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In other news all my little online purchases from last weekend have arrived. New running shoes
They need a "mmmmm niiiice" emocion. Got anohter sports direct giant mug too! I'm half way to a set. They also included a MASSIVE catalogue (bigger than an argos or next one)!!! Dear Sport Direct, I went online, I browsed your website, I bought. I do not need a massive waste of resources (paper, printing, transport etc) to buy things from you!!!!! Yours "very tired from lugging the catalogue directly to the recycling".
Dannirr... I got my VCR pass in the mail today..
DV: excellent. I dont have mine yet. Do you need any extra? I think I still will be getting a few extra (I have 2 cars entered - I have loaned one to a friend to drive - might be embaraassing if he beats us both! - but I "wisely" lent him the 4.5 horsepower car unlike my "massive" 8 hp!)
Toronto update: weather still looks like thunderstorms for the first 3 hours or so, My new plan is too find bigger and taller people with which to surround myself.
DV: alas but 1 november isn't possible for me, Mr PF is away on business then and I keeping the home fires burning and keeping Miss PF out of trouble - although that may well be Miss PF keeping me out of trouble.
Thanks al the birthday wishes, had a lovely day until about 4pm when began to feel unwell, by 7.30 was really sick and in bed - have just got up from my pit, and feeling a little better if fragile - so much for the R2R this morning. Mr PF thinks it was a reaction to my tapas lunch yesterday, but hey ho had a lovely day was thoroughly spoilt (thats why I'm a Princess)
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Oh list fairy, I've entered the Durrell Dash 13K on 21st October - just for a laugh, 2 laps of Durrell Zoo amongst the Meare Cats!!!!
Good luck to all racing tomorrow, Dani enjoy Toronto spent a month there when I was 18 - absolutely loved it!!!!
Last day in New York for me today.
Taken loads of ibuprofen and it is starting to ease off thankfully. Managed a gentle 5 miles today so feeling a bit more positive about next weekend.
Good luck to all the racers tomorrow. Give it your all.
Dannirr.. yes please... I'd like 3 more... if you can let me have them, then that's great... if not, I'll ask the VCR people...
Enjoy Toronto... we played the Danforth Music Hall many times there...
PF... wrap up warm..
And hello from me to the Paris forum...
It looks an awful lot like the Amsterdam forum if you ask me.
Noticed the paris website's just revealed the prices. 65 euros for the first 8,000, 80 euros for the next 12,000 with a slow internet connection, 95 euros for 20,000 humm-ers and haa-ers and 110 euros for 6,000 disorganised runners.
Weedy - Yup, there's a few paris forumites running amsterdam. We like to spread it around.
That's the standard for paris entries, graduated prices. If you enter on the day it opens you usually get in the lowest category....but this year it's opening after london rejections so all bets are off.
Was in the humm-ers and ha-ers bracket last year. Aiming for the 65 euros bracket this time.
On the subject of drugs testing, in relation to the Lance Armstrong conversation..
I was listening to a podcast yesterday and a UK ultra athlete Ellie Goldsborough was interviewed. Ultra races are not currently routinely subject to drugs testing but it is something that some events choose to do voluntarily and in one particular race Ellie won it and was subject to a drugs test immediately after the race. She is clean but it was interesting to listen to her experiences. She described the procedure for urine and blood testing and then said that she now is on a 'random drugs test register' whereby she has to provide UK Athletics with a three month diary every month (thus always looking three months ahead) and at any time they can turn up with no prior annoucement and demand she has another drugs test. This will be the rest of her athletic career. The same applies to any athlete on the register. There are punishments for failure to attend or for failure of the tests.
It is a very onerous procedure and arguably invasive of her privacy.
Lance has been accused of using EPO. I have no idea what that is, but apparently UK athletes are not tested for EPO...!!
All very interesting...
I just spent an afternoon with TD. I have sore nipples now.
I'd say you got off lightly...
Jimbob.. sorry to hear that.. see how you feel on the day... it might be a welcome distraction for you... if not, no worries...
Neil.. you defiunitely got off lightly.. the last guy ended up in hospital... I took him a present and when I told him that we had a whip round he turned white and looked terrified... not sure what was going on there...
Neil - Have you managed to convince TD to come to amsterdam for the day and keep DLR company on support?
Its kinda like coal delivery to a station: you get more coal if the train calls at the station more often, and/or if its able to transport more coal.
