Liar Pants wrote:
Also, if you think that Choi and his bike guy aren't safe, what do you think about Nick Bester and his Parkrun shenanigans?
Watch his cameraman weave through thick crowds
Time stamp 8:45
That is f'ing stupid. What the hayl is he doing out there? Someone's gonna get hurt.
I highly doubt he got a permission from RD. That is sure fire way to a huge liability insurance.
This guy is just so slow to matter. Besides people who jog 1/2 mile in gym shoes, does anybody take him seriously?
bird flipper wrote:
Saw Matt Choi had a guy on an e-bike on-course filming him for the Austin Marathon, then he made a video about someone flipping him off and 'being the bigger man' about it. I didn't know we could bring bikes on course! Looking forward to starting my vlogging channel now!
NOOOOOO!!!1 You can’t just bring your own bike to a race course!! How will we be able to avoid getting hit by it??? You expect us to just run a safe distance away from it and move a couple inches over if it starts getting too close?!?!
The more I think about it, the more I think Choi is the perfect guy to obnoxiously promote your marathon.
Not fast enough to impede the times that actually matter, and too fast to accidentally clothesline a baby stroller or little old lady. Just fast enough that the only people he’s gonna piss off are a bunch of mediocre LR guys, who don’t talk to actual runners and will instead express their displeasure by aggressively reposting his content on a poorly regarded and borderline unreadable internet forum, before probably signing up again next year anyway.
Cost-benefit, clear winner.
