This morning.
Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu shot the gun on the 2020 VHI Women’s Virtual Mini-Marathon assisted by ‘Cara’, a running statue representing all the participants (even the very few who might prefer walking).
Over the next 10 days, until October 10, more than 17,000 women will do 10KM ‘their own way’ to raise funds for charities across Ireland.
Registration is still open here.
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just waiting on Janet’s comment… ; )
Janet is biting her tongue. ….no, no I can’t
IT’S NOT A FUPPING MARATHON,
she wouldn’t know 42 km if it jumped on her back,
it’s not even 10km if you are ” doing it your own way ”
well done to everyone but stop deluding yourselves, you are not children, there’s no santa and you didn’t run a marathon mini or otherwise…
GRR,
earn it..
that comment ? ;)
Very restrained, well done.
Deep breaths.
How much longer are you off the drink?
Bambino due in March so realistically next summer ;)
Ah, un bébé….(I’ve got the accents wrong I bet).
Good for you!
Merci ;)
I feel like I missed an episode, didn’t know that J, congrats!
ah didn’t want to steal Milly’s thunder plus sure no one’s bullet proof just getting used to telling folks :)
but thanks :)
Brilliant news.
I wish you all of the luck in the world J. :)
:) appreciate that
…wha…so pleased for you Janet…
:) surprise !
ah j – delighted for you; that’ll be a lucky boy/girl
thanks brother :) I have my eyes on a running buggy ;)
Ah!
Did I miss a sprog reference earlier in the year?
Take care of you.
nah been keeping cards close to my chest !)
thanks Lushie
Congrats J! With that nice boy from Newry, I hope :)
hajaj no, we fizzled to friends, himself waltzed into the picture just when I wasn’t looking ;)
Congratulations!
thanks Papi
Nice one J – hope it all goes swimmingly for you!
cheers Cian
Congrats!
:)
Lovely news. Congratulations.
thanks Daisy
Congratulations.. hope all goes well.. many many baby doctors recommend moderate wine intake .. good for the soul, body and mind..
Top Tip from the 1970s No. 251
thanks Cu
How many marriages are you on now?
ever the biaatch
sad troll
If it’s your first which I am guessing it is, it will bring unimaginable joy and I wish you the best
you should have stuck to your original deleted comment it was much more …you ;)
I was first married at 20 I have already raised two very big and able boys, it’s a beautiful thing love and children especially if you get a chance to do it all again over twenty years later, I don’t mind giving personal details because it’s important to realise there are real people at the end of keyboards, real lives are nothing to be ashamed of.
I wasn’t raised a catholic or with guilt with weird ideas about divorce so I can’t really relate to your trying to shame me either. Ireland and it’s attitudes are catching up you know.
People probably wonder why I answered you well because it’s important to stand up to bullys, I have lived a happy productive loved life, I’m a survivor of deep tragedy and there’s no way you can’t hurt me with your meanness it just makes me sad for you.
you’re genuinely special, j
thank you guys :)
Fair play Janet, sock it to him!
+100000
Well said Janet.
This is probably the most uplifting comment I’ve read on Broadsheet.
Alexander the Grate
Alexander the Small, spewing venom in many guises but can never disguise his sour voice.
Great news Janet. Will be great joy. Congratulations.
thanks so much :)
Why don’t they just call it a 10k?
+1
Doesn’t look as good on social media.
Does anybody know who designed the statue?
Brennans sliced Bread
Ha haaaa. Handy when the camera pans to it.
using the loaf there frank
I like the statue design.
whoever did imagined the average runner as the michelin man…. doing it his way
Amazing planning skills, is this when they think COVID will be finished? 20,202 exactly 18,182 years from now?
Some stance alright. Trying to give the impression of running.
I’d say the chosen method for Hazel will be a bike.
Why do you say that?
Because it felt like the right thing to say
Which one is the running statue?
ok I’ll try the comment about how I really feel again, I think I triggered the mods,
this kind of poop ( is that better ;)) is the kind of thing that stops wemon being taken seriously, you don’t see lads claiming mini marathons, it’s this kind of patronising pat you/ yourself on the head behavior that undermines credibility, it’s a nice enough event/ gesture without it, do your yourselves seriously, stop the infantalising ( and maybe lay of the pink ;))
It’s not really seen as an athletic event by participants, more a fund-raising one. I doubt they care what it’s called but mini-marathon trips off the tongue more easily.
I doubt they care too,
it wreaks my head
I had a woman in all seriousness tell me she had ran a marathon too at a friend’s dinner party, turns out it was this one , my food got extra chewed and I said well done ;)
Haha, I’d have been asking her if she managed it in under the hour. Seriously though, 10k is as big an achievement for some non-runners as a marathon is for runners. Live and let live.
I get that and fully support it, hell 5km is a massive achievement for many, that’s why I feel like they do themselves a disservice with the name, but it’s great to see even if it grinds my gears ;)
True dat.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/06/06/theyre-calling-it-rosannagate/
haha, an elite time too !