So, can you run the London Marathon without training?īut is it wise, or downright stupid to put your body through the exhausting challenge without stepping foot on a treadmill beforehand? Yet he wasn't content with finishing just one - and ended up doing 43 of them in the space of 51 days. Meanwhile, comedian Eddie Izzard did five weeks of training before embarking on his marathon in 2009. It took him just over six hours to finish and he was surprised at how much pain he was in following the run, forcing him to cancel his post-marathon clubbing plans. On the other hand, TOWIE star James Argent lost roughly 3st during an intense six-week training regime ahead of the 2012 London Marathon. He later joked that 'everything ended up on the track'. The former London Marathon race director, David Bedford, apparently only signed up to run the 1981 race hours before the event, while he was in a nightclub.Īlthough Mr Bedford - on a stomach full of curry - completed the course, he was filmed throwing up midway. Irish pop singers Jedward (John and Edward Grimes) reached the finish line of the LA Marathon in 2012 in little over four hours, and afterwards famously claimed that they never bothered training beforehand.
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