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The A/R Off Topic Thread

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    #3782
    gerard65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,612 ✭✭✭gerard65


    Reading a review of a new book about Harold Abrahams, quote 'In his early days, Abrahams rose to prominence winning many a 150 yard race at Stamford Bridge. Imagine that, an athlete running 150 yards at Stamford Bridge and not throwing himself to the ground in a hissy fit, threatening the referee and then stalking off'.:D


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    #3783
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Thought the standard of penalty taking in the Women's World Cup final was bad enough. Then I saw the Brazil match. How the hell is it possible to miss ALL your penalties?


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    #3784
    ecoli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,762 ✭✭✭✭ecoli


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Thought the standard of penalty taking in the Women's World Cup final was bad enough. Then I saw the Brazil match. How the hell is it possible to miss ALL your penalties?

    In fairness
    Worst Brazil team in history + dodgy pitch = what happened


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    #3785
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    I was delighted to see my fellow Town Man, finally fulfill his golfing potential yesterday. Nice to see he still knows how to celebrate too :pac:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv1I_X7_AaY


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    #3786
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Beginning the first few miles of an LSR* by bumping into a mate who is also out for a run, but at a minute+ faster pace than you were intending to is not the best idea.


    * Long ish


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    #3787
    kennyb3
    Registered Users Posts: 6,724 ✭✭✭kennyb3


    Very convenient that my rest day from the bike should fall on such a s'hitty evening.


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    #3788
    Seres
    Registered Users Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭Seres


    kennyb3 wrote: »
    Very convenient that my rest day from the bike should fall on such a s'hitty evening.
    are you serious ?!, weather is perfect over west in the sticks


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    #3789
    ecoli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,762 ✭✭✭✭ecoli


    kennyb3 wrote: »
    Very convenient that my rest day from the bike should fall on such a s'hitty evening.

    A Triathlete afraid of water now I have heard everything:D


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    #3790
    kennyb3
    Registered Users Posts: 6,724 ✭✭✭kennyb3


    Seres wrote: »
    are you serious ?!, weather is perfect over west in the sticks

    Raining here all day although good to know it will clear from the west later.
    ecoli wrote: »
    A Triathlete afraid of water now I have heard everything:D

    A duathlete! - or more so just a biker at present!


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    #3791
    Bally8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭Bally8


    I just ate nearly a full clonakilty black pudding. Feel a bit ill:(

    I love it so much though its worth it:D


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    #3792
    ger664
    Registered Users Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭ger664


    Bally8 wrote: »
    I just ate nearly a full clonakilty black pudding. Feel a bit ill:(

    I love it so much though its worth it:D

    Experimenting with fuel for Long Runs i hope


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    #3793
    Bally8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭Bally8


    ger664 wrote: »
    Experimenting with fuel for Long Runs i hope


    :o Hee hee yes boss thats right...



    (actually come to think of it, the air expelled as a result of said pudding might give me that turbo boost I've been lacking:D)


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    #3794
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    ecoli wrote: »
    A Triathlete afraid of water now I have heard everything:D

    Triathlete? Triathlete's run. Unlike some people eh kenny? :p


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    #3795
    kennyb3
    Registered Users Posts: 6,724 ✭✭✭kennyb3


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Triathlete? Triathlete's run. Unlike some people eh kenny? :p
    Ha ha , i s'hit you not when i say im seriously considering conducting an experiment for the half marathon. Last year i was off the bike for 5 months and ran only 50 miles before running it and did it in 1'33.

    This year i ve barely ran, but am lighter and have better aerobic fitness so im tempted to see what can be ran off no mileage at all. Nuts i know, i ll prob crash and burn. I would never suggest this to others. But i think it could be a bit of fun and might be interesting theory wise.

    I ll see though


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    #3796
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    ^ Have you got a Discovery TV crew following you round?

    Sounds like something that James Cracknell chap would do, eat no real food, do no training due to some daft injury, then go off and run through the Sahara or somewhere equally stupid.


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    #3797
    kennyb3
    Registered Users Posts: 6,724 ✭✭✭kennyb3


    robinph wrote: »
    ^ Have you got a Discovery TV crew following you round?

    Sounds like something that James Cracknell chap would do, eat no real food, do no training due to some daft injury, then go off and run through the Sahara or somewhere equally stupid.
    No just personally being stupid


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    #3798
    gerard65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,612 ✭✭✭gerard65


    kennyb3 wrote: »
    Ha ha , i s'hit you not when i say im seriously considering conducting an experiment for the half marathon. Last year i was off the bike for 5 months and ran only 50 miles before running it and did it in 1'33.
    And a week later got taken apart by a ouldfella in a 5K race:D


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    #3799
    kennyb3
    Registered Users Posts: 6,724 ✭✭✭kennyb3


    gerard65 wrote: »
    And a week later got taken apart by a ouldfella in a 5K race:D
    Unfortunatley yes, my excuse is i was not recovered sufficiently!


