Friends husband running the marathon tomorrow but she’s not going to watch him

Iv been to a marathon to watch my dd run, it was awful, crowds of people unable to move or see anything I couldn't get near finish line. I stood in the cold for hours only to have to wait for her phone call to say when she had finished, never again.
Have you op ever gone to watch a marathon?

Ditto!

It is a bit judgemental.

I wouldn’t. Does he spectate at her hobby?

I can think 108 million things I'd rather do than get myself into a city for a marathon and stand around for hours in hopes of catching a glimpse of someone chugging past for four seconds.

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Mind your own business.

Not really any of your business, and happily over now.

Perhaps she's just fucked off to high heaven that it's all he's talked about since Christmas and she's sick to the back teeth of the whole thing?

I've got a work colleague running it. I just had a look back through her FB. Since the 10th January she's made 22 posts? How many of them were NOT about running the marathon? ONE.

I think it depends on whether she can just pop into London. If she has a clash and is also busy I don't think there's anything wrong with that. You really only get to see someone for about a minute on the route and then you meet them at the end. It's mostly hours of standing around though.

I'd want to go and support my DH as I've supported other family members and in case he got injured but it's also not a massive inconvenience to get into London for me.

Haven’t you got anything better to do than slag off other women?

And why is it any if your business?

@Dogsbreath7

“allowing him me time’ lol, can you imagine if the tables were turned and it was a husband “allowing” his wife time for herself??!

Let’s be clear he is doing this for himself. She has been a supportive ‘wife’ by allowing him all that ‘me time’ for training. Should she have ‘rocky style’ cycled alongside him while he trained?

Boring as hell, no way. I’d massage his legs when he got home run a bath and give him a beer.

You couldn’t pay me to watch a marathon or pretty much any sporting event. I sat through one basketball game when my kid wanted to be a cheerleader for a while and it was utter torture for me. Nobody who loved me would expect me to put me through that.

DH runs marathons and ultra marathons. I’ve never gone to watch.

Same for me. It's DH's hobby, that's fine, happy he enjoys it. He does a race about once a month and has done for years. But I have other things to do in my free time at the weekend. I have watched a few and also travelled to some, which ended up being very expensive weekends away with not much for me to do, so I stopped going a long time ago. I think the last was a soaking wet weekend in Edinburgh and I decided after that I wasn't going to any more.

Having watched my husband at numerous marathons, twice at London it’s v v tiring. to try and see your tiny person’s t shirt in amongst all those t shirts even if you think it’s an original colour with names on, you’ll find it’s not. Try matching t shirt, hair trainers and that’s if you can get close enough to a barrier to see them . They are usually four or five plus deep .
it’s practically impossible to get a good place you need to get there about 6am . There is no point using phone as the signals are rather like NYE totally rammed. Your neck aches back aches eyeballs ache tummy aches from anxiety. All through no choice of yours .
and trying to rendezvous with someone at the end with the crowds no phone signal and their legs seizing up is just 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️😵‍💫😫
SO I say good choice to her!

It’s absolutely none of your business.

I mean .... How interesting is it to watch someone running ? For 26 miles? Unless it's your six year old at school sports day. Would she follow him in the car if he was a cycling MAML on a Sunday morning? Or playing 18 holes of golf with his boy buddies, or throwing darts or whatever? She's right to get on with her own thing and leave him to it.

DH did a marathon long before I met him. If he did another as a one off, I probably would go and meet him once he'd finished just to make sure I was there if he keeled over or something. However if he started doing them regularly then no I wouldn't go. Unless it was somewhere I wanted to visit and had things to do while he was running. Like drink wine 😆

Is it his first? Some people do lots and so it’s less special. He might not be bothered. Is he running with friends?

I wouldn't either. Imagine standing in a crowd for hours with no toilets, seats or refreshments just for the off chance she might see her partner for 5 seconds, as he runs passed. She might even put him off. She's better off waiting in the house and running a bath if he needs one then having a early night so she doesn't have to listen to all the compliments about his legs or feet hurting. 😂

I'm running part of a marathon next weekend and no one I know is coming to watch. I wouldn't expect them to, it's a long boring day with nowhere to park, nightmare to travel and for the sake of seeing me run past for 20 seconds from the back of a crowd.

She might be anxious of large crowds, but doesn't want to divulge the real reason to you.

So that’s 56,000 at the finish plus dc and other mates. Clearly not all supports go. It’s far too crowded to see anything much.

Honestly why are you even writing about this. Bit of a non-story.
You want to know their arrangements, dynamics?🤣

There were 56,000 runners. What would have been the point?