The A/R Off Topic Thread

BeepBeep67 · 22-12-2010 9:14pm

Woddle wrote: »

Just spent 2 hours clearing the drive, so as to have some chance of making it to my grandparents on xmas day, all I need is for the snow to stay away.

SNAP!

menoscemo · 22-12-2010 10:40pm

Just back from doing the Xmas shopping. Couldn't resist checking out the offers in JJB. Got a pair of Nike Lunarswift and an adidas trail runner for €70 combined. Spent more time and money on runners for myself than any other present :pac:

rainbow kirby · 22-12-2010 10:45pm

menoscemo wrote: »

Just back from doing the Xmas shopping. Couldn't resist checking out the offers in JJB. Got a pair of Nike Lunarswift and an adidas trail runner for €70 combined. Spent more time and money on runners for myself than any other present :pac:

Haha, went into JJB in the Square on my way home (decided to get the Luas rather than the bus), they had quite a few different pairs of Nike and Asics runners reduced, but nothing in my size :mad:

*glares at other size 7 women buying all my bargains*

nerraw1111 · 22-12-2010 10:50pm

Apologies if posted already. Would bring a lump to the throat, US cross country school runner crawls to the line to win the State championship

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Evj2ecqDi0

locteau · 23-12-2010 10:15pm

Really off topics, but it with the good few post I made and as a race organiser I learned a few things this week, and thanks to my partner I discover a a few misatkes I do when replying :eek:

She just taught me that smilies, just don't look pretty, they actually mean something on boards.ie which mean I posted lots of them without knowing. "it's why they are called emoticon". My world is falling apart, I just used them beacuse they looked cool.

Anyway.... you know now (but most of you knows me anyway)

seb

BeepBeep67 · 23-12-2010 10:52pm

locteau wrote: »

Really off topics, but it with the good few post I made and as a race organiser I learned a few things this week, and thanks to my partner I discover a a few misatkes I do when replying :eek:

She just taught me that smilies, just don't look pretty, they actually mean something on boards.ie which mean I posted lots of them without knowing. "it's why they are called emoticon". My world is falling apart, I just used them beacuse they looked cool.

Anyway.... you know now (but most of you knows me anyway)

seb

:eek::D;):rolleyes:

gerard65 · 23-12-2010 10:54pm

Woddle wrote: »

Just spent 2 hours clearing the drive, so as to have some chance of making it to my grandparents on xmas day, all I need is for the snow to stay away.

Well that was a waste of two hours:rolleyes:

Woddle · 23-12-2010 11:31pm

gerard65 wrote: »

Well that was a waste of two hours:rolleyes:

Absolutely

I got up early and hit the shops but by the time I got back I couldn't get the car back up the drive so I had to get the shovel out again. I've now got the car back up the drive but the drive is now covered again

and I have a sore back to boot

gerard65 · 23-12-2010 11:55pm

Woddle wrote: »

Absolutely
I got up early and hit the shops but by the time I got back I couldn't get the car back up the drive so I had to get the shovel out again. I've now got the car back up the drive but the drive is now covered again and I have a sore back to boot

I did it twice. Today I said to hell with it. I'll wait for the thaw. Still no food shopping done, I think it may be a case of falling back on the freezer, fishfingers and chips for xmas dinner. Just can't get out of the village, this weather isn't funny anymore.

gerard65 · 24-12-2010 1:38pm

Eventually dug my way out this morning and got to Tesco, the fishfingers and chips are back in the freezer:)

donothoponpop · 24-12-2010 2:02pm

Mulled wine making- no ground spice in the house. Wifey says the hardened jar of "Asian Spice Mix" I'm breaking up with a knife is not an acceptable substitute- who's right?

rainbow kirby · 24-12-2010 2:04pm

Digging out our driveway at home is turning into a 2-person job. Just moved about 18 inches of snow from between my mum's car and the hedge. :eek:

TFBubendorfer · 24-12-2010 4:27pm

donothoponpop wrote: »

Mulled wine making- no ground spice in the house. Wifey says the hardened jar of "Asian Spice Mix" I'm breaking up with a knife is not an acceptable substitute- who's right?

The wife is right.

Asian Spice Mix for mulled wine? :eek::eek::eek:

donothoponpop · 24-12-2010 4:50pm

TFBubendorfer wrote: »

The wife is right.

