The London Marathon

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Marathon

As a charity we've got five people running in the London Marathon to raise money for us this year, so after church we went down to Embankment and stood around to cheer on. There are around 40,000 people who run the marathon each year. We could recognise three of our five runners by sight. So it was much to our surprise that we saw one of them pretty much immediately. And then we waited around for a bit. Alright, for a long long while.

Two observations regarding watching people run the marathon. First, it's not the most interesting thing in the world to be doing, secondly, it's really hard to keep up without your eyes going all squiffy and when you do finally give up looking everything looks like it's still moving for a few moments (you think running the marathon is hard, try watching it!). I find it odd then that people actually seemed to be there observing it as an event, even though they didn't seem to know anyone. Especially when they yelled out "COME ON TERRANCE, YOU'RE DOING ALRIGHT" at some poor guy with Terrance written on his t-shirt. If I was called Terrance and had just run 24 miles, I'd feel bad enough about myself without women I'd never seen before yelling out what they thought of my marathon performance.

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Mark wrote this at 17:38, Sun, 22/04/07, Link
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