I see a head injury in my future. A head injury caused by a spinning mile marker. Those static easy to read mile markers, the ones that tell you how far you’ve come (and how far you have left to go), have been rejected by the Marine Corp Marathon in lieu of “spinteractive” mile markers. Not all of the markers, but nine of them. Spinning these 6-foot signs are actual people with arms that are likely to tire after a few hours and eyes that might be momentarily blinded by the sun. By the time I get to Mile 20 I’m not certain I trust those spinners to toss and catch with a high degree of accuracy. A rogue six foot arrow shaped projectile sign can do some serious damage to my delicate noggin. At some point in the race my ability to quickly avoid an incoming sign will be severely limited by my overwhelming physical fatigue and my non-functioning cerebral cortex. Good thing I did some duck and run training at the track. [Click to check out the spinning talent].
Title Reference: Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record). From the album Youthquake. 1985.
