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Man with speakers at Ealing Half Marathon
Peter Collins
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I know there was a thread recently, possibly satirical, by a bloke who said he was going to run a half marathon with little speakers attached to his waist so that everyone could 'benefit'. Well, there was someone doing exactly that at the Ealing Half on Sunday - could it be our mystery man? Will he out himself? If you're listening, you may have overtaken me, but your musical taste is - how could it be otherwise? - totally vile. If I could have caught you, I'd have tripped you up and stomped on them, and serve you right (sticks tongue out).
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Was that the 'Free Kick' runner ? I believe there's a competition now where RW is putting an actor in races.
He poses as an annoying wazzock and if you spot him you are allowed to challenge him by tapping him on the shoulder and saying "You are the Runner's World mystery runner and I claim my five pounds".
Since they figured that you might be a bit out of breath from running by the time you spot him and might not have the magazine with you in a race, you can just run up and kick the mystery runner instead.
The challenge has to be made during the race to count.
There were TWO idiots doing this yesterday at Bournemouth. Certainly quite tempting to push them off the Pier.
I'd have been tempted to push them off too! It's bad enough when you can hear the music coming from their headphones but speakers are just poor standard.
Saying that - on a trail marathon where I was the back pacer I did wear speakers or "musical boobies" as they have been called. To be fair - I was alone for 90% of it and if anyone wanted to listen to wham and queen they'd have been more than welcome to
I think it's fair enough when you are the Sweeper, it's a good incentive to get a move on. Like the bell being tolled to bring out the dead in plague-times
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The RD said in the race briefing that if you can hear me - get a move on... I can't sing and it's safer for your eardrums!
In 1990 (I think) a clubmate smashed a 20km course record in a race held in France running 63 minutes.
Seems the lead car played the 'Lambada' on a loop the whole way, and he was more a Bob Dylan fan.
Asked about his performance later, he declared, " I had to get job done quickly, so I wouldn't have to face the music".
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That's a brilliant idea. Maybe these people who are so keen to inflict their musical choices on others should be forced to become pacers and have an annoying jingle on a loop for the entire event. Something along the lines of "I'm the 4-hour pacer" to the tune of "10 Green Bottles".
I'm the four hour pacer. eey i eey i eey o.
With a quack quack here and a quack quack there.