I was talking to one of my students about half-marathons and how, with his marathon performance (3:50 off good baseline fitness but almost no running training) he could potentially be aiming for the championship start line-up in big events. I suggested aiming to do 1:20 in a half, and he said "no way". So I pointed out that it wasn't even six-minute miling, and he looked happy and said "yes, I can do that".
You're right, Sax. I can't convert decimals to hours and minutes in my head and should not attempt to do so, especially when it's late in the afternoon and I am HUNGRY. The curry and couscous was delicious, so was the mango, and the Jordan's breakfast bars (two thereof), and the sesame snaps, but even the chocolate Hobnobs in the kitchen are sounding attractive, and I don't like chocolate Hobnobs much. Hope I can last until it's time to go home.
Ah, who gives a stuff? I should be carbo-loading anyway. Anyone got a pizza? No pepperoni and no rubber rings in the crust, please.
SP I'm hoping to do it in 60 mins with toenails and sense of humour intact. I generally "run" 10 minute miles, and I'm building in quite a significant margin for last minute leg wobbles etc!
All this talk of food! But I'm cooking for friends tonight, so the calories dont' count, yippee!
I am NOT a jogger either. To me, the word "jogging" means "bouncing up and down". I walk, I run, but I don't "jog".
Interestingly (to me), my daughter "hears" the word "jogging" the same way as I do, and when she first did little stretches of running with me she sort of bounced up and down on her toes while making some token effort at forward motion until we discarded the word "jogging". She runs rather nicely.
when i was training for the london marathon I was with my running partner and we were just at mile 6 of our 15 mile run. We were running along the streets of Dublin and these lads say "Eh, mind the joggers". I was so insulted. I just said smiling - "joggers, joggers? This is me running mate" - I too don't have jogger in my running vocab
Kinder Surprise are children's chocolates. For some reason, children's chocolate is perfectly safe around me no matter how big a dose of chocolate munchies I've got. It's out of bounds for me in the same way as eating cat litter or table wax is out of bounds.
Just as well, with all these Easter eggs still lying around the house. Come to that, I don't think the Christmas chocolate is quite finished. After Eights, anyone? Funny little sweets shaped like chocolate puddings and with the label written in Dutch?
SP - if you put on your runners and hit the road even when you're tired, fed up, happy, pressed for time - you're a runner no matter what time you run in
My patients insist on describing my marathon-running efforts as "your walk, doctor" as in "how did you get on with......?", which makes me seethe gently (but only gently because they're not rich folk and they've sponsored me very generously). And I get a fair bit of "saw you out jogging".
Everyone on here is a runner, I have the same image as you v-rap of a jogger...
that's just reminded me! When I was out running yesterday I got 'heckled' by two builders having their morning break... "you know you don't have to do that" came the shout... if only eh?!
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I was talking to one of my students about half-marathons and how, with his marathon performance (3:50 off good baseline fitness but almost no running training) he could potentially be aiming for the championship start line-up in big events. I suggested aiming to do 1:20 in a half, and he said "no way". So I pointed out that it wasn't even six-minute miling, and he looked happy and said "yes, I can do that".
Stopped me rabbiting on about running, that did.
Ah, who gives a stuff? I should be carbo-loading anyway. Anyone got a pizza? No pepperoni and no rubber rings in the crust, please.
All this talk of food!
But I'm cooking for friends tonight, so the calories dont' count, yippee!
Interestingly (to me), my daughter "hears" the word "jogging" the same way as I do, and when she first did little stretches of running with me she sort of bounced up and down on her toes while making some token effort at forward motion until we discarded the word "jogging". She runs rather nicely.
Just as well, with all these Easter eggs still lying around the house. Come to that, I don't think the Christmas chocolate is quite finished. After Eights, anyone? Funny little sweets shaped like chocolate puddings and with the label written in Dutch?
I am a runner. Not a fast one, but I'm a runner.
Or as running is described in that 'Run for Life' book, it's a controlled topple. (and you thought that 'jogger' was stupid.)
My patients insist on describing my marathon-running efforts as "your walk, doctor" as in "how did you get on with......?", which makes me seethe gently (but only gently because they're not rich folk and they've sponsored me very generously). And I get a fair bit of "saw you out jogging".
that's just reminded me! When I was out running yesterday I got 'heckled' by two builders having their morning break... "you know you don't have to do that" came the shout... if only eh?!
Sp trots merrily off practising her running technique for later.....skip skip trot trot...little jump.....wey hey...
Gotta go.. Hi SG...