adidas Flora Liverpool Half Marathon

Nicko. Hdau

You and Hen, it looked like one of those movies when you both looked across the beer covered table into each others eyes.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww bless :-)

Ironholgs

I am not making any comments as not to embarress the good lady further.

[Deleted User]

Eeewwww they have done something with the colour on those photos.

I am no. 4336, the Mrs is 4338.

[Deleted User]

Nicko you are digging yourself a BIG hole.

I told you I'm off men for a long time yet.

My friend's got one and he's useless - he drives down one way streets the wrong way & gets overtaken by Fiat Puntos (driven by women)... apparently he's good at washing up though

;0)

Ironholgs

Hen,

does he also get lost in Liverpool whilst trying to find a pub ? They are the worst kind of man ha ha

Nicko. Hdau

Gits

Unknown

Hen -- yeah, even though there's a dishwasher!

;o)

Nicko. Hdau

Shutit you

cougie

Blimey Gary - you do look a tad washed out there ! ;-)

[Deleted User]

I know, but please to see everyone else does too. B******ds are trying to get you to pay for the photo.

cougie

I've not bought a single race photo yet - I always look (not unsurprisingly) knackered.

They'd have more luck if they came round to my house and gave me time to do my hair and lounge seductively on the sofa.


Or at least give me enough time to make sure my hair is pointing the right way. Mostly.

[Deleted User]

And they always stand at the finish line when you are busting your guts. As if you are going compose yourself and raise your hands with a cheesy grin.

Ironholgs

Cougs - you could always ring Burger King and ask for a still from their CCTV footage.

Gary - yep all the photos look washed out, i'm 2871 and I look so pale and knackered that I'm anaemic !
I haven't looked that pale since I found out how much my divorce would cost ;o)

[Deleted User]

Yup they seem to have a knack of capturing us at our worst!

I thought it was bad that they made me look like a shipwrecked pirate in mine but then again I suppose I have to take the blame for dressing like one! Not sure how they gave me some extra chins in one of them though. I'm 3313 and ashamed.

cougie

Holgs ! LOL !

[Deleted User]

holgs - you are supposed to have a cheesy grin and adopt perfect running pose, not check your watch.

marcus - nice hat.

quote from the photo site "Our photographs are printed on the highest quality photographic paper. The images are colour corrected, and brightness levels balanced to achieve optimum clarity". They missed out the bit where they will deliberately make you look like a Smack addict when viewing on the web.

Ironholgs

Gary - I was just checking that it was still sunday when I finished.

[Deleted User]

I remember watching the first London Marathon on TV when I was about 14. I always imagined myself floating through the tape, graciously allowing Dick Beardsley to dead-heat, with the crowds cheering and Frank Bough (well maybe not) waiting to interview me afterwards.

The reality of schools district cross-country leagues, with mud, spiked legs and cold showers (eeh if you were lucky) came as a major disappointment, and probably explains why after a few seasons I gave up running in favour of beer, fags, and unreliable women.

It's probably only because I can't smoke any more, get horrible hangovers when I used to have fun, and have married a very nice woman who drives me to races, that I started this lark again six months ago.

But one day I SHALL dead-heat with Dick Beardsley, maybe when he's 88, and although Frank Bough won't be there, I will finally be ready to go on to the afterlife.

OK back to the horrible photos...

Unknown

Cougie -- "They'd have more luck if they came round to my house and gave me time to do my hair and lounge seductively on the sofa"

That's be in the red transparent tights then would it..?

[enquiring minds want to know]


;o)

[Deleted User]

Gary - Mrs T looks amazingly composed at the end! Much more graceful than us lot - most of us look like we've gone over the wall at Strangeways and run all the way to Liverpool - after stopping off to buy lunch at Tescos on the way (with our lovely FLM carrier bags).

Ironholgs

Marcus I agree she does, but then I always think that women tend to look better at the end of a race than us red faced knackered blokes.

cougie

Cath !? Red tights ? Waddya take me for ?




(obviously black fishnets. Tut tut !)

[Deleted User]

Holgs - I always think the most beautiful sight at the end of a race is a pint of Guinness!

I can get quite emotional with the post-race pint: ("you know, you're not like all the other pints - you're SPECIAL!")

Don Minquez

Was chatting to my dad last night. He met Dave bedford in his hotel, does that make him famous?

cougie

I'd say. Did Dave get his autograph then ?

[Deleted User]

Marcus, the Mrs is actually in pain (and still looks good). She had forgotten to take immodium and spent the last 4 miles in need of a good poo - her sprint finish to the portaloo was worthy of a head to head with Carl Lewis.

Ironholgs

jon, surely he's famous enough just for being your dad.

[Deleted User]

Another giveaway. Just realised my T-shirt looks like a faded orange on the race photo, it is actually deep red.

[Deleted User]

Nicko, funny how you never get lost driving to New Malden ...

Ironholgs

Marcus - love drinking Guinness, have to leave it a few hours after a race though or it would just come back up !