http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/sp...s&st=cse&scp=1
I think the "best" comment from the article was by this woman:
“I always ask those people, ‘What was your time?’ If it’s six hours or more, I say, ‘Oh great, that’s fine, but you didn’t really run it,’ ” said Given, who finished the Baltimore race in 4:05:52. “The mystique of the marathon still exists. It’s the mystique of the fast marathon.”