Sunday, 26 April 2009

2009 London Marathon

The London Marathon is a popular road marathon that has been held each year in London since 1981. The race is on today. This year the race is sponsored by Flora, as the Flora London Marathon. In addition to being one of the top five international marathons run over the traditional distance of 42.195 km, the London Marathon is also a large, celebratory sporting festival. An unusual feature is the very large amounts of money raised for charity, much more than other marathons. (above info is from Wiki)

I was standing not far from the finish line.




The following are very interesting runners that dress up with costume, they are so cOoL!!




The very professional photographer and a smart policeman :P

15 messages from you:

khengsiong said...

How can they run with this kind of costumes? Haha...

Towards healthy and leisure life~! said...

wow nice marathon! haha.. cannot imagine running with such costume, sure very heaty

amei79 said...

I thought u participate in the marathon, who u just an un-invited camera-"gal" at the finish line...^ ^

昕倩 said...

Hahaha!Thats is so funny..

hahahhahahahahhahaha!

You light up my day!

Thanks Kikey!

Agnes said...

those running with different costume look funny...hehehe..

p/s: i will send u the Nutella bun recipe. give me some time to do it...sorry!

.MiNღ唲. said...

Lol.
It happened in NYC too.
And, I saw a guy wore a green strip o_o
Which, only covered his important part but not the hair o.o

Borneo Falcon said...

That is a long distance to cover. Wonder how long it took for them to finish the race.

The World 记忆里的空间Of Memory said...

reply...to Kikey Loo said... 真的很有意思咯这一篇

天狼星 Ivanov said...

waseh!!! eiffel tower!!

and i like that policeman cap la.. haha!

Dragon said...

they wear the costume and run, not hot ar? but nice la.... here cannot see ppl wearing costume to run eh...

Cherish Tulips said...

that's interesting!
Your blog is cool and I'd like to award it.Please collect it from my blog when you are free ok?

Shingo T said...

Haha, it looks more like a parade than a marathon.

If only Asians could be more expressive.

In the last Singapore marathon I went to (ok, I only ran half-marathon), I saw runners with a car tire tied to a string to their waist, to spread the anti-pollution message. Must have been real miserable to drag a car tyre, yet he was running in front of me for the first 5km. =(

Hazel said...

wow, wat a big celebraation..

Calvin Soo KJ said...

you didnt join in the marathon??..hahaha. well, you should. then can see you panting crazy...lolz

eunice said...

hi Kikey!! i m so surprised that you are now in Europe! I would expect that you were back to your homeland Malaysia! never been to UK before. we stopped at Paris.

Enjoy your trip!! Have a safe journey!