Indeed, mate. The fact of the matter is (and rather ironically, as it turned out), I decided to run the Isle of Wight Marathon in order to prepare for the San Fran Marathon, believing that the latter would be the greater challenge, and it turned out to be very much the reverse! I can honestly say that running the Isle of Wight Marathon is, physically, the toughest challenge I have undertaken. In comparison, the San Fran Marathon was a breeze. I mean, it was tough - you have to have a mixture of (a) fitness, and (b) sheer will and determination to complete the distance - but I never felt like giving up, at any part around the course. With the IOW Marathon, I hit the wall at around 8 miles, then again at around 22 miles, and the last four miles was sheer Hell.
The sheer thought of the word marathon makes me immediately sweat and fancy a beer. ... Probably why I'm such a fat, lazy **** though to be fair.
haha, my daughter did the London Marathon on Sunday and finished looking like she'd been for a Sunday morning jog. Not a chance I'd even think about doing one.
Well done to her, Tobias! I have respect to anyone who runs the distance. You have to love running and pain to even begin training for one.
I run to help stay in top shape only. Apart from that it's ****ing boring and anybody who thinks running 26 ****ing miles is a good idea, needs his ****ing head tested!..
I ran the 2004 Jupiter Marathon. I was much tougher than the Isle of Wight marathon, mainly due to the noxious gases in the atmosphere, massive gravitational pull and the fact that Jupiter doesn't have a solid surface, but I persevered and did it. I have a medal too, but unfortunately it got destroyed on my re-entry back to Earth.
I bet you were over the moon when you finished, mate? Mind you, I bet you were torn to pieces by the effort, yeah? I bet you even had blisters on Uranus? Am I right, mate?
Jupiter has 63 moons HIAG. If you're going to make astronomical gags, at least get it right mate. I see now though why you would think you'd get blisters on your arse from running a marathon, as you were probably sitting on your arse in Basingstoke when the 2004 SF marathon was being run.
Interesting that you say that, as the San Francisco marathon is listed as one of the 15 hardest marathons to run, due to all of the hills in SF. If you'd ever been to San Francisco, you would know this. I'd advise you check your facts before your next bullshit story mate.
Sorry Tobes but I read that wrong.... I automatically read 'shag' after morning for some reason. Please forgive me.
The Clan at it's very best ... or worst I guess . You try to prove one thing to these arseholes HAIG and it just leads to a marathon of sorts of it's own ... one proof always leads to another . Your as pathetic as they are for engaging them .
When I ran it in 2004, they had to change the route due to a bomb alert. It meant that we didn't get to run over the Golden Gate Bridge, which was a real disappointment to everyone. To what extent that altered the typography of the course I cannot tell you, because I didn't run it before or since 2004. However, it ought not to take you a great deal of investigation to discover that the Isle of Wight Marathon is considered to be one of the toughest on the calendar. The general conception is that San Francisco is going to be hard because people have seen the hills on TV and in movies, but that isn't part of the Marathon course - or, certainly, it wasn't part of the course in 2004.
