John Bishop - Hat's Off

[Uncle Spielberg]

Hat's off to the guy.

An outstanding effort

BBC 1 9 pm last night - John Bishop's Hell.

Long endurance cycling, rowing the channel ( with 3 other's ) and 3 marathon runs in 3 days.

The effort caused a hairline fracture in his leg on the last day with over 12 miles to go. 7 hours sleep in in 3 nights.

Quite a moving documentary worth a look.

He has gone up in my estimations and I liked him anyway.

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

it was truly tremendous!!

A super human effort

 

[willyfantastic]

still pales in comparison to what Eddie Izzard did.

 

[scooter1]

He looked ruined even before he got on the boat, good work fella - and a serious load of money rasied

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

£ 1 600 000 raised so far.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

The support and concerns of his wife was very touching. All in all I very well told documentary.

 

[MattBackHome]

On that last stretch, his running gait was VERY similar to that of our very own CMS.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

On that last stretch, his running gait was VERY similar to that of our very own CMS.

But a 10th of the pace.

 

[Arthur]

Don't really like the guys as a comic to be honest, too family friendly for my liking. However I caught the last 40 mins of that programme on last night and fair play to the guy. I normally can't stand programmes like that as I find they are just legalised begging but it was an interesting watch and apart from the couple of minutes in Africa it didn't bang on about the cause and when it did it quantified it with him discussing it with one of his running partners. I even "fell" for the ulterior motive and donated a fiver at the end.

 

[banjo]

Not my cuppa tea, but great effort top man.

 

[albion534]

still pales in comparison to what Eddie Izzard did.

they are completly different, what eddie izzard did was incredible, but to cycle 183 miles in a day, and row 26 miles, in itself, is insane, but to then run 80+ miles in 3 days, well, i cant even contemplate doing that

 

[Bozza]

Hat's off to the guy.

An outstanding effort

BBC 1 9 pm last night - John Bishop's Hell.

Long endurance cycling, rowing the channel ( with 3 other's ) and 3 marathon runs in 3 days.

The effort caused a hairline fracture in his leg on the last day with over 12 miles to go. 7 hours sleep in in 3 nights.

Quite a moving documentary worth a look.

He has gone up in my estimations and I liked him anyway.

I believe the established NSC protocol for one charity do-gooder to another is to offer them to "take a bow son, take a bow".

(Unless he's taking his hat off as a pre-cursor to the bow, as a particularly low, sweeping effort will surely see aforementioned hat fall off if not previously removed.)

 

[Lush]

Just watched on BBC iPlayer. Cried buckets. Sent text. This does not bode well for this evening's viewing.


BBC iPlayer - Sport Relief: 2012: John Bishop's Sport Relief Hell

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Just watched on BBC iPlayer. Cried buckets. Sent text. This does not bode well for this evening's viewing.


BBC iPlayer - Sport Relief: 2012: John Bishop's Sport Relief Hell

It was very moving and the support of his wife and family and their reaction at the end pushed me over the edge as well.

 

[Beach Hut]

I really don't find him very funny but what an effort by him

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Just showing this again on BBC 1 now

 

[Mutts Nuts]

still pales in comparison to what Eddie Izzard did.

This

 

[Triggaaar]

still pales in comparison to what Eddie Izzard did.

May not be as crazy an effort, but 'pales in comparison' is overly harsh. It was a quite tremendous effort.

 

[chimneys]

still pales in comparison to what Eddie Izzard did.

Think it really unfair of you to compare, as both amazing feats, but as you have....

Bishop pushed himself far harder than Izzard did. Izzard only did 5 weeks training and ran some of his marathons in 10 hours. You can walk a (flat) marathon in 6! He did do one at 5 hours though (gentle jogging pace). And the main point of both feats- Izzard raised c£1.2M whereas Bishop raised c£3m.

I say again, both amazing feats!!

 

[Lush]

3.4 Million pounds raised by John Bishop now, presumably after people saw the documentary.