We gave up watching it... but came away thinking with the support crews for every single step/swim/pedal part of it, the Police, the fixers, and back-up / security/ maintenance and cost of all the arrangements and then the cost of filming everything, couldn't they have saved an awful lot of time and waste and donated all the money it cost to stage it instead... Sorry, I may have suggested this earlier but can't be bothered looking...
I gritted it out to the end, and don't reckon you missed anything much. Unless of course, you needed a lesson in how not to prepare for an endurance event.
Compared with John Bishop's heroics a year or two back, or Eddie Izzard, this just made me think "good on you for doing it, but couldn't you have done it properly?". Why on earth hadn't she done any running up until 5 weeks before having to run a marathon distance? Club runners (ie people who are already fit and running regularly) generally take 12 weeks to prepare for a marathon. Starting from scratch would take much longer than that. Why didn't she just get the preparation done properly?
Why was she sore on the saddle? Surely she had done enough hours in preparation to have found the right saddle and got hardened to it, and if not, why not? Why was she on a bike which didn't have a low enough gear for her? One of her rides I worked out at having been at less than 10mph, which shows she just didn't do enough miles in training......but good on her, she did at least do 3 long consecutive days in the saddle. Why hadn't she done an open water swim in training?
And did she really have to cry all the damn time?
