ADs are elite athletes and can run very fast

[BogRollBOGOF]

Another thread in the saga filled up (so no forwards link)

I think maybe we're endurance athletes, or maybe multievent like a decathlon

First time I have ever been included as an athlete! Thanks for starting this thread.

Always better at endurance. When I were a young thing, I dreamed of swimming the Channel.

Previous thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4117336-ADs-and-their-very-long-lists

And as we often get asked in the first few pages...

And the AD stands for anti dementor.
There are creatures in Harry Potter called dementors, who suck all hope and happiness from you and eventually take your soul. Way back at the start of the pandemic thread after thread was posted on by posters like this and anyone who'd dare question anything or disagree with anything (like putting cheese in your coffee) was bullied off these threads. And so any actual discussion disappeared and it became an echo chamber of misery.

We are the antidote to that. We follow the rules,but not the "roolz" and we question and discuss with respect to each other. It's all very civil.

Checking in and marking my place

In a parallel universe, I should be commencing training for my 40th birthday mid-life crisis marathon. I decided by last summer that I'd shelve the idea for 2021. It's a huge physical and mental commitment and I want to feel confident it will happen. I don't mind mucking about with my usual HMs so much, managed one with one month's notice in October.

I really felt sorry with the timing of cancellations for the marathon season last year as it was about peak milage of 20 miles/ beginning to taper when it all ground to a halt. Plus the training wasn't easy with all the rain and storms.

I'm more weights room than track and field but here for the team spirit and stuff.

As I've not done a "I'll just leave this here" for a while.....
I'll just leave this here.

@NastyBlouse

I'm more weights room than track and field but here for the team spirit and stuff.

God I miss the weights room, and resistance training....and grit...and body combat....

I can't help but think that when they left maccies open but made gyms close it clearly wasn't about health was it.

I think maybe we're endurance athletes, or maybe multievent like a decathlon"
Walking is the main event. Walking round and round and round in ever-decreasing circles.

Talking of which, I have had to brake sharply today to avoid a couple who leapt into the road without looking, as they were trying to avoid another person on the pavement.
We're back to this again, are we?

I don't know whether to feel despair or to be bored by it all.

However, I have bought a bunch of daffodils. Definitely an essential purchase.

In a parallel universe, I should be commencing training for my 40th birthday mid-life crisis marathon
Stuff that, Bogroll. If you can't celebrate properly you get to stay 39 for another year. That's what I'm doing for my big birthday this year : no party, no holiday= eternal "youth".

@LivinLaVidaLoki Brad makes an interesting point, there.

Race walking is well worth a watch at the Olympics.

Oh yeah, it's an Olympic year isn't it? Haven't said that for a year!

Checking in and placemarking.

Elite athlete I am not, but I did do an online Zumba class at 9am this morning....

Well, if the Olympics can be postponed for a year, so can milestone birthdays.

Funnily enough, I was thinking about 2012 Olympics today. Happy times.

I've gone on more walks than I ever have in my life these past 9 months and ironically never done less walking overall since I hit adulthood.

As none drivers we usually walk to get places but there's nowhere to go so less everyday back and forth walking with corresponding ill effects on DH and my weights.

I am so bloody glad you decided on this as the title for the thread!

Checking in

My birthday is a Saturday too. Waste of a good day!

I think DH should be good to be 50 in the summer. He could have a vaccine to celebrate!

39 has been totally crap. All the shit was brewing around then, and I'm not confident that there will be significant improvements within the next 2 months. My only nice idea (which is currently not viable) is to book a cottage in a more scenic part of the county for the weekend. I'm not prepared to try booking anything further affield. Anyway it's a lovely part of the world and I just want a change of scenery, and we could do some restriction-free hiking.

I keep getting fb adverts to virtually run/ walk from Land's End to John O'Groats in a year 874 miles. I actually recorded 879 miles on Strava in 2020! I should have signed up

Mid 40s here but may get it as in the being insane category if they think it is sufficiently severe. (probably)

To carry on from the last thread 10 deaths here overall

Copying this very informative link from the previous thread:
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/causesofdeath/articles/deathsinvolvingcovid19interactivemap/2020-06-12

We've had 19 covid deaths since March in my area despite including a hospice and several residential care homes. Nearly all of them were in May and just a single one since then which was in November.

Clearly we're in dire need of a national lockdown to cope as per Starmer.

Checking in. Back later.

We've had 16 in the London suburb I live in. There are a couple of large care homes. Cases are pretty high round here now though so I wouldn't be surprised if it rose a bit.

2020 has been pretty good for me exercise wise - I've managed to improve my running fitness quite a bit because I've been able to run at lunch while wfh rather than having to get up before 6 to get one in. I know people who are into weight training who have really struggled though

I'm glad to see that link again.
My neighbourhood has 8.
It had 5 on the previous incarnation of the map covering March to May.
The area is about 30-40 years old so lots of newly retiring households, but not many 75+ as it was largely families that moved in through the 80s/ 90s. Some bungalows but no old people's homes.

I wonder if old people's homes explains an uncharacteristic number for a nearby neighbourhood. I can think of a couple that probably fall in that boundary.

Checking in. Thanks for starting a new thread @BogRollBOGOF .