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To think Katie Price should have finished more of the marathon?

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Purplerain101 · 23/04/2018 13:43

She was running it for her mum who is dying of a lung disease.
She only walked for 6 miles and then bailed. People saw her going straight to a restaurant afterwards so it’s not as if she needed urgent medical help.

I get that she had a sore knee and it was a hot day but I think it’s bad for her fans who sponsored her and she could only manage 6 miles. She fully admits she did no training for it either

OP posts:
maxthemartian · 23/04/2018 16:00

Have you ever tried running a marathon?

No, and neither has Katie Price.

qwertyuiopy · 23/04/2018 16:02

Every post mentioning Katie pushes her further up the search engine rankings.

Yes max, I am Katie Price 🙄🙄🙄🙄😲

NeedsAsockamnesty · 23/04/2018 16:04

totally agree with you OP. She could have walked at a snails pace for another few miles. 6 miles is a joke

Joke because it was her or running 6 miles is a joke?

I ask because I stopped about 20 yards behind where she did,
Doing that was an achievement for me for several reasons.

Where’s you joke and serious line, is under 10 crap but over ok?

Flippetydip · 23/04/2018 16:04

Her costume was immense! I suspect had she not been wearing that she might have managed further. I've fun a marathon, there's not a chance on the planet I'd do it wearing what she was.

Mousefunky · 23/04/2018 16:04

Last time she ran the marathon she did it whilst having a miscarriage. I believe Pete upped and left her a few weeks later. It must have been such a difficult time for her.

I feel for her sometimes, I really do. She gets a bad rap but I don’t think she’s a bad person at all.

Flippetydip · 23/04/2018 16:04

run a marathon, not fun a marathon obviously!

Aeroflotgirl · 23/04/2018 16:07

Good on her for trying, so what she could not finish it, you don't know how she was feeling, better she stop, than cause herself an injury or make herself worse, or collapse and die leaving kids without a mother. If she was not famous, this would not be an issue.

Echobelly · 23/04/2018 16:10

She does seem to have this weird contrariness whereby she'll go for any publicity, even if (or especially if) bad.

Her finishing a marathon is less newsworthy than her bailing.

19lottie82 · 23/04/2018 16:13

Good on her for trying

Sorry, but I don’t count going to a nightclub the night before and not doing any training as “trying”.

19lottie82 · 23/04/2018 16:14

Joke because it was her or running 6 miles is a joke?

She didn’t run 6 miles, she walked.

19lottie82 · 23/04/2018 16:17

Why is it any of your business?

FFSHmm

1 - celebrities make their livings being other people’s business.

2 - this is a public discussion forum. If
No one discussed anything that “wasn’t their business”, it would be a pretty boring place!

callmeadoctor · 23/04/2018 16:22

Correct me if Im wrong, but didn't she finish the marathon (with Peter Andre)? Apparently she could train much this time BECAUSE of a knee injury but still wanted to do it. I would say that was fairly admirable (and I am not a fan particularly Grin

NeedsAsockamnesty · 23/04/2018 16:22

Ok joke because it was her or joke because she got 6 miles?

Run walk or shuffle (I sort of plodded) 6 miles in the heat feels like a lot

callmeadoctor · 23/04/2018 16:26

So she did finish the London Marathon in 2009.

CoolCarrie · 23/04/2018 16:28

Ffs give her a break, OP , it was bloody boiling yesterday, so anyone who stopped was quite right to do so. I don’t particularly like her, but at least she tried.

NeedsAsockamnesty · 23/04/2018 16:29

No, and neither has Katie Price odd that max given she completed one in 2009

ferrier · 23/04/2018 16:42

You don't need to train to walk 26 miles. Just need to make sure you have a decent pair of shoes.

callmeadoctor · 23/04/2018 16:45

Off to put my name down then Ferrier Grin (I would be useless!!)

Havingahorridtime · 23/04/2018 17:00

She did finish in 2009. She ran the first few miles and was quite ill due to a very recent / in progress miscarriage so peter Andre helped her to hobble the remaining 20 miles or so.
She didn’t train this time and had no realistic chance of running it but should have been able to walk it even in the heat. I don’t blame her for not training when her mother is dying and she has had recent surgery but I fo think it was silly to enter knowing you won’t be prepared.
And before anyone asks - no I have not ever run a marathon but I have done a half marathon and several 10k runs and a 20 mile walk. The walk and 2 of the 10k runs were in hot weather. I wouldn’t ever enter a marathon to run it because I know I wouldn’t be able to train properly and finish it.

bbcessex · 23/04/2018 17:06

I really don’t know she bothers. She’s failed to complete twice before (that I know of) and she’s never completed a proper training programme (to include at least a 20 mile long run).

I did the marathon in 2009 & 2013 for a cancer charity & hospice.. took me over 6 hours each time and i raised thousands.

Pisses me off when people don’t put the effort into training, and i doubt that she did.

qwertyuiopy · 23/04/2018 17:10

Why are people pretending she has never finished a marathon?

To think Katie Price should have finished more of the marathon?
qwertyuiopy · 23/04/2018 17:13

bbcessex

Are you sure you did it in 2009? Funny how you don’t know Katie completed it that year also! 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤐🤐🤐😂😂😂

MushroomGravy · 23/04/2018 17:19

What makes you think this?I just googled it and she had a miscarriage that was occurring during the marathon, but there's nothing to suggest the marathon caused her to lose her baby confusedUnless I'm mistaken and missing something and you do have proof of this, I think it's quite an awful thing to say.It might make pregnant women who take part in a safe sport like running and lose a child feel extremely guilty, when they didn't do anything to cause it to happen. And put pregnant women off taking exercise. It's horrible to suggest that her taking part in a marathon caused her to lose her child.

Confused

I have no idea what your issue is, Iirc she said after the fact that she felt running or training contributed to the miscarriage. Not being her gynaecologist I obviously have no proof that it did or didn't. Hmm The story was from 9 years ago and I don't remember the full facts, hence using a question mark.

The point I was making, and it was very clear I was making no judgement whatsoever, is that she might have her own reasons for not feeling able to finish the race. Possibly pregnant again and worried, possibly upset as the last time she did it she was miscarrying.

At any rate normal exercise during pregnancy is completely unrelated to running a marathon so I don't know why you'd assume it would put women off running in general. Confused

You might want to be a bit more resilient if you're going to go getting offended and running off on google adventure over comments that in no way implied any judgement though.

Weebo · 23/04/2018 17:20

Katie ran the and completed the marathon alongside you in 2009 raising thousands of pounds for Vision.

In seven hours and 11 minutes to not long behind you bbcessex.

People love to hate her though.

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