PLease add your thoughts about these two amazing C25K'ers who completed a marathon on Sunday 12th April. I think they are incredible and just great.
To think just two years ago, both girls were sleeping in a cardboard box underneath Waterloo Bridge, sharing a bottle of turps and swearing at passers by. One day JuicyJu found an ipod in a bin where she had been rummaging for food scraps. She sent Vicky off to get batteries. No-one knows where Vicky got the batteries, but the rumours are that she nicked them out of an OAP's hearing aid. When they played the podcast on the ipod they got hooked. Who was this Laura woman? Why was she espousing the wonders of being able to run? Whatever their thoughts, it was time for their afternoon fight. Who was to keep the ipod? Eventually after a bruising two hours of pummelling each other senseless they decided that an arm wrestle should decide the outcome. Juicyju won the competition by cheating and Vicky stormed off.
On her hitching back to London on the M4 fast lane, a millionaire businessman gave her a lift and sponsored her to learn how to run. She never looked back.....
Just two short years later they ran a marathon each. On the same day but in different cities. In fact, different countries. Incredible.
It's now down to the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, to get the girls back together to relive the "wonder days" in their cardboard box under Waterloo Bridge. Only time will tell if he will achieve this "peace deal".
What a story.
(I may have "zhushed up" a few minor details, but at least 1% of this is 100% true).
Until the next one
Yer pal
Dan.
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Hahaha Dan you crazy person I've been spending far far too long on here desperately hoping to read reports from our marathon runners but nothing so far. Can't wait to read all the gory details (or should that be glorious details) but, in the meantime, my admiration knows no bounds. Awesome runners the pair of them!
Really I believed every word! It is so amazing you can go from the same beginnings to such lengths. It is fantastic how well they have done. I heard somewhere as well that miles yonder Possibly has a marathon under his belt now as well.
Ah, the heroines of the marathon underworld. Now we know their dark and secret past it makes them even more amazing! Can't wait to hear all the marathon reports from all our lovely marathoners But in the meantime Dan.... I'm sure you can always spill a few more beans
I hear juicy ju liked it that much that she carried on. Currently she is on the border of kazihstan trying to bluff her way through saying she is now called forest gump and she is trying to find the holly shrimp for bubba.
Another story is that baloo and mowgli have found her panthering around and decided she was the new cat in town and signed her up.
Another rumour is Vicky ran over to Paris and stole the iPod and ju's medal so ju can't return until she sorts Vicky out.
But we all know that JJ is ordering transport to get her great big metal gong of a medal home!!!!!!! The import tax is going to be horrendous unless she puts it in her camelbak octane 18x then no one will see it. come on ju get posting ! ........ J
Ha ha ha!!!!! Another one for your book pet! Brilliant! I think they are amaZing. I am totally in awe and starting to think I could do the great north run next year!!!! Very inspirational.
The vintage champagne in the camelbak probably explains why we have no reports yet, although I checked JJ's time on the Paris marathon site and there is no doubt that she did it. I understood that MilesYonder, erstwhile of this parish, also ran his first marathon yesterday. Who can doubt that C25k changes lives.
Oh Dan , you put it so well, I miss those reckless cardboard box days with my pal getting into all sorts of mischief and mayhem. And Just to set the record straight I didn't 'nick' the battery, I claimed it in lieu of services rendered
However im so glad we downloaded the podcasts and then ran a marathon because you get loads of freebies
I haven't missed the reports have I? I have been checking all day! Come on ladies we are literally gagging for it......well done dan for giving us the true report though!
Wow thats quite a tale Dan, its amazing what you learn on this forum! and they are both glamorous too despite their shaky past! Can't wait to read their reports! full of admiration in advance!
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I've been spending far far too long on here desperately hoping to read reports from our marathon runners but nothing so far. Can't wait to read all the gory details (or should that be glorious details) but, in the meantime, my admiration knows no bounds. Awesome runners the pair of them! 
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