Martin Compston as soon as took half within the LA marathon in a bid to get to the one pub exhibiting the Celtic recreation.
Talking on his new podcast, Stressed Natives, the Line of Obligation actor admitted he solely took half within the run because it was the one strategy to get to the pub. The Greenock-born actor recalled phoning his pal Outlaw King star Tony Curran the night time earlier than the cup ultimate recreation towards Rangers to debate their plans to search out out in regards to the race.
He defined: “I phoned him on the Friday and requested what time we have been going to fulfill for pre-drinks and he says ‘mate, look, the LA Marathon is on this weekend, all of the roads are shut, you should begin planning how you'll get there now’. I used to be wanting and there was simply no strategy to get to this pub.”
Not letting the marathon damage his soccer plans, the 38-year-old actor realised the run began close to a pal's home and ended close to the pub he was planning to go to slap bang within the center.
He stated: “I believed, I’ll go up there, I’ll begin the run on the Dodger’s stadium, I’ll run down, cease on the pub, watch the sport after which run dwelling. That was the logistics of it.”
Nevertheless, across the midway mark the Our Home actor was 13 miles in when he reached the pub and could not quit on the marathon. He added: “I went to go away to go to the pub to look at the sport and the man stated, if you happen to depart, your time is disqualified and also you don’t get your medal.
"While you’ve ran about 13 or 14 miles, Celtic win quite a lot of trophies so I knew we’d be again, although we did get beat that recreation, so I simply ran and completed it.”
Martin ended up ending the marathon in a formidable time of lower than 4 hours, and was happy with himself regardless of lacking the massive recreation. Nevertheless, the star ended up in a lot ache because of the marathon he needed to cancel an audition the next day because it was up three flights of stairs.
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