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

Awe I'm sorry Rhet, must be very upsetting for you all. Fraid i've never really had pets. I think whatever you say she will probably take it in her stride, as little kids tend to do. I suppose concentrate on the fact that she was very sick and how it is kinder not to let her suffer.

Rhet we had our 16 year old cat pts last year. He had a tumour and liver failure. We got the phone call from the vet to say the blood test results were bad news, and I took our poor old boy down the same evening. DH couldn't do it - he was crying .

To be honest, the cat went so quickly I think he was ready to go - he was dead before they even pushed all of the injection through. The boys were very sad, and there were tears. We had a little funeral and they each wrote him a poem and put it in the burial box with his favourite toys.

I think at your dd's age, it all has to be very simple. The cat has sadly died, he won't ever come back, it's ok to be sad but it's also ok to remember the fun times you had together because he will always be loved and remembered. Tell her the cat knows how much she loved him and that she made him happy.

I've always been very upset when our pets have died, but it is part and parcel of loving and caring for an animal. We love them, they bring us happiness and comfort, but sadly they have to leave us .

I love the Rainbow Bridge poem - usually used for dogs but it always has me in tears.

Rhet really for you. Suggest something very simple along the lines that she was very poorly & very old?

Thanks cherry for introducing dreich to the thread - it earned me a brownie point from MIL!. DH was talking to his mum on the phone earlier this evening, and they were comparing notes about the weather (us in Norfolk, MIL in West Midlands). He was saying it had been cold, dull and drizzly, and I shouted out "dreich", as that is a word she often uses. (MIL born and brought up in Scotland, DH also born in Scotland).

orange your tyre story made me laugh - sounds like the sort of thing I would do.

peachy thought of you last night, as I met someone who had second child in Feb 2011 and ran half marathon in Aug 2011.....though she said herself it was perhaps too soon.....

Finally heard that I don't have a place in Olympic park run and nor does DH. While I would have felt devastated last week, I somehow don't mind this week. Weird! On the plus side, Olympic torch is coming to DS1's school next year.

Peach sorry for calling you peachy

www.petloss.com/rainbowbridge.htm

monkey thanks for that - I came home without the cat (obviously!) and DD asked where she was, I told her that she was very poorly and still at the vets (i.e. putting off moment of truth until tomorrow). She does know the concept of dead, but only in relation to spiders, flies etc and I doubt that she understands it really.

Changing the subject - I like my 110 so i do, so i do (we've had glaswegian/ulster scots, so why not a few hibernicisms?) - as they say round here, it's a great little yoke.

rhet as you might recall one of dd's guinea pigs died in August, she only had them since early June but was very fond of them. dd noticed when he was poorly, we took him to the vet together and left him there, the vet had told me he would not survive and best to 'put him to sleep' but that they could keep him overnight
and see how it goes, dd was very very upset and cried a lot on the way home, sobbing uncontrollably for a while,. late in the evening they called and said best put to sleep as there was no improvement, first thing dd asked in the morning was where is Sparkle can we visit?
I told her he had died as we though he might, she went with dh to pick him up, she wanted to see him she wrote a card, put some gifts in the box and buried him.
BTW I did not use the expression 'put him to sleep' with dd but she overheard the vet and was very worried about sleeping/dying, I explained that they would just give him special medicine to stop the pain and make it easier for him but that he would die anyway and not comeback

I am sure she will be fine, but be prepared for reactions, I was not expecting the strength of feeling dd showed I must admit.

Shopping centres: hate them. I just don't get all those people who seem to be traipsing around with a 10 YO, a couple of pre-schoolers and a baby in a buggy and no one's in tears or ripping each others heads off.

Do they drug the kids maybe?

at monkey and sfx's posts.

ibby, you can call me anything you like my dear!! Blimey, a HM 6 months after giving birth

That's sad rhet, I hope your DD doesn't take it too badly. My parents' cat died in the summer (we don't have any pets ourselves) and the DDs were very sad about it. However, now it's looking like Granny will be going soon, it was actually good to have talked about death, having had a happy life etc etc in preparation. Mortality sucks.

Also shopping centres, they suck too. The Metro makes me ill, and lost, and grumpy...

you lot make me happy and feeling less weird

So just to say quickly, chasebacks are where you all set off together and once the first person gets to the end of the alloted distance, say one lap, the coach blows a whistle and you have a recovery time before turning in opposite direction and you end when first person finishes another lap. Then repeated at two, three and four laps.

I'm knackered as a result!

Rhet sorry to hear about your old cat, hope you find a way to tell dd

Night all, bracing myself for early start and a lfdi day in the office

Peach yes, was a bit at the timing of the HM so soon after birth!

