It’s great and all you are doing this marathon all the power to you!!
BUT I hate how it backs up Halifax, yes it is only one day but I still have to work along with a bunch of people. I am tired of being derailed to the new bridge, having the bus I need not being on time and further more the Tim’s on bar being super busy I dont even have the time to wait in line to get a coffee!
—anti marathon
This article appears in May 14-20, 2009.
I agree
Fuck the marathon i still need to get to work on time
Wah, wah, wah. Can’t we have one thing in the city that promotes healthy activity? If it’s not opposition to the Canada Games or the Commonwealth Games for that matter, we have one weekend to something as simple as marathon, and the world around Halifax comes to an end. No wonder half the people in this bloody city are morbidly obese.
You can suck it. If any of you participated you’d know the thrill and excitement of the entire event. Watching people who’ve overcome (or are living with) diseases or people with disabilities cross that finish line with such a look of achievement is really heartwarming. Sure it backs traffic up a bit… it’s just half a day and it’s not the end of the world. I can’t see how anyone could have animosity towards a great event like this that means so much to so many people… 9,000 participants roughly
Oh, boo-fucking-hoo-hoo. Let’s just stop the whole world so YOU can get where YOU’RE going, ‘kay?
This isn’t a bitch as much as it’s a nasally whine.
Next time, just to accommodate you, we’ll do 3950 laps around Kent in Bayers’ Lake. Will THIS be less intrusive enough for you??? Leave earlier, you plug. There was ample warning for you to plan the delay… THEN would you be able to get your precious Tim’s when you need it?
Maybe it would be more appropriate to have a hotdog-eating competition on the Commons? Judging by the way Halifax is looking, this seems more in line with our lifestyles. FAT FAT FAT…
ttfn who is Kay?
The shit’s 364 days away, that should be plenty of time to find an alternative route to work that goes past a coffee shop that serves oversized cups of lazy fucking brat.
I wonder what proportion of lame asses live in Boston compared to Halifax? Seriously, something that brings thousands of money spending people to Halifax is a bad thing? fuck, we ARE lame.
Wah, wah, ..it’s great but I’m slightly inconvenienced, wah, wah, 9000 people running should find another way to express commitment to a goal, turn out to support one another and raise money for charity, I have to go ALL THE WAY TO THE OTHER BRIDGE with only 364 days notice, with notices in the paper and on the radio telling me what the alternate routes are, *sob*, my heart goes out to you…
You’re tired of it? Really? Having to find alternate routes to work and maybe get a coffee from somewhere else or get up a little earlier once a year really gets to you that much? Wow, you must be fun around Christmas time!
I wouldn’t mind the race if they hadn’t blocked off entire fucking streets when nobody was racing on them.
It’s certainly easy to spot the comments of the fitness-crazed segment of society, which are as obnoxious as their behavior often is the rest of the time. Stuff the superiority. The problem with this marathon is that while it may attract 9000 people, only a couple of hundred are actually competitive. I would estimate that half don’t even run — instead they walk, sometimes with their dogs, push strollers, etc. That has no place in a supposed sporting event. My other gripe is the harebrained course layout. Isn’t a marathon supposed to go from point A to point B approximately 26km away? Why the hell do I see people running both ways on one street, doing multiple laps of certain areas, etc? Why don’t they start it in Sackville and end it downtown? Instead they close off one of two connections across the harbor and totally screw up getting around in certain areas for most of the day. Not a fan of the organizers nor, judging from the comments here, the participants.
Actually Krusty, it’s done that way so it causes less stress on the multiple parts of the city. Last year, I worked the day of the marathon, and yes, I was inconvenienced. However, instead of whining about it, I left earlier than usual, took the bus as far downtown as far as could, and walked the rest. Who cares if X number of people are actually competitive about it? The fact is that it promotes something healthy/active and this city lacks that in spades, and it’s certainly not about being obnoxious, nor about have a superiority complex. How dare the healthy make one fat guy travel out of his way to go across the harbour on one day of the year out of 365 of the other days of the year.
Bon, kay is no one. TTFN meant ‘kay as in “okay” the apostrophe indicating the missing ‘o’.
OP, shut up already. A similar bitch was posted a while back and I believe you’re the poster of the first one as well. Don’t post a second bitch in response to our opinions of the first unless you actually have some good arguments.
If you work at a hotel or hospital and have to be there for 7 am on a Sunday and the bridge is closed it just adds one more inconvenience.
Why close a bridge when they can run over the part where people walk.
I know people who work a 12 hour shift in healthcare and it takes almost 2 hours each way using transit, which means the trip when the bridge is closed is even longer.
Why not start the race around the harbour from Dartmouth to Halifax or Timberlea to Halifax. The marathon does nothing for Dartmouth except inconvenience essential workers on that side of the harbour.
I took your suggestion Krusty and looked at your Lower Sackville to “downtown” (for the sake of argument, let’s use 880 Sackville Drive, which puts us smack dab at the intersection of Sackville Drive and Beaverbank, and if run the race to, let’s say, a landmark downtown like Pier 21), that is only about 25 km. A nice half marathon, not a true one as it’s short about 17 km, and we’ve ruined 7 main thoroughfares in the process and also run it through 3 separate communities instead of just one.
PUNCTUATION.
FUCK.
It’s ONE FUCKING DAY.
I’m sure you can make alternate plans FOR ONE FUCKING DAY. Jesus christ, take an earlier bus if you have to and get over it.
the race started @ 9am….
they didn’t close the bridge before any buses ran on them?
ala 6-7am, did they?
Just be thankful I wasn’t in it…. I’d still be chugging along.
Get over it and take the ferry.
Bawwwwwwww.
for me to get to work i leave over an hour early to just get to DT which gen takes me 25 mins with the bridge being closed i get to work 10 mins late so for me to leave 2 hours early for 10 mins is crummy
no-one is forcing you to live where you do….
it can’t be enough of an inconvenience the other days for you to want to move.
perhaps explaining you’re going to be 10-15 mins late that day because of the marathon and that you’ll leave 10-15 mins late BEFORE the day of, may be what should have happened.
God forbid that the marathon organizers take into consideration the needs of the community that hosts it.
I would have thought holding it on a sunday morning before most stores are even open WAS taking needs into consideration.
I’m with zZz on that one.
zZz, such a typical NS response, “no-one is forcing you to live where you do”… asshole. I wonder what they would do to your kind in Palestine?