Well done Eddie Izzard!!

[Seagulltonian]

Had a quick look and found this hadn't been mentioned.

Sussex comedian, and transvestite, Eddie Izzard completed his Marathon of Marathons in central London yesterday.

He ran the equivalent of 43 marathons in 52 days Just over 1,100 miles in total to raise about £200,000 for Sports Relief.

All I can say, superb effort from a guy who'd never run very far in his life before.

Does it rank higher than David Walliams Channel swim? Again, another fund-raising effort for Sport Relief.

Prehaps we should sign him up as our fitness coach, and then we might get over our stamina problems and play to the 95th minute

Guardian story about the run

 

[Rusthall Seagull]

Had a quick look and found this hadn't been mentioned.

Sussex comedian, and transvestite, Eddie Izzard completed his Marathon of Marathons in central London yesterday.

He ran the equivalent of 43 marathons in 52 days Just over 1,100 miles in total to raise about £200,000 for Sports Relief.

All I can say, superb effort from a guy who'd never run very far in his life before.

Does it rank higher than David Walliams Channel swim? Again, another fund-raising effort for Sport Relief.

Prehaps we should sign him up as our fitness coach, and then we might get over our stamina problems and play to the 95th minute

Guardian story about the run

superb effort

 

[keaton]

I saw that, that is IMMENSE

 

[Super Neils Sash Army]

Very nice of you all to congratulate him.
Seeing as he's a Palace fan.

 

[Seagulltonian]

Very nice of you all to congratulate him.
Seeing as he's a Palace fan.

I will suspend my Palace hating for just a moment, as anyone who does something like that deserves congratulating.

 

[keaton]

And?

 

[Simster]

Very nice of you all to congratulate him.
Seeing as he's a Palace fan.

He's great at his job, he's quite likeable, and now he's made loads of cash for charity with this great sporting effort.

Seeing as he's nothing like 99% of Palace fans, I can understand the reason you felt the need to point this out. Cheers.

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

He's great at his job, he's quite likeable, and now he's made loads of cash for charity with this great sporting effort.

Seeing as he's nothing like 99% of Palace fans, I can understand the reason you felt the need to point this out. Cheers.

So what are 99% of Palace fans like then Simeon?!

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

his PR team did an awful job though. The first I'd heard of it was on the radio 1 podcast today.

Superb

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

I only heard about this last weekend, you can watch some of his video diarys here, you can even sponsor him, I would say this is an impressive feat (no pun intended) incredible acheivment.

BBC - BBC Three Programmes - Eddie Iz Running

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Very nice of you all to congratulate him.
Seeing as he's a Palace fan.

Ah. That makes sense. Given the UTTER SHIT Palace have served up this season, no wonder he preferred to spend the last 52 days running instead.

 

[Zeke Rowe's shoes]

can't believe his extreme efforts haven't raised more cash! good work eddie!

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Ah. That makes sense. Given the UTTER SHIT Palace have served up this season, no wonder he preferred to spend the last 52 days running instead.

Well supporting lower league teams like Palarse and Brighton could be summed up by the Ultra Marathon runner he is with in the Lake District he says;

Its 30% physical and 70% mental (psycological)

In fact I have just watched some more and have an incredible amount of respect and admiration for him. If I had the time to atempt this (especily as a non athlectic person like him) I do not think I would have the stanima and will power to manage a day of this. I get the impression from diary one he just runs 26 miles in preperation and then goes.

He runs a marathon a day often more, as he gets going a few days in he is often running at 7 miles an hour, he has incredible pains, blistors on blistors, aches, pains falls and loses his toe nails.

He is daily nearly run over by cars, lorries and motorbikes and has to force feed himself pasta and potatoes in the evenings.

This will edit down to a must view documentary. Big respect to Eddie I hope he raises loads of cash.

 

[looney]

Cat stand Izzard but Kudos to the guy for what hes done.

 

[supaseagull]

Ooh, I can see the headlines now "Celebrity who usually does F**ck all in look at me I've just run a marathon" shocker!

I love it when these stories about millionaire celebrities come out in the press. They do it more to get themselves newspaper inches than they do for the charity work. I always say is begs the question - why does someone like this who owns numeous properties around the world and who is a multi millionaire have to "Raise money" through someone else when he has the money to GIVE it to charity! It's abit like when Wogan preaches to everyone to give money to Children in Need...If he's that worried about how much the charity will raise then waive your fee you irish numpty!

The people who deserve the credit for these sorts of things are those ordinary people like us who have to GIVE UP their job or find the spare time to do something like this or who take part in voluntary work...not a sycophant like Eddie Izzard who does it for self-gratification!



By the way, I don't like Eddie Izzard

 

[Trufflehound]

Kudos to the guy for what hes done.

Oh, hang on...

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Does it rank higher than David Walliams Channel swim?

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Definately not, it's a good effort, but swimming solidly for 16-20 hours through all sorts of crap and busy shipping lanes, much of it in pitch black, your throat red raw from salt water, cramp and cold etc. etc. is a monumental achievement. Many try, few make it, a significant number giving up with France very close. Walk/jogging marathons day after day is a completely different animal imho.

 

[JJ McClure]

Oh, hang on...

I once saw one of them getting it's face eaten off by a couple of cheetahs in namibia.

 

[Gully]

Definately not, it's a good effort, but swimming solidly for 16-20 hours through all sorts of crap and busy shipping lanes, much of it in pitch black, your throat red raw from salt water, cramp and cold etc. etc. is a monumental achievement. Many try, few make it, a significant number giving up with France very close. Walk/jogging marathons day after day is a completely different animal imho.

I would say that both were incredible achievements from men who probably had little regular physical exercise before starting to train for their respective challenges. I think David Walliams completed his channel swim in something like 11 hours, which made him one of the fastest ever to cross the Channel, that was pretty remarkable.n

As for the complaint about famous people taking on this sort of challenge, at least they are using their fame to try and gain sponsorship, they are probably risking their reputation if they give up or fail...whereas if one of us did it few would really care.