Welshrunner, kelloggsontherun #15 The most hard-working, full-time clowns out there

[EC1A]

He knows how to market it, Tits and Kelly got as far as giving beanies to her runners at Christmas, Bester would have got his runners hyped up to buy them.

Those beanies are hellish.

 

[EC1A]

Yeah, I reckon it's one of the Newport races- there's a marathon, half and 10k on the same day; or possibly Berkely 10k as that is flat and fast and relatively local to them. The breadcrumbing is pathetic

Breadcrumbing is something Tits isn’t doing this time around, surprisingly. By now he’s normally released a smug vlog asking for time predictions.

 

[elapsed_time]

She must be doing that marathon then as she's done an 18 mile run. No reason to do that distance otherwise really.

 

[Marinium]

What time did she start? Must have been close to 5 hours now and she is not on the result list either (although is this even updated?).
Gearing up for the positive split everyone or are we thinking DNF?

 

[the_chafe_is_real]

Ha ha! What a tit he is. I definitely typed Rees into the tracker, not Tits this time…
Yeah, she must be getting “content” then.

 

[Lemming312]

Don’t worry. She’s not going to get to the run.

Totally agree, don't think she's going to make the bike

 

[Marinium]

10k for Kelly. Who needs recovery?

Certainly not an elite like our Kels.

 

[punter]

Well judging by her pacing she's definitely going for Newport Marathon View attachment 2877113

What is this even?

 

[Been lurking]

In Swansea there’s also the potential of jellyfish to spice up the swim…

sounds delightful!

 

[Lemming312]

Screenshots for those blocked?

Nothing dramatic, annoyed at Kelly for stealing his Strava crown.

 

[Been lurking]

For anyone blocked… hope she tackles the Ironman in a better way and doesn’t wait til the week before to start swim training

Thank you from a blocked person! She’s lucky she got through that swim in one piece from the sounds of it! Poor from the organisers!

 

[punter]

It looks a bit all over the place me

 

[lima18]

That's fair enough, I wonder what was so different this year then. It can't have been the weather - let's be real, it's Scotland, they've got to be used to a bit of rain!

I have never done it before and everyone I know said it’s a great event until this year so hopefully just a bad year! Would like to do it again but only if they make changes to have better and more transport options!
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[punter]

What time is he pacing??

Well it’s not an official word pacing gig but as every year he gets a group together like when he was pacing Anya. I think he said he was doing 2:45 this year.

 

[the_chafe_is_real]

Kells is on a rant about Edinburgh - screenshots for our blocked friends. And she chose a race picture which shows how much she loved it, you lovely lot.

 

[Lastqueenofscotland]

I imagine bester skims a fair bit off the top of his coaches, add the kit and the very expensive 5k races… I don’t like him but he’s got the marketing spot on

 

[Marinium]

Lovely forced smile from Tits knowing he’s been rinsed.

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Has he lost weight? He looks shattered

 

[Lemming312]

I finished over an hour slower than her when I ran it 2 years ago and had no issues with receiving a medal, there were plenty of buses going (though the queues were quite substantial, that's fair, but that's going to happen when you're moving ~35k people plus their supporters about. Looking at this article all three of these ladies who contributed to it were within 10 - 20 minutes of the cut off/sweep time. So why does it affect little Kelloggs who was home by the time they'd all finished?

Like I said, when I finished in ~5:20 when I ran it, there were plenty of people still around, bananas and water etc., we walked about 15 minutes to the car that my OH had parked nearby so no issues getting back to our hotel (except the expected traffic). Wonder what went so wrong this year then?

I didn't have any issues the year I did the half either.

I’ve heard a lot of reports that it was a disaster so I don’t think it’s just her having a moan. I think a lot of the big events company style race organisers seem to be trying to cut corners/cost and sometimes it’s just a disaster

Having done the half in 2018, I don't think they have cut costs/corners, they have always laid the bags on the grass, there have always been queues for the buses, running out of medals is new but when I did London they had run out of t-shirts . I don't think it's anything new, I just think the bad weather made it feel a lot worse. And reading the screenshots above it sounds like they (or was it just her?) queued for the local bus rather than go to the race shuttle. The local buses would have been on a Sunday schedule which probably meant she had a longer wait than if she had walked to the shuttle buses.

 

[Neilme]

MY EYES ‍‍‍‍ new vlog trigger warning for 5:30

Needs a bigger warning!
Why would he do that? Why??

 

[Lemming312]

Did he carry the tracker over the line and then pass it back to her to bike around the course? Ridiculous Disqualify them both