Only Cowards Target Runners!

   I hope they catch the cowards!

   Bombers and terrorists, like all cowards, attack soft targets. Few victims are more vulnerable for violence than marathoners in the late stages of a race. They have tunnel vision. They are focused mostly on the finish line. They are depleted of energy. They are mentally drained. I've run five marathons and I would have been incapable of much defensive action to protect myself from any personal threats in the closing stages.
    Marathoners are also an undeserving target. (Not that there are deserving targets for this type of horror)
Long distance runners in particular are an unlikely lot to be worthy of the wrath of the perpetrators.
As a demographic group in general distance runners often show certain traits.

• They are environmentally conscious
• They care about the poor and the disadvantaged. Many road races donate a portion of the race profits to such charities.
• They tend to have more of an anti-war attitude than the general population
• They are often sympathetic to the plight of underdeveloped nations and support other solutions besides military intervention

Why pick on them?  I am trying to use reason to determine why this was done. Such action was done by those without reason. Their motivation is pure hate and cowardice!

Running is supposed to be an escape from the issues of the everyday world. Someone in a routine office job can hit the trails after work and on weekends and feel a sense of freedom. The outside world is not supposed to interfere in this time of escape.
   Unfortunately such acts of insanity have happened in the past. At the Munich Olympics, Palestinian terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage and later killed them. A bomb exploded in a public park at the Atlanta Olympics.
   These treacherous acts did not specifically target runners but they were too close for comfort. A less murderous situation occurred at the Athens Olympics in 2004 when some nut case jumped the leader of the marathon with a few miles left to run. The unfortunate runner got loose and still finished 3rd. They should have awarded him a specially cast extra gold medal.

The runner's temporary escape from the cold cruel real world may not really exist! This bombing at the Boston Marathon has taken this away!

I hope the catch the cowards that did this. They never had the guts to actually run a marathon!


Little Bobby Strong

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