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Can the number of hours I have spent in or around that bloody lighthouse at stupid hours in the morning, freezing my arse off in the rain or snow...it was magic. A zeroing range is used to adjust the sights on a weapon in the hope that when you shot at the bad guy you'll actually drop the bloke. Normally means firing off sheds loads of ammo and spending hours after cleaning your rifle.
3 days until the Fling ultra. Excited but looking for asbestos pants on line.
Hello everybody,
welcome alison. Nice to see you pop in with your message after all this time away. How should we classify that post?
Markk you seem to be having a really rotten time of it. I take it there isn't much out there and sometimes you don't want to be seen to be jumping jobs too quickly. Having too many jobs can be as much of a problem as not having one at all when you apply for things. How's the achilles holding up? Do you think it will be OK for an ultra?
Watched the Real v Barca game tonight instead of going running. Am I alone in hating Barca? What a bunch of squeeling wee jessies. Pepe gets halfed by Mascarano and gets up without much complaint. He then wins a 50:50 with some wee mamby pamby and gets a straight red. Match and tie were killed stone dead as a result. Will somebody please tell the authorities that people like watching tough tackles and proper football. Down with this tippy tappy squeely sh!te.
Does anybody think after that rant that I may have had a bad day!!!!!!!
Nitey nite everybody.
Evening all
Andrew Marr, Ryan Giggs, Ewan Mcgregor, Gaby Logan, Imogen Thomas & Alan Shearer allegedly walked into a bar....I'm not allowed to tell u the rest of the joke due to a superinjuction.
Markk that is a thoroughly pish way for your job to finish. Hope you find something again soon and on the upside you can't find a job worse than the one you had. I kind of know how you feel as I was almost in the same place last year at Superdrug. I just managed to jump before I was pushed. Maybe you shouldn't post about how much you hate your job on such a public medium like this one. You never know who might be lurking.
That is me off until Monday. I'm working on the world snooker championship bank holiday on monday as I can't really justify having tomorrow, all weekend and monday off then coming off on holiday for a week and a half from wednesday night. I would work tomorrow as well if I could but I can't find anywhere open to work.
Good evening everybody.
What a waste of a day. Had a long lie, a trip to the gym becasue it was hideously windy here today, a bacon buttie when I got home (what an athlete I am), a snooze because I was knackered, watched a wee bit of the snooker and did the hoovering. Just as well the royal wedding highlights are on every channel again or I might not have even got the hoovering done.
Had last long run today before Dusseldorf. Did 13 miles on the dreadmill which was a couple more than I'd normally do a week before a marathon but it is a couple of days earlier than I would normally run them. It was absolutely sweltering in the gym so hopefully it will prepare me a bit for some heat in Dusseldorf. Average temp is only supposed to be 14C in early May in that bit of Germany but it has been 21-25C all week and forecast for 19C next sunday. Hopefully the light rain forecast for the saturday will turn up 24 hours late. I'm not running great but I have given myself a wee chance. The weather could make or break it.
Holiday to Oz is almost all sorted. Flights sorted to and from Oz, hotel in Brisbane booked, marathon entered. Just have to get cheapo internal flights from Sydney to Brisbane and back and my Bridge2Brisbane entry when they open. The marathon isn't that big a race but bridge2brisbane seems huge but of a really low quality. There are 30000 runners every year in the 10k and my PB would get me in the 1st 200 that can't be right if I run a bog standard club race here with 200 runners I have to run out my skin to get in the top 50.
Dundee 61
Dunfermline 50
Falkirk 47
Raith 43
Partick 42
Mortn 38
QoS 36
Ross County 29
Cowdenbeath 20
Stirling 12
GIRFUYSFL 25 points wasn't nearly enough
Also learnt that superglue on the end of your toes really does stop blisters. Also 7 lb lighter this morning with some cracking black nails but a happy man.
Now to job hunting
Had a look at the second half of the WHW, thinking about the butters who do the whole thing. Thought "you'd never catch me doing that" then remembered that I'm doing the Devil later in the year....sob.
By good conversation in interviews do you mean.
"why are you wearing trainers with to go with that suit?????"
"er...........well..........I sort of superglued them on
"
"will someone send in the next candidate please"
Good to see those west highlanders are more foregiving than in the comrades. 30s late never mind 30 mins and they would have packed up the finish and gone home!!!! Well done on finish even though the race is a stupid race, on a stupid course, going a stupid distance and people should all be locked up for even contemplating such lunacy. Give me 26 miles or less of loverley flat tarmac anyday
Have the munchies very bad at the moment....
