Is anyone else worried about Sara Cox?

[MsSmartShoes]

She looks broken! I’m really worried about her. This is an extreme challenge and I’m questioning why we need to watch someone suffer and struggle for charity?
I’m in awe and admiration of her, but I also want to give her a HOT bath and tuck her into a big cosy bed with a gallon of tea and a dozen hot buttered crumpets.
Is it just me?

We both worked in the industry - where I came across her. How does that help?!

I can't be doing with her radio show but she seems a nice person.

It doesn’t at all. I mean you’re calling her an arsehole but not saying why. Like should we think of all possible arsehole-ish behaviour and proscribe it to her?

I am surprised to hear that. Was there something specific that happened that made you think that?

Did she snog your boyfriend when you were a teenager @SpecialCrumpets?

Your vitriol feels strangely personal...

Nope haven't got a clue what you mean by that.

I'm not ashamed, I tend to try to raise women up. Some posts on here have flagged off her motives, her running style, her legs!

So I absolutely stand by what I wrote.

Sarah did Strictly, years ago.

Does it? I’ve not said anything personal about her or me, I wouldn’t, it’s unfair.

She just wasn’t very pleasant on the two occasions I’ve met her. And I’ve heard similar from other colleagues in the industry. BUT this also wasn’t extremely recently so maybe she’s changed….

Ah ok, so if she wanted a career boost now she’d do I’m a celeb or another reality show.

She's never been on Strictly. Are you mixing her up with Zoe Ball?

Probably would have been better for her to do something horsey - that is very much her thing. An endurance ride, say, would probably have been less punishing on her. But who knows how the dice are rolled at the BBC and whether she might have felt some pressure to perform in a similar way to Vernon and Paddy? I don't know. Just thinking out loud.
But I sincerely hope she doesn't end up with any lasting physical damage because of this.

I agree. Its too much.

I find her and what she has done truly inspirational. She’s the same age as me and is pretty fit but has set herself a really hard but doable challenge. I hope more people will get out there and start running or walking , whatever their age and fitness.

I'm very amused that someone posted about one of the longest-standing BBC presenters doing this to "get a podcast".

She has been on primetime broadcasts since the mid-90s. She was on The Big Breakfast when I was an early teenager and I am in my 40s!

Bring back Matt and the Rickshaw. Poor Sara, I really don’t think she’ll be well after this.

Perhaps the government should spend more on these vital services for needy kids instead of all of this?

You sound lovely 🙄

If you've got DC, let's hope you've brought them up differently to how you've come across in this post.

Well done to her, you can tell she's in incredible amounts of pain and the physical and mental toll it's taking on her isn't something I would voluntarily sign up for.

I hope she doesn’t end up with rhabdo.

I find myself wondering if they might consider finding someone who isn't from Bolton for next year's challenge. It's beginning to look like a vendetta.

It’s an absolutely nuts challenge. She’s a broadcaster not an athlete. The beeb should be ashamed

Did anyone hear Jeremy Vine when he met up with her this evening on the radio? He was saying how hard it had been getting the train to York, then he had to find his driver. He had difficulty finding her location from the app. Please can everyone think about Jeremy!

It made me wonder how much pressure there is to do extreme charity fundraising in her job. Because she can’t really say no. Maybe they should share the load a bit so one person isn’t pushing their body to ridiculous limits each year.

Sorry I thought she chose to do it? Not to take away from the job she is doing at all and she is clearly pushing herself to her limits in aid of charity but was she chosen to do it and she agreed?

But he did also point out the irony in him having a (very funny) sports massage in the studio on his show while she was the one out there doing all the hard work 🙂
I love Jezza.

I’m going to harp on about my love for Matt Baker, the thing with the rickshaw challenge was he took part in it alongside a big group of kids that seemed to get a lot from the experience. It made the kids the star, showed how hard they trained and worked for the event.

Sara is amazing, but it feels similar to Eddie Izzard (I don’t know what they go by now) or other challenges where the star is the celebratory and it’s all about them.

Perhaps if she had been joined by adult volunteers / employees of the charities to bring the focus back it might have hit differently?