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Men in women's mini marathon

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  • #102
    Sassygirl1999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 409 ✭✭Sassygirl1999


    unkel wrote: »
    Did you check your maths? 10 * 10km is way less than 3 * marathon ;)

    events


  • #103
    muttnjeff
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭muttnjeff


    By the way is there any chance the OP is talking about the minimarathon held TODAY in Cork?
    Because that was just 6km....ha ha ha
    ...........Evening Echo Womens mini marathon.........6km/4miles.....!!!


  • #104
    Jimmy.
    Site Banned Posts: 386 ✭✭Jimmy.


    Are they running it in hope of showering with them afterwards


  • #105
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    muttnjeff wrote: »
    By the way is there any chance the OP is talking about the minimarathon held TODAY in Cork?
    Because that was just 6km....ha ha ha
    ...........Evening Echo Womens mini marathon.........6km/4miles.....!!!

    Total bull.























    6km is 3.72823 miles.:D


  • #106
    muttnjeff
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭muttnjeff


    felt like 4 :)


  • #107
    backspin.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭backspin.


    Anyone tells me they ran a marathon i always ask was it the full marathon or the mini one.

    In my experience most people call it the 10K though.


  • #108
    Jimmy.
    Site Banned Posts: 386 ✭✭Jimmy.


    muttnjeff wrote: »
    felt like 4 :)

    Inches?


  • #109
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    What were the other 68%?:D

    Men and children.


  • #110
    JohnMc1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1


    Andso wrote: »
    Just a question, why do men do the women's mini marathon dressed up as women? Not asking from a feminist point of view but its something that really bugs me. I do the marathon every year for the last 9 yrs and it really irritates me when I see them. Love to know am I the only one who feels like this and why do men feel the need to do it

    Don't be a Transphobe.


  • #111
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    fullstop wrote: »
    I miss the days when trolls used to at least put in the effort not to be so obvious :(

    They could hide under the bridge and join the race later on.


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  • #112
    Sassygirl1999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 409 ✭✭Sassygirl1999


    tired of this hyper-misogyny


  • #113
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Sassygirl1999 wrote: »
    its equality of outcome , we need to have a female only race in order to dramatically increase the numbers of women who get to complete a marathon

    Hahaha it is not a marathon. Usually the distance is between 8K and 10K.


  • #114
    Kevin Finnerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Kevin Finnerty


    A man in a mini? Running around in public? Best leave it the women.


  • #115
    Sassygirl1999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 409 ✭✭Sassygirl1999


    YFlyer wrote: »
    Hahaha it is not a marathon. Usually the distance is between 8K and 10K.

    im not sure which ones you do, ive done the full mini marathon ten times in the last ten years, once each year


  • #116
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Sassygirl1999 wrote: »
    im not sure which ones you do, ive done the full mini marathon ten times in the last ten years, once each year

    Good girls. I do that distance most days and some days much longer.

    I never ran a marathon.


  • #117
    Sassygirl1999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 409 ✭✭Sassygirl1999


    YFlyer wrote: »
    Good girls. I do that distance most days and some days much longer.

    I never ran a marathon.
    a shame, come train with us, well get you to the line in good shape, only you can get yourself over the line though...


  • #118
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    I'm walking 10k/ day at the moment. I had no idea I had been walking an actual real marathon every single day...


  • #119
    bloodless_coup
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭bloodless_coup


    Is it me or are people who drone on about marathons and the exact length of a marathon and how they've run a marathon and how an event called a mini marathon is definitely not a marathon really fooking boring?


  • #120
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,388 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    A man might run in a women's mini marathon. A lady might run in a women's mini marathon. But a gentleman certainly wouldn't.

    Oscar Wilde.


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  • #121
    OrangeBadger
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭OrangeBadger


    You are triggering my gender fluids


  • #122
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Sassygirl1999 wrote: »
    a shame, come train with us, well get you to the line in good shape, only you can get yourself over the line though...

