Infidel 4:51 Fri Oct 9
Anybody else running the Royal Parks Half Marathon Sunday?
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Has got to be one of the best Half Ms in the world - through the royal parks, past Big Ben and Nelson's Column, along the Thames...
The only downside is that the charities lobby has grabbed essentially all the race places (a small number are issued in an online ballot but you have no chance).
Knowing there is no other way for people to get a place they sell them off at a whopping £400 a time. They call it a 'minimum fundraising contribution' but it is in fact just a fee.
£400! Jesus wept. I can remember when you just turned up on the day at these things and paid a tenner for a race number at the admin tent to cover the cost of the St John's Ambulance and the water stop at 10km.
Maybe first time runners can tap their mates for a few quid of sponsorship but if you run them reasonably regularly you can't possibly ask your friends to fund what is essentially a bit of entertainment for your own gratification.
I'm fine with charities using these things as fund raisers but it should be entirely voluntary - ie. you do it only if you want to. It's completely wrong to give them a monopoly over the race places and then allow them to exploit everyone with a £400 charge.
Anyway, rant over. Weather forecast is perfect so I'll be hoping for 1h 50m or thereabouts.
Anyone else doing it?
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After8
4:53 Fri Oct 9
Re: Anybody else running the Royal Parks Half Marathon Sunday?
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It's a lot so always put me off.
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Steve the Hammer
4:55 Fri Oct 9
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Were you there picking up your numbers in Fitness First Bishopsgate this week?
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Pancho
4:57 Fri Oct 9
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Hold on - where does the "fee" go to?
Surely to the charity of your choice?
Or is this a hidden "admin" cost? That's sick if it is.
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Northern Sold
4:58 Fri Oct 9
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Running???
YOURS
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Infidel
5:04 Fri Oct 9
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Steve
No, collecting it tomorrow in Hyde Park.
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Infidel
5:06 Fri Oct 9
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Pancho
You pay it to the charity.
The race organisers give the runner numbers to the charities (actually for a small admin fee) and then the charities sell them on with a massive mark up.
But then someone has to pay the £250,000 p.a. salary of the Chief Exec I suppose.
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Grumpster
5:07 Fri Oct 9
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Watched a mate do it a couple of years ago and I actually thought he was going to die at the end, he looked like he'd run 130 miles.
Fuck doing it myself, had my 30 years of staying super fit and bollocks to it all now.
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Pancho
5:07 Fri Oct 9
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They say charity begins at home but jesus...
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Northern Sold
5:09 Fri Oct 9
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My missus took up running at 42 years old... been doing it 6 years now... done 4 or 5 half marathons, Wolf Runs, 10k's... fair play and all that but I'll be honest she bores the fucking life out of me... her FB page is just one big run fest orgy....
YOURS
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Infidel
5:10 Fri Oct 9
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Grumpster
I did a full marathon once. Never again. Couldn't get out of bed for three days.
Half Ms are fine.You can get round even without any serious training.
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Monk~koknee
5:10 Fri Oct 9
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Some people will do anything just to get out of the house.
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Nurse Ratched
5:12 Fri Oct 9
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How do you know someone is a runner...?
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Jack_El_Biscuit
5:13 Fri Oct 9
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the stench?
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Northern Sold
5:13 Fri Oct 9
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the vaseline under their tits?
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After8
5:15 Fri Oct 9
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250k for a charity executive?
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Pancho
5:35 Fri Oct 9
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Fucking Tory government,
About right.
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Infidel
5:45 Fri Oct 9
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A8
Google it.
Of the top 150 charities in the UK, 32 CEOs are paid more than £200k p.a.
And 12 get more than £300k.
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After8
5:50 Fri Oct 9
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Maybe the protesters I encountered this week could go and protest outside the charities offices about the fat cats stealing from the poor?
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subcutaneous
5:56 Fri Oct 9
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Anybody else running the Royal Parks Half Marathon Sunday?
Ooh, look at me!
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cup of tea
5:57 Fri Oct 9
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I won't be, I'll probably be in bed.
Marathon's - fuck off
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