The Biggest Loser (Spoiler Alert!)

I've only watched the show once (until I had to change the channel cuz I couldn't take it) but I would assume they will be fine; after all they are coached by professionals with what I assume thorough endurance experience plus they lift weights (key training)! If anything they can always catch a ride to the finish line ;)

ETA - joking aside they prob will be fine.

what were there times?

 huh...I actually hate this show. I only watch the last 10 min to see wi's and transformations

the top 2 were in the 2:25 ish range.

interesting...

I'm just gonna jump right out there and say it. 

Anyone else wondering now, in light of past shenanigans, was it really 13.1? And was that their real finishing time?

I'm going to say yes.  Completely realistic finishing times.

Also, I think they were fairly well trained for this event.  They do a LOT of cardio and you often see them on the treadmills.  Maybe they didn't have the "long runs" but they had the frequency and volume.

Considering that they let Dean cheat on his "full" marathon, I'm skeptical of anything I see on this show

Cathy asked her team to vote her off.

Jeff is gonna need some skin surgery for sure. 

They said the distance over and over...they got it right on this one.

As I watched the episode I said to my husband "This is going to come up on BT tomorrow!"  I also thought running the half was a bit extreme, even for Tara who said she'd been running in the 6 mile range.  But I thought it was an insane prospect for Felipe, Kristin, etc., who really struggled and weren't "runners". 

Did you see that Laura was wearing a walking boot in the first scene back to the gym.   She had it on as they walked in, but it disappeared once they were assembled.  Hmmm, wonder if the half was too much for her?

Helen's not the brightest bulb...

X2 to that.  I don't believe the 2:24 time for sure.  I don't believe anything I see on so called 'reality' shows anymore.  They are all a bunch of bullsh!t if you ask me.  Everything is orchestrated by the producers to create some sort of drama either through failure, or incredible accomplishment, or conflict, etc.  First and foremost, the producers are concerned about entertaining and keeping the audience.  Second, they are concerned about selling commercial slots during the show.  And somewhere way down the list is concern for depicting the reality of the whole event.

I spent a few years in the advertising field and I know how it works.  When the guy short cutted the marathon, it wasn't the fact that the producers didn't care about depicting reality that surprised me, I expected that.  But, to blatantly pick the guy up in the middle of the course and then drop him off with hundreds of other participants all around was just plain stupidity.  There were just too many people around that would attest to what happened.

Reality shows and news, the two least credible programs on TV today.

My 2 cents.

Greg 

Coldfire - 2009-03-18 9:46 AM

jldicarlo - 2009-03-18 9:46 AM They said the distance over and over...they got it right on this one.

Yes, they did, and I am "that guy" that kept saying 13.1 miles not 13 miles until my wife got pissed. Actually, I was impressed with the 2:24:XX finish time. She would have won until the individual with no honor ate a cookie for her (adding 5 minutes to her finishing time). Yes, I know it is a game, and it was for $10,000, but still WTF?!?!? Why not eat one for both of the top two finishers? Did anyone else notice the guy running with the female winner (2:24:XX), his hat? Looked like a Ford Ironman hap. The guy in all black with a four bottle fuel belt on. Or, am I just crazy?

The thing about the cookies is that you either had to go big or go home.  Your only SUREFIRE way to win was to evenly distribute your cookies over the people that you thought could beat you.  So, in Tara's case, she probably SHOULD have eaten a few cookies against scione's time.  The people at the bottom...let's say, Kristen for example.  She's not a fast runner.  She would have had to eat the WHOLE thing of cookies against ONE person just to make her time beat theirs.  She stood NO chance of winning, so no point in eating cookies.

But the whole point of a temptation is to show you that taking the easy way out (eating cookies) isn't worth it.  It's much more effective to just work harder.

So at the end of my rambling, I think Helen was DUMB to eat just one cookie.  That wasn't going to do any good.   All or nothing.

And I STILL think they should have reported ALL the cookies eaten...it's kinda crap that Aubrey didn't fess up to any of her cookies.

I didn't see the hat on that guy, but I did see the fuel belt.  Who needs to run with a fuel belt when you are running around a track?  Can't ya just pick up a water bottle off a table????

Hmmm I do. Tara and Scione both alluded to running the entire time (except for Scione's cramp at the end). Very doable, especially when $10K is on the line, and they had pacers and a cheering squad the entire time.

My first half marathon time was in the 2:23 range and I ran, albeit slowly, the entire time. I saw 200lb ladies finish well before me. It can be done.

Ya, they even have a pool in the back of the house they stay in on the ranch, never  seen anyone use it on the show, I guess it looks good though!

I've seen them work out in it on the "outside only" weeks and one season a contestant was hurt and couldn't really run and they showed her using it.

They use it...really.