    The marathon I'm referring to is just over 26 miles.

    I could run it in the morning if so desired.

    Want to race it when I'm in marathon race shape.


  • #123
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    doylefe wrote: »
    Is it me or are people who drone on about marathons and the exact length of a marathon and how they've run a marathon and how an event called a mini marathon is definitely not a marathon really fooking boring?

    You anyway... Lol


  • #124
    1349
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭1349


    Sassygirl1999 wrote: »
    ive done the full mini marathon


    Full mini marathon? Don't you mean the mini full marathon?


  • #125
    The Orb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭The Orb


    Andso wrote: »
    Just a question, why do men do the women's mini marathon dressed up as women? Not asking from a feminist point of view but its something that really bugs me. I do the marathon every year for the last 9 yrs and it really irritates me when I see them. Love to know am I the only one who feels like this and why do men feel the need to do it

    An all men's race should solve your problem, but men can't do that type of thing in this enlightened age.


  • #126
    moonage
    Registered Users Posts: 855 ✭✭✭moonage


    I did a mini 10km run today. It was 2km.


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  • #127
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »
    I've never understood why people object to it being called a mini marathon.

    "But a marathon is 26 miles"

    Yeah, the clue is in the word 'mini'.

    A marathon in the running sense is a fixed distance. You can't have a mini kilometer or a mini mile.

    It's a bugbear of mine but whatever, I don't lose sleep over it.


  • #128
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    Because its the only way these guys could maybe win.
    Plus is the world rea


  • #129
    Blazer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,452 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    I did the New York marathon back in 2008.
    While running along I met this old lady who were running away at her own pace.
    Got talking and she told me it was her 20th NY marathon and that she only took it up at 62 making her 82 years of age.
    Needless to say I was pretty much in awe of her.
    I'm pretty sure she'd spit on the term "mini marathon" and anyone that refers to a 10k as a "mini" marathon.


  • #130
    Pocaide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Pocaide


    I don't know why these men enter the women's mini marathon as it's clearly defined as women's only.

    That being said I don't know why, when I go to a gent's toilet in a busy night club or bar I see women using the men's toilets.

    Go figure.


  • #131
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    OrangeBadger wrote: »
    You are triggering my gender fluids

    in a good way, i hope?


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  • #132
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    Don't know if it was mentioned so far, but the record for the *actual* marathon was smashed yesterday in Berlin by a Kenyan, Eliud Kipchoge. He ran it in 2 hours 1 minute and 39, knocking 78 seconds off the previous record.

    This is the same guy who tried to break the 2 hour mark in ideal conditions on an indoor track last year, with a team of 30 pacers running ahead of him and rotating in and out, trying to keep him on pace, and he ran 2:00:25 (not an official record). Yesterday he had three 'pacers' running ahead of him, two dropped out after 15 km, unable to continue, and the third after another 10 km. He ran the last 17 km alone...
    The Kenyan had gone through halfway in 1hr 01 min 06sec. But now he was alone and his hopes of shattering the record appeared to be in the balance. Yet it transpired that his pacemakers had been holding him back: Kipchoge ran the second half in 60min 34sec – or 4min 37sec per mile.

    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/16/eliud-kipchoge-smashes-world-marathon-record-berlin


  • #133
    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    Blazer wrote: »
    I did the New York marathon back in 2008.
    While running along I met this old lady who were running away at her own pace.
    Got talking and she told me it was her 20th NY marathon and that she only took it up at 62 making her 82 years of age.
    Needless to say I was pretty much in awe of her.
    I'm pretty sure she'd spit on the term "mini marathon" and anyone that refers to a 10k as a "mini" marathon.

    Or maybe she wouldnt give a fook.


  • #134
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,887 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Who runs in a Binary mini marathon ?


    Also I perfected Snickers when they were call Marathon.


  • #135
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    The only time I've gotten irritated about a marathon was when the name was changed to Snickers.


