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

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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

The pavement isn’t dangerous?

In that outfit it would be with lingering crowds to squeeze past

As well as her personal safety

The thing is... there's a million and one other ways KP could raise money for her chosen charity. She has exposure, she has contacts, she has publicity. Why, in the name of all that is holy, did she choose to run the Marathon knowing full well she had not done any training and her knee hurt.

I ran the London Marathon this weekend. It was 23°C FFS. It wasn't that hot. There were people from other countries in the start area laughing at the Brits flapping about the 'heat'

It was that hot. It was the hottest LM on record. My DH finished it in 5 hours 17 minutes. He didnt collapse but it was a struggle. He was raising money for Asthma UK and it was important to him. You post is a bit patronising to everyone who found it too hot and a bit of a struggle. We are from Scotland, 23 degree heat is not common. His training was all done in average Scottish weather. If people were laughing about British people complaining about the heat then they are being rude and horrible and failing to understand that heat in this country is not common.

We don't get the humidity here admittedly, but by god it was hot just spectating let alone running!

Look how much she has you all talking! More than when she was on tv raising awareness. I think she did great. The British Lung Foundation do also.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/katie-price-praised-for-efforts-by-british-lung-foundation-despite-not-finishing-the-london-marathon-a3821666.html%3famp

If KP had finished the marathon, there would be no or fewer threads and I would never have found out about the exact issue she's been fundraising for. I bet you I would have just thought she was raising awareness of lung cancer.

If her remit was raising awareness of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, she's performed her role admirably. Kudos to her.

I had never heard of it before now either

Sounds horrific

qwerty I’ve already responded to that arguement but you ignored my post.

I hadn’t heard of it either but it’s all over the internet now.

And, she never said she would complete it...

“There is no way I can not get over that finish line. My knees will go but I’m going to try and enjoy it. I’m not running for a time or to raise money - I’m running to raise awareness," she told the Daily Star.”

So the venom is ridiculous as well as nasty! Just a way to have a go over and over and over and over again for hours and hours.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/1356545/katie-price-london-marathon-lungs-mum-amy-illness-terminal/amp

Qwerty

Have you re-read what she said properly?

There is no way I can not get over that finish line.

Its a double negative but she is saying there is no way she won't complete the race. She then gives up after 2 hours of slow walking pace.

QWERTY she was saying that she would definitely complete it

Hmm. This is a transcript of an interview, not a carefully considered court statement!
It's very ambiguous actually.

There is no way I can not get over that finish line. That would be a statement that she would complete it.

But: There is no way- I can not get over that finish line? Same words, different punctuation, and that's a statement that she won't.

My knees will go but I’m going to try and enjoy it. I’m not running for a time or to raise money - I’m running to raise awareness,"

The rest sounded like she was planning not to complete it.

It's even possible that she said There is no way I can get over that finish line and a reporter or editor at that bastion of journalistic reliability, the Star inserted a rogue not in there, I think.

@jamievardy I get what you’re saying but she was even on Loose Women saying she would complete it even if she had to crawl

Ah? We have corroborating evidence from another appearance then, Frosty?

In that case, that changes everything!

@RunMummyRun68

Subsequent news reports. Radio 1 primarily

karrigan ah I see.... radio 1. Not an official marathon source then. Didn't hear that anywhere myself. Just lots of sensible advice for running on a warm spring day

Yeah not an official source so it may be incorrect but repeated in good faith. That’s just what they were saying as I was driving home