Lance Armstrong is my nemesis

sunupoernomo · November 10th, 2006, 12:55 PM

my new goal is to beat his nyc time.
the pampering and attention he got makes me sick. everybody else can get their own water, gels, pace themselves, and run through the finish line. i'm trying to contain myself and avoid like a huge tirade but if anyone encourages me you can read a bitter outspoken hatred and obscenity filled denunciation of the bastard whose name we will not speak of.
anybody feel me?

**Jeremy Minton** · November 10th, 2006, 03:12 PM

Well, I can't say that I feel ya, I like Lance. But good luck breaking his time, anything can be done. I think you might have a lot of training ahead of you. I hope you are prepared.

sunupoernomo · November 13th, 2006, 09:16 PM

just gotta shave 20 secs a mile so yeah serious training and it'll be the same course so nyc marathon next year! never ran a race seriously to beat somebody though so its a good motivator. i like all the money he raised for cancer but i guess you guys didn't see the professional pacers he had with him and people getting him water and gels, huh? i also hated the way he just stopped at the finish and doubled over, there are other people trying to come in too.

**g_samsa** · November 20th, 2006, 04:56 PM

I agree. If he was stuck back in the pack, didn't have joan bennoit and other pros as pacers, and generally been a normal guy running, he would never have done it. I do like him though. I think that even with all the help it's an accomplishement for him. Same note, it should come with an *. I ran chicago last month and got to the start as the gun was going off. I jumped over the fence, but still was stuck behind about 30,000 other runners. I spent half the race just trying to catch up to the 3:10 pace group. That and I had to take the train into the race, wait in line at MacDonalds to take a dump, and obviously, get stuck in the back. IT was great fun and I would do it again, but that isn't the same as being pampered.

incantevole · January 31st, 2007, 11:42 PM

It would be a little easier to criticize him as a runner, if it were not overshadowed by the fact that he whipped the whole fucking world so bad it hurt every year on the bike. If Jerry Rice did the same thing, no one would knock him just out of respect for what he did in another sport. And he didn't almost die of cancer.

**g_samsa** · February 1st, 2007, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by incantevole

It would be a little easier to criticize him as a runner, if it were not overshadowed by the fact that he whipped the whole fucking world so bad it hurt every year on the bike. If Jerry Rice did the same thing, no one would knock him just out of respect for what he did in another sport. And he didn't almost die of cancer.

You are wrong about the Jerry Rice thing. Running a marathon has nothing to do with anything you did in the past. I would say the same thing about anybody who got "the star treatment". I would say just what I said. It's a great accomplishment, but it was made a whole hell of a lot easier by all the pampering.

Oh and by the way. I ran Chicago and I HAD CANCER TOO (malignant melanoma). I'm not taking anything away from his past accomplishments. I'm just commenting on the obvious. He had help with the marathon. If you can't admit that then you are blind.

I've made 487 posts without mentioning that I had cancer, so it's not like I'm trying to illicit any sort of reaction. I'm just a little tweaked that cancer would be used as an excuse to "lay off" someone or give someone a break. I love everything Lance has done with his foundation and all the great work he does for people like me. I think lance is using his fame in the most productive way he can. But, that has nothing at all to do with my critique of his marathon.