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Just taking a late lunch and thought I'd check the forums - wow. Strong response here in more ways than one. In no particular order......you can't get a square root of a negative no. can you? 0, 1, 10.91 km (had to google that one), orange smarties only taste better if you like orange, def 'chop', spag bol, don't we all, hope so, don;t watch either. I'm taking the fifth on a few but you can mix and match as you so wish!
Choisty, be my guest 
HL and GP - Soz. I am just trying to offer people a flavour of me so that they can choose to like it or not. If they don't, that's cool but just wanted to take the opportunity of putting myself out there so forumites can make an informed decision if they want to vote. I have been really lifted by the support I have received generally and from the guys I met at BootCamp and so still believe that there is a runners community out there that will embrace me. Totally each to their own though. If I am not your cup of tea just 'ignore' me. I'll live...
SC - I have really tried and have engaged with a no. this week but as I am sure you all know time is pretty limited. I have only set up one Asics thread (bar this one) in response to the comments on the forums. I have found reading the forums really useful in the past but have been a bit of a nervous poster because I wasn't sure if some of my non-running chat would be welcome - based on this, I guess I should have been braver!
Within the last week, aside from the Asic's stuff, I have found out about a great route for a run in Derbyshire and been directed towards some new gloves and so all is not lost whatever happens.
Anyway, radio silence over. Work kind of takes over 9 - 5 ish and I had better get back to the grindstone. Vote for me if you like but, if you don't, then no probs at all.
AN - Magnanimous enough to say GOOD LUCK tomorrow. Hope you get it!
Oh and Gyraffe - this is for the Asics 26.2 competition - I will run a marathon next year whatever (probably Edinburgh) but this is a great opportunity to receive support and training so if you want to find out more visit: http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/general/asics-target-262-the-vote/7748.html
square root of -1 is i
apart from that pretty much agree
Based on your experience of the forum to date, if you don't win your category, will you continue to post?
PS Think you'd probably have received a warmer welcome on the Mudanies thread if you'd just joined in rather than gatecrashing with a "vote for me" then disappearing off, never to be heard from again.
Or any of the tri threads??
I joined when I was running by myself and so, to be perfectly honest, felt I had more to learn than offer, and so stuck to the 'sub 4 hour and VLM 2011 threads - wishful thinking at the time
As someone who has discovered sport later in life the idea of a 'clubhouse' still scares me. Conjures up images of a intimidating place where everyone knows each other and there isn't much room for a newbie...hang on a second. Only joking!!
I think that the forums are great and as I said before, I have already gleaned some useful info this week and previously. I also feel a little more confident in terms of my running now and so def feel like I can give something back. One of my main motivations for the comp was being part of a supportive team. I plan to stick around and hope that I can find the threads that works for me and vice versa.
Oh and wouldn't you put yourself out there a bit if you were in the same position?! I did note that my plea was shameless, explicity included pictures of my dog and entitled my thread 'Vote for me' so it could be easily avoided by forumites turned off by the whole thing.
Aaah, yet again running distracts me. Could be a late finish at work tonight
BTW - Choisty, what is 'i'? I am intrigued! You learn something every day!
hahahaha.
So in summary good luck!
I thought that was j, not i?
LadeyJadey, will I miss the last train home from London tomorrow night? If I know up front I can be prepared.
OK question time:
How many Smarties would in take to fill the new Wembley stadium and what is the final figure if you subtract this total from the total it took to fill the old Wembley stadium
i is a very useful number
Maybe if I was very new to the forums and unknown to people. However I don't recall such a proliferation of 'Me, me, me' threads in the past with this competition even from the newbiesi sit corrected.
Good luck LJ.
It's miles more interesting than running!
And LadeyJadey......what are your views on pandas in Scotland?
I totally see your point USB and am fairly new to the forums as a poster. I never made out I was anything else and was only following the steer from RW. I followed ur thread last year as I was training for London and found it really helpful. I was just a slightly nervous poster before.
Anyway, if I'm being 100 percent honest, I'm a bit tired of justifying this. I got the temperature wrong and for that I do apologise. It's a 'no' anyway for me so no need for anyone to worry about this anymore
The only thing I would say though is that everyone I met at bootcamp was lovely. I totally get and appreciate the 'regulars' point of view however, if ur asking whether new people will be sticking around on the forums, I, for one, would like to as I have found it really useful before but have to admit I (and maybe some others) have been a bit deterred by the strength of reaction to this competition. After all, I love banter as much as the next person but it is only a game and some of the responses seem to be a little personal!! I promise you this isn't a rant just wanted to get my point of view across. I will stick around on threads as and where they are relevant and will really look forward to watching the final five progress.
Anyway, wanted to say thanks to those that have supported me, WELL DONE to those that got through and au revoir to this thread!
Only Smarties have the answer.
LadeyJadey - commiserations on not getting through. I have only been dipping in and out of a small number of the voting threads started by entrants so missed most of the controversy, but just wanted to say that I hope you and the other potential entrants don't decide to abandon the forums based on the reactions to this competition. No-one "owns" the Forums, you can use it however you want - and there is always the "ignore member" feature if someone does get too annoying
Commiserations. You'll find it's the competition people are peed off with, not you LJ.
If you stick around you'll fit in just nicely.
I am sure you will fit in just fine, just avoid peroxide scousers