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> “I ended up taking both awards—the overall winner and the first place female,” Pell said. “I felt bad that the first place man didn’t have one, so I tried to
by Cenk 7y ago
> “I ended up taking both awards—the overall winner and the first place female,” Pell said. “I felt bad that the first place man didn’t have one, so I tried to convince them to blot out the ‘fe’ on ‘female’, but they said to just keep both trophies. It was pretty funny.”
- ultrarunner 7y agoThat's just an incompetent race director. There is no end to the lack of thought put into award schedules. I once got three (cheap plastic) medals for winning various categories that all overlapped during an awards ceremony that went on way too long. I suspect that this is the same (boring) situation, but runner's world being the garbage magazine that they are figured they could push the sociopolitical angle and get more clicks.