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Sally Gunnells not aged well has she ? Do you think its all that jumping over hurdles ?
And unfortunately I think Linda, Michelle and Preeti probably are pretty average. I think I heard over 50% of people in the UK are now overweight? And how many people walk to the supermarket/school rather than take their cars, or do any regular exercise? Not many!
I also think Linda and Preeti both showed a lot of determination just to finish that mile. Linda did have the hip injury (she said she'd been told not to run for two weeks by a physio: no faking there). I wouldn't be surprised if Preeti has PCOS which would make it difficult to lose weight. And with her history of bullying she'll have a lot of self-doubt and fears to work against. It's difficult enough to get out and exercise without the real possibility that you are going to meet people who'll shout abuse, spit at you, throw things, try and trip you up... very possibly what she's facing. She's probably had that kind of treatment hundreds if not thousands of times in the past.
The person who's annoying me is JJ. She's the one who's really got the idea it's going to be easy and she doesn't need to train. I wouldn't be surprised if she's out next episode.
I caught this program two weeks ago, think I missed the first one.
I like the messages that this program is portaying so far, in as much as it is asking its viewers to respect the marathon distance and not take entering one lightly. But I also think their expectations are too high if they are expecting the runners to run the whole thing!!! Run/walk - surely?
Have to say it seems to me that there are some determined peeps out there and good luck to them. However one of them is irritating me and that is Linda. I know this sounds harsh, but to me she is always having a whinge about something. Whereas the blonde lady (can't remember her name) that was encouraging her the night before they did the mile run seems very determined. She only mentioned that she had had the flu as a way of trying to show Linda that she wasn't the only one that had to miss out on training, albeit not so much. I think Linda will have to pull her socks up and also that it was a shame that Sally Gunnell et al were so harsh with the blonde lady after she had done her mile. She was trying to help Linda as far as I could see and I thought she did really well!
And now they have to do 5 miles in a month. I think that will be really hard to acheive, unless they will be allowed to run/walk it. Blimey it took me 3 months to get to 3 miles!
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I would like to see more of the other runners this week - I know it's only a half hour summary but they have focused a lot on the ones with particular difficulties over the first two episodes.
I'd have thought watching some of the others might be more interesting to those forumites who are training for FLM at the moment and started with a rather higher fitness base.
It would have been good if they'd said "the first runner finished in 6 mins" (or whatever time they did) but instead they just focused on the ones that took 15 mins.
Yes, I think Sian's timetable is about right. The programmes at the moment are about a month apart in real time. So they still have a good few months before FLM.
Yes, hope Pretti makes it, it will boost her confidence enormously.
Maybe the prog isnt talking bout run/walking, as run/walking a marathon might not grab as many viewers as it would by 'running' the mara. But I hope that they point run/walk out to the contestants!
I can run slower than I walk!
But would it appeal more to the general public?
I don't know how I feel about Preeti. Losing weight is a really hard thing to do, but she doesn't seem to be taking any responsibility for herself. She needs to reconnect with her body and realise that it's her weight and only she can change that.
Michelle has got the right mindset for this, she seems amazingly determined and out of the three women they've focussed on, she's got one over on them simply because of her attitude.
The justgiving link posted earlier in the thread is really interesting - the updates and amounts raised are fascinating and gives a pretty good idea as to who's going to make it (to the start line at least).
someone who understands how it feels for people at the back of races, but has the experience of many marathons
thats why I am on this website
Looking forward to this on Thursday
BTW-how DO you spell pretti's name?