When you're watching the VLM on TV this year, will you be slightly bitter?

.... that you don't work for a huge company where you can put out the virtual begging bowl and raise that £2k that the charities hold you to ransom in order to get one of their golden tickets???

Go on, don't be politically correct, feel free to vent that you'd love to do it over the office geek who has lots of friends to give them money but then puts in about an hours worth of training each week in the lead up to the event and has a kebab the night before.

No.go for a run instead................the training might help you get your own GFA place and stop you getting old and bitter over something as meaningless as a marathon.......

or just go to Llanelli and run a wellrun flat fast marathon.....

your office geek deserves it as much as you ... If you were a serious runner you would earn your own place or be happy running any marathon......

Nope


Far better marathons out there where you can run for whoever you want and raise whatever you want and see some far better scenery then the back of 50000 other runners  

"If you were a serious runner you would earn your own place or be happy running any marathon"

Ouch!! Thats me told LOL.

Im not saying there aren't better marathons out there, but not as many of them are broadcast live on BBC1 ...... just saying .......

Its just another run...if you want to be on telly try entering the x factor then making a total fool of your self.....more chance of being on telly 

seren nos wrote (see)

Its just another run...if you want to be on telly try entering the x factor then making a total fool of your self.....more chance of being on telly 

To be honest, Ive actually fancied going on X Factor and deliberately acting like I was a really good singer and being really perplexed as to why Im being rejected? Maybe even throw a strop and a 'f the lot of you' on the way out, just to ensure I was definitely shown on TV.

i imagine that they must be on the look out nowadays for that .you need to do it on the first series of a new talen show...........

I won't give a shit.  I don't know why people get so wound up about running "The London".  "The London"?  FFS, you vacuous nobber.  Find a decent marathon and run that instead.

Intermanaut wrote (see)

I won't give a shit.  I don't know why people get so wound up about running "The London".  "The London"?  FFS, you vacuous nobber.  Find a decent marathon and run that instead.

Errrr, OK, so you're clearly not bitter at all about not being in the London marathon

Blimey David who's rattled your cage again? 

I won't be bitter because I'll be running the race for the seventh time in nine years.

What's the difference between you & me? Perhaps I just want it more.

Just sayin'...

Mr Puffy wrote (see)

What's the difference between you & me? Perhaps I just want it more.

Just sayin'...

Thats right Mr Puffy, keep twisting the knife .........

did you sit and watch the olynpics with bitter hatred that you would have enjoyed taking part in it ....if it wasn't for all those faster, richer athletes..........

if your parents had bought you an expensive horse for your first birthday you could have been getting that gold medal........

I'm going to Mile 17 to play with the naughty people

How did you get in 7 years out of 9 Mr Puffy? 

Cinders wrote (see)

How did you get in 7 years out of 9 Mr Puffy? 

 

My money is on a best for age (or whatever its called)

...also I think some of you may be taking my original post a tad too literally, there was a slight tongue in cheek quality about it .... Im not exactly sitting in a darkened room with a voodoo doll!

No I am not good for age David, I wish I were.

Cinders I don't have a secret formula or anything..

2006: Golden Bond place from the local Hospice
2008: Ballot place
2010: Golden Bond place donated to Hospice by the local Lions club
2011: Club place
2012: Club place
2013: Ballot place (4th year of 5 year rule)

My comment to David was tongue in cheek, but there is a grain of truth in it, I fully understand why some people do not rate the race, but me I just love it.

OK that'll be six then!

all so sad ahh

highly skilled veteran (old hand ) marathoner, only for last 10 years has run only pushing his severely disabled son in his wheelchair

But then, the sick and disabled needing assistance are not welcome, no matter how expereinced the carer pusher is

me, angry, bitter peeved - YEP