runners united: the one with the time running with other people

Thanks futurity, glad it's not just me then ....

woops...too late! glad you sorted it!

its in "settings" -- "ipod" and called "shake to shuffle". I remember having the same problem and couldn't work it out!

Sorted! Settings, ipod, turn off "shake to shuffle". Just tested it jumping up and down in the kitchen, hope the neighbours were out ....

paws, little button, top right hand side pressed once should lick the iPhone. Same button that you hold down for a few secs to turn it off.

Well that was an entertaining lunch time read.

A 4 willie household if you count the 2 male pigs (Ben and Jerry), we are currently fattening at the bottom of our garden.

Fairy Welcome! I lurked for a good long while too before I joined in.

June 8 stone is incredible. In only 15 months too. That is some serious commitment. Congratulations!

Not much to report today. Going running around our business park later. Got me Garmin on, planning 6 miles in and hour. That would be awesome.

ibby I totally agree about the bargain run thing. Today's run is a total bargain as I'm going out with the girls later and I have 2 hours to kill between finishing work and meeting them. I plan to get changed into running gear, have my 1 hour run then jump in the showers here at work. Result

yes paws there should be a setting that stops it jumping track with a shake to shuffle I think it is called

Just a quickie, runners - I just bought an armband for my iphone as I'm getting tired of the same songs on my shuffle and have more music on my phone - but when I move around the music jumps tracks all the time. Am I missing something obvious like a lock button?!

Adding in my first 5k races.

24/09/11 - Nairn Triathlon: backwardpossom (eeeeek!)
25/09/11 - Windsor Half Marathon: Doyouthinktheysaurus
25/09/11 - London Half Marathon Run to the beat: June2009
25/09/11 - New Forest Half Marathon: MoshiMoshi, Tulip27
25/09/11 - Runway Run 10k: Ibbydibby
02/10/11 - Standalone 10K: Futurity, Quenelle
02/10/11 - Bradford Half Marathon - MrsWednesday
02/10/11 - Baxter's River Ness 10k - backwardpossom
02/10/11 - The Run, Northampton - YeahThatsTheBadger
02/10/11 - Great Edinburgh Run 5k - Bumply
02/10/11 - Great Edinburgh Run 10k - Squix
02/10/11 - Big Fun Run 5k London Victoria Park - Wiifitmama
02/10/11 - Camberley 10k- DebitheScot
09/10/11 - Great Eastern Run, Peterborough - Futurity
09/10/11 - Herts 10k - WishIwasCherryMenlove
15/10/11 - Donadea Forest Trail 10k - rhetorician
16/10/11 - Abingdon Marathon: MoshiMoshi
16/10/11 - Aviemore 10K: Piffpaffpoff
16/10/11 - Richmond Castle 10k: Stickylittlefingers
22/10/11 - Shockabsorber 10K Richmond Park - sfx
23/10/11 - Thruxton Mass Attack Duathlon- DebitheScot
23/10/11 - Big Fun Run 5k Edinburgh Holyrood Park - Bumply
30/10/11 - Great South Run: Wheely, squix
30/10/11 - Nairobi Standard Chartered Half Marathon - M&M
05/11/11 - Glendalough Trail Run - rhetorician
13/11/11 - Stebbing 10 Mile - bonkers20
19/11/11 - Maasai Mara Half Marathon - M&M
20/11/11 - Leeds Abbey Dash (10k) - DrNortherner
27/11/11 - City of Norwich half marathon: ibbydibby, MoshiMoshi
19/02/12 - Brighton Half marathon - Wheely
10/03/12 - Blackpool Half Marathon - DrNortherner
22/04/12 - VLM: MoshiMoshi, ibbydibby
27/05/12 - London Bupa 10K - Futurity

I had a look at ParkRun in Edinburgh. Hmm, I need to up my pace if I don't want to come in significantly behind the others. I'll do a bit more practice on my own before trying it out.

from Preston that it not from London, traditionally we spend the 23rd of December on the motorway, and in our early days of coupledom that lovely day was spent on the train to Glasgow cramped and insane journey that one, we were so happy to see Preston (something almost unfathomable)

I am not from Liverpool but inlaws live in Preston and we spend Christmas there, easy drive

sticky it's in Herts. I've lived in Herts all my life, and probably go into Berko once a month or so for evenings out or to get things I need (not my nearest town but the boys go to school a few miles from the town) and it's always like that! Not unpleasant, just ....... odd!

