Feb 2015
8:27pm, 27 Feb 2015
14,778 posts
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McGoohan
That song is *excellent*
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Feb 2015
9:57pm, 27 Feb 2015
19,840 posts
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Lady Fleecy of Mudshire
He's really good, I usually hate comedians who sing, but I saw him live and his lyrics are brilliant
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Mar 2015
11:17am, 2 Mar 2015
10,397 posts
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Oysterboy
People lying about their predicted finish time so that they can get in front of the slow people or to give them a better chance of getting round before the cut off time. There were MANY examples but I'm thinking specifically of the obese woman walking slowly after 0.4 miles in yesterday's half whose race number showed she started 2 pens ahead of me. In a big, congested race this makes things a million times worse and when the revolution comes they'll be fairly high in the queue of people waiting to go up against the wall.
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Mar 2015
11:26am, 2 Mar 2015
30,383 posts
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Hills of Death (HOD)
I do this for London ^ ^ not for cut offs because I don't want to get caught in the circus of It's a knockout costumes
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Mar 2015
11:28am, 2 Mar 2015
10,399 posts
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Oysterboy
Get against the wall.
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Mar 2015
12:06pm, 2 Mar 2015
32,952 posts
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swittle
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Mar 2015
12:20pm, 2 Mar 2015
743 posts
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Surrey Phil
The VLM is a classic example of that, Oysterboy. When I've done the VLM, I'm always stuck behind people going at a very slow pace (despite the congestion) or walking from an early stage.
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Mar 2015
12:22pm, 2 Mar 2015
14,809 posts
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McGoohan
I'm having nightmare flashbacks to Reading Half 2005. I started at the correct estimated time marker and within the first mile had to overtake a woman who was walking - she was wearing hiking boots and carrying a fecking rucksack. She must have started on the front line with the elite runners.
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Mar 2015
12:29pm, 2 Mar 2015
262 posts
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ERM
Equally - at Reading in 2001 it took me until mile 11 to overtake one gentleman wearing jeans and another running in Doctor Marten shoes.
I finished in about 1.38 so I can only applaud their athletic prowess if not their choice of apparel.
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Mar 2015
12:38pm, 2 Mar 2015
12,551 posts
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The Teaboy
Snipers. They need snipers.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The threat of trained marksmen designed to put a bullet in the skull from 400yds of people who have started in the wrong pace band and who are bottle necking everyone behind them will sort it all out. The first race that follows this enlightened strategy will reap the benefits.
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