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

You have lost your stake already DrNo, mine is a boy without a winkle....

I think you are delirious, get thee to bed lassie. Hope you feel better in morning. You are soooo right about DH's boss. Utter twat.

lol rhet you totally should!

Peach - you can have my Maltesers if you like, I think you need them more than I do!

, yes can imagine you might get a about that one!!!

How did you feel about things during the last labour? I think my DP felt kinda useless and also fairly horrified by the whole thing. Tbf we were both slightly out of our minds, me with pain and entinox, and both of us with sleep deprivation.

My last post makes no sense whatsoever. I am not myself.............!

Hat you made me wee yself laughing at 'running' a course on Maltesers. It would have to be barefoot running I say. I love the randomness of this thread.

N4nny good luck with the job hunting, anything you fancy in particular?

The race is on for peachy and Rhets babies arriving. My predictions are:
Peach first - boy
Rhets dp second and of course a dd

Well despite feeling I was gonna barf earlier I actually haven't. Are some scrambled eggs on toast for tea and just feel wiped out. Maybe ds being ill has taken it out of me. I told dh to tell his boss I think he is a twat When I see him the bastard next I will actually ask him that if I why he thinks sick kid duty falls to me cause I won't be able to help myself.

Good night all and happy running.

Jeez possum! Hard core. Put your feet up love, have a bag of Maltesers!

Oh yes, I have an M.A. in Maltesers of course....
Full term is 37 weeks so have been so for 2 weeks. Have no clue when it will all kick off, maybe I should engineer a powercut... Sweepstake anyone?

Good Lord that was tough going tonight - a LFDT classic. 18 mins tempo run, then quick break, then 1km at fast pace, then 0.5km of recovery jog, followed by 0.5km of fast pace again, then 10 mins tempo run back. Fucked.

Sounds yummy ...a new event perhaps?!

clicked for a late night check and the first thing i read was "I'd like to run a course on Maltesers" This being a running thread I read "run" as, erm, run (ie not organise). I had visions first of a course strewn with maltesers, that you could crush under foot (why?); then of snacking on maltesers instead of glucose sweets/jelly babies (won't they get a bit sticky? I thought).

12/11/11 - Ashton Court 10K - N4NNY
13/11/11 - Stebbing 10 Mile - bonkers20
19/11/11 - Maasai Mara Half Marathon - M&M
20.11.11 - Gosport Half-Marathon- Tulip27
20/11/11 - Leeds Abbey Dash (10k) - DrNortherner
20/11/11 - Adnams Southwold 10k - AngeChica
27/11/11 - City of Norwich half marathon: ibbydibby, MoshiMoshi
27/11/11 - Bicton Blister (10M) - RunningAllDay
27/11/11 - RNLI Reindeer Run Stirling Uni 10K - Squix
27/11/11 - Boscombe 10k - Jezabelle
03/12/11 - Jingle Bells 5k Phoenix Park - rhetorician
01/01/11 - Morpeth 11k Road Race - AngeChica
07/01/12 - Bupa Great Winter Run 5k Holyrood park - bumply
22/01/12 - Four Villages Half Marathon (Helsby) - Fannybanjo
19/02/12 - Brighton Half marathon - Wheely
04/03/12 - Milton Keynes Half Marathon - pawsnclaws
10/03/12 - Blackpool Half Marathon - DrNortherner, Fannybanjo
11/03/12 - Cambridge Half Marathon - Futurity, Runnerstipple, Cherry (what have I done??), Bonkers20
25/03/12 - Edale Skyline - (21 miles. 4,500 ft climb) Hatwoman
25/03/12 - Fleet Half Marathon- DebitheScot
25/03/11 - Run Northumberland HM - AngeChica
31/03/12 - Olympic Park Run - wiifitmama, runerstipple
01/04/12 - Reading Half-Marathon - RunningAllDay, Tulip27
22/04/12 - VLM: ibbydibby, AngeChica
28&29/04/12 - Wye Forest 50 (miles!) - RunningAllDay
29/04/12 - Shakespeare Half Marathon - FairyBasslet
27/05/12 - London Bupa 10K - Futurity
09/06/12 - Blenheim Sprint Triathlon - Cherry
29/06/12 - San Francisco Marathon - MoshiMoshi

Your DP will be desperately hoping not to go overdue again - I was 15 days overdue with my DS and demented by the end of it.

