Off Topic Benali's Big Race

Don't forget, Kim Kardashian was robbed (allegedly) yesterday, too...

 

Yeah. Unfortunately I was in the same room as my radio when that was announced. Who on earth gets £8M+ worth of money and assets stolen on a trip to Paris.? What about travelling light.?

Who is that comedian.? Oh yeah, Amy Shumer. She did a rather funny snippet on The Graham Norton Show about Mrs Kardashian. Heck, I'll see if I can find it on Youtube. For your entertainment:

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Follow that link to Youtube and the whole show is there. And a good one it is too. Sorry Franny.! Back to charity running.

 

If I was rich, I would buy myself some pretty nice stuff, but I would be ashamed to spend that much on frivolities like flashy jewellery. Think of the good you can do with that amount of money.

 

I shall have a go tomorrow, too tired tonight as the dear old NHS called me out of retirement to do a couple of days work sorting out their software. More next week too!

 

Is that the 401 chap, running 401 marathons in 401 consecutive days! I believe the Bournemouth Marathon was number 398, and in which, he ran a new pb. Just looked it up and it's his final marathon today!

Also, this line kind of makes it more astonishing despite not technically ending up doing a marathon a day (still did the equivelant 10,506.2 mileage).

"Ben Smith, 34, began his charity attempt on 1 September 2015 and ran 284 consecutive marathons in 284 days.
He then developed an umbilical hernia in June which forced him to stop for 10 days to recover before resuming and making up the lost mileage."

This kind of thing, and what Frannie is doing boggles my mind because I ran a marathon once...and for several days thereafter, well...let's just say there are more nimble 90 year olds.

 

I believe JK Rowling lost her Billionaire status because she has given so much to charity. There is, after all, no real need to be a Billionaire!

 

Like most people I'm sure, I would love to help smaller causes where money would be seen to do good. However, by the time you are talking billions, you would have to give away tranches of ready cash to make a hole in your fortune and have staff to help you do it.. As said, there is a limit to how much you need....unless you are vulgar show offs like the Kardashians.

 

I see Fran has got things organised to pay for her next holiday.......

 

Matt doing his bit.

 

Looks like he made it as he is at Stoke now.

 

Yay....1:44 - 2:23 cycled near my house(out of shot). The section covers the plateau from Penderyn (Welsh Whisky), past Ystradfellte (waterfalls), to the A470 at Beacons Reservoir (a stretch of road much-loved by Top Gear).

Good to see Mattie trundling along - I can laugh....he did better than I would.

 

Ah the text donation makes it easy. Good stuff.

 

Despite a hamstring injury Franny has reached Everton, next stop Wigan. How does he do it? He was met at Liverpool by Lallana.

 

Expect the lying dutchman is off busy in Portugal for him to make an appearance.

Still not getting much coverage ... come on media, you devote so much more for less than this.

 

Well he somehow made it to Preston.

 

This mans going to bleed me dry. Seeing what he's putting himself through...I just keep having to text in. Go on Frannie. He's a Saint

 

Nice one, Adam. You're still a prat, but marginally less so! You could have earned redemption had that been a cheque for half a million or so in your mitt rather than a crappy red shirt.