I love the fact that I get the blame for dragging this thread to utter filth...

June well done you! 8 stone . Are you now at target weight?

sfx whereabouts in Liverpool are you from? I was born in Lydiate and DH and I moved from Birkdale to Chester a couple of years ago.

Paws that is odd... where is Berkhamstead (are you sure it's real?)?

That's great news Peach! Not long before the little Peach (cherry? Strawberry?) will be with us. Hope your last few weeks go well, not too uncomfortable.

Good that you have a sensible vet Moshi, how awful to be told you'd have to leave your dog behind. She may start to bark with one of those squeaky California accents, of course...

ibby well done on slotting in an extra run (though you may want to follow bonkers example (never was an MNer more aptly named) and try and fit in 7 minutes of naughtiness too. There is nothing like multitasking...

Bonkers - you are! It's a good idea though, I don't like anything to interfere with my before sleep novel reading time . I find shaggage gets me a bit worked up and I find it difficult to sleep afterwards, so end up pacing round the house (or indeed MNing!) in the early hours.

Another Beautiful Day here - AND there were running tights on offer in our local outlet so I got to try out my dashing new outfit in perfect conditions . Still not counting times while I recover from Sunday. But watch out Parkrun on Saturday - I will no longer be saving myself ...

New race list with the Richmond (N Yorks) included:

24/09/11 - Nairn Triathlon: backwardpossom (eeeeek!)
25/09/11 - Windsor Half Marathon: Doyouthinktheysaurus
25/09/11 - London Half Marathon Run to the beat: June2009
25/09/11 - New Forest Half Marathon: MoshiMoshi, Tulip27
25/09/11 - Runway Run 10k: Ibbydibby
02/10/11 - Standalone 10K: Futurity, Quenelle
02/10/11 - Bradford Half Marathon - MrsWednesday
02/10/11 - Baxter's River Ness 10k - backwardpossom
02/10/11 - The Run, Northampton - YeahThatsTheBadger
02/10/11 - Great Edinburgh Run 10k - Squix
02/10/11 - Big Fun Run 5k London Victoria Park - Wiifitmama
02/10/11 - Camberley 10k- DebitheScot
09/10/11 - Great Eastern Run, Peterborough - Futurity
09/10/11 - Herts 10k - WishIwasCherryMenlove
15/10/11 - Donadea Forest Trail 10k - rhetorician
16/10/11 - Abingdon Marathon: MoshiMoshi
16/10/11 - Aviemore 10K: Piffpaffpoff
16/10/11 - Richmond Castle 10k: Stickylittlefingers
22/10/11 - Shockabsorber 10K Richmond Park - sfx
23/10/11 - Thruxton Mass Attack Duathlon- DebitheScot
30/10/11 - Great South Run: Wheely, squix
30/10/11 - Nairobi Standard Chartered Half Marathon - M&M
05/11/11 - Glendalough Trail Run - rhetorician
13/11/11 - Stebbing 10 Mile - bonkers20
19/11/11 - Maasai Mara Half Marathon - M&M
20/11/11 - Leeds Abbey Dash (10k) - DrNortherner
27/11/11 - City of Norwich half marathon: ibbydibby, MoshiMoshi
19/02/12 - Brighton Half marathon - Wheely
10/03/12 - Blackpool Half Marathon - DrNortherner
22/04/12 - VLM: MoshiMoshi, ibbydibby
27/05/12 - London Bupa 10K - Futurity

Oh and the running update - you know sometimes I forget this is a running thread .....

Managed a comfortable slow 3.5 miles last night, was puffing like a steam train but it's given me hope that things will be better by the weekend.

I'm thinking of doing the Berkhamsted Half next spring, very hilly but beautiful. Spent the morning in Berko, nice but very "odd" town. I had to go there to pick up some football kit as the boys play for a local team. Evidence of odd-ness:

• reasonable sized sports shop, that only took cash - so cleared me out of my last £20 in shrapnel, which meant I had to find .....

• a bank. None of them opened till 9.30, and none of them had cash machines that worked outside.

