Dave King
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What's your full embarrassing name? |
David Pergerine St John D’arcy King |
Married, or are you young, free and single and like to mingle? |
Recently joined that new dating website www.deadmingers.com – but I’m still waiting! (how many of you checked out that link to see if the website existed?!!!) |
Where do you live? |
Swindon and Costa del Locks Heath |
Do you work or stay at home? |
Part-time male model with Airfix and editor of a daily newspaper. |
How long have you been a member at Stubbington? |
January 2001 |
Can you remember your first race? |
Twas the D-Day 10k when I ran like a sack of potatoes – now I carry a sack of potatoes around my waist! |
How often do you bother to go training? |
A couple of times a week – mixed in with tennis, football and gym. |
What is your favourite training run? |
Runs where Gary Littlecott takes frequent pit stops so I can get my breath back – our leaky expeditions tend to take us along the Solent Coastal Path or around Holly Hill where we get overtaken up the hills by old folks riding motability scooters. |
What was your best ever race? |
A bewildering 3hr 19min London Marathon – but then it helps to know the short cuts and the lay-out of the London underground! |
And what was your worst or most embarrassing race? |
My elastic snapping during the Great South Run in 2006, so I had to run the last two miles from Eastney with one hand hitching up my shorts. |
Do you have a pre-race ritual? |
A Little Chef Olympic breakfast with extra black pudding. |
What is the best piece of gear you have bought? |
The court case has still to be heard about the gear I bought from the suspicious-looking guy at Fratton railway station. However in running terms, it would be my natty sunglasses which I wear to keep cool and look like Mark Le Gassick, but instead I run like Mark Lamarr! |
Worst piece of gear? |
Tried those 100 mile running socks and got 100 yard blisters. |
Why do you run when you could be sat at home watching EastEnders? |
Ever since Arfur Fowler and little Willy the dog passed away, Albert Square ain’t been the same. Running along the coast on a beautiful, crisp Sunday morning during winter is better than sex – though I may change that view if www.deadmingers.com comes up trumps for me. |
What does she/he who must be obeyed think about your running? |
I would like to say that she complains bitterly about me going out on a training run on a Sunday morning, ties me down to the bed, strips off my clothes and gets out the chocolate mint ice cream from the freezer – but that would be nonsense (why would anyone waste seriously good chocolate mint ice cream?!!) |
What is the one piece of advice you would give to any new runner? |
Don’t listen to Andy Simpson cheering you on at the finish, telling you to put in one last big effort as there is someone catching you – because he is telling porkies, and you look a complete numpty!! |