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What really grinds your gears?

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Feb 2015
8:27pm, 27 Feb 2015
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McGoohan
That song is *excellent*
Feb 2015
9:57pm, 27 Feb 2015
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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 :)
Mar 2015
11:17am, 2 Mar 2015
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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.
Mar 2015
11:26am, 2 Mar 2015
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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
Mar 2015
11:28am, 2 Mar 2015
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Oysterboy
Get against the wall.
Mar 2015
12:06pm, 2 Mar 2015
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swittle
:-o
Mar 2015
12:20pm, 2 Mar 2015
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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.
Mar 2015
12:22pm, 2 Mar 2015
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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.
ERM
Mar 2015
12:29pm, 2 Mar 2015
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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.
Mar 2015
12:38pm, 2 Mar 2015
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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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