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NDWDave Jan 2021 1:10pm, 4 Jan 2021 13,656 posts	Quote Pin NDWDave Alan Turing ran a 2:46 marathon
Ocelot Spleens Jan 2021 1:22pm, 4 Jan 2021 29,603 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens very good en.m.wikipedia.org
Ocelot Spleens Jan 2021 1:23pm, 4 Jan 2021 29,604 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens Johnny Marr under 4 hours
Ocelot Spleens Jan 2021 1:24pm, 4 Jan 2021 29,605 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens Bjorn from ABBA!
Cerrertonia Jan 2021 2:04pm, 4 Jan 2021 13,584 posts	Quote Pin Cerrertonia [Turing was in contention for the 1948 GB Olympic marathon team. He reportedly often ran Cambridge to Ely and back, which is 50km.] The impressive one in the list above is the 2001 Nobel Prize for Physics winner, Wolfgang Ketterle, who did his 2:44 at Boston, aged 56.
Night-owl Jan 2021 2:19pm, 4 Jan 2021 35,171 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl [I knew this but Menzies Campbell once held the British record for 100 metres]
Oranj Jan 2021 3:00pm, 4 Jan 2021 2,399 posts	Quote Pin Oranj [Ronnie O'Sullivan should have a crack. With a 34-minute 10k to his name I reckon he'd do quite well if he wasn't wasting his time with that snooker lark.]
Night-owl Jan 2021 3:02pm, 4 Jan 2021 35,173 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl [I have raced against him he is quick well been in the same race lol ]
Groundhog Jan 2021 3:07pm, 4 Jan 2021 1,814 posts	Quote Pin Groundhog From JRitchey's blog: that each fishing town in the North East would have their own knitted patterns on fisherman's jumpers (or Ganseys as they are known). This was not merely for the purpose of some football shirt like allegiance or local pride, but in order that the fisherman could be more easily identified as belonging to a particular town if their bodies were ever to be washed up on the coast.
Lip Gloss Jan 2021 3:12pm, 4 Jan 2021 47,680 posts	Quote Pin Lip Gloss Wow coming from a NE city where fishing was in the blood of my grandfather and his brother I never knew that.

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