Choc buttons worked fine for us too. There was a regression on starting pre-school as he refused to ask for the loo there. All fine now though.

If there were a course on Maltesers I would be happy to join.

I tried every bribe under the sun with dd1. The one that eventually worked was that she was allowed to wear dresses to nursery (i'd been making her wear trousers as more practical etc). I tried this with dd2 - told her at the start of nursery she was wearing trousers till she wore pants. She wore leggings first day, second day I got her I'm leggimgs and she went back and changed herself into a skirt. Grrrrrrr.

We'll see what happens tomorrow. I have to stay in as we're having some furniture delivered and her pre school keep telling me she's ready so......

Expect me on here a lot tomorrow !

Conversation and reading (cough) Rhet? surely a powercut is time for luuuuurrrrvvvvveeeee

12/11/11 - Ashton Court 10K - N4NNY
13/11/11 - Stebbing 10 Mile - bonkers20
19/11/11 - Maasai Mara Half Marathon - M&M
20.11.11- Gosport Half-Marathon- Tulip27
20/11/11 - Leeds Abbey Dash (10k) - DrNortherner
27/11/11 - City of Norwich half marathon: ibbydibby, MoshiMoshi
27/11/11 - Bicton Blister (10M) - RunningAllDay
27/11/11 - RNLI Reindeer Run Stirling Uni 10K - Squix
27/11/11 - Boscombe 10k - Jezabelle
03/12/11 - Jingle Bells 5k Phoenix Park - rhetorician
07/01/12 - Bupa Great Winter Run 5k Holyrood park - bumply
22/01/12 - Four Villages Half Marathon (Helsby) - Fannybanjo
19/02/12 - Brighton Half marathon - Wheely
04/03/12 - Milton Keynes Half Marathon - pawsnclaws
10/03/12 - Blackpool Half Marathon - DrNortherner, Fannybanjo
11/03/12 - Cambridge Half Marathon - Futurity, Runnerstipple, Cherry (what have I done??), Bonkers20
25/03/12 - Edale Skyline - (21 miles. 4,500 ft climb) Hatwoman
25/03/12- Fleet Half Marathon- DebitheScot
31/03/12 - Olympic Park Run - wiifitmama, runerstipple
01/04/12 - Reading Half-Marathon - RunningAllDay, Tulip27
22/04/12 - VLM: ibbydibby
28&29/04/12 - Wye Forest 50 (miles!) - RunningAllDay
29/04/12 - Shakespeare Half Marathon - FairyBasslet
27/05/12 - London Bupa 10K - Futurity
09/06/12 - Blenheim Sprint Triathlon - Cherry
29/06/12 - San Francisco Marathon - MoshiMoshi

I'm added! I can see this thread's going to be good for me! Very friendly, lots of support and good advice. Right, I'm off to bed and setting the alarm for 6.30 for my morning run. Night night.

Hello everyone not really posted since I put my Iceland picture up for all to see its been a tough few weeks with leaving "my" boys I had the lovely task of going to the job Center yesterday to sign on yuck yuck yuck.

Still been managing to run I seem to be doing mostly hill work my Monday running group is in an area with lots of hills and the running course I do on a Wednesday focuses lots on hill my Saturday parkrun is 2.5k you guessed it up hill phew but then 2.5 back down :). I do seem to be improving though and managing the hills much easier.

Glad everyone else's runs seem to be going well and looking forward to the new babies

Hope you're feeling ok drNo...

Hat - v. exciting re the pony. ooh I'd love a pony... And definitely run alongside I reckon.

