#london marathon 2017

[world-of-wales]

CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2017

10 APRIL 2017 || Kensington Palace released a new photograph featuring the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William announcing their attendance at the upcoming London Marathon.

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge start the 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon | April 23 2017

[mathsandwhiteroses]

Princess of Wales Photo Challenge: Day 27

Favourite photo of Catherine with her patronages

Catherine has got patronages in 4 main areas:

The early years, children and families

Sport

Mental Health

Museums and Art

I decided that all 4 deserved to be represented and I like these photos the most as a representation of her work.

The 1st photo was taken at EACH (East Anglia Children’s Hospice) in Milton on 23rd June 2022. The 2nd on 18th October 2013 for Sports Aid while the 3rd was taken at the London Marathon on 23rd April 2017 for Heads Together. The last photo was taken at the National Portrait Gallery for its reopening on 20th June 2023.

[cambridgefamily]

Lovebirds at the 2017 London Marathon

[scotianostra]

On August 30th 1991,Liz McColgan won the World Athletics Championship 10,000 metres in Tokyo by a margin of 20 seconds.

The brilliant career of Liz McColgan can be broken up into three parts: her glory at the Commonwealth Games in her own country, her superb World Championship triumph in Tokyo and her ability then to adapt that track technique to the roads. All three of them were memorable because of the drama McColgan brought to the event, her refusal not to allow anyone to pass her on the way to gold.

As Liz Lynch she won the Commonwealth 10,000m title in Edinburgh amid amazing, patriotic scenes before in 1991, her front-running performance to win the world title was mesmerising, before she transferred that ability to make a record-breaking marathon debut. When she at her peak, she was unstoppable.

Liz won the gold medal for the 10,000 metres at the 1991 World Championships, and a silver medal over the same distance at the 1988 Olympic Games. Liz was also a two-time gold medallist over the distance at the Commonwealth Games, as well as winning the 1992 World Half Marathon Championships, 1991 New York City Marathon, 1992 Tokyo Marathon and 1996 London Marathon. Her 10,000 metres best of 30:57.07 set in 1991, made her only the third woman in history to run the distance in under 31 minutes. Both that time and her marathon best of 2:26:52 in 1997, still stand as Scottish records.

Liz, who is a mother-of-five children, was also chair of Scottish Athletics from 2003 to 2005 and her first-born daughter, Eilish, has been following in her mother’s running footsteps, she is the current 5,000 metres Scottish record holder and 3,000 metres steeplechase record holder.

Liz was voted BBC Sports Personality of the year in 1991, although not competing nowadays she still runs occasionally, in 2017 she finished 16th in Stirling Half Marathon, not bad for a lass in her 50’s. She now goes by the name of McColgan-Nuttall after marrying former athlete John Nuttall in 2014.

[ifreakingloveroyals]

23 April 2017 | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry cheer on runners as they signal the start of the 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon in London, England. (c) Chris Jackson/Getty Images

[invisibleicewands]

We met Michael Sheen back in 2016 when we were asked to take part in a feature on The One Show about the power of online campaigning. He was so lovely, and donated an auction prize (a signed Soccer Aid shirt) for our last ball in 2017. Unprompted after seeing us share a post on Twitter, he donated £100 to our fundraising efforts for the London Marathon in 2018, all for MPS Society UK, here for those with rare diseases, and now, 5, years later, he is still supporting us and donating an auction prize for our ball in October too 💙. Thank you so much Michael, we really appreciate it! (X)

[timeduchess]

Russell T. Davies 2005-2010 Era

What is this? Overall Marathon Post

Steven Moffat 2010-2017 Era

Chris Chibnall 2018-2022 Era

Russell T Davies 2023-Present Era

Episode List Below

DW S1:E1: Rose (First episode of new DW)

DW S1:E2: The End of the World (Relationship development; establishes more of the Doctor's backstory)

DW S1:E3: The Unquiet Dead (Establishes facts relevant to DW: Boom Town and T)

DW S1:E4-5: Aliens of London; World War Three (Introduces Harriet Jones; introduces the Slitheen; relationship development)

DW S1:E6: Dalek (Introduces Adam Mitchell and the Daleks; reveals more of the Doctor's backstory)

DW S1:E7: The Long Game (Adam Mitchell character development; establishes facts relevant to finale)

DW S1:E8: Father’s Day (Introduces Pete Tyler; major character development; Relationship development)

DW S1:E9-10: The Empty Child; The Doctor Dances (Introduces Jack Harkness)

DW S1:E11: Boom Town (Character development)

