Spencer is sooo amazing

You know who's going to be telling us what an amazing and successful person Vogue is?

Why anyone would willingly run a marathon is beyond my comprehension.

You ok OP

No idea who the guy is. Some kind of reality TV personality by the sounds of it. But yes 780miles is impressive at the best of times. Let alone entirely on sand.

Eddie Izzard did a comparable achievement some time ago - especially given he did it with zero training. David Goggins does some insane runs even by normal standards - let alone given the fact his knees have no cartilage left and he is running bone on bone most of the time. These people are something different.

I plan to run the Frankfurt Marathon in November and am aiming for my PB marathon time ever by a noticeable %. Training and diet is specifically focused on it right now. And after I do it I will be taking a few couch and ice bath days to recover. The idea I could do it and then have another 29 similar runs in front of me is certainly out of my head space.

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Why don't people plant trees, pick up rubbish, harvest crops, help build schools etc instead of all that wasted energy training and running ridiculous distances ?

Thought it was admirable when he went to Everest to locate, and bring home, his brother’s body but, on not locating him, took another climber’s corpse, a Sherpa’s I think, down and returned it to his family.

Just Googled it, pretty impressive stuff.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2024/0827/1466946-matthews-breaks-world-record-running-30-marathons/

Few pints now.

Because he was doing it for charity? He's raised £340k for smaller UK charities that might not normally get the same kind of support that bigger, well known ones do.

Look some people like running & why not use that for good. Are you doing any of those things you mention or are you sat on boards getting annoyed about a bloke running for charity & not doing those things (that we know of anyway). We could all be doing more.

Don't care for the celebrity shite, but that is a genuine achievement that took a serious amount of commitment and training, so fair play.

Running is good for you. I could put a roof on a school (it would collapse with rain) and I could plant 1,000 oak trees for the right payment but 30 marathons in a row is far far more difficult, for me impossible. I never heard of him before today but fair play to him for doing a great thing for charity

It doesn't doesn't seem like you would be adhering to the Department's construction standards or the building regulations and you are unlikely to win a contract.