Davina Mccall

[Milzy]

She is so fit. Can be annoying though.

 

[screenman]

She doesn't look like she's being overly-dramatic at all in any of those pictures.

I'll say one thing for her, she does "pathetic" and "exhausted" very well. Almost as well as she does "annoying"

You are joking, please tell me you are joking.

 

[Puddles]

@Hill Wimp see those pictures... you are going to have to cope with worse with me, after my whole 30 miles in May and no I will not care that the rest of you have done the 100 or more one!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

You are joking, please tell me you are joking.

She's either doing a good job of playing to the camera or she's dead.

 

[screenman]

She's either doing a good job of playing to the camera or she's dead.

I imagine she is pretty tired . Certainly a tough gig or do you not think so?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I imagine she is pretty tired . Certainly a tough gig or do you not think so?

I'd imagine she is tired, and I'd imagine it is a tough gig.

I'd also imagine she's playing it up a bit. I might just watch it, and based on how much I laugh at her I might even give some money.

 

[400bhp]

hypothermia after 20 miles....seriously.........

 

[screenman]

hypothermia after 20 miles....seriously.........

I would have thought that was an over enthusiastic bit of reporting.

I must say I would have been in much the same state after a mile in that water.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

hypothermia after 20 miles....seriously.........

Takes about 25 mins in ice water for core temp to drop below 35 C iirc.

 

[400bhp]

Takes about 25 mins in ice water for core temp to drop below 35 C iirc.

I haven't been arsed to read about her exploits but the comment on here suggested that this was after 20 miles on a bike.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I haven't been arsed to read about her exploits but the comment on here suggested that this was after 20 miles on a bike.

Lols.

Road.cc have it as "With only 20 miles clocked up, McCall’s team tweeted: “In temps of just three degrees with a bitter wind chill, the medics say Davina is showing early signs of hypothermia.”

Then, 60 miles in to her 500 mile, seven day trip, McCall was half-carried in to her lunch stop in Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway.

Her team tweeted: “Sixty miles in the bag. Sleet, gales, bitter cold and hypothermia. Warm clothes and a phone call home are her priorities.

“She’s made it to the lunch stop. They were the worst conditions we’ve had on any challenge we’ve ever done.”

But, ever resilient, the star went on to cycle a total of 130 miles yesterday and may still be on course to finish her effort in the set deadline."

If she was wet through, sweating, inappropriately dressed and riding into the wind certainly possible by lunch her core might have dropped a bit I reckon. But then you'd have to point the finger at the team.

 

[400bhp]

But then you'd have to point the finger at the team.

Yup

Useless.

 

[Over The Hill]

Surely it is the press and the comic relief bods whipping it up to be rather epic to draw attention to the good cause.
Your average not cyclist is amazed at a 30 miler.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

She's a trooper.

 

[buggi]

She is really earning every penny she raises, its not a good ride for anyone let alone someone who doesn't ride a bike

she does ride a bike, she's one of action medical research's celebrity riders.