DW S1:E12-13: Bad Wolf; The Parting of Ways (Finale; major character development)

DW Children in Need 2005: Born Again Minisode

DW 2005 Christmas Special: The Christmas Invasion (First episode with [spoiler]; Establishes facts relevant to series 2 and 3 finales)

DW S2:E2: Tooth and Claw (Introduces Torchwood Institute)

DW S2:E3: School Reunion ([Re]Introduces Sarah Jane Smith; character development)

DW S2:E4: The Girl in the Fireplace (Just a great episode)

DW S2:E5-6: Rise of the Cybermen; The Age of Steel (Major character development; [spoiler] introduced)

DW S2:E9-10: The Impossible Planet; The Satan Pit (Relationship development; also great episodes)

DW S2:E13-14: Army of Ghosts; Doomsday (Finale; major character development)

DW 2006 Christmas Special: The Runaway Bride (Introduces Donna Noble)

T S1:E1: Everything Changes (First episode)

T S1:E2: Day One (Major character/relationship development)

T S1:E3 Ghost Machine (Major character development)

DW S3:E2 Smith and Jones (Introduces Martha Jones)

T S1:E5 Cyberwoman (Major character development)

DW S3:E4: Gridlock ([spoiler] development; will come up in finale; relationship development)

SJA S1:E0: Invasion of the Bane (First episode)

SJA S1:E1-2: Revenge of the Slitheen (Introduces Clyde Langer)

T S1:E5: Small Worlds (Just a great episode)

DW S3:E5-6: Daleks in Manhattan; Evolution of the Daleks (Plot development; events effect later episodes)

T S1:E6: Countrycide (A great episode; major relationship development)

T S1:E7: Greeks Bearing Gifts (Major character development)

DW S1:E7: The Lazarus Experiment (Relationship development)

T S1:E8: They Keep Killing Suzie (Major character/relationship development)

DW S3:E9-10: Human Nature; The Family of Blood (Major character development; establishes facts used in finale)

SJA S1:E5-6: Warriors of Kudlak (A great episode; minor relationship development)

T S1:E10: Out of Time (Character/relationship development)

SJA S1:E7-8: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (Relationship development)

DW S3:E12: Blink (Just a great episode)

T S1:E11 Combat (Relationship development)

SJA S1:E9-10: The Lost Boy (Relationship development)

T S1:E12 Captain Jack Harkness (Reveals more of Jack's backstory; also a great episode)

T S1:E13 End of Days (Finale; major developments)

DW S3:E12: Utopia (Introduces [spoiler]; major character development)

DW S3:E13-14: Sound of Drums; Last of the Time Lords (Finale; major developments)

DW Minisode: Time Crash 2007

DW 2008 Christmas Special: Voyage of the Damned (Just a great episode; Introduces Wilfred Mott)

T S2:E1: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Introduces John Hart; Major character/relationship developments)

DW S4:E1: Partners in Crime (Major character development)

DW S4:E2: Fires of Pompeii (Establishes facts used in finale)

T S2:E3: To the Last Man (A great episode; character development)

T S2:E4: Meat (Major character/relationship development)

DW S4:E3: Planet of the Ood (Major plot developments)

T S2:E5: Adam (Reveals more of Jack's backstory)

T S2:E6-7: Reset; Dead Man Walking (Major character development)

T S2:E8: A Day in Death (Major character development)

DW S4:E4-5: The Sontaran Stratagem; The Poison Sky (Establishes facts used in the finale)

DW S4:E7: The Doctor's Daughter (Character development)

T S2:E9: Something Borrowed (Major relationship development)

DW S4:E8: The Unicorn and the Wasp (Great episode)

T S2:E11: Adrift (Great episode; minor character development)

DW S4:E9-10: Silence in the Library; Forest of the Dead (Introduces River Song; great episodes)

T S2:E12: Fragments (Major backstories reveal; major plot development)

T S2:E13: Exit Wounds (Major character/relationship/plot development)

DW S4:E11: Midnight (Great episode)

DW S4:12-14: Turn Left; The Stolen Earth; Journey's End (Finale; Major character/relationship development)

SJA S2:E0-1: The Last Sontaran (Major character development)

SJA S2:E2-3: The Day of the Clown (Introduces Rani Chandra)

SJA S2:E7-8: The Mark of the Berserker (Clyde's family appears)

SJA S2:E9-10: The Temptation of Sarah Jane (Major character development; major backstory reveal)

SJA S2:E11-12: Enemy of the Bane (Plot development; Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's only appearance in New Who)

SJA S3:E1-2: Prisoner of the Judoon (Events effect future episodes)

SJA S3:E3-4: The Madwoman in the Attic (Major character development)

SJA S3:E5-6: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (Major plot development)

DW 2009 Special: The Waters of Mars (Major character development)

T S3:E1-5: Children of Earth (Major character/relationship development)

DW 2009 Specials: The End of Time (Major character development)

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

Surely Harry cannot be wearing high heeled shoes for height? Surely not?

