Fat bastard G&T member attempts to walk a marathon for charity

[Ian Symes]

In a move that looks set to either kill me or at least comatose me for several months, I will be attempting to walk for 26.2 miles through London in the middle of the night. This is due to a) peer pressure, b) fundraising for Cancer Research.

If you like G&T, or just hate cancer, you can show some support by chucking a few quid my way at justgiving.com/iansymes.

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[Phil]

>Yes, I will definitely ‘man up’ by running a marathon with no training, boosted by self-prescribed medicines.

I’d just like to say that I’m still laughing at this.

[HelloMabel]

> I’ve got a way for the marathon to be over in just a couple of hours. Become a dog.

Or a robot cheetah.

[Ian Symes]

Thanks, Dave!

[ChrisM]

Thanks, Chris M! (I think it’s you, anyway)

You’re very welcome.

[mick]

Symes, is that your coitus-erupti face in your new avatar? it seems very familiar…

[si]

*bump*

I get a Tweet, but I don’t get a bump. Never mind, you’re welcome, Ian. Good luck. When is it?

[Ian Symes]

It’s THIS SATURDAY. Official on-thread thanks to Si and also to Ridley for getting me to a nice round £750.

[mick]

No lard sarnies for you this week matey, good luck!

[Ian Symes]

And Jeff_R steps up to the plate with a donation within hours of his first post.

[Ian Symes]

Bumpetty thanks to muppetjedi, Jezzmund and Tarka Dal.

This is TOMORROW.

[si]

See you November, then, yeah?

GOOD LUCK YOU CUNT.

[mick]

I sent the just giving link around in an internal email at work so lets home some more of the gits here donate and get you ridiculously over target.

[Ian Symes]

Cheers! I am pleased to announced that I have now exceeded the target. A large chunk of contributions have come from people who only know me from this stupid place, and it makes me incredibly proud and humbled to think that this shitty website that I started ten years ago because I didn’t have any friends is now capable of making a real difference to the lives of millions of cancer sufferers. G&T is awesome.

[Tarka Dal]

I bet Rob Gillies feels very silly now.

[Seb Patrick]

And ten years later, you still don’t have any friends, but at least Cancer Research is a grand better off.

[Pete Part Three]

I think I’m going to cry.

Or have a poo.

One of the two, anyway.

[Ben Paddon]

I usually can’t do one without doing the other at the same time.

I feel bad about not being able to chip in, but bloody Hell this month is tight.

[genericnerdyusername]

I apologise for not having any money. I have no excuse.

[HelloMabel]

Good luck tomorrow, Ian. Raising over $1700 for cancer research is the best thing ever done by somebody I know. Well, virtually know.

I’m in “spoiler avoidance mode” these days, but will keep my eye on this thread this weekend hoping that you or Jo can check in at some point with an update.

[Ian Symes]

I’ll be live-tweeting it, so hopefully will someone will post important details such as “I’ve finished it” or “I am in an ambulance”.

[clem]

Erm can I get a bump please? And don’t forget to have a rest so you don’t look too shagged out when you cross the finish line.

[Ian Symes]

Whoops!

OFFICIAL CLEM BUMP.

[mick]

[Pecospete666]

The Vogon Construction Fleet made a small donation to get that bowl movement going!

[Ian Symes]

I did it, by the way. And what’s more, I am not currently dead.

[si]

*Whoops and cheers* Well done, mate.

[Pecospete666]

What hurts the most?

[MANI506]

Getting hit really hard in the bollocks – gotta be.

[si]

I’ve heard childbirth is quite high on the ouch factor.

[Pete Part Three]

Personally, I think what hurts the most was being so close and having so much to say and watching you walk away (for Cancer Research).

[peepingsignal]

Kicking your toe on something hurts plenty.

[Ian Symes]

In my case, my current most-painful bits are the soles of my feet, both of which feature massive blisters. Not the heels or the toes or the sides – the SOLES of my feet. Legs are achey, but in that perversely pleasurable way that happens when you know you’re aching for a good reason. I’m alright as long as I don’t have to do stairs.

[ChrisM]

Not the heels or the toes or the sides – the SOLES of my feet

I can believe it. I noticed that very thing when I did some leaflet delivery work a couple of years back.* While the geographical distance wasn’t great, all that wandering up and down front paths took it’s toll meaning I must have covered a few miles by the end, and I just wasn’t used to it.

I was literally hobbling like an old man at the end of it. I’d take the odd sit down here and there and feel like steam was rising off the bottom of my feet.

Anyway well done. On the plus side, with rest recovery is pretty quick.

*I was unemployed and at least it earned me a bit.

[Pecospete666]

Sounds like a sock failure! If you ever do it again you should have hiking boots or shoes with hikings socks. You will dance thru it next time! 29 mi is about 51,040 steps which is huge! The wrong socks would explain you sore feet. Now every body can make jokes about this post!

[JamesTC]

Not the heels or the toes or the sides – the SOLES of my feet.

I’d see a priest about that.

[genericnerdyusername]

I want to make a “it turns out feet have souls” joke, but I don’t know how to form it. So this will have to do.

[Danny Stephenson]

3 blisters? and a strange man with sore feet. :)

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