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shelflifers
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 Posted: 07/01/03 - 13:27 Post subject: 6,000 Runners...fail....
(remember...tongue in cheek here people...)
6,000 Runners Fail to Find Cure for Breast Cancer
ATLANTA—Despite their diligent, dedicated running, the 6,000-plus participants in Sunday's 5K Race For The Cure did not find a cure for breast cancer.
Above: Race For The Cure runners take off in search of a breast-cancer cure.
Hopes were high, given the excellent weather and record turnout for the 11th annual event, but no viable cure for the disease was discovered along the 3.1-mile course.
"We were particularly hopeful of locating the cure somewhere around the two-and-a-half-mile mark," race organizer Jill Broadbent said. "At that point, the route goes right past Northside Hospital and within a block of several Emory University oncology facilities. That seemed the most promising place to perhaps spot a breast-cancer cure. Regrettably, the runners were unable to do more than momentarily glimpse in researchers' windows as they passed by."
At 10 a.m., participants gathered outside the Georgia Dome and proceeded to search through much of downtown Atlanta, including a one-mile stretch of Peachtree Road, before finishing cureless at the state capitol.
Among those disappointed by Sunday's failed attempt was Gene Worth, a Germantown, TN, real-estate agent who drove 450 miles to participate in his seventh Race For The Cure.
"I worked out for three months, focusing my full energies on preparing for this race," Worth said. "I switched to a vegan macrobiotic diet just to be in top shape. Three kilometers in, I felt great, like this was going to be the year we cured it. I did break my personal 5K record, but even that wasn't enough. Then, after I crossed the finish line, I watched other racers finish, but they came in empty-handed, as well."
Broadbent was quick to dispute characterizations of the run as a failure.
"As we like to say, today brought us one 5K run closer to the cure," Broadbent said. "We may not have cured it yet, but one of these times, we will. When faced with a setback like this, we need to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and run another five kilometers."
Added Broadbent: "If even one patient went into remission as a result of thousands of people running around Atlanta, then it's all worth it."
The race was the latest disappointment in a dismal two-week stretch for athletic-based medical research. On Nov. 1 in Dallas, an estimated 3,000 cyclists were unable to isolate the portion of the human genome responsible for Alzheimer's disease. Three days later in Boston, some 200 rowers from 27 different colleges gathered on the Charles River in an unsuccessful attempt to eliminate AIDS. And a pair of Nov. 9 regattas in San Diego and Miami failed to cure cystic fibrosis and heart disease, respectively.
Runs against cancer and other diseases have been popular since 1976, when Olympic runner Bill Rodgers discovered the formula for Interferon Beta—effective in the treatment of multiple sclerosis—at the base of Nobska Point Lighthouse while running the Falmouth (MA) Road Race. Rodgers went on to win the Nobel Prize For Medicine for his discovery, despite losing the race itself to Alberto Salazar.
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Posted: 07/01/03 - 13:32 Post subject:
what a stupid headline. Like they could find it..
That is ridiculous.
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shelflifers
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Posted: 07/01/03 - 13:34 Post subject:
| rtpd113 wrote: | what a stupid headline. Like they could find it..
That is ridiculous. |
TOTALLY! And did they think that by simply peaking in the windows would help???
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Posted: 07/01/03 - 13:37 Post subject:
Nice!
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David
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Posted: 07/01/03 - 13:42 Post subject:
I think I know that hispanic lady in the front... 
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shelflifers
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Posted: 07/01/03 - 13:47 Post subject:
Checkout the assclowns in the MCI hats!
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Posted: 07/01/03 - 13:50 Post subject:
why do they crouch so low....
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shelflifers
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Posted: 07/01/03 - 13:52 Post subject:
| rtpd113 wrote: | | why do they crouch so low.... |
Not sure but I have absolutely NO doubt that they've already pick-pocketed all the runners around them...
megawill...cb... witness?
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Posted: 07/01/03 - 14:07 Post subject:
Been perusing The Onion again, have you?
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shelflifers
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Posted: 07/01/03 - 14:09 Post subject:
| kristin31 wrote: | | Been perusing The Onion again, have you? |
I love the search engine! You can type almost anything and they have an article on it, K.
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Posted: 07/01/03 - 14:13 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | kristin31 wrote: | | Been perusing The Onion again, have you? |
I love the search engine! You can type almost anything and they have an article on it, K. |
so what did you search for "breasts," Joel :
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Posted: 07/01/03 - 14:22 Post subject:
LOTS and LOTS of them, no doubt.
Hey, we found Peeps in Madison, I guess people think you can find anything if you look hard enough. 
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Posted: 07/01/03 - 14:29 Post subject:
Some of them are committing the unpardonable sin of wearing their race shirt during the race! to everyone who does that.
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shelflifers
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Posted: 07/01/03 - 17:22 Post subject:
| AlaninTX wrote: | | Some of them are committing the unpardonable sin of wearing their race shirt during the race! to everyone who does that. |
AAANNNNDDD...should they really be in the front of the pack?
BE GONE DEVILS!!!
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Posted: 07/01/03 - 17:38 Post subject:
actually I think it's a funny article, we do seem to think we can achieve a goal, by conducting a totally unrelated activity. Like a race would find a cure for anything. Yet the name of the race implies that a bunch of people running could actually cure cancer. walk-a-thons, jump-a-thons, rock-a-thons, farm-aid, etc. all skip the part (in their hype) about raising money to support, cure, aid, that particular charity/cause. and "we" walk around talking like doing this activity is a direct action for the desired consequence.
so these doofuses with the race shirt on and at the front of the starting line......these aren't the real runners, right? were there any real runners?
please tell me an elite runner was back in the pack waiting to trample them all
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