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Connoisseur said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1182753380336316416

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1182755116350349313

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1182756880797618177

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1182758626341117954
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Darkie said:
2 out of 4 ain't bad?!
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I’ll go with @Darkie and take comfort in 2/4 ain’t bad!
Glad I got the Useless Islands as I thought that may have been a trick question. Fluked the Beatles question as I thought somewhere in the back of my brain that I had heard before Pete Best was arrested for burning a condom, but I was wrong, but right for the purpose of the question!!

EDIT: Thanks to google it looks like Paul McCartney AND Pete Best spent time in jail for burning a condom!
https://www.beatlesbible.com/1960/11/29/paul-mccartney-pete-best-arrested-hamburg/
 
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Rowsus said:
17 seconds for 100m?

Yeah, I did that when I was around 28 years old.



Ohhhhh wait, you want me to do that 422 times in a row, without stopping! :sick:
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or set the treadmill for 21kmh and maintain that for almost 2 hours.

won't be recognised by the IAAF though due to contrived conditions :-

* contrived track around the park which was levelled
* team of 41 pace setters helping him
* guided by a electronic car flashing a laser on the road for comparison
* and something to do with special enhanced shoes

pretty amazing though , think he has the World Record for 2 hours , 1 minute
 
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Herbie66 said:
or set the treadmill for 21kmh and maintain that for almost 2 hours.

won't be recognised by the IAAF though due to contrived conditions :-

* contrived track around the park which was levelled
* team of 41 pace setters helping him
* guided by a electronic car flashing a laser on the road for comparison
* and something to do with special enhanced shoes

pretty amazing though , think he has the World Record for 2 hours , 1 minute
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It's a bit like the World Mile Record.

Officially it is 3:43.13.

A bloke named Boit ran it in 3:28.36 on a specially made downhill course, in a race that is run every year.

That's 12.9 for the 100m, 16 times in a row, without stopping.
 
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Rowsus said:
It's a bit like the World Mile Record.

Officially it is 3:43.13.

A bloke named Boit ran it in 3:28.36 on a specially made downhill course, in a race that is run every year.

That's 12.9 for the 100m, 16 times in a row, without stopping.
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I would be struggling to run 100m at all these days , let alone 16 times in a row ?

As for the marathon , prefer to take the bus or catch a taxi.

Will have to look up Boit now.

Cheers
 
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