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The A/R Off Topic Thread

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    #4172
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Could have done with some under pitch heating on one part of the cross country course I was doing today. Most of the course was pretty good and had been softened up a bit by the sun to actually make a good surface for running on, but one section that was in the shade of a building was rock solid and despite about ten previous races before the SM having run that same bit of the course multiple times each it hadn't softened up at all and was like running on big rocks where the mud was frozen solid.

    Nearly sent me flying with potential for badly messed ankles. I'd certainly not want to have been making attempts at a try on a surface like that in Paris.


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    #4173
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    OK, so it's not really off topic, but no point in starting a thread in the events forum to just talk to myself...

    So before I do that, has anyone run the Marine Corps Marathon in the USofA or know anything about it?


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    #4174
    nerraw1111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭nerraw1111


    robinph wrote: »
    OK, so it's not really off topic, but no point in starting a thread in the events forum to just talk to myself...

    So before I do that, has anyone run the Marine Corps Marathon in the USofA or know anything about it?

    Don't cheat. http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=7202&PageNum=&CategoryID=


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    #4175
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Out for some beers this evening and one of the guys was chatting about who his new boss was at work with one of the other lads as if we should have heard of him. Wasn't a name I've ever heard of, but apparently he used to be pretty handy and is on the front cover of Running is Easy.


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    #4176
    Woddle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,492 ✭✭✭Woddle


    robinph wrote: »
    Out for some beers this evening and one of the guys was chatting about who his new boss was at work with one of the other lads as if we should have heard of him. Wasn't a name I've ever heard of, but apparently he used to be pretty handy and is on the front cover of Running is Easy.

    My very first running book.
    A good interview with him on marathon talk a couple of weeks back. Seems to be a bit of a character.


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    #4177
    opus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,007 ✭✭✭opus


    Thought this was funny, When Can I Talk About My Poop?: A Runner’s Conversation Guide. Guess I don't know any fellow runners well enough yet ;)


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    #4178
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    I'm half thinking it might all be a big joke being played on me, but flying off to Greece next week to sort out some new business somehow seems wrong. :confused:


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    #4179
    TheRoadRunner
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    robinph wrote: »

    So before I do that, has anyone run the Marine Corps Marathon in the USofA or know anything about it?

    For the craic you should dress up as Osama Bin Laden and run it. You'd get plenty of attention.


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    #4180
    Brianderunner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭Brianderunner


    Luis suarez has expressed his sadness at hearing that one of the monkees was dead."which one was it?" he asked, "Ferdinand or Evra?"


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    #4181
    upthe19th
    Registered Users Posts: 741 ✭✭✭upthe19th


    Fate is conspiring against me.

    Took up running and cycling....so far 4 inuries and now recovering from surgery...really missing the running and bored out of me skull at home.

    Sick of telly, reading and almost sick of the computer.

    Today I'm trying something new...a bottle of gin and one of my wife's dresses:P


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    #4182
    upthe19th
    Registered Users Posts: 741 ✭✭✭upthe19th


    upthe19th wrote: »
    Fate is conspiring against me.

    Took up running and cycling....so far 4 inuries and now recovering from surgery...really missing the running and bored out of me skull at home.

    Sick of telly, reading and almost sick of the computer.

    Today I'm trying something new...a bottle of gin and one of my wife's dresses:P

    So here we are...not according to plan...

    I started on the gin first, not a good idea. It took me 45 minutes to pick out a dress, a further 30 minutes to pick out shoes and when I finally settled on a bag, it suited neither. I stumbled in the shoes, breaking a heel and the strap of the bag on the way down.

    So here I am, middle of the afternoon, sitting on the couch, drunk, half an hour before my wife comes home, mug of gin in one hand, broken lipstick in the other, mascara running down from face from despair and exasperation, in a dress that screams "what were you thinking" (that is to say it does nothing for my figure)...and I have just had an epiphany..

    If I continue with my 2 mile a week regime and then change my high5 gels for high5 plus gels, I could go sub 3 for the dublin city marathon:D;)

    Hey, what are you looking at?!:mad:


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    #4183
    robinph
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    Pics or it didn't happen. :D


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    #4184
    upthe19th
    Registered Users Posts: 741 ✭✭✭upthe19th


    robinph wrote: »
    Pics or it didn't happen. :D

    no way man...going to papers with them...25,000 easy

    story to read " Man driven over the edge after his wife and her friend pose in sexy photo shoot with robinph":D:D;)


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    #4185
    gerard65
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    Big Country on the Late Late - a blast from the past:eek:


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    #4186
    TheRoadRunner
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    gerard65 wrote: »
    Big Country on the Late Late - a blast from the past:eek:

    You're old dude. You need to check into an old folks home ;)


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    #4187
    Brianderunner
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    Dont think i can remember Man Utd getting so badly outplayed in Old Trafford before. Great to watch :D


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    #4188
    rainbow kirby
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    Brianderunner wrote: »
    Dont think i can remember Man Utd getting so badly outplayed in Old Trafford before. Great to watch :D

    ^ Down with this sort of thing :pac:


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    #4189
    Slogger Jogger
    Registered Users Posts: 5,441 ✭✭✭Slogger Jogger


    Soft goal at the end there. Should be a great game in Bilbao.


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    #4190
    ThisRegard
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    So I pack all my gear this morning for a lunch time run, all bases covered, gloves and hat if it's cold, rain jacket if it rains. Office is quiet so I pop into the server room to get changed, all geared up and ready to go. Hang on a sec, where's me bloody runners ?!

    I don't think today is the day I'll give barefoot running a go.


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    #4191
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Just seen via bookface that I know one of the lads in a dress on the cover of todays Independant. :D


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    #4192
    robinph
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    Another national medal for me today. :D

    This time only a bronze in the "old blokes"* cross country championships, but still I'm happy that I managed to win the mini battle within our own team to have been the last counter.

    *M35-44 category, but it's getting tougher as more M35-39 year olds realise they can enter the vets championships.


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    #4193
    opus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,007 ✭✭✭opus


    Wonder what an insurance company would make of a claim for elephant damage in a car park :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AR51Jo2Tmw


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    #4194
    tunguska
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    Possibly the greatest news I've ever heard:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrNA7RjU91I


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    #4195
    shels4ever
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    tunguska wrote: »
    Possibly the greatest news I've ever heard:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrNA7RjU91I

    :) .


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    #4196
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users Posts: 8,082 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    Mods: What's the story with the needing a gold account to view pictures?


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    #4197
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    BeepBeep67 wrote: »
    Mods: What's the story with the needing a gold account to view pictures?

    Hope I get an invite to the yacht.


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    #4198
    RacoonQueen
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    BeepBeep67 wrote: »
    Mods: What's the story with the needing a gold account to view pictures?

    What date is it?


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    #4199
    dna_leri
    Registered Users Posts: 2,623 ✭✭✭dna_leri


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    BeepBeep67 wrote: »
    Mods: What's the story with the needing a gold account to view pictures?

    What date is it?
    Glad I read this thread. Would have got caught on something stupid otherwise.


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    #4200
    Kurt Godel
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    What's a gold account?


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    #4201
    rovers_runner
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm8gLIS4ygA

    Maradona and Liam Gallagher sing as a Manchester club wins it's first league title in 44 years, delighted for the people of Manchester :D


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