That would be very good if he did!
Though judging by Neil's comments he needs to cut his fingernails.
65 - 110 euros is quite a steep increase.
Hopefully its a midnight Wednesday job as I'll need to leave home at 7am.
B*gger. It's 11am. May have to try and do it from the phone on Wednesday.
Tapering today - hour on the bike (
I'd guess so - even though its in English I suppose it has to cater for the colonials too.
Good Luck to all tomorrow!! You can do it Yer_maj!!
Not much going on here today. Another bike lesson in torrential rain and gales......think it starts everytime I take my helmet oot!!!
Managed to stay upright again today so all good!! 
Still bloody raining and blowing a hoolie here so fire on, and tucked up for the night......I'll run tomorrow!!
Thanks all - and good luck to all you racers!
I dropped my phone on my toes while I was brushing my teeth last night, to add to my general sense of woe
Had a bunch of running friends round last night for some food...in amongst the discussions about shaving legs, fake tan, what-will-I-wear...(really? Makeup for a race?? I barely wore any to get married....) there was plenty of "I think I'm coming down with something" "I've got a hurty knee/foot/ear/right eyeball"....looks like I am the only healthy one in Cardiff this morning
Dannirr - what an excelllent description of how EPO works.
DV - the issues with EPO usage in the TdF and competitive cycling were that there wasn't a relaible test until the early 2000s, when both urine and blood testing were launched. These days a blood test is most accurate. Therefore, LA and his cohorts simply thought they would always be able to avoid detection - because even when the tests were available, if they knew when tests were likely to occur (in competition), their 'doctors' simply advised them when they needed to stop using it so it wouldn't show up in the tests.
For years cycling used an estimate of blood 'thickness' called haematocrit to judge whether someone was doping with EPO. Normally our haematocrit is between 35-45%, unless we're dehydrated or polycythaemic for some reason when it may be higher - and the cycling cut-off was 50%. If a cyclist was found to be over the limit, they were suspended for a period initially 2 weeks from competition. Then they were retested or simply started back after their suspension was served. You couldn't make this up - the practices are simply unbelievable.
Thankfully sice real testing has become available, in combination with the athlete's biological passport, I suspect EPO use has stopped (or at least diminshed hugely). The power outages of Brad and Chris in this year's TdF may confirm this (but 2 previous drug cheats winning the Tour of Spain through the most incredible hills just after may show this is not the case...)
The main issue, as you say, is that not every sport tests appropriately for EPO - cycling is the most high profile one that's been caught. There is some rumbling that first-class football is the next sport to be exposed - and frankly, it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of lads, if that is the case.
Iain
Wow - look out, the fast guys are back in town - Seanb and Stray Runner signing up for Paris Mara. But the bad news is guys, OO has kept on going faster - sub 3 this year!
Erm, not sure of the context Kaz but I usually leave my watch on Autolap. If you are running manual laps and miss one, the only thing it affects is the average pace per lap. As soon as you press the lap button, the avg pace per lap will reset and start averaging again. It's no biggie if you miss a counter or press a lap button somewhere else.
LOL
We ran an Ekiden marathon with my work team yesterday, absolutely belting down with rain. There were 1600 teams present, centre of activities being the Heysel Stadium in Brussels and the hilly bits of ground around near the Atomium. We were delighted to finish our marathon in 2:39:40 - I did the final leg and my avg HR was 94% and peak was 96% - so I was running pretty much flat out.
What was very weird was having to run past runners who were several laps behind so were much slower. Really difficult to weave in and out of them as there was a fair amount of wobbling about. Also, they were running on the nearest thing to a dry line, which meant I was having to charge through channels of flowing water. A really fun experience overall but I think I preferred the sunshine we had last year. Good luck to everyone racing today - be heroic
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That's a pretty good assumption based on the general regard for english considerations (aka the brilliant english translations). So 10am on the 17th, remember yer_maj is first. Everyone please form an orderly english queue behind her.
Best of luck to all thos running today...
Nutrition/hydration... what do you do, pre-race, race and post-race..?
Kaz... midnight marathon... its a nice romantic idea, and in the right environment running at night can indeed be beautiful and fun. However, let me give some words of caution. I have done several overnight runs... they are not as much fun as they sound. They can be dangerous, lack of visibility is obviously an issue, navigation, low temperature, high dew levels etc... in a dark sky environment being out at night is fabulous, but it still needs caution and careful planning...