dubkev

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• The Vegan Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 days, 7 hours

  

  Clif Bars

• Running

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 days, 11 hours

  

  it ends up taking up most of your Sunday.

  Well, that's definitely the nail in the coffin for me then. No way would that work for me. I barely get away with the Parkruns on a Saturday.

  I'm happy to stick with the halfs... it's doable with some effort and training, without killing myself. I only started running at 40 so any learning/training curve to get up to a marathon fitness level is going to be far longer than someone in their 20s.

  Does anyone know when the Hackney Half photos get put online?

• Running

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 3 hours

  

  It wasn't meant in any nasty way,

  I didn't think you did!

  My dad did a marathon when he was 30 and then never ran again. His stories put me off it.

• Running

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 4 hours

  

  Didn't you have doubts about running >10k when you started?

  I don't remember, would probably have to trawl through this thread from about ten months ago, but that realistically strikes me as something I would have said alright. When I went for my first run about eleven months ago I managed about 3km before giving up.

• Running

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 5 hours

  

  Yikes! Hope you're alright now. I got a wave of light headedness at the finish, like if you stand up too quickly sometimes, but it passed. Did they give you oxygen? I went to some sort of yoga tent to stretch out afterwards, and again when I got up I felt very woozy. But it passed quickly and I got my bike to ride home.

  I stripped my top off after the first third or so of the run. I didn't care how chavvy it looked. I was just too hot to have any sort of top on. I usually run after 9 pm when the kids are in bed, so I'm not used to handling running in the sun at all.

• Running

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 12 hours

  

  Thank you. That was tough going. How anyone can do twice that distance is beyond me.

• Running

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 14 hours

  

  Whoop! 1:49 for me!

  @salmonchild I looked for you at the finish line but you were gone, sorry

• Running

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week

  

  I think I'm starting to get a bit of nerves about tomorrow! Maybe because I've actually done some training for this one.

  Iain I'm going to write "LFGSS Running (ex polo)"* on mine. I'll keep an eye out for you around the 1:50 pacer.

  *i have every intention of going back when the kids get older.

• Running

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 1 day

  

  Thanks Jono, I don't think I could start out at 1:45 pace though, I imagine I would burn out too quickly.

  I've put together a mix for myself on my music, with the tracks edited down to lengths between 5:00 and 5:30 and arranged in the intended 1km times... hopefully that will guide me...

  I'm in Pen H at the start, probably because I put in a slower time when I registered than what I'm aiming for now. Is it easy enough to get into another area at the start?

  (running definitely the new bike polo then)

• Tattoos

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 2 days

  

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-44153­864

  Newsbeat is such barrel bottom sludge. I shudder to think that the content on there is supposedly aimed at developing minds.