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Oh dear sfx, what a pain. Hope it's easily sortable. How is it when you run?

Am a bit of your pram Rhet, it will be great!

Am getting very confused by what I've posted here and what's on fb. Maybe will get a spreadsheet to keep track...

Oh, hope you get injury sorted sfx and well done to your DH in making you get down to the doctor!

Some great holiday ideas out there... thanks all! Love Southwold but something weird happens to time when you drive there. It takes about 30 minutes to drive the first 50 miles and 2.5 hours to drive the remaining 5 miles. 'Tis almost Dr Who-esque in it's bizarreness. Love Martinhal as well shredme but we're thinking about trying something 'different' this year (i.e. not a child friendly place in the Med). Definitely doing Featherdown Farms again as well - loved that!

You will get staggeringly fit with your buggy rhet. When I push DD to nursery it absolutely kills me not being able to use your arms.

Like the MRI dye idea N4NNY. If it works do let us know - bet about half of us are mad enough to give it a try if it makes you faster.... If Runners World said pouring petrol over cereal in the morning took half a minute of your mile times I'd be out on the road siphoning car fuel before you could blink. On same note, don't worry about going to sleep dreaming about races and split times and hill runs fanny. It's, er, entirely normal.

Very funny all the addicted Garmin people. Imagine if there was a universal Garmin bug in the software which one day wiped all the data on the device and your computer whilst you were in the middle of a race

hello lovely runners

rhet love the buggy, the only issue with those things is that you must take care with the wheels and punctures, a few friends have become stranded for lack of pump/ puncture kit

hope everyone is well and enjoying assorted activities

I went see my GP this morning (dh made me do it as I have a GP phobia) and apparently I have a nasty shoulder/ neck injury, it is affecting my face, will need x-ray to rule out assorted issues but she reckons plenty of physio work will be necessary, and can I please get my arse to her when the niggles start an not 6months later
did gym afterwards trainer, helped protect injury

sorry me thing, will catch up

I know what you mean rhet, when faced by some much stuff and so many options I seem to get paralysed by indecision. When I had DS1 I just wanted someone to say 'get this one' and to be done with it. Happy running.

Ange I'm not far from Bury St Edmunds, but I know what you mean about getting to Southwold, there's no direct route so its either wiggling cross country or the long way via A14 and A12. Although maybe that's why its still so special, because you have to journey there.

I did 5.27 miles this morning with two friends so I couldn't drag my sorry arse dash up and down the road to get to a round number. It was a bit slower in m/min than Saturday's five miler, but had more hills, well inclines, and I really felt the one at four miles, before recovering and speeding up slightly for the last mile or so. We got windblown and rained on so I definitely won the prize for most glamorous mum at the school gate when collecting DS3 from nursery. But hey, I felt good even if I smelt quite rank.

there's a certain level of complexity with this stuff at which point my brain just kind of shuts down...it's a bit like mobile phone contracts

about to go to gym to run some intervals

rhet you can buy inserts to put in buggies to give a bit more support for new born's, a bit like a cosytoe but with head support

we ended up getting our buggy in Belfast rhet - not sure why Northern Irish babies should get more choice than their counterparts in the Republic, but seemed to be that way.

Managed 4 miles today. After a distinctly stormy start it's now all warm and sunny (running in short sleeve top ), so going up the bank in the woods was a hot and sweaty (not to mention puffy!) experience. My calves feel tired now.

bonkers I think if they cut my pay any more we might have to live in it as well! The buggy board is to walk up to nursery and back - it's about a mile. It will be our regular buggy, except when in town on holiday etc when we have a cheapo maclaren type folding one - we mostly use it to walk from home, and we could do with using the car less for short trips to town etc.

I think these folks put in the rain cover as standard

OMG Rhet! I am quite surprised one of the accessories isn't an actual baby!

You have to get the lambskin liner whatnot (and shoulder harness covers) and the head hugger and the rain hood and the foot muff. Sod the UV thingy, you don't get UV in Ireland I think!

A buggy board?! Will this be your regular pushchair or are you going to run with both DDs?!! Are you actually She-ra?!

spec says it will store 1000 laps - not sure whether this means 100 x 10k runs with splits, or separate runs (I suspect the latter)

bonkers it's really quite a lot - maybe 1000+ although I suppose it depends on how much data you have (presumably the longer the runs, the bigger the space it takes up in the memory??)

Fanny get some knickers. Thongs are SOOOO last millennium!

So, tell me....how many runs can I keep on my Garmin before it blows up mid-run?

scroll down here and you can see the various accessory options...I am paralysed by indecision

fanny you are also living vicariously - will order running buggy as soon as I can persuade DP to move the money from savings account...but I am having problems deciding on accessories - I guess I should get something to keep her warm? sun cover (some hope, in this bloody country!) and a buggy board for dd1. I think it will come from the UK as it saves me at least ?50 even with p+p. I'd say I'll have it by the end of the month - am a bit reluctant to take such a tiny baby out and would prefer it if her head control was a bit better. Although it says it's fine from birth (she can lay flat in it). Tbh I am rather enjoying playing with the various possibilities

I have underarm chafage - it's nippy! Running really makes us attractive doesn't it?

You paint such a lovely picture of yourself fanny

My Garmin once went off in a run telling me it was full up and wasn't recording anymore and that I had to delete stuff before it would carry on. I was not expecting that and it really threw me! Got home and sorted it out but am now paranoid that it will happen in the middle of a proper event and I would be stuffed as there is nothing you can do about it in the middle of the run...it just stops! (Imagines all you Garmin lovers now freaking out!)

Knackered today due to DS1 up in the night...he is off school today but I will sneak in a nap later otherwise I won't be awake for running club. Luckily he is older now so it is "easier" when he is off school (which is actually very rare). He woke up at 10.15 and is now wallowing in the bath :)

Happy Birthday fishie and at MRI dye being a drug to make us run faster... Hope all well N4NNY

Trying to get back into thread - Facebook initial euphoria worn off.

rhet when you ordering SUPER BUGGY?

Bonkers can I join Garmin Anonymous too.. I've had DH drive 6 miles with mine to meet me when I left it. Yesterday when mine went off half way through the run, I actually nearly wept when I thought of my data and graph being all fucked up when I plugged it in to Connect. I need a fucking life.

Running is taking over my life. I find myself dreaming about doing amazing times in races. I'm living in Nike leggings. My arse is chapped from thong rubbing. My toenails are fucked. My pits stink. I need to get a grip...

My name is bonkers and I am addicted to my Garmin.

I was on my way to work, realised I'd forgotten it so turned around, drove home and collected it.

Norfolf???

Thanks for the Galloway recommendations. The beaches are the main draw for us as DS (3) is currently obsessed. The lighthouse looks great but probably not ideal for littlies. Norfolf sounds lovely too but unfortunately would take forever to get there from Angus.

I had a lighthouse holiday with my parents when I was about 8 - it was on a very small dry island called Scalpey in the Outer Hebrides. My DM was training for a half-marathon so would run round the island and the locals stood out on their steps and watched her and/or let their sheepdogs chase her!