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Goofee Oct 2018 4:54pm, 24 Oct 2018 1,892 posts	0 Goofee Definitely SP! And the socks would probably work well rammed down his mocking, lazy-arsed throat too. Not in a violent way, obviously...
mr d Oct 2018 6:38pm, 24 Oct 2018 3,167 posts	0 mr d One time as I was walking home from my local half & there were still people running the last few miles a spectator asked to see my medal. It was only when she examined it and looked puzzled that I realised she had thought it was a winners, rather than a finishers medal.
swittle Oct 2018 6:41pm, 24 Oct 2018 50,903 posts	0 swittle Maybe it was....
mr d Oct 2018 6:50pm, 24 Oct 2018 3,169 posts	0 mr d It was (and sadly still is) a pb, but I didn’t win, by a sizeable distance. I’ve managed 2nd (last) once.
fetcheveryone Oct 2018 4:33pm, 25 Oct 2018 20,046 posts	0 fetcheveryone Following on from the "Did you win?" thing, there's also: "I wouldn't do it unless I thought I could win".
jennyh Oct 2018 4:48pm, 25 Oct 2018 3,383 posts	0 jennyh The “don’t you get bored” thing winds me up, as (in my experience) its usually delivered in a sneering manner, implying that YOU must be a bit simple minded to not get bored.
The Mighty Fleecy Oct 2018 5:36pm, 25 Oct 2018 43,785 posts	0 The Mighty Fleecy I once had someone tell me ‘you never see a runner smiling’. To which I said that they needed to see off-road runners in action The bored thing is weird, every single run is different, I have never once felt bored!
Velociraptor Oct 2018 6:02pm, 25 Oct 2018 39,423 posts	0 Velociraptor After I ran my first marathon, London 2002, I hung the medal up in my consulting room. "Wow! Were you really TWENTY-FIRST out of all those people?" said one of my patients. The medal did say "21st" I was actually twenty thousand and somethingth.
Velociraptor Oct 2018 6:04pm, 25 Oct 2018 39,424 posts	0 Velociraptor And when I lived and ran in Birmingham, several of my patients told me every year that they'd seen me on television running The Marathon. Even in the years I wasn't there.
Goofee Oct 2018 6:09pm, 25 Oct 2018 1,903 posts	0 Goofee That was my first marathon too V'rap!