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

[rhetorician]

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
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??)
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
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

new thread, peeps; all welcome to chat - new, old, fast, slow, etc

marking place

So it's pronounced drek?

Dr No having a day a bit like that myself; deadlines looming, loads of things to do, old cat sick (sitting listlessly on cushion, nodding, not eating) etc - still going for a run while DP and DD go and visit crazy sister/aunt, even though my calves are still slightly sore from Saturday

Hmm, I'm afraid we have differing views there - but wouldn't hate him!

No DrNo it's a gutteral sound, not like 'ck'.

Anotherconvert! guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/06/charlie-brooker-becomes-a-runner?cat=commentisfree&type=article

love CB

So how is it pronounced?! Is the ch like a phlem in the back of your throat sound? As in Och eye the noo?

do you think Charlie is a lurker?

That's it DrNo. Dreichhhhhhhhh. You with your phlegmy running style should be a natural at it!

If you are lurking Charlie, I love you!!!!

re pronounciation of dreich, I would say a long ee in the middle, kind of rhyming with leek, but with the hard guttaral sound at the end like the end of loch

Oh dear, I could start you on a few more of my mum's crazy glaswegian parlance, but we may get seriously distracted from the running.

I'll leave you with a dicht and a promise - but i can't even find that one online as example of scots talk, I think my mother may have made it up
! I'll just leave you guessing as to what it means

A dicht, is a wipe eh? But have never heard of a dicht and a promise!!!!

Thanks for new thread Rhet !

Wonders if I'm the only person to call the AA to change flat tyres.... (oh no I'm not - DH does too).

Cherry - I definitely think do-able on 3 runs. I just trained for the GSR on runs a week, which is only 10 miles but I trained up to 11 and feel fairly sure I could have trained up to a HM on this. Before I did my ankleI was doing a long run, a tempo and an interval (which got me to 10 miles), after I did my ankle I just did 2 5-6 miles and then a long run. Mind you, I did build my long runs very slowly. Now I'm going to add in another run to train for the HM but it will be a short easy run so I'mnot sure really what benefit it will have besides building an extra bit of mileage (would be interested to hear what benefits it would have if anyone knows !).

DrNo - Hope your ds is better soon. Your plan for HM looks pretty comprehensive. Lots of runs. FWIW, mine is currently going to look like this -

MOn - Long run (starting at 8 then building to 14)
Tues - swim
Weds - intervals over 5 miles, then swimming lesson
Thurs - Body Balance then 3-4 miles easy
Fri - rest
Saturday 6-7 miles tempo
sun - rest

Happy (encouraged) for people to critique...

debi - I too wonder on the hills thing. Not that many hills around here and think they serve the same purpose as intervals (unless you are doing a hilly course of course). So unless someone can advise otherwise, I'll probably concentrate on intervals as I can fit them in on the treadmill before swimming lesson, and include some hills into my longer runs.

says an english saying 'a lick and a promise' isn't there... maybe the same ?

Great article btw !

Well that word is just plain weird! I have no idea if I am pronouncing it correctly or what....think I'll stick to saying 'the weather is shit'

wheely your plan sounds good too, wish I could swim, alas it is not a sport I am remotely even average at.

Spoken to dh and he agrees he will stay home with ds and I should go to running club. I actually did a little whoop. It;s intervals, and I am whooping. I realy am a runner

Btw, hills are a unnecessary evil. I live in a very hilly town and my hill sessions at running club have increased my flat speed no end. In fact, hills is my favourite discipline We have 3 hills in this town that have names that most runners use - faith, hope and charity!

I'm not entirely convinced my swim sessions do much - I don't exactly plough elegantly up and down the pool. But, its in the hope that maybe one day I will.....

OK OK Hills are good. But, how do you know how big - i.e. useful a hill is ? I regularly do a couple in my longer runs but how do I know if they are really hills or just mere slopes to you hardened hill runners ?

Marking my place. I'll be back on later to read thread. I've had a migraine all evening and today, never even got my wine last night. Have a feeling it's linked to the race.

rhet I've got your email you little star. I've scanned over it and will read it properly later but I agree, it does sound like me!

Ah yes, you are all on the right lines with a dicht and a promise - used in my family for a quick/surface clean, I guess it's like saying you are doing a quick wipe and promise to do more later!(or in my case, renage on said promise)

My turn for running club also tonight. Considering the track session they have on tonight, and i've been looking at the schedule. Apparently it is "Chasebacks 1 lap, 2 lap, 3 lap, 4 lap". Not quite sure what this means, maybe start a lap and when whistle goes race back to start? I also have a swanky new winter running top although not sure i'll really need the dayglow yellowness of it on the track. Mind you I'll be running so fast that under the floodlights I'll look like a big streak of wee. Hmm, or maybe not.

I've never heard of a "dicht and a promise"!

"big streak of wee"

Got to repost the race list, as I have entered another.... a 50-miler! Well, not strictly a run (though I plan to run the downhill bits), but I think its hardcore enough to add to the list.

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
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

Very dreich here too, however it is said. Feeling your pain fanny - fighting migraines is the flipside of my running - I used to think it was due to running in tropical heat and having (dehydrating) aircon on at night, but its just as bad is damp Devon. And I guess in the even damper NW too!

Sorry to hear abut your awful day DrNo - hope the intervals cheer you up, however weird that makes you!

A 50 miler?! Good Lord. You are hardcore

I too have a new winter running top. It's an Unerarmer one and it is toasty. Not high vis though so will wear my bib over it. We have a drawer full of high vist stuff in this house.

wish do tell us what the track session is, I am intrigued! Wish we had a running track......when ever any pedestrians shout at us at running club for hogging the pavements our coach shouts "Ask our MP why we haven't got a track!"

wheely I have no idea as to what gradient hills should be. But I guess any hill is good, incorporating them into a run is good, but a proper hill session is better. So sprint up, jog down x however many make you feel sick

Any of us Northern folk popped to see Jimmy Saville today as he is lying in state at The Queens Hotel in leeds?!

Well, its only walking..... I did a 62-miler in July and although there was a bad moment at 6am when I felt like I was wading through treacle and was never, ever going to reach the end, overall I think it was easier than the two HMs I did this year.

Re hill discussion: just seen what I suppose is an 'ideal' hill in Trail Running mag (Issue 5) - p 49 if anyone has it.

"If I don't get to run, I become irritable, like a constipated bear that can't find the woods" That's it exactly! What a funny article, thanks peach!

Fanny Hope your migraine gets better. I haven't had one for years, but remember how absolutely horrible they are. Re it being connected with the run - do you eat something to soup up all your lost "stuff" (I'm meaning minerals/salt/vitamins that you lose when doing a long run)?

DrNo I'm totally about this Jim'll lie in state thing... seems very odd to me. I wonder are there crowds of people going?

runningallday you is hard, you is...

Cherry your mam is not mad or making stuff up...

ulster scots word of the day

?dicht?
Meaning:
wipe; wipe lightly; a quick flick of a swipe

Excerpt from A Pastoral Elegy on the Death of Jonathan Swift, D.D. late D.S.P.D. by Scotch Poems from the Ulster Miscellany
?Be chearfu? man, let nought afflict ye sae,
dight off your tears and be nae langer wae?

Excerpt from A Song for February by Thomas Given
?The blackbird keeks oot frae the fog at the broo,
gees his neb a bit dicht on a stane?

Sticky, there was just a feature on Radio, apparently there were loads of people there to see his gold coffin! Sounds like they had a nice day out by all accounts! Living the way he is being referred to as Sir Jim'll!!