Reply to: Time to scrap the London Marathon?!

[Pondlife]

Rather than hysteria, its nice to see the running community and others are supporting Claire's Just Giving page. Donations are now over £100,000.

I was supporting at the London marathon yesterday and saw so many people putting themselves through it in the aid of good causes or just personal ambitition. London marathon certainly has its critics but it does inspire a lot of people. Given that nearly 40,000 people ran yesterday id wonder whether any of them would have passed away had they all been sitting on their sofa watching TV. I know which way id rather go.

FTFY.

[Diver]

How about Fafhad & The Gray Mouser from which Pratchet derived at least some of his ideas ?

The basis of our minds creativity is on lifes experiences, on what we have already felt, seen (read) heared or smelled. it may be a dream, a story or joke.

[Zoiderman]

Rather than hysteria, its nice to see the running community and others are supporting Claire's Just Giving page. Donations are now over £30,000.

I was supporting at the London marathon yesterday and saw so many people putting themselves through it in the aid of good causes or just personal ambitition. London marathon certainly has its critics but it does inspire a lot of people. Given that nearly 40,000 people ran yesterday id wonder whether any of them would have passed away had they all been sitting on their sofa watching TV. I know which way id rather go.

I'd never cancel it. I am just knocking the comparison to the Grand National.

[Barley]

BBC News - London Marathon death: Woman collapsed near finish line

Well if the country goes into Hysteria over a horse dying at the Grand National, shirley the same should go for the Marathon

Rather than hysteria, its nice to see the running community and others are supporting Claire's Just Giving page. Donations are now over £30,000.

I was supporting at the London marathon yesterday and saw so many people putting themselves through it in the aid of good causes or just personal ambitition. London marathon certainly has its critics but it does inspire a lot of people. Given that nearly 40,000 people ran yesterday id wonder whether any of them would have passed away had they all been sitting on their sofa watching TV. I know which way id rather go.

[amcdonald]

I read terry pratchet too!

& JRR Tolkein

+ anything else in the scifi sci fantasy genre

How about Fafhad & The Gray Mouser from which Pratchet derived at least some of his ideas ?

[Diver]

I'm not sure I would count having read a Stephen King book as being well read

I read terry pratchet too!

& JRR Tolkein

+ anything else in the scifi sci fantasy genre

[Bunk]

Some of us on here are well read.

Well, there's me and you anyway

I'm not sure I would count having read a Stephen King book as being well read

Having said that, I've read it too, and The Running Man which was also published under the Richard Bachman name originally and was very different to the movie. There were a couple of others if I remember correctly, about a guy who split up with his wife and bought a very big gun, and a kid who took his class hostage.

[Diver]

I was going to make that reference but thought nobody else would have heard of it. Good story.

Some of us on here are well read.

Well, there's me and you anyway

[d000hg]

I was going to make that reference but thought nobody else would have heard of it. Good story.

[Diver]

I think they should make it like Stephen Kings "The Long Walk" it goes on & on until Only one survives, slow down too much you get shot. fall down and take too long getting up, you get shot. break a leg or get ill, you get shot

[d000hg]

They are in Bahrain.

They're not running for fun in Bahrain.

[Old Greg]

They are in Bahrain.

In Bahrain they are forces to watch Formula 1. A much slower and more painful death.

[Old Greg]

But that might bring ex-spectators like me back to the fold.

Better if they were fed to GALs.

[MarillionFan]

The horses died because people killed them afer they were injured. Marathon runners who hurt themselves aren't dragged behind a water station and shot.

They are in Bahrain.

[Doggy Styles]

The horses died because people killed them afer they were injured. Marathon runners who hurt themselves aren't dragged behind a water station and shot.

But that might bring ex-spectators like me back to the fold.