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Go get ‘em ladies! Your team is amazing, reading your progress has inspired me to go for run this very morning, hope you raise loadsa money & good luck on Sunday.

Keep up the good work! You’re an inspiration ladies!!
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Best of luck to the team for Sunday, you’ll all be fabulous!x

I know a few of your #teambangsontherun2 ladies quite well through twitter and watching them and you progress has been nothing short of inspiring. I hope one day to manage a half marathon myself. Kudos to all you Running Diva’s, have a fabulous run on Sunday. I will be cheering you all on and waiting to hear when you’ve all crossed that finish line. Well done and a great cause too xx
@RockDiva1976

Good luck girlies Have a fantastic time, you’re such an inspiration x x x

Good luck ladies! See you on the start line!

I did my first half marathon at Run To The Beat yesterday and loved it!! I would love to do my next one with team Bangs!

BANGSTRY – I make a point of not commenting in my own comments section. I prefer to let my readers discuss amongst themselves the views I’ve put forward. However, there is no way I wouldn’t respond to this. Not that it’s any of your business or that I should have to justify anything to you, but that ‘rather stout woman’ as you so delicately put it, did run 13 miles at Run to the Beat and she trained her ass off to do so. She runs regularly and inspires hundreds of women every day to go out and give it a try. What was the point of your comment? Do you feel better? Does it make you feel big to make snide, rude remarks about someone you don’t know? I find it deplorable and I hope you feel suitably ashamed of yourself – and if you’re a woman, God help us all. As if we don’t have enough to deal with without turning on each other in such a sad way.

Oh and by the way, when’s the last time you ran 13 miles?

Bangstry- how dare you? These girls trained bloody hard for run to the beat, all of them? They decided to do something which most of the population wouldn’t even dare to think about and you judge one of them? With arseholes like you about it’s litle wonder women get paranoid about how they look. I hope you rot in hell. These girls are an inspiration you petty small minded dickhead.

Ooh a Troll. How utterly pathetic. Bangstry, we all feel nothing but love for Bangs and her team. They have raised £10,000 for Refuge!!!! Can you imagine how many women they will have helped, through their own sweat and tears. The Bangs team are inspiring and adored. I think you just picked a fight with the wrong crew.

Bangstry,

It seems that you probably feel that you have stirred up something of a storm, which I assume was your intention. Well, it strikes me that you have actually only served to create bad feeling towards yourself and further strengthen the solidarity in the Bangs fraternity. So well done on that particular failure (I am sure it is one of many).

I would like to tell you (as if you would have the courage of coming back here and read the comments in response to your stupid post) that I have never met such an amazing group of runners as the group that Bangs brought together. If the definition of athlete is one who “…is trained or skilled in … physical strength, agility, or stamina” then every member of Team Bangs is an athlete and they can all be justifiably proud of their achievements. I know many, many runners and I have not met one yet who has not been inspired and touched by the example that Bangs and her team have set. Not so you. Well in that case I suggest that you are not an athlete and in that case I suggest that your opinion is worthless. Of course if you fancy coming on down and meeting Bangs and her supporters for a little run, you would no doubt be very welcome… not interested? Thought not!

S.

I am always disappointed but never surprised when people like Bangstry pipe up with such disgusting comments. It is such a shame that while there are brave people out there challenge themselves, trying something new and really pushing to achieve success, there are always bitter cowards looking on just existing.
Running 13 miles is not easy. I was part of Team Bangs 1 and was also there running RTTB last weekend and both were tough. This time last year, I could barely run 10 minutes but by sticking together, being supportive to each other and working hard we all succeeded. It has been such an amazing experience. I have challenged myself, made some amazing friends along the way and other women have felt encouraged to give exercise a go. A lot of money has been raised for charity too.
I’m so proud of what each and every member of Team Bangs 1 & 2 have achieved and Tahira’s spirit shines through in her comment above. She is a far better person than you Bangstry! I’m sure you feel pretty silly now but we all make mistakes. Take your comment back, apologise, admit that you were wrong and go out there and do something good with your time rather than trying to belittle others that are making a difference.

To begin,what led me to this blog was your item on chavs which i heartily agreed with and decided to continue and read with delight about your efforts in the half marathon,while not a dedicated jogger prior to a rather severe accident i was an expert canoeist and an extremely fit lad,this hobby sometimes left me in remote areas from which i would occasionally have to make my way back to my home town(paying bills etc etc),i recall the 29 miles from huntingdon to stamford (5 hours)followed by a leisurely 10mi paddle back through the bedford levels to whittlesea as being rather fun and although my fitness levels have dropped i still ride and take the odd boat out,also Bangstry is an archaic word and my nickname and has been for somewhat longer than your blog,all of which is rather beyond the point,being,my(on reflection)rather hasty comment on the fitness of one of your party,for which i feel after reading of her success was unjust and deserves an apology,to wit..i apologise.

Stands up and applauds team bangs ladies and supporters!

And was that really an apology? Reaaaaallllllllly? So insincere!