It's always been reported that W = 6'3" and H = 6'2". If you see them in the 2017 London Marathon pics where they are both wearing plain sneakers, not dress shoes, that looks very accurate to their reported heights.

And I don't know what people mean about the Diana Statue pics. If you look at the rota pics, Harry very clearly looks an inch shorter than William. I think maybe what is confusing is that they were standing on grass at the garden.

But all the pics of solid ground look accurate:

https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/prince-william-duke-of-cambridge-and-prince-harry-duke-of-news-photo/1233751716?phrase=prince%20harry

https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/prince-william-duke-of-cambridge-and-prince-harry-duke-of-news-photo/1233751782?phrase=prince%20harry

I didn’t notice the Diana pics. Footwear News noticed the shoes.

[wetsteve3]

When Claire Lomas was paralysed from the chest down when she fell from her horse during an eventing competition in 2007 she never could have believed that one day she would ride a lap of the North West 200 course on a motorcycle.

Claire’s life was turned upside down when she was just 27. Her accident saw the Englishwoman lose her sport and a career as a chiropractor. Her relationship also fell apart and Claire felt she was losing her identity before she began to focus on rebuilding her life by pushing the boundaries of what she could achieve to new and unforeseeable levels.

In the years since her life changing accident Claire has raised over £850,000 for charity through various challenges, including taking 17 days to complete the 2012 London Marathon in a special robotic suit. A mum, an author and a motivational speaker, she was awarded an MBE in 2017.

Alongside her charity endeavours, Claire has also qualified as a pilot and learned to ride motorbikes, eventually gaining her race licence. Having never ridden a motorcycle prior to her accident, getting to grips with two wheels was particularly challenging for Claire as she has no movement or sensation from the chest down. Taking on her charity lap of the North West 200 roads course on May 11 will present another new challenge as she has previously limited her outings to tracks like Donington Park.

“I am absolutely honoured to have the opportunity to take on this incredible challenge.” Claire says.

“It will be very different to being on a track, which is my only experience. I’m raising money for Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation so that one day paralysis can be reversible.”

Claire’s Suzuki has been adapted with straps to stop her knees from flapping in the wind and toe clips securing her feet to the foot plates. A special shifter allows her to change gears using only her hands. Her husband and father are part of the team, helping to launch her at the start of her lap and catching her when she returns.

“Straight after my accident I thought life was pretty much over.” Claire says. “Then I started to explore what I was able to do and found new doors to open but I never thought I would be riding a motorbike around the roads in Northern Ireland. It’s both scary and exciting in equal measure!”

“What Claire has achieved is remarkable and we will be delighted to welcome her to the North West 200 as she takes on a new challenge in her journey for a very worthwhile cause.” Mervyn Whyte of the NW200 said.

“Her determination and courage are an inspiration to everyone and Claire will have the support of every North West 200 fan during her lap of the famous 8.9 mile Triangle circuit in May.”

[world-of-wales]

CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2017

5 FEBRUARY 2017 || The Duchess of Cambridge, along with Prince William, took part in a training session for the London Marathon with Heads Together at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

[haggishlyhagging]

A much more striking connection between the 2017 attacks, as far as I was concerned, wasn't listed in the report. Four of the five attackers had a history of domestic abuse, amounting to a catalogue of verbal and physical attacks on female relatives and, in the case of the Manchester bomber, Salman Abedi, a brutal assault on a young woman who was in his class at college; the figure rises to five out of six if we include Osborne, the right-wing extremist who drove a hired van into worshippers leaving a mosque in north London. Less information has emerged about the family relationships of the remaining attacker, Khuram Butt, but we know that he displayed a somewhat detached view of fatherhood; Butt led the suicide attacks on London Bridge and Borough Market a matter of weeks after his wife had given birth to their second child. Another of the men in Butt's cell, Rachid Redouane, had a daughter aged seventeen months at the time he was shot dead by armed police, demonstrating a readiness to abandon infants which will figure in the biographies of a number of the perpetrators who appear in this book.

