Showing posts with label triathlon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label triathlon. Show all posts

Monday, 12 October 2015

Running on Screen (8) From Darkness

'From Darkness' is a new BBC thriller series starring Anne-Marie Duff as Claire Church, an ex-police officer who gets drawn back into the investigation of a series of murders of sex workers in Manchester.




In between forensics labs and crime scenes she gets in plenty of running. So far - two episodes in- we've seen her running on the west coast of Scotland (filmed near Tavallich in Argyll) and through the streets of Manchester. We've also seen her swimming in the sea and been told that she is training for 'Ironwoman'. Little bit worried that her triathlon training is a bit unbalanced, as we haven't seen her yet on her bike.


Spoiler alert - her running skills have come in handy in chasing after a suspect. Although she didn't catch him she worked out that to have carried out the orginal murders in the 1990s he would have to be at least 40 now in which case how come he's still so fast? Well there's plenty of speedy V40s in my club...


Previously in this series:

Friday, 3 January 2014

Audrey Hepburn running, cycling and swimming

Audrey Hepburn would have been 85 today (she was born on 4 May 1929 and died on 20 January 1993). Judging by these photos of her running, cycling and swimming perhaps she could have been a triathlete if she hadn't made it as an actress- though perhaps a rather languid, unhurried triathlete!

(Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly  , Breakfast at Tiffany's -
these lines are actually spoken to her by the 'Fred' character, played by George Peppard)

Audrey Hepburn running with dog (guessing she didn't run too far in those shoes)

Audrey Hepburn running with deer



(more Audrey Hepburn cycling photos at Adventure Journal)

Hepburn in 'Two for the Road' (1967)

During the filming of 'Two for the Road'

[actually posted this on 4 May 2014, but as I'd started a draft earlier, Blogger published it as 3 January 2014]