runners united: no speed limits (LFDT), all running all out for fun/glory etc

Fanny - here

My pals all wore tweed trousers and deerstalker hats at it last year!

Ooh liath a few of my pals from the running club did the might deerstalker last year and are doing it again this year. I fancied it, but we're planning on TTC quite soon so didn't want to enter then give up my place should all go well. They LOVED it :)

liath sorry welcome to the thread!! Where's this 10k then? Sounds like a
Bastard one!

peach thank you, kind of you to say but you know what, as long as we can pay our bills and are happy then anything else is a bonus. I had a great life but it's better now. DH and I value things more. Money can be the root of evil in some ways. You know who your friends are when the shit hits the fan and my parents saved our lives in some ways - we'd have been bankrupt if they hadn't and no home to live in. At one point we were going to have to live with them. Not a great situation but hey ho, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and believe me, your health (as you know) worth more than any house or car. I'm lucky, I'm blessed with a wonderful family, fantastic DH and 3 healthy gorgeous girls.

Another one with house envy! It's gorgeous, moshi.

Talking of obstacle courses my sister and I just entered the mighty deerstalker 10k. Even better we've pursuaded our dh's to do it too. Ha ha! I took dh out for a run the other day and he started wheezing after a mile. Never mind, we have 4 months to plan our fancy dress train.

God, I hope the ads are based on thread title and not content, otherwise were going to get lots of poo related products! Immodium ladies?!?

Fanny, you poor thing, didn't realise you had been through that, you have a great attitude though and your priorities are all right.

Last time had show with DD following night of nookie (and curry?!?) but not sure there's much evidence for causality. Last night when we went to bed DP says "Keep your hands to yourself!! He is terrified by impending birth and being dad again.

Moshi that is one hell of a beautiful house. . No wonder you're gutted to leave it. I know it's very hard as we sold ours 3 years ago and it was a huge 5 bedroomed Victorian House with a kitchen that dreams are made of and we too renovated it from bare brick - had Lutron lighting system like yours, Kohler bathrooms, top of the range everything. DH lost his business when recession hit and house had to be sold and we lost nearly £150,000 on it, we'd only just finished it and lived in it 12 months. Cars went, my lovely jewellery sold. All my handbags went on eBay. We are now living in the first house DH and I bought (and had rented out for years) but you know what, I'm a better person for it. It grounded me hugely. I know this is nothing like what you're having to deal with but ultimately, as long as our little families are ok, nothing else matters. You'll build a great home again.

peach still here then....?! go off and shag DH, that'll get things moving!

I'm doing a hard 10.5 miler tomorrow in prep for HM Sunday. The hill is similar to the one in the Conwy HM. Dreading it.

rhet I never see adds, I updated Firefox the other day and suddenly got a shock with all the ads around, have now safely restored the adblocker, so much saner

Wow Moshi, your house is beautiful, what an amazing job you've done!

Rhet, no no no no no no no no no no, no no there's no limits!!! (except realistically running marathon in 7 min miles!! )

Good work Jez, just watch that injury. Ease off on the number of runs maybe if things don't improve.

N4NNY, I would maybe give your shoes a surface stub rather than the washing machine, you might be surprised how well they come up!

hello

apologies for absence too much real life, I will read carefully and catch up later, especially the weekend race reports but for now

peach I am so sorry about your step mum and how lovely you managed to see her. regarding the show good luck hope all is well with you

moshi fabulous job on the house, love the kitchen total fetish of mine
and yes your wonderful can do attitude will go down well in California

moshi your house is jaw droopingly gorgeous!

Just did 3.5 and am still on track for my day on, day off up training adding 0.25 each run. My injury is giving achy though .

How did it go Bonkers?

I'm avoiding running for a while to give my groin strain a rest. Did circuit traing yesterday. My arms are still aching, and today I dusted off my bike that's been in the shed for what must be 6 years and went out for a 7 mile cycle. Ace! I'd forgotten how much fun it is. Especially now I'm lighter and fitter so even the uphill bits were lfdt rather than feeling at deaths door. Ended up in some fields at one point which is such a nice surprise when living in a city!

Hope bonkers found her number.

All the best for the imminent births.

Twas a wreck when we bought it 5 years ago, rhet, which makes it all the more sad to leave it as we have had two babies in it and it has grown with us. Anyway, stop limiting yourself by saying you can't run faster. There are no limits to what you can achieve apart from those you set yourself. (DH was reading that over my shoulder when I typed and said, "honey, you are so Californian!"

Hmm try again.

N4NNY - you can put in machine but not to be done often or for long as will loosen glue etc. I just rinse.

[[http://residentialsearch.savills.co.uk/property-detail/L40274/list Here is my house that we must leave sadly]. If anyone knows of anyone wanting to move to Chiswick, please point them in my direction.

Rhet hope this works right here is the link I hope to my garmin log of yesterdays run.

connect.garmin.com/activity/128378246

My trainers are filthy after yesterday's run I've got off all the loose mud is it a good idea to pop them in the machine?

June it was me! And yes it is the brutal 10k. There's 3 of them in Nov, Dec & Jan I think. I was thinking about the Dec one. I don't think it has obstacles but does have running through rivers and lots of mud. I found it hard to find proper info on it online too to try and gauge how severe it is. I was thinking a proper off road one could be good fun & it could be nice to do a run without worrying about the time.

Have just run 6 miles back from church. Found it hard going which wasn't helped by getting lost on a 'shortcut' that added about half a mile and a section where I had to walk along a verge along a busy road that was too narrow to run on. I struggled after that to get going again. It's a beautiful day though and while I was struggling I was reminding myself of people like injured soldiers who we'd been thinking about in the remembrance service who'd give anything to be able to run 6 miles.

Cockwatch is the female racer's equivalent of Autumnwatch. Where we decipher if a cock is a Tit or an Eagle. Or worse, a woodpecker which goes at it hammer and tongs. So far only Tits on my watch. I'm pondering whether the South has the Eagles.