Asian Spice Mix for mulled wine? :eek::eek::eek:

Mulled wine turned out great, without any Oriental flavourings. "The wife is right" is good general advice for a trouble-free Christmas.:D

robinph · 24-12-2010 4:50pm

Meh, just add more alcohol to the mix and I'm sure it will be grand. You'l not notice the flavour after the first couple anyway.

metamorphosis · 25-12-2010 10:52am

Got out for a nice easy 7 miler just before 7.30am. Back, dressed, showered and had brekkie by 9am. Now getting all dozy sitting in front of the TV

Happy Christmas

menoscemo · 25-12-2010 12:27pm

ULstudent wrote: »

Got out for a nice easy 7 miler just before 7.30am. Back, dressed, showered and had brekkie by 9am. Now getting all dozy sitting in front of the TV

Happy Christmas

Dammit. You got you're run in before me :mad: :pac:

metamorphosis · 27-12-2010 12:21am

I actually feel toxic from the celebrations

donothoponpop · 29-12-2010 10:23pm

A mate has challenged me to make him a runner in 2011- he's a lazy couch potato, who wants to get into marathons in a big way. He figures he will take one step (say, 1 meter) on Jan 1st, and collapse back into his couch. Want's to double his distance each previous day, so two steps on the 2nd. Four steps on the 3rd, eight on the 4th, and so on. How many days until he's running marathons?

RayCun · 29-12-2010 10:29pm

A couple of weeks, but the jump from 10k to 20k will kill him...

robinph · 29-12-2010 10:48pm

18 days?

That is based on a purely guessed stride length of .5m becasue that made for an easier sum to figure out how may steps he'd need to make. That 18th day would require a 65km run though, give or take a bit.

Edit: Just saw you defined a stride length of a meter, that doesn't help him though as it would still take 17days.

Fluorescence · 29-12-2010 11:00pm

donothoponpop wrote: »

A mate has challenged me to make him a runner in 2011- he's a lazy couch potato, who wants to get into marathons in a big way. He figures he will take one step (say, 1 meter) on Jan 1st, and collapse back into his couch. Want's to double his distance each previous day, so two steps on the 2nd. Four steps on the 3rd, eight on the 4th, and so on. How many days until he's running marathons?

Lol tell him to do it properly :P

robinph · 31-12-2010 1:31pm

New Year resolution: Don't be quite so lazy with the running.

I only made it over the 1000mile mark at the beginning of October and I assume I had a few more miles covered before the end of October what with that marathon thing as well. Total for the year is only 1178.2 though. Really quite rubbish.

RoyMcC · 31-12-2010 1:41pm

robinph wrote: »

New Year resolution: Don't be quite so lazy with the running.

I only made it over the 1000mile mark at the beginning of October and I assume I had a few more miles covered before the end of October what with that marathon thing as well. Total for the year is only 1178.2 though. Really quite rubbish.

Start today, try for 1,200 for the year

metamorphosis · 01-01-2011 2:18pm

Finished off 2010 with a 17mile LSR for Barcalona,(also my longest run of 2010 pretty much thanks to stupid fecking injury for 1st 6 months of the year), then went off to Durty Nellies in Bunratty for the afters of my friends wedding, small crowd, very informal, brilliant time there. Made my way into Limerick an hour ago, working now from 1 -6. Got my shift swapped from 8.30 to 1 thank feck. Hangovers and strong waft of chlorine is not good but lots of coffee helping.

Happy New Year! May 2011 be good, injury free and lots of ART PBs

robinph · 03-01-2011 12:16pm

Just sorting out my kit ready for going of skiing next week, now sat watching telly with my ski boots on to get the feet aclimatised again. Had a look out the window and it's snowing again.

robinph · 03-01-2011 2:32pm

donothoponpop · 03-01-2011 2:40pm

robinph wrote: »

Whoever|introduced|tables
to|the|ART
forum|needs|shooting

can someone put me in I introduced Woddle from the ART forum to the shooting forum thanx

RayCun · 03-01-2011 3:39pm

Clearly, we need to add a Tables subforum

menoscemo · 03-01-2011 4:58pm

robinph wrote: »

Whoever|introduced|tables
to|the|ART
forum|needs|shooting

I may have been one of those responsible.

Told you your mad ideas would never work. Excel spreadsheats? :rolleyes: Pffft. Who ever heard of them :pac:

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