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    #3800
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users Posts: 8,082 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    My dyslexic friend just sent me a text to say someone has died in an Army Warehouse in London - what's that all about???


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    #3801
    Woddle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,492 ✭✭✭Woddle


    My neighbour has been blaring his crap music for the last two hours (we don't get on so no point in talking), his wife and kid don't seem to be there. What am I to do...
    Send 6 screaming kids out my own back arm them with a radio and the Saturdays latest album, I wonder who'll win this round ...


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    #3802
    ecoli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,762 ✭✭✭✭ecoli


    Woddle wrote: »
    My neighbour has been blaring his crap music for the last two hours (we don't get on so no point in talking), his wife and kid don't seem to be there. What am I to do...
    Send 6 screaming kids out my own back arm them with a radio and the Saturdays latest album, I wonder who'll win this round ...

    Come back from one of your early morning runs and do a weight routine out the back. 80s montage music blaring to make sure you keep the tempo up and "push it to the limit"


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    #3803
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users Posts: 8,082 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    Woddle wrote: »
    My neighbour has been blaring his crap music for the last two hours (we don't get on so no point in talking), his wife and kid don't seem to be there. What am I to do...
    Send 6 screaming kids out my own back arm them with a radio and the Saturdays latest album, I wonder who'll win this round ...

    Could you have imagined yourself saying that 10 years ago 'old man' :pac:

    Start watering the garden and then put targets on top of the fence and give the kids the hose :p


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    #3804
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users Posts: 8,082 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    Rupert Murdoch says he is touched by all the messages of sympathy left on Amy Winehouse's voice mail.


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    #3805
    TheRoadRunner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,983 ✭✭✭TheRoadRunner


    kennyb3 wrote: »
    Ha ha , i s'hit you not when i say im seriously considering conducting an experiment for the half marathon. Last year i was off the bike for 5 months and ran only 50 miles before running it and did it in 1'33.

    This year i ve barely ran, but am lighter and have better aerobic fitness so im tempted to see what can be ran off no mileage at all. Nuts i know, i ll prob crash and burn. I would never suggest this to others. But i think it could be a bit of fun and might be interesting theory wise.

    I ll see though

    When I was running junior xc we use to recruit the brother of one of our team mates who was a cyclist. He didn't run a step but 2 years in a row he was our second scorer. His brother was sick as they were identical twins.


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    #3806
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    One of the lads I run with, well a long way behind actually, has just got himself a place in the Crystal Palace Diamond League U20 3km next week.


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    #3807
    --amadeus--
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,096 ✭✭✭--amadeus--


    Santa came early this year...

    23w40vq.jpg

    1000cc's of "adventure sports" bike. I spent the first 48 hours with it convinced MrsA had put voodoo on it to claim the life insurance but I think I am winning the battle of wits (not that you should brag about outwitting an inanimate object but I am sure you get the drift)


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    #3808
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,524 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    --amadeus-- wrote: »
    1000cc's of "adventure sports" bike. I spent the first 48 hours with it convinced MrsA had put voodoo on it to claim the life insurance but I think I am winning the battle of wits (not that you should brag about outwitting an inanimate object but I am sure you get the drift)
    Good to see you finally succumbed to the dark side. Pity you bought the wrong bike. :D

    Well wear. Keep her between the ditches.


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    #3809
    --amadeus--
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,096 ✭✭✭--amadeus--


    Krusty_Clown wrote: »
    Good to see you finally succumbed to the dark side. Pity you bought the wrong bike. :D

    Well wear. Keep her between the ditches.

    BMW? They can't even put the indicators in the right place :P


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    #3810
    couerdelion
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭couerdelion


    --amadeus-- wrote: »
    Santa came early this year...


    1000cc's of "adventure sports" bike. I spent the first 48 hours with it convinced MrsA had put voodoo on it to claim the life insurance but I think I am winning the battle of wits (not that you should brag about outwitting an inanimate object but I am sure you get the drift)

    I used to think that v-twins made the coolest noise till I got an IL4 :)

    Keep it shiny side up!


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    #3811
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users Posts: 8,082 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    --amadeus-- wrote: »
    Santa came early this year...

    23w40vq.jpg

    1000cc's of "adventure sports" bike. I spent the first 48 hours with it convinced MrsA had put voodoo on it to claim the life insurance but I think I am winning the battle of wits (not that you should brag about outwitting an inanimate object but I am sure you get the drift)

    I see you took the pink training wheels off :p


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