Runners United - Conwy Cockwatch, a live birth and Alex "Rhet" Ferguson in one thread. What more could we ask for?

"the odd one that pops out every now and again..." Glad your little niece is on the mend DrNo. Thank goodness for a great NHS.

Just a quickie, manic here, but had to check in on me gals

Our 9 yr old niece was admitted to hospital last night with pneumonia so its benn all hands on helping with looking after our nephew and their dog. Work today, dog walks, across town to do hospital visit, back across town for ds cubs (he was invested tonight), home, tea and now am pooped. D niece is improving bless her, god bless IV antis b's, poor kid.

In other news, the garmin survived, luckily for dh. I am already lining up a perspective dh number 2 just incase he does it again

Apols it's all about me. Will read more tomorrow. Did pick up that peach has piles. Oh dear. I had them. In fact, still have the odd one that pops out everynow and again. Nice.

Oh, also managed a 5.3 mile steady run with dh. Average pace 9m/m.

backward case of pot calling kettle black on the speeds, missus...hope application goes well

I love red hair - there's a little boy at DD's nursery with flaming red hair - I asked her what colour it was, 'orange', says she...(he is on the carrotty end)

cherry it's your day, pick the dress that you really really want (I got hitched in a very gorgeous Karen Millen suit...I still love it and it makes me happy every time once in a blue moon I wear it)

fanny god, how boring is that thread? yawn

I love ginger hair! DH's nephews are both ginger, very pale colour though I guess strawberry blonde. DH is fair, but if he grows facial hair he gets a little ginger minge beard! We have ds1 blonde, ds2 mid brown, ds3 dark blonde. Ds2 is the funniest, he's getting lighter - at birth he had this shock of thick black hair - he looked like Phil Spector!

fanny

Sorry cherry x post - no shred for us tonight! Trust me, the curtains are tightly drawn for that one!

Jez sorry about the injury

cherry I am sure it will sorry, that one comes to mind as an exception and because it is a close relative
go with what you really want, pointless otherwise

fanny I never quite get the ginger thing in this country, dh has some ginger tendencies as does dd , I would have liked a full on red head on her if it happened that way, I think it is pretty

Closing date for application is in a couple of weeks. Here's hoping I know for definite by Christmas! I'm so excited, but also terrified of not actually getting it! Thanks for the support, all - love this thread x

fanny you're so fucking funny. I would love to go out on the piss with you!

rhet get you ramping up the speeds! You're going to smash your 2012 goals before 2012 even starts!

Running club was fab tonight. Some great speedwork - did a km in 4:45 at one point which is a massive improvement on this time last year!

cherry I absolutely get what you mean, in some ways getting married was my worst nightmare - being the centre of attention, not my thing at all. It was the reason we had a small wedding, I wanted to be married but wasn't fussed by the whole wedding fandango. But it's your wedding and you must have what you want and what will make you happy on the day and will feel comfortable in

Rhet oh do tell, like a bit of revolting myself ....

p.s. and more importantly, went to running club tonight, which was very good. 5.34 miles in 10.30 minute miles. It was quite nice to be at the front of the group without too much effort, and for the last 1.5 miles or so we had a mini breakaway group doing under 10 min miles.

monkey, if I have remembered rightly where you live, we ran up your road! You might have heard a lot of panting/grunting/yelling things like "bin"! "pothole"! "post"!. I was keeping my eyes peeled for houses with a shredding couple and a man in loose boxers, but sadly nothing.

One of the other groups going out was planning on 6 miles at 9.30 minute pace, so I should aim to get up to that.

Oh and grr at DP when I got back, was telling him how good the run was, and he was smug and condenscending when I said I was running at the front of the group/in a breakaway group. He's a lovely lovely man, but I think his degree must have been in fascetiouness , and I think he forgets from his lofty ironman marathon perch what is a good run for me!

DD1 was a little hairy gorilla! she actually has quite hairy legs for a 2 year old, poor love; sure this one will be dark too. Hope so, really, as the name we have in mind is a dark-haired girl's name, I think

peach well at current easy pace it will take me about 5 hours to run a marathon...

fanny and I are busy being left-wing on another thread...up the revolution!

Hi, all very interesting hearing of all your wedding stories/dress choices. sfx I hope our marriage lasts longer than 6 months!

Still undecided over red or ivory dress. Advanatages of red - it's cheaper and also will be more wearable at other weddings/smart dos etc. The ivory is the same dress but more expensive I guess in that colour as most weddingy things are. I suppose I could dye it afterwards if I wanted to wear it again.

on the one hand, I am quite anti traditional which makes me go for the red. On the other hand, when I tried on the ivory with a lovely birdcage veil, it was pretty much what I had imagined in my head for my wedding dress ... I think although I am not necessarily shy, I am quite reserved, and look down upon myself, and I feel like I don't deserve to have such a lovely dress and for people to spend time and effort (and I guess money too) in coming to our wedding. I don't know where I'm going with this sorry

Perhaps we shall have to mount a Free Deirdre Rashid style campaign.

Rhet, good going my anally retentive stats friend! , imagine where you're gonna be this tome next year! Having just run the Dublin Marathon methinks!

Sorry bout the injury Jez, that sucks. Listen to Bro.

Right, am confused Rhet, who was born covered in hair? DD1, or...DP??? Looks like Kate might be a ginge!!! Hair does look kind of red in sunlight and DP's mum has red hair! Other than that she is the spit of DD1 at this age.

Checking in with my running club stats from tonight...3.95 miles at an average of 9.54 pace. I am always amazed when I find that I am not dying when doing 9min something pace...not so long ago that I struggled around 10min 30

jezabelle I think your brother's advice is good - hope it feels better soon

fanny we were skyping rellies in the US and then broke off for dinner, and she was too excited about seeing their dog that she didn't eat much dinner - so she was actually hungry...after she scoffed some food she went straight to bed without a peep -

fanny well it is your influence partly, and partly patience. But it makes me enjoy my running more and can't wait to get out there (mostly)

DP and I wondering whether DD2 will be best served by a gift of lifetime waxing (she had hairy shoulders when she was born and the thickest head of black hair), or whether she will be a baldy...

I buggered up my hip. It really hurt after my 4 mile Monday run. I have taken my big bro's advice, (19 marathons under his belt). I'm going to rest it until Sunday and then do the 10k and just take it easy. Might go and see a physio in the new year.