How to Win a Marathon

Dominik found an interesting article about the easy way of winning a marathon.

...some people cherry-pick their races simply because they feel more comfortable running, jumping and swimming with similarly love-handled weekend warriors, but there is a growing cottage industry pandering not so much to the desire to participate but to the more ruthless urge to win.

It never crossed my mind that someone would participate in a marathon just for the sake of winning! There are weird people out there...