London marathon

[finchman]

Not a honkey in sight

[Vespa]

Good luck to them I would have liked to give that a go.

[Carlos J]

What about the Eastenders two? They're going to edit some of the running scenes into tomorrows episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/athletics/68847114

[The Tick]

Not a honkey in sight

There area few, but they're far behind the leaders.

[JimmyDee]

It's all about Charidee and fancy-dress now, the two things I most hate in all the world.
Add a third thing; people taking themselves far too seriously. You're not in the Olympics, you're a "fun-runner", and running the marathon isn't actually that difficult. Plucking a figure out of the air, 95% of the starters cross the finishing-line.

Hats off to dear old Jade Goody, who entered one of those things with zero training, or carbo-loading bollocks, and still managed to do 18 of the 26 miles.

[subsub]

It's all about Charidee and fancy-dress now, the two things I most hate in all the world.
Add a third thing; people taking themselves far too seriously. You're not in the Olympics, you're a "fun-runner", and running the marathon isn't actually that difficult. Plucking a figure out of the air, 95% of the starters cross the finishing-line.

Hats off to dear old Jade Goody, who entered one of those things with zero training, or carbo-loading bollocks, and still managed to do 18 of the 26 miles.

She didn't. Her PR team told the papers that. She did about three.

[JimmyDee]

"A London Marathon spokeswoman said there was no record of Goody after she passed the 18.5 mile (30km) point at 4 hours and 37 minutes, and it was assumed she had not finished."
That suggests, to me, that there was a record of her passing the 30 km point, and every point up to that one. They'd have said if she hadn't, otherwise.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk ... ke-1027516

[subsub]

"A London Marathon spokeswoman said there was no record of Goody after she passed the 18.5 mile (30km) point at 4 hours and 37 minutes, and it was assumed she had not finished."
That suggests, to me, that there was a record of her passing the 30 km point, and every point up to that one. They'd have said if she hadn't, otherwise.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk ... ke-1027516

She may have skipped a big chunk of the course (which you can do, but the missing miles would get tracked), but she was "hobbling after a mile and a half", apparently.
Be amazed if she ran 18 miles in 4.5 hours. That's not quick at all, but she wouldn't be able to walk that fast.

Anyway, I guess we'll never know.

[finchman]

It's ridiculous that there was no honky in the final eleven...

About as ridiculous as having no coloureds in the Womens England football starting eleven.

[Vespa]

You're not in the Olympics, you're a "fun-runner", and running the marathon isn't actually that difficult. Plucking a figure out of the air, 95% of the starters cross the finishing-line

It is rather difficult.

[carcinogen]

Paula Radcliffe has to be the worst sports commentator/pundit in living memory.

[JW90]

It's all about Charidee and fancy-dress now, the two things I most hate in all the world.
Add a third thing; people taking themselves far too seriously. You're not in the Olympics, you're a "fun-runner", and running the marathon isn't actually that difficult. Plucking a figure out of the air, 95% of the starters cross the finishing-line.

Hats off to dear old Jade Goody, who entered one of those things with zero training, or carbo-loading bollocks, and still managed to do 18 of the 26 miles.

Yes but they beat their personal best this year zzzzzzz

[Sadact7]

Hats off to dear old Jade Goody, who entered one of those things with zero training, or carbo-loading bollocks, and still managed to do 18 of the 26 miles.

She was a noted racist surrounded by ethnic people. She probably thought she was running for her life, the thick cunt.

[JimmyDee]

She was a noted racist ...

I'd say she was more of a Classist.
Her dislike of Shilpa, in my opinion, wasn't based on race, but because she thought Shilpa was looking down her nose at Jade because Shilpa was posh, and everyone else in the house was lower-caste. With some justification, it has to be said.

It was the other two that brought race into it, but they magically escaped all criticism.

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

Jade was thick af tbf