Want people to cough up for charity? Get into Lycra | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian

Want people to cough up for charity? Get into Lycra | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian: "I got a press release from a friend of a friend who, three days hence, intends to dance the London Marathon. It is entitled 'Teacher to become first ever person to dance the London Marathon', like we'd all been waiting 30 years for someone to finally dance the marathon, but we'd always assumed it would be a dancer. He is probably overegging it a bit (his name is Ben Hammond, by the way, and if you would like to sponsor him, you can do so here), but it sounds extremely hard, beyond the well-documented physical hardships of travelling a m"