Nothing planned until the Clyde Stride Ultra in mid July. Rest and then start training again end of the week.
Anyone looking for a ticket for Edinburgh full marathon 22nd May, i have a spare for sale. My brother has pulled out with a knee injury.
You can get me on richman.richman.mark163@googlemail.com or 07983 435487 or mr1980efc on twitter.
Slight reduced price
Regards
Mark
Shame, as it gives another runner the chance of raising money for charity and saves the ticket from going to waste. cheers for the heads up though
Oh braw the BBC who always have really accurate weather forecasts online predict Dusseldorf will be even hotter at the weekend than even weather.com. I may not even bother starting as another struggle in the sun on the back of my worst run in 6 years in the sunshine a few weeks ago is holding no appeal whatsoever.
MarkR I am almost tempted to take your kind offer of a place in edinburgh up and forget about the weekend unfortunately if I was to nail the race in someone else's name I'd then have to mascarade as that same person in Boston if I qualified or I wouldn't get to run with a proper time which would be even more infuriating than just blowing a gasket at the 8 mile marker in the Dusseldorf sunshine. Thats actually quite an optomistic estimate of my capacity when its warm I managed 6 in Berlin a few weeks ago and in the marathon 2 years ago when smiffie beat me and 7 in stockholm.
Right I'm away to stuff my pus with birthday cake and feel sorry for myself. Catch you all later.
I am like the bad penny, I just keep popping up lol
Markk well bloody done on your 53 miles!!!!! A job well done no matter what the time, I can't even begin to imagine!!! Congratulations
On the job front, I totally sympathise with you, my hubby got paid off about 5 weeks ago, a combination of a bully boy manager and a foreign 'gentleman' telling a load of lies led to his contract being finished!!! Well and truly shafted!!! So while doing all he can to secure either another contracting job or a good permanent one he is delivering takeaways and getting what small business he can get locally to keep us going!! Good luck with you job hunt, hope you find one soon.
My god there has been some fab racing on here and even though you are never happy Can, I mean you too
I have been stopping and starting all blooming year with my training!! Had a great run at Cupar 5 mile at end of Feb then got injured again and am now trying to up my mileage and training again in time for the summer races and the Tour of Fife which this year seems to have the H word in 3 of the races!!!!
Welcome home bungle
No tour of fife for me this year. I spend too much time working too far from where the races are these days and wouldn't get to many of them on time. I have made sure I am in cupar for the milnathort dash and either the brig bash or knockhill race. A 5:30 finish there will give me plenty of time!!!! I never feel the hill at the start in Milnathort is that bad. The place I always struggle is the path around the back of the farm. Its one of those ones when you are about on red and its just one climb too many. Nice finish though!!!!!
Bungle there are no H words in Fife AC just "slight undulations"
Smiffie knows all about "slight undulations" 
I had 3 very easy miles tonight and the ankle just about held up. It didn't like going round corners much but felt a lot better today than yesterday. Just as well Dusseldorf is mainly out and back with not much bends along the river. Unfortunately that also means not much shade from the sunshine. At least I'm contemplating lining up on Sunday I was 50:50 for just going and getting sh!tfaced on German beer last night.
Nitey nite everybody.
Loads of admin this week changing email addresses, trying to get my PAC code for me phone etc. May as well keep busy as no running until end of the week.
Hi Bungee.
Am I allowed to post again, I ran 15 on Saturday and my reps last night..... Boston absolutely 'b*ggered' my legs
How long to Edinburgh 
Good Luck Caniggia33, you'll be fine, he he he he he
Ha ha at the undulating!!! I know for a fact that the first 3 days are uphill!!! Am preparing to conquer with plenty of uphill training!!! I'll learn to love them there hills I will......
Markk good news on the interview front, good luck
Hey there Smiffie, you doing Edinburgh? I am planning to be there with a few work mates, to cheer a couple of pals in. None of my work mates have been to a marathon before so I am hoping they will enjoy their day out watching sweating, staggering, bleeding, crying and amazing runners crossing the finish line
I've entered the ballot for London again, got the early bird offer email. Don't know if I have another marathons worth of training in me again but I want to do it one more time!!!