Fit blondes in Berlin

[gatso]

Anyone watch the London Marathon coverage today? Love watching it, the atmosphere, the stories, next best thing to being there.

Nell McAndrew is simply amazing.

don't like her, she was the only woman to beat me into the olympic stadium

I was on the 20 mile water station today, well I was mostly eating/drinking free tea and cake in the church hall tbh, but the elites are awesome to watch

[Claw75]

Anyone watch the London Marathon coverage today? Love watching it, the atmosphere, the stories, next best thing to being there.

Nell McAndrew is simply amazing.

yeah she was amazing (i can't think of a better word so copying you).  was going to post something about her just after her interview but must've got distracted.  fantastic effort!

A mate's husband who is in his 40's had a fantastic run today, coming in at 2hrs 41min and got interviewed by Colin Jackson.

haven't seen anything about that Dawn - terrible if so. must have had some kind of underlying condition I would have thought?

[kinboshi]

Anyone watch the London Marathon coverage today? Love watching it, the atmosphere, the stories, next best thing to being there.

Nell McAndrew is simply amazing.

Is it true a 30 year old woman who was running in it has died?

Hadn't heard about it, but it's possible. Sad news for their family and friends

[Claw75]

Anyone watch the London Marathon coverage today? Love watching it, the atmosphere, the stories, next best thing to being there.

Nell McAndrew is simply amazing.

don't like her, she was the only woman to beat me into the olympic stadium

haha - I checked her wikipedia page afterwards and insta-clocked that she'd beaten you in that

[Laxie]

Anyone watch the London Marathon coverage today? Love watching it, the atmosphere, the stories, next best thing to being there.

Nell McAndrew is simply amazing.

Is it true a 30 year old woman who was running in it has died?

Hadn't heard about it, but it's possible. Sad news for their family and friends

Saw it posted on FB but not heard from any official source.  Very sad if true. 

Are there any sort of medical checks to go through before running in something like that or is it good luck to ya once you sign up?

[gatso]

Anyone watch the London Marathon coverage today? Love watching it, the atmosphere, the stories, next best thing to being there.

Nell McAndrew is simply amazing.

don't like her, she was the only woman to beat me into the olympic stadium

haha - I checked her wikipedia page afterwards and insta-clocked that she'd beaten you in that

her wikipedia page mentions beating me?

[Claw75]

the story about the woman dying seems to be true   strangely only seems to have been reported on US websites though.

[Claw75]

Anyone watch the London Marathon coverage today? Love watching it, the atmosphere, the stories, next best thing to being there.

Nell McAndrew is simply amazing.

don't like her, she was the only woman to beat me into the olympic stadium

haha - I checked her wikipedia page afterwards and insta-clocked that she'd beaten you in that

her wikipedia page mentions beating me?

yeah it quotes her as saying "I totally stuck it in gatso's eye - what a loser being beaten by a girl"

[gatso]

Are there any sort of medical checks to go through before running in something like that or is it good luck to ya once you sign up?

think france is the only country where you have to get a doctor's note to run

[gatso]

the story about the woman dying seems to be true   strangely only seems to have been reported on US websites though.

it's on the telegraph's site

[Claw75]

Anyone watch the London Marathon coverage today? Love watching it, the atmosphere, the stories, next best thing to being there.

Nell McAndrew is simply amazing.

Is it true a 30 year old woman who was running in it has died?

Hadn't heard about it, but it's possible. Sad news for their family and friends

Saw it posted on FB but not heard from any official source.  Very sad if true. 

Are there any sort of medical checks to go through before running in something like that or is it good luck to ya once you sign up?

they can't medically check nearly 40k people.  when we signed up for berlin (and i imagine it's the same with all of them) you have to do a kind of online health questionnaire before registering, and if you're in a high risk group it'll recommend that you seek medical advice before taking part.  other than that it's up to the individual. 

[kinboshi]

People die every day crossing the road, you don't need a certificate to do that.

[kinboshi]

Anyone watch the London Marathon coverage today? Love watching it, the atmosphere, the stories, next best thing to being there.

Nell McAndrew is simply amazing.

don't like her, she was the only woman to beat me into the olympic stadium

haha - I checked her wikipedia page afterwards and insta-clocked that she'd beaten you in that

her wikipedia page mentions beating me?

She could beat me on a daily basis.

[Laxie]

People die every day crossing the road, you don't need a certificate to do that.

Yeah, but Jebus will look after those ones.  Says so in the Bible innit

[Claw75]

From the telegraph article:

"The death was the tenth since the London Marathon began in 1981.

Five of the previous fatalities were a result of heart disease in runners apparently unaware that they had a problem. Four of these were cases of severe coronary heart disease."

it's those things that people 'didn't know they had' that are usually the problem - unless you have a total check up to rule everything out I guess there's no way of knowing if you've not had any symptoms.  If something's bad enough to kill you whilst running though i'm surprised none of them had any issues during training.