The patriarchal assumptions common among such men, who seek to control every aspect of the lives of their wives and children, extend neither to considering their long-term welfare nor to protecting them from the consequences of horrific public acts of violence. It is a chilling view of family relationships in which becoming a husband and father appears to have more to do with confirming a man's status - and acquiring residency rights, in some cases - than forming close attachments. The widows and children of terrorists have to live not just with grief and loss but with the notoriety of their male relatives, even in cases where they themselves were the first victims of an escalating species of male violence.

The wider pattern of terrorists with a history of domestic abuse certainly isn't limited to the UK: in the couple of years before the 2017 attacks, I kept noticing that the perpetrators of some of the most notorious terrorist attacks in Europe and the US had first been violent towards wives and girlfriends. Domestic violence turned up in the background of the security guard who attacked the Pulse nightclub in Florida (forty-nine dead, fifty-three injured), the lorry driver who drove into crowds in Nice on Bastille day (eighty-six dead, 458 injured), the elder of the two brothers responsible for the Boston marathon bombing (three dead, several hundred injured) and a fraudster who took hostages in a café in Sydney in December 2014 (two dead, three injured).

Critics will say that is to be expected, given that we are talking about a cohort of violent men, but that is my point: male violence doesn't stay in neat categories. Persistent offenders tend to have convictions for a whole range of violent offences, as I show in chapter two, and I'm suggesting that men who are used to beating, kicking, choking and stabbing women at home are considerably further along the road towards committing public acts of violence. Police and paramedics who have attended incidents of extreme domestic violence, coming upon a scene of injured women and children, pools of blood and overturned furniture, will recognise similarities with the aftermath of a marauding terrorist attack; these are men who have practised behind closed doors, relishing the sensation of holding the power of life or death over family members and becoming desensitised to the horrible effects of violence.

-Joan Smith, Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

The Duchess of Cambridge cheered on runners during the 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon | April 23 2017

[casquecest]

How did you get into running marathons?

I'd had the idea of running one since I found a London Marathon finisher medal in a thrift shop in 2002, but didn't get much beyond dreaming of it at that point. I remember watching the 2005 Boston and saying, 'I bet I could do that!' based on naught but sheer stubbornness and arrogance. It remained a back-burner dream that I would revisit every couple of years, but ultimately did not pursue.

Once I decided to move to Boston, I started seriously considering a marathon, and what it would take to complete one. Up until that point, I'd not walked more than six or seven miles in one go. I elected to walk a marathon distance for charity in 2016 and did nearly 30 miles in 2017, but that was with various stops, and over the course of a day. I did my first competitive run in April of 2018, and did the Walk for Hunger 5K followed by the 20-mile walk in May of that year, and completed both in a decent time without wanting to kill myself the next day, so when the opportunity came to run Seattle in November 2018, with its 7.5 hour time limit, I figured I could accomplish it and if I got to meet the dudes from Supernatural while doing it, all the better.

I. Bloody. LOVED. It.

Within days of finishing Seattle, I was already looking for my next race, and signed up to run St Louis then and there. I ended up doing four marathons between November 2018 and November 2019. It's become a goal of mine to: 1) Run all the World Marathon Majors (currently, that consists of: Tokyo; Boston; London; Berlin; Chicago; New York); and 2) Run a marathon on every continent. Hopefully, by the end of this year, I'll be halfway through completing the Majors, and have knocked out 3/7 continents.

What it boils down to, really, is that I love a challenge, I'm fucking stubborn, and I thrive on a sense of accomplishment, lol.

[sweetswesf]

I Found an Old Goals List...

...and it made me chuckle...

by each of the "Want to Be"s, I put who I knew was currently in that role...some names, I don't even recognize...How I feel today is in red...

Want to Be

Fundraiser

Owner of Microfinancing Philanthropist

Financial Infrastructure Engineer

Data Scientist

Product Director

Trader on Wall Street

Enterprise Saleswoman

App Owner/Business Owner/Entrepreneur/Mogul

Professor

Teacher

Author

Investment Banker

Fantasy

Actress

Dancer

DJ (Hannah Bronfman)

TV Host (Desus & Mero)

Tour Manager

Don’t Want to Be

Attorney

Real Estate Agent

Rapper

Singer

Scientist

Fitness Coach

Event Planner

Office Manager

Financial Advisor

Financial Analyst

5 Year Plan – 2017 - 2021 – 24 - 28 YO (6/13 complete)

Establish connections, gain industry experience (happened)

Complete my 1st Marathon – 2017 (happened)

Raise & Promotion @ L – 2017 (happened 2018)

Leave L – 2018 (happened 2022)

Visit Cuba - 2018 (didn't happen, lost my passport and fought w/my mom pretty badly over this one...)

