Half Marathon Issues Apology After Reusing Cups at Aid Station
A half marathon in the Untied Kingdom has issued an apology to its participants after one of the aid stations rinsed and re-used paper cups to deliver fluids to racers.
The Brighton Half Marathon, held on March 2nd, said in a statement that an aid station “ran out of paper cups for a short period of time, and under pressure made an error of judgement to wash and reuse cups to meet demand from runners for water.”
According to organizers, runners were told that these cups were re-used prior to taking fluids.
The Brighton Half Marathon is owned and produced by The Sussex Beacon, a charity that supports a specialist HIV care center in Brighton. The race typically raises over £1 million annually for various charitable endeavors.
Nearly 9,000 participants took part in the event, which is the largest number of participants the event has seen in the last decade. This year’s event was the 35th running.
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Eh, I’d rather have a reused cup than no cup at an aid station. Certainly far from ideal but I would not be upset at all if I found this out after the race.
I’d kind of ironic in a funny, not funny way that the article references sharing of bodily fluids with other participants at an HIV charity.
But ya, I think to really be upset about this, we have to live in a world with our blinders on where we pretend that people aren’t filling these cups with their hands after wiping stuff off their mouth or nose, to say nothing of breathing in each others aerosolized particles directly.
Personally, I won’t mind when all races require you to bring your own container and fill your stuff up yourself. Not that it will be any better in the long run if the big picture is considered. It’s way more of a disease vector to have all the race participants making continual wet contact with a few water jugs/hoses/etc. than have a handful of people do it and toss (or even reuse) the cups afterwards.
the question is how were they washed? if done properly should be no problem. We have too much waste in this world. I have seen how beer glasses are cleaned at bars… just a dip into a dirty pot of water. Wonder if those complaining went to drink at a bar after. Maybe those glasses should be thrown out too?
Did anyone get sick like at RNR Marathon in Vegas where they used fire hydrant water hosed into trash cans?
A friend of mine was at that one, and she was “destroyed”
Hey now!!! I feel targeted here!!!
That water is warm & soapy, and glasses are throughly rinsed afterwards; if not totally rotated out and into the dishwasher
Totally unrelated, but commercial dishwashers get the job done faster than a pro triathletes boyfriend. Some of them have the dishes cleaned in 60 seconds. I’ve always wanted to put one of those in my house… The dishwasher, not the boyfriend.
Also, I expected the article on the News page to be reposted into the little-used Running sub-forum?
haha back in the day
You should aee the mould in my water bottles after a week on the road.
You should see the mold in some of my water bottles right now.
But it went through the sanitize mode in the dishwasher, so should totally be fine…right?
I have found that running water bottles through the dishwasher does keep the mold from growing, but you have to get in there with a brush to scrub out the “remains,” otherwise it stays in there, like coral, giving a new batch someplace to call home
I could be wrong
I tend to think of it like a sourdough starter. Every bottle as a unique flavor.