  • #136
    Sassygirl1999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 409 ✭✭Sassygirl1999


    YFlyer wrote: »
    The marathon I'm referring to is just over 26 miles.

    I could run it in the morning if so desired.

    Want to race it when I'm in marathon race shape.

    the offer still stands, we'll help you shed those extra pounds


  • #137
    pleas advice
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    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Total bull.
    ...
    6km is 3.72823 miles.:D
    YFlyer wrote: »
    Hahaha it is not a marathon. Usually the distance is between 8K and 10K.


    I mapped it out on Daftlogic, the cork 'marathon' was about 6.4 km, or 4 miles,

    so, you'd want to be doing that in around half an hour, and do another six and a half laps at the same pace, to do a marathon in 3 hours 25 mins (which would just about qualify you for the New York marathon, in the 40-plus age group)


    ...needless to say, I wouldn't be able for it


  • #138
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    1349 wrote: »
    Full mini marathon? Don't you mean the mini full marathon?

    Which one comes with the beans and fried tomatoes?


  • #139
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    Sassygirl1999 wrote: »
    the offer still stands, we'll help you shed those extra pounds

    what time did you do it in?


  • #140
    Sassygirl1999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 409 ✭✭Sassygirl1999


    pleas advice wrote: »
    what time did you do it in?

    3 hours 25 mins i think, i should get into NY


  • #141
    1349
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭1349


    Sassygirl1999 wrote: »
    3 hours 25 mins i think, i should get into NY




    Hours, full hours, mini hours or maxi hours?


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  • #142
    Sassygirl1999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 409 ✭✭Sassygirl1999


    1349 wrote: »
    Hours, full hours, mini hours or maxi hours?
    normal hours full with normal minutes


  • #143
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    Sassygirl1999 wrote: »
    3 hours 25 mins i think, i should get into NY

    Is that the full marathon?

    Fair play to ya. I reckon I'd be able for about a 10 hour marathon, maybe 9 and a half if I have my nutrition and reststops sorted out...


  • #144
    Sassygirl1999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 409 ✭✭Sassygirl1999


    pleas advice wrote: »
    Is that the full marathon?

    Fair play to ya. I reckon I'd be able for about a 10 hour marathon, maybe 9 and a half if I have my nutrition and reststops sorted out...

    in my full mini marathon i went sub 3 hours and 25 minutes


  • #145
    mightyreds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,805 ✭✭✭mightyreds


    moonage wrote: »
    I did a mini 10km run today. It was 2km.

    Congratulations on completing your 10k


  • #146
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Sassygirl1999 wrote: »
    the offer still stands, we'll help you shed those extra pounds

    Hahaha.


  • #147
    Hannibal_Smith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hannibal_Smith


    Sassygirl1999 wrote: »
    YFlyer wrote: »
    Hahaha it is not a marathon. Usually the distance is between 8K and 10K.

    im not sure which ones you do, ive done the full mini marathon ten times in the last ten years, once each year
    You've done a full mini marathon? Or a full marathon?


  • #148
    Sassygirl1999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 409 ✭✭Sassygirl1999


    Hannibal_Smith wrote: »
    You've done a full mini marathon? Or a full marathon?
    yes


  • #149
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,807 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Sassygirl1999 wrote: »
    everything is a feminist issue while the reforms continues

    Grand, have you got the lack of funding for prostate cancer research sorted out yet?


  • #150
    Sassygirl1999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 409 ✭✭Sassygirl1999


    McGaggs wrote: »
    Grand, have you got the lack of funding for prostate cancer research sorted out yet?

    talk to the hand, im running


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  • #151
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,807 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Sassygirl1999 wrote: »
    its equality of outcome , we need to have a female only race in order to dramatically increase the numbers of women who get to complete a marathon

    Someone would need to organise a women's marathon then.

    I think it's the running of 26.2 miles that's stops most women (and men)from completing one.


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