Marathon Weekend 2027

[The Expert]

This is the one I bought: https://goodr.com/collections/cheetah-g/products/stealth-mode-supreme

Their lens height is much shorter than other Goodrs I’ve tried, which I need to avoid glasses resting on my cheeks and getting shoved down onto my nose by my hat/visor. They’re also super sassy, which I love! Too bad my vision is blurry in them lol!

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On the sunglasses topic, I’ll throw an unpaid plug here for Tifosi, a brand from which I’ve bought 5 different pairs of sport sunglasses over the years and they remain my favorite, most comfortable glasses of all. If they offered bifocals (I cannot do progressives), I’d pony up the cash to get Rx Tifosi’s made.

Thanks for the tip! Those look like they might be a tad wide, but I will definitely seek them out to try on at SS. I have a child-size head, which is super annoying for sunglasses and hats at expos!

 

[Zutroy]

I have a theory on these runners. They’re obviously genetically gifted to be able to run that fast and that efficiently, and up until this running boom, they’ve been able to get their external validation by doing the “big” marathons. Now with the running boom, these runners have competition for the first time, can’t get in to their big goal race, and cannot accept it gracefully because they’ve never had to accept failure before. These marathons have made up their own ratings, ie Abbot World Majors, and are extremely selective, which drives up demand.

It’s like when you started the college application process. Remember the selective/more selective/most selective system? Colleges and universities created that system, applied it to themselves, and watched as the Type A students drove themselves ragged to get in to the most difficult/selective schools to get accepted. It didn’t matter if these schools were any good. They applied a phony system to themselves and watched the bloodbath.

I don’t think that’s it. As a solidly ~3:20 marathon runner (I think I had a couple of seconds difference between MW 2025 and 2026), I’ve flirted with the idea of getting a BQ, but that would mean essentially doubling my training to get sub-3. My plan is to just get older and hope to keep the same pace, lol. If I spent that much time training to get a BQ but missed the cutoff, while someone else just bought their way in with a charity, I’d be mad too. It’s like if the band you liked for years and saw all their shows suddenly blew up, and now you can’t see them in concert because a bunch of new fans bought all the tickets.

It’s not about “never having to accept failure before.” It’s that all these new people who “haven’t paid their dues” are jumping on the marathon bandwagon. It was always kind of expected that you didn’t try a marathon until after years of running multiple halves and developing as a runner. It was about respecting running as a sport, not just an Insta photo op. Now people who haven’t even run a 5k are signing up for marathons. Not to gate keep, but I do think it’s a waste of a bib for that kind of person to sign up for a race that they will either DNF, DNS, or take 8 hours to complete.