Great North Run

[tunstallhill]

Good luck everyone. Whilst my dislike for the run is well documented, I'm currently sat on my arse unable to run so have to admit to being a bit jealous. I will be cheering you on from my settee.

What's that about like??

 

[becs]

Good luck everyone. Whilst my dislike for the run is well documented, I'm currently sat on my arse unable to run so have to admit to being a bit jealous. I will be cheering you on from my settee.

Me too!

Best of luck everyone xx

 

[T_Bone]

My son is doing it for the first time then going on the hoy in Shields.

 

[RestlessNatives]

What's that about like??

I did the GNR two years ago and wrote a blog about why I didn't enjoy it (in summary, people). I won't post it as @Mackem00 rightly points out, I'm just a miserable old bugger.
I've been sidelined for a few months now so can't run and I've put on over a stone.

 

[Stubbs ftm]

Good luck everyone doing it. Did it about 14 year ago, not to be repeated ever.

 

[errant]

Good luck to those 50000 doing it, watching it from outside the green then having a few pints on the afternoon is far far more enjoyable than the half dozen times I ran in it...

Kudos to the wee Scots guy who ran into the green one year for a swift half...

 

[Bladecat]

Pity Mike Ashley isn't starting it...it would have been their biggest protest to date

 

[Hank Scorpio]

Love running but hate the North Run with a passion. I stopped running it a couple of years ago and really don’t miss it.

That said, good luck to everyone doing it today and I hope people raise a lot of money

 

[Dave Herbal]

I never understand why people don’t just turn up at the start at the latest possible start time and enjoy a clear run, rather than spending the first couple of miles shuffling along in the pack.

 

[RestlessNatives]

I never understand why people don’t just turn up at the start at the latest possible start time and enjoy a clear run, rather than spending the first couple of miles shuffling along in the pack.

It won't be a clear run, you'll constantly be running around walkers and fancy dress people. The only way to get a clear run is start at the front and be quick enough to keep up.

 

[Dave Herbal]

It won't be a clear run, you'll constantly be running around walkers and fancy dress people. The only way to get a clear run is start at the front and be quick enough to keep up.

But surely running through all that would be preferable, not to mention more fun, to the shuffling bit? You must have to walk a mile in that queue before you even reach the start.

 

[becs]

I never understand why people don’t just turn up at the start at the latest possible start time and enjoy a clear run, rather than spending the first couple of miles shuffling along in the pack.

I started in the last section when I did it and spent most of the first few miles zig zagging around people. Some were walking before the Tyne Bridge. This isn't too bad if they tuck into the side, but annoying when there's four or five of them all holding hands and strolling along as if they're on a nice country walk out.

 

[Dave Herbal]

I started in the last section when I did it and spent most of the first few miles zig zagging around people. Some were walking before the Tyne Bridge. This isn't too bad if they tuck into the side, but annoying when there's four or five of them all holding hands and strolling along as if they're on a nice country walk out.

Just smash through them like you’re breaking the tape.

 

[Hank Scorpio]

It won't be a clear run, you'll constantly be running around walkers and fancy dress people. The only way to get a clear run is start at the front and be quick enough to keep up.

Even then, you get twats in fancy dress. The last year I did it, I was in the first orange pen and there were still people walking on the Tyne Bridge

 

[Deleted member 2014]

My son is doing it for the first time then going on the hoy in Shields.

Best of luck to him, and everybody else taking part today.

 

[Dan The Man]

See someone drew a massive cock on the leas

 

[willowbankbear]

Who won it ? I did it last year came 19,553 , my cuz came in 235th in his first half

 

[JohnSmithUK]

Been a chew on getting back from work, loads of blue lights fighting through trafgic.

 

[Harbour Boy]

Opposite for me, had a week in Portugal and drank every night. Drove back from Manchester last night and didn’t get home til 10. Feeling knackered.

1:35:12 and a PB. Maybe a holiday in the sun on the piss is what Is needed

 

[RestlessNatives]

Did that bloke dressed as Marj Simpson really just say that he was wearing his daughter's first bra?