• stopped for a coffee in Costa and it was like something out of the League of Gentlemen. A coffee you say? Hmm let's see if we can find any (rummage rummage behind the counter ....). Tried a Costa Light as they had no decaf - vile milky slop.

• offered a lady in the car park the remainder of my parking ticket (about an hour and 10 minutes) and she looked at me like I'd offered her free entry to a sex club and exclaimed "no THANK you!"

Is that me is that all quite odd?

Wow bonkers 7 minutes, so you had time to do it twice?!

I feel my cold/cough is on the way out - yay! Apart from when I sniffed energetically in the car this morning and got the most horrendous pain again in my face - where were those Sudafed again?

Congratulations June that's amazing - I lost 5 stone a few years back but sadly found 2 of those again thanks to ds3.

What do you all do post bonk then?

Do you remain swinging from the chandeliers for a couple of hours?
Oh, was I meant to go straight to sleep maybe.

Ah well, you see the deed was not done in the marital bed but in the lounge (I KNOW!) and since we got down to it at about 9pm or so, we were done by 9.07pm before bedtime, so there was time for MN aswell as sex!

I'm a busy juggling Mother you see, I can do everything!

June well done on the weight loss. Fantastic! Think I have also bought Lucozade gels in Sainsburys.

Fairy, welcome, have you signed up to the HM yet?

Fanny and DrNo, well done for signing up for Blackpool!

Re scab-story, Debi yes I also wondered why Bonkers was on MN post-bonk.

3 willy household here.

Was out all day Tues and Wed, hence frantically trying to catch up with work things today (just having a short break to MN, you understand..). Getting a bit bogged down with string of emails from superiors at work trying to agree on order of doing things for forthcoming project. Just feel like we are going round and round in circles, I get emailed saying "what do you think is best: method a) or method b)?" I email back saying "I think method b) because......" Email back from same person: "but method a) would be better because ......"

SO WHY ASK ME THEN......

On the plus side discovered this morning that I have won a prize for a MN product test (Hasbro toy test)

Took DS1 to band practice yesterday, my usual is to sit in Waitrose cafe with cup of tea and cake until it is time to go and collect him (it is to far to go back home while he was there). But went for a run instead. Always feels like a bargain when you can fit a run into some other aspect of your life. Got a bit lost in a housing estate though, even though I have run through it several times previously. Embarassing when you pass the same group of children 3 times..

peach good to know all well with the baby, hopefully all plain sailing

Delighted all is well, peachy!

squix Hyde Park is usually busy with joggers, rollerskaters and whatever kind of new gizmo fitnessy thing you can find and plenty of coppers about

moshi take the word of the vet for it and whatever you do, don't post in the pet boards here you will be virtually lynched, not the warm and fuzzies of runners I can tell you

Ladies, you may scoff at my bain marie, but I will be the one with a gut full of cheesecake and consequently an arse the size of Norfolk, so who's the winner now (as Mark Corrigan might say!)

On way home from hospital. All fine at 32 week scan (phew), and have confirmation that baby is indeed a girl, keeping us a strictly one willy household!

Rhet, you win the prize for lack of household willies. Please accept this phallic symbol in the form of a tasteful glass statue of Blackpool tower.

June, am speechless at your weight loss, well done, you must be proud of yourself.

Forgot to add, 8 STONE is amazing, june! You have come a long way, lady and should be very proud of yourself! There is always the tummy tuck option? My sister would love one not because she lost 8 stone but after her DC2 she was left with (as her husband refers to it) her 80 year old belly.

Welcome to fairy!

I drop off for an evening and return to talk about Fanny T-Shirts, willies and shags with Blackpool lads. This thread is classy!

I had a warm fuzzy feeling when thinking about going to SF last night and how scary it was going to be when I realised my MN friends would be coming with me. How cool is that?

The dog breeder was being very difficult when I mentioned taking the dog with us. She seems to think it is more traumatic to subject the dog to the flight and I should have my dog's best interests at heart and leave the dog with her. I found this very upsetting until I spoke to the vet this morning who said the journey will be fine as she is a young healthy dog and what a great opportunity. Why are people so horrible sometimes? It was as if she had told me to leave my youngest DC behind with the grandparents because she might find it all too unsettling leaving the UK behind.

Oh and talking about running as a FV35, I concur with the view that those vets don't half shift themselves!