Good luck with the plan Jez -Have you added your race to our list yet ?

After my terrible 'costa instead ofa run' incident yesterday I almost made up for it today. I went for a dog walk with a friend, then we had a quick coffee and then I did a 5K run. She was walking back to her car when I overtook her and her dog ran alongside me a little then stopped and sloped off back to my friend....but then a while later I looked down and she was there again. So I had to run her back to my friend who had no idea where she'd got to. Stoopid dawg... (I am a big dog lover really before I get lynched).

So whilst we're on a poo theme... I am going to attempt potty training with dd2 tomorrow. She has been talking a good game for a bit and I thought we'd struck on the bribe that might work (peppa pig swings playset which she really really wants) but tonight she said 'I'm not going to wear pants and I don't want the peppa pig swings'..... so there may well be some hair tearing out tomorrow in the 'burbs of London....

It sounds like we have a similar mutt monkey ours is a hound / lab cross. He won't go further than 3 miles - I had started to take him out for 5 or 6, and eventually he just sat down in the park and Looked at me in disgust.

When are the LOs due peachsmuggler and rhet?

Jezabelle I think that is an excellent aim. Don't be tempted to panic and overdo it or you might get a muscle strain. You will feel fab for achieving the 10k and you could book in to another one, maybe a Santa run or summat - build up your distance over a few more weeks and then when you improve on your time you will feel even better! The sense of achievement is really rewarding.

Why not hatwoman, I used to pace my dad on my bike when he was in training for marathons. Same kinda thing, as long as the pony was OK with it :)

And fanny I think I was just feeling knackered and lazy when i read that :). I know will just have to manage 4/5 a week looking at say, the RW schedules. I work 4 days a week so I have have weekends and one window in the week on a Friday afternoon (as I don't work Fridays and DS has an afternoon school nursery place) to do daylight running.

DrNo, am not surprised you're feeling rough after stool collection duties!! Hope it doesn't become full blown shitgate. You and Fanny, should check into Blackpool's classiest guest house, buy kiss me quick hats, get on the WKDs and then puke your way round the course. Anything less would surely be a waste of a weekend

am feeling ok ta. Felt quite sick this morning post-bagel but felt better when I stood up so no doubt a squished stomach thing. Still pooing for Britain (where is it all coming from??? I normally keep a very

clean bowel !!). Woman at playgroup said this morning that it won't be anytime soon as am still walking properly . Another said you've got to look proper knackered before the end is nigh. Had delicious afternoon nap after another crap night's sleep and will lie in tomorrow as DP taking DD to playgroup. She'll probably get there 2 hours late but hey!

Good luck with the move Cest, t'is a hideous thing but will be over soon and lovely to be in new place by Xmas. Sympathies on the tv. The sound wasn't working on ours yesterday (due to stooopid me pulling out a cable, oops), I thought I was going to have a breakdown

monkey your M&S Stool sample did make me laugh I must say collecting the sample this morning nearly made me vom.

fanny you have lain down the Blackpool half gauntlet This will be a thread first, 2 of us in the same race. Perhaps the others should have a bet? I reckon you have the edge you bitch .......will you be staying over the night prior? Unfortunately the hotel group I work for does not have a hotel in blackpool so I will be looking for a chintzy B&B!

Welcome jezzabel, I agree that 10k is doable, just don't feel you have failed if you have to walk a bit. No matter what time you get you will have lapped everyone at home on the sofa!

rhet I actually snorted at your belt story. You are a legend!

I am actually in bed feeling rough and I just read that bonkers was lecturing a group of malteser students instead of masters....i was actually thinking for a second there is a uni course on Maltesers.....

peach how you doin? Not long now!.......

cest hope the move goes smoothly, bad luck about no TV......you'll have to have a family sing song around the piano

june sounds like your training is going well, great stuff!

My penneth worth to those of you scared of speed is to join a club. I never push myself as hard as I do at running club. Nothing like being at the back of 40 plus runners to make you move yer arse