items from the VHI Women’s Mini Marathon gift bag; Kinvara will make a swap
In the goody bag after the #VHIWMM 🤔 for seriously reals ? Tone deaf 🙄🙄🙄We’ve moved on – maybe something useful next year , you know like an apple or a banana #VHIWMM pic.twitter.com/eIHRQfqMW8
— Janice Daly, CFA (@jdalymorrissey) June 3, 2018
Roisin Keown of Kinvara Skincare, writes:
Lots of twitter chat and disappointment about the cleaning product samples in the VHI Mini-marathon race bags this year.
We’re offering to swap anyone’s unwelcome washing tablets for something we think they’ll love – a discount off our Absolute Cleansing Oil.
We’ve just gone live on twitter with our offer, so we’re letting Broadsheeters know. Because we think the only cleaning products to get excited about are the ones that make you feel awesome and capable of anything – natch. Thanks Broadsheet!
In fairness.
LOL! Let the “athletes” gripe away, it’s fun to watch / read as I sit in the garden soaking up the sun! :)
Have a lovely BH Monday!
Ah shurrup.
You OK Sheikh, get out and get some sun on ya, and take that all covering robe off, good lad :)
Ah shurrup ;-)
#incelhumour
Thought you’d be gettin’ some in fairness :)
Wow, Clamps, that’s uncharacteristically bitter of you.
After the DiL event, those who participated are offered fruit, water and hot food, and it’s very much appreciated by all involved.
Bitter? Ahhh chill out. They’re complaints about getting free stuff. And there are women who’ve said they’ve got the same goodies at mixed sex events…. if anyone’s “bitter” it’s the moaners :)
well you’re gonna need to was your gear so…could be useful.
wash your gear after a 10K run? Are you having a laugh?
A full marathon,yes. A 10k nah!
#amateurhour
Triggered over the free stuff she got given to her for free. I’m a man and I’d be happy to get a free bit of detergent, but that’s the thing, when you get something for free you don’t have a huge amount of comeback do you? Seeing how it’s free.
So the stuff was free was it?
Yeh its free stuff
Ah go on then…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6oQ4oRH_nc
Beware of the Flowers…:-D
For gods sake will someone please take Nullzero’s bait and argue with him? He’s so lonely
Um, okay. Hey, Nullzero, this site is free but it doesn’t stop you complaining about it.
Bonus: When they give women free detergent, it’s sexist. When they give it to you, it’s a broad hint.
It’s free stuff, men and women do laundry these days. If you think laundry detergent is sexist then maybe you are the one with the problem.
Exactly. Do your bloody laundry, Nullzero.
Is that how you respond when somebody shows up your argument for being vapid and inherently misogynistic clap trap?
If it happens, you’ll find out.
Do you even think about what you’re writing before you post it?
What’s next? Your dad is tougher than my dad?
Your Dad would be way more embarrassed by what you write online than mine would be.
Zing, you’re in catty humor today aren’t you sweetie?
I am, ironically, out of washing powder.
Don’t tell me that you leave the buying of detergents to the little woman
As a man I hunt the wild and fierce Detergiant and grind their bones to make my washing powder.
As it should be, so obvious you didn’t have to say it.
Now ladies, if you don’t think it is sexist, you’re wrong, as a man called Nigel says it is.
LOL!
Women, if you think it is sexist, you’re wrong, as a man called Clampers says it isn’t.
LOL!
Pffft! Get your own joke :)
Also, see comments on this page :)
Then again, you do love the ol’ play the victim routine, and on behalf of others. It’s your thing since you arrived on this site sadly.
Ah Clamps. You know it wasn’t a joke until I made it one. Good luck keeping up, though.
:0p’
I’m a man and I was given the exact same freebees after The Great Limerick run. Everyone got the same.
You mean you didn’t get a set of screwdrivers and some beard shampoo?
that is such a hot combo;)
Sexist race anyway. Also I wish they’d stop using the word marathon, it’s a bleedin’ 10k.
And the washing powder and dish wash tablets will really empower the women
Seems to me this is a sexist race
You think it’s sexist because it is for women? God love you.
Purple is the new pink. Sexist but not sexist.
here’s some gender neutral cleansing oil, you won’t complain about that
Would cosmetics in the bag be any less sexist than dishwasher tablets?
Exactly!
Yes, because women generally do use more cosmetics than men and like them.
Let’s get over it. The VHI/Flora/ Women’s Mini-Marathon is today’s version of the Calor Kosangas Housewife of the Year Competition.
https://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/1112/658523-mary-holleran-of-clonbur-is-housewife-of-the-year-1984/
The Dublin Marathon 2018 entries are already full. So, let the real running and training begin.
Less of the sneering at this 10k please, it’s a gateway run.
That’s right. A gateway to Burger King.
+1
Good luck with the training and I’ll see ya there
but don’t knock the people who have to work up to a 10km
we all started somewhere
and god forbid if you get injured one day you may have to scratch your way back up too
humility, running teaches you that eventually …she’s a cruel but beautiful mistress
I don’t need luck. Or unasked for advice from a 10km jogger.
Buuuurrn
hahaha…now I recognise you anyone/ Paul
Don’t know why I’m bothering but running is my gig hon…yes marathons plural to date
you need some advice on kindness and humility
but you’re just a troll and probably don’t walk the length of yourself
Who gives a rat’s ass, you’re such a bore
oh absolutely
get me talking about running and I’d put you to sleep Ron
guilty as charged :)
I think his main problem with the run is cos it’s de wimmin. How dare they.
just jealose because wemon do well in Ultras thanks to our fat/ fuel storage capabilities, better pacing ( not running with your wang) and resistance to pain
Incidentally, those dishwasher tablets and other “sexist” products regularly appear in ALL goodie bags at races. If you think they don’t, you’re not a runner, Jennifer O’Connell (https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/fitness/well-done-in-the-mini-marathon-girls-now-back-to-the-kitchen-1.3518926).
As an aside, I did an analysis of the food content of one those bags at one event (a 10 mile) and put the (mostly dead) calorie count at about 4,000, i.e., more than an average 26.2 mile marathon calorie burn – 2,500-3,000):
Crisps, 2X calorific bars, chocolate, some kinda brownie thing, weird vegetables drink thing, sweets, etc.
So, you’d be better off eating the dishwasher tablets.
Perhaps the Irish Times can do a Plodcast about sexist goodie bags.
Jennifer O’Connell irritates and bores me in equal measure. I haven’t been a girl since I lost my pig tails thanks.
The ‘tide pod’ trend hits Ireland! :)
one year the dublin marathon bag contained wart remover i still have it anyone want to swap
I’d say a dishwasher tablet could remove warts too.
Cooell, we have a spare tube of Anusol. Deal?
FFS – its called the “Women’s” Mini Marathon. If there is ANYTHING sexist about it, its the fact its just for WOMEN. You need to wash your gear after a run. You can now do it for free.
I look forward to the Mens Only event getting all the support these ladies get.
Oh, poor Owen. Boo hoo.
I myself am OUTRAGED. Why has there never in recorded history been a running event for men? Outrageous.
Trans-haters.
I wish there was a mens mini-marathon, theres no way I could run a full marathon but I could do the mini-marathon and raise some money for charity too. They can give me as much free cleaning products as they wish, I definitely would be very grateful. In fact any woman reading this who unhappily recieved these products – please feel free to post them to me