I see FLM is there again even though it doesn't make the top ten in runners event polls. Its a hell of an event but it isn't the best by any means. However Runner's world would be out of business without it so I'm not suprise the editorial awards a sqewed.
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The RW Personal Best Award winners were voted for purely by the readers of the magazine and users of the website. We had no influence on winners at all.
Neil
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Nike winning? Most peeps on here are anti nike for running wear. I know some running shops won't sell it.
cat for bottled water? water is water in a bottle. Or does one brand have slightly more sodium?
health insurance..........i work in the industry. BUPA! BUPA are a f8cking expensive lot more better specialised companys out there. anyone from bupa want to argue the point i will do it.
will post a more indepth and coherant argument later or tomorrow.
Pretty amazing choices.
Lucozade Sport? Mars Bars? Nike? Great North Run? JJB Sports?
Unbe-firkin-believable.
You have to question the validity of some of these categories: Best Health Insurance? Won't people just put down the one their company subscribes to? (If they have any at all). I can't imagine people saying. "Yes, I've tried out six different health insurers this year, and found that BUPA just edged it."
Even shoes, some to that. Don't people just vote the shoes they use?
I don't want to be too disparaging because excellence should be acknowledged, but I just wonder about things like votes on "best international marathon". We all know that NY and Paris are probably the ones attended by most Brits so it shouldn't be a surprise that they get voted as 1 and 2. Surely only people who've done at least 20 or 30 of the top ones can really compare?
Bah. I'm getting more curmudgeonly as I get older.
But well done Mars Bar and Lucozade Sport and Nike and JJB Sports and Great North Run. We all know how highly you are regarded by most runners on these forums.
Lucozade, Mars Bars and Red Bull are the mainstays of my diet - so I'm not going to complain too much about those either ;-).
RC I agree with you about Paris/New York.
Shoes I voted for the ones that I wear, they're also my favourites because I don't get blisters etc.
JJB well I did buy some running shoes from there last year, but I knew EXACTLY what I was buying, but I normally use the local running shop.
you old curmudgeon you;)
I suppose i should have voted really
Saucony didnt even get a mention
you fecking WIMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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tee hee
I'm fine with it for FLM as its free and available, but its not my choice elsewhere.
You can keep Lucozade though, and I wouldn't do London cos it's too big, and I wouldn't go to JJB cos it's chav HQ.
But, I lurve Mars bars.
Of the 3, I've only run London, and have done only 5 different marathons in total, so I really couldn't make a judgement on which is the best mara in the world, or whatever the question was. I could definitely make a judgement on the best experience I had (in my case, Chicago). I just get a bit annoyed with this sort of question because unless you've done a few dozen of the world's best-known marathons, I can't see how we can be expected to compare them.
I suppose it's a bit like football fans talking about 'the best match ever'. It's all pretty pointless, but it's hard to avoid doing.
The funny thing is, if I did my 5 marathons again over the next couple of years, I bet I would totally change my order of preference. It depends on so many things -- fitness, weather on the day, satisfaction with your performance, the people you met during race weekend, and so on.