24 April 2006

It hurts, you know

The Guardian newsblog gets a bit sniffy (here) about Jade Goody's performance in yesterday's marathon:
"The look from TV chef Gordon Ramsay said it all. When Jade Goody, interviewed before she started yesterday's London marathon, said she'd done little training and hadn't swapped her curries for carbo-fuelled bowls of pasta, you didn't need to be a genius to know what Ramsay was thinking - it's going to hurt and it's going to hurt bad, writes London marathon veteran Liz Ford.
In the end it did a little more than that. Goody, the Big Brother "star" who has made a subsequent living from appearances in Heat magazine and, ironically, releasing fitness videos, collapsed in
exhaustion
18 miles into the course."

The girl did 18 miles - give her a little credit.

But congratulations to all those who are, for 26.2 miles of reasons, walking backwards downstairs today.

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