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London marathon
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:24 am
by finchman
Not a honkey in sight
Re: London marathon
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:42 am
by Vespa
Good luck to them I would have liked to give that a go.
Re: London marathon
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:45 am
by 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
Re: London marathon
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:59 am
by The Tick
finchman wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:24 am
Not a honkey in sight
There area few, but they're far behind the leaders.
Re: London marathon
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:41 am
by 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.
Re: London marathon
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:47 am
by subsub
JimmyDee wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:41 am
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.
Re: London marathon
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:58 am
by 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
Re: London marathon
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:42 pm
by subsub
JimmyDee wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:58 am
"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.
Re: London marathon
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 3:28 pm
by 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.
Re: London marathon
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:05 pm
by Vespa
JimmyDee wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:41 am
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.
Re: London marathon
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:41 pm
by carcinogen
Paula Radcliffe has to be the worst sports commentator/pundit in living memory.
Re: London marathon
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:17 pm
by JW90
JimmyDee wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:41 am
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
Re: London marathon
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:15 am
by Sadact7
JimmyDee wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:41 am
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.
Re: London marathon
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:54 am
by JimmyDee
Sadact7 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:15 am
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.
Re: London marathon
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:53 pm
by The Ghost of Alex Higgins
Jade was thick af tbf