Join Netflix w/ 6 figure salary – 2018 (hahahah)

Complete UC Berkeley data science program – 2018 (no longer a desire)

Make 1st trade on NYSE - 2018 (happened 2019)

Visit KT in Bangkok/Bhutan/Charles in Singapore ��� 2019

Visit Japan - 2020 (happened 2018)

Become Mid-level Finance Manager – 2021 (ahahhaah)

Earn CFA - 2021 (not a desire)

Visit Switzerland - 2021 (not a desire)

10 Year Plan – 2022 - 2026 – 29 - 33 YO

Visit Capetown - 2022 (2023...2022 is over this week, I don't think this finna happen...)

Return to work in NYC on Wall Street as Financial Infrastructure Manager – 2022 (no, but I did work in NYC in 2021...)

Finish the NYC Marathon - 2022 (don't care to anymore)

Learn basic conversational and reading in Japanese – 2022 (I tried in 2021...but other things were prioritized)

Visit Hong Kong - 2022 (with that air pollution & covid?? nahhh)

Harvard Business School funded by employer – 2023 (could happen...)

Visit Dubai/UAE/Mecca - 2023 (I don't care to go there anymore...human rights reasons...)

Work abroad in Italy, South Africa, Japan or London – 2024 (could happen...)

Visit Brazil – 2024

Visit Australia – 2025 

Visit Tahiti – 2026 

First child with natural birth – 2026 (yikes...unless my future husband has 8 figures, miss me with this one...)

Own NYC loft - 2026 (we shooting big here!...can happen...)

Get hired at T4 or T5 SWE position at my top choice company - 2023

Get a $180k+ base salary - 2023

Start dating a guy a like and who likes me - 2023

Move to a 1 bedroom in Manhattan or Brooklyn, New York - 2023

Master all the topics I want to before June 2023 - June 2023

Look like Tamara Prichett, Melanie Alcantara, Jade Cargill, or Massy Arias - 2024

Update my app to be on React - 2024

Mentor an intern engineer - 2024

Get a promotion - 2024

Staff engineer - 2025

Visit friends in Milan - 2023

15 Year Plan – 2027 - 2031 – 34 - 38 YO

Visit the Amazon – 2027 (don't really care to do this anymore)

Fundraise for my own app – 2027 (2028)

Go public with my company – 2031 (2037, MAYBE)

Get married to a really rich man (2026)

Move back in with grandparents to code for my app full time or live off of my really rich husband - 2027

35 Year Plan – 2032 – 2050 – 39 – 58 YO

Grow company

Tech Invest - 2040

Own home in NJ or NY - 2040

Retire – 2050 

40 Year Plan – 2051 – 2055 – 59 – 63 YO 

Become teacher in LA – 2051

41 Year Plan – 2056 - 2060 – 64 - 68 YO

Become USC Trustee

It could happen...I have to believe and work hard...

[lboogie1906]

Eliud Kipchoge EGH (November 5, 1984) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in the marathon and formerly specialized in the 5000-metre distance. Regarded as one of the greatest marathon runners of all time, he is the 2016 and 2020 Olympic marathon champion, and was the world record holder in the marathon with a time of 2:01:09 set at the 2022 Berlin Marathon, until that record was broken at the Chicago Marathon October 2023 with a time of 2:00:35. He has run four of the ten fastest marathons in history.

He was born in Kapsisiywa, Nandi County, in Kenya. He graduated from the Kaptel Secondary School in Nandi County. He ran 2 mi to school daily. He was raised by a single mother. He is the youngest of four children.

His wife and three children live in Eldoret, Kenya. He lives and trains in Kaptagat.

He won his first individual world championship title in 2003 by winning the junior race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships and setting a world junior record over 5000 m on the track. He became the senior 5000 m world champion at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics with a championships record, then followed by an Olympic bronze for Kenya in 2004 and a bronze at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships. A five-time World Championship 5000 m finalist, he took silver medals at the 2007 World Championships, 2008 Olympics, and 2010 Commonwealth Games.

He switched to road running in 2012 and made the second-fastest-ever half marathon debut with 59:25 minutes. On his marathon debut, he won the 2013 Hamburg Marathon in a course record time. His first victory at a World Marathon Major came at the Chicago Marathon in 2014, and he went on to become series champion in 2016, 2017, and 2018. He won the London Marathon a record 4 times. He has won 12 of the 13 marathons he has entered. His only loss was second place at the 2013 Berlin Marathon. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence