge

And it wasn't only a fun run

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for 99.9% of those ladies thats all it was.

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Originally Posted by razor

Because its a marathon, a major sporting event, the first in Cork since 1986 and it deserved more than the 5 seconds it received.

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Sorry, thought you meant it merited more than the biggest race in Ireland. Yes it deserved more coverage, no it didn't deserve more than the Womens mini marathon

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for 99.9% of those ladies thats all it was.

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:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Dodge

Sorry, thought you meant it merited more than the biggest race in Ireland. Yes it deserved more coverage, no it didn't deserve more than the Womens mini marathon

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As I said previously, I used the ladies fun run as an example because it was in the same sports bulletin, I never said it deserved more coverage than it.