Feeling a bit gooey about babies today, as colleague, who has become v good lovely friend has told me she is 5 months pregnant. Don't see her much as we correspond largely by email & phone. And 2 babies due on this thread...DS1 will be 15 next week, and remember it all so clearly. He was induced 3 weeks early as had stopped growing, and has always been on the slim/small side. Got him and DS2 to weigh themselves tonight..DS1 is 5st 2lb, and DS2 (4 years younger) is 5st. Bit of a shock really...

Well, it was dreich out, but about 10 degrees. So I put on shorts and t-shirt. (Yes, I am mad.) I decided to go up into the next group tonight and it was tough but definitely what I needed. I was fine and ran in the middle of the group. Chuffed. :)

Sorry about the cat, rhet x

monkey, I came across the Colleen Nolan link too And a shed load of other dodgy stuff. Seriously you could lose a whole week reading weird stuff about Jim'll..........

rhet so sorry about your cat. Hugs to you, what a day hey?

Also big call out to moshi who I think is having a tough time with her move to San Fran and rightly so, it all happenned so bloody quickly. Hang in there Moshi, it will all come good I am sure xxxx

Legs ache after tough interval sesh. Off to lie on sofa.

Night all.

I wore running tights today - it was dreich out here too (a soft day?) and not cold. Just didn't want to flash my hairy legs at DD's nana. Prefer shorts - saw no-one (along canal) except 2 blokes painting the underside of the flyover . In the middle of the worst recession since who knows when, health cuts, education cuts, you name it, potholes everywhere, and they pay 2 blokes to paint over graffiti underneath a bridge, by a canal where nobody goes?

we have decided to tell dd the truth about the cat and manage the consequences (her grandad is about to have very major surgery) - thanks for tips and experiences

ibby is DS1 small in stature too? I've no idea what 15 year old boys weigh, but that seems quite light

Sorry about your cat rhet. Hope dd is ok.

Ibby, I have a 4 yr gap between my dds too and I reckon their weight could be similar too. Dd1 v. Slight (she too came 3 weeks early because she stopped growing) and whilst dd2 is tiny I think she'll be chunkier. Dd1 got dh's build, dd2 my Welsh mountain goat stock.

Rhet yes, DS1 is rather short, though not quite off the percentiles like he is for weight. (He looks about 3 years younger than he is) However he is now under the hospital. He was seen in Jan this year, and paed happy with his size then. We are due to go back Jan 2012 so guess will see what they think. He has grown, but not the amount boys are supposed to at this age. Eats enough though.

DrNo has moshi gone already? Thought she would still be here for HM at end of month?

I meant their weight similar when they're a bit older. They're currently 2 and 6

For those of you who have been posting here for a while do you remember twink ? I often think of her, particularly at this time of year and I wonder if anyone is in touch with her? she just popped into my mind today as I was talking to a friend who lost her husband a few year back

If you are lurking I hope you are ok

ibby my ds1 is very small (height) but is in proportion. We've had so many sleepless nights in the past about it, as a baby he had tests for cystic fibrosis and dwarfism, but we now take the view that as long as he's healthy that's all that matters.

Ds2 is taller and heavier than him, and his predicted adult height is not good. We have had discussions in the past about growth hormone, but the possible side effects are potentially very bad. I think we will just have to accept he's always going to be very small.

ibby that's good then - as long as he's healthy. We suspect that DD2 will be bigger than DD1, who is also teeny (not yet 90cm at almost 3) although her weight is on 25th centile. People think she's a freak, because she says thing to the doc like 'oh, you've got a red stethoscope' even though she's about the same size as some 18 month olds (she's perfectly normal - her dad has a stethoscope, is all). All her biological relatives are on the small side (well DP's brother and one of her sisters is tall, her mum is under 5 foot; her dad has a tall brother, but the extended family is small)

moshi is still about on FB - I imagine she is just way too busy to post

oh yeah, hate shopping centres. Actually, hate shopping, unless it is a quiet hour lurking in a bookshop without a toddler on the rampage. In which case it isn't shopping, it's rest.

having been raised a catholic I have a strong idea of purgatory and frankly that is what shopping centres are, today it was not so bad as weekday morning but weekend and for leisure? oh no then you are talking the circles of hell

my only excuse is that the shop I wanted was there or central London
and I am glad I did not go yesterday when apparently some teeny singer was turning on the lights, I am obviously old

now bookshops is quite another story, and fine with dd because she loves books and bookshops particularly the ramshackle second hand one up the road

I was thinking about twink recently too sfx. not sure if she's still on MN, or maybe decided to take a break completely. Totally inspirational lady.