The London Marathon

[lupestripe]

It's the London Marathon this weekend. Am I the only one who watches the coverage simply to fursuit spot?

Comments

[balto-mike.livejournal.com]

Its this weekend? Wow that came around again fast!

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

It is this weekend and I agree, it always sneaks up on you. I always catch myself thinking "surely it wasn't a year ago the last one". A great morning of TV viewing if I can be bothered getting up for it (which is an inevitable no - curse my laziness...).

[balto-mike.livejournal.com]

Yes, sometimes I think it moves about a little bit, not always exactly the same date or such is it?

And well the feeling is mutual, I was a lazy wolf too. XD

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

It's normally one Sunday in April but I think it is often the third Sunday rather than the second one. The problem is because Easter is moveable, I guess the Marathon has to be moveable too.

There's no way I could do a marathon although I am thinking of potentially doing one. I'd only do it in fursuit though but as you found out last year (and I did last August) running in fursuit is bloody difficult. 6 miles was tough nevermind 26 hehe.

[londonwolf.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine how anyone in a fursuit could manage that distance!

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine how anyone could manage that distance full stop! It'd be an absolute nightmare. Wonder what special training you'd have to do to do it in a fursuit. When would your first run in suit be? And what would the locals think. Hmm, almost worth doing really. I've done 6 miles in a fursuit before and that was knackering...

[fen-ra.livejournal.com]

I just don't watch it. I'm a bit "Meh" about sporting events. (Except for the footy world cup, yaay!)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

You seem the opposite to me although granted I wouldn't watch the London Marathon if there were no fursuits in it - as you imply, it's a bit boring just watching people running. I can do that with the police chasing the criminals around the streets of Middlesbrough.

As for the World Cup, I've never got into it. It's always disappointing for me. But then, even though I do follow football, I only really care about Boro. I can't stand the England national football team if I was being honest.

[balto-mike.livejournal.com]

Footy World Cup is overrated, just like regular football but longer and taking up 24hrs of TV, gahh! :p

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Most things in life are overrated and, although I am a massive football fan, I agree that most football is overrated. The World Cup is certainly so, I've never really seen the appeal. Domestic football rocks though - sometimes...

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I like watching it to spot places in London I've visited :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

That's another good way to watch the Marathon - problem is that I have been to most of the places they run past so it's started to lose it's thrill.

Watching the usual Blue Peter presenter making a tit of themselves is always a laugh although I don't like it when they focus on "famous" people as if they are doing something special. I don't see, particularly in that arena, why anyone needs singling out just because they present the nature programme on BBC Nature Watch.

[kajidog.livejournal.com]

Whoo! It'll be the first time I watch it - didn't know there'd be fursuits ! =)

*ponders an entry too, hmm*

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

You've never watched it before? Ooh it's a treat! Sally Gunnell being annoying and people running past her wearing tomato suits.

The fursuits are the only highlight really. And if it rains, of course.

[actively-lazy.livejournal.com]

No, i do it too ^^

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Yeys! I'm glad I'm not the only one. And why do you have a chicken as your avatar?

You probably are, but...

[mefurry.livejournal.com]

If I were there, I'd probably sitting there right next to you.

--Me/Henry

Re: You probably are, but...

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Yeys! I wish you were. I doubt they broadcast it in the US and even if they did, it'd be in the middle of the night for you. I wouldn't stay up for it, the quality of the suits isn't that good...

[tr-wolf.livejournal.com]

But when its not a furry doing it, its not a fursuit, its just an animal costume.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

So does that mean that if a non-furry wears my fursuit, it suddenly becomes a mere costume? Is there really any difference? Isn't it all down to semantics? Or is it possibly an ego thing, like some people do with sports cars - a mine's better than yours thing? I mean, baked beans are still baked beans if they are Heinz or Lidl Value.

[tr-wolf.livejournal.com]

No, I mean that for most people its an animal costume, but with furries, its a "fursuit", some sort of physical embodiment of being a furry.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Ah right, cools. I getchya :)