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Peter
You do get Beef tomatoes
Peter
take it we wont see you monday then... eh ?? well you'll still be running..
ha bloody ha, bunch of comedians ...
And I was asked more than once before my last/only London marathon: "What costume are you going to wear?" As if I'd run 60 miles a week and ruin my social life to dress up as a Rhino!
It IS possible at 12 stones
Do people do the Tour de France on a BMX? Or the British Open Golf Championship using a snooker cue?
People seem to find it hard to grasp that
a. There are other marathons than London (`but the marathon was last week')
b. People run marathons to try and get a better time than before
c. Whilst there is some pain involved the benefits far outweigh this.
Rant over
I'll go for a lie down and plan next week's runs.
Its possible at 15 stones.
And so is running FLM
( ok chaps .. send the email)
I hated it when they said.. a bloke your age and size? Why ?and I said 'for a £1 BET'
and they wet themselves.
Cos I had no answer.
Theyre stupid, but I can lose weight!!!!!!
You should have asked for £100 pounds for each stone
Now theres an idea--
Oh how they laughed when i mentioned the marathon
Hope they saw the results in the local paper
Apparently only980 finished out of 1500
Does anyone else get people questioning the point of running Marathons (and other races) when you know you have no chance of winning? I try to explain, but non-runners just don't seem to get it.
I got quite irritated by all the cheery "Not far to go now" type comments from the audience in the last eight miles or so at London. If I'd had an ounce of spare energy, I'd have told them that I still had further to run than they'd walked in the past f****** month, or how's about YOU run and I stand on teh sidelines drinking a pint and making smartass comments. But afterwards I was so-o-o-o-o glad they had been there and waited for me.
My practice partner says he can't understand doing a sport if you know you can't be the best at it. I suppose that is why he has given up football and cricket and now sticks to, er, crown green bowls. At 40!
Someone shouted the "not far to go now" comment to me at London too.
At 3 miles
B******
"So you'll do it in what, 2 or 3 hours?"
How annoying? (especailly becasue i'll be luck to finish under 5!)
The point is I'm doing a marathon - that in itself is huge, but apparently not for these non-runners obsessed by time!
On "new runners" point about others perception of your time, I don't think many non-runners have any idea of what is a "good" time. If you say you did 2 1/2 hours you'll get a "Hmm, that's good!" Do 5 1/2 and it's "Hmm, that's good!" The truth is that they haven't a clue if the time is good or otherwise!