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I've started listening to podcasts while doing my strength training, also while doing 30-minutes of uphill walking with the treadmill set to its maximum of 12% incline. Does help make it less boring.
mmm 27th September. What better way to spend one's 20th wedding anniversary
marty74 - September 27th
Debra - I really enjoy volunteering at Centurion races - almost as good as running them!
1owrez - Cancelled - entries carried forward to next year
Come on Lowrez, I saw all your reservations but for a minimum £9 fee you can't go wrong. Mark is picking up all the associated admin cost and setup effort - it's become a labour of love.
I hope more of this group might support this.
I hope you are all well and carrying on running in these difficult times!
https://www.sueryder.org/donate
Then comment on here about how far we've got along the line below, most of us are in a Strava group so we'll all see the miles accumulating
Plus you don't have to donate if you don't want to and you can still play - nobody will see that you haven't stumped up any cash. Completely transparent, fun to do, and you know where your money went (if you donated). Plus I don't want paying anything for the above admin.
I at least will get some health benefit from a boost to my recently ailing exercise motivation!
where do you get your figure of 500 from? Assume WRT medals etc? That is an option that as I state very clearly is not productive to purchase unless min. 500 are placed. I started the ‘admin’ project on this 2 weeks ago and have worked many hours putting it together. Building a website is a few days job alone then several conference calls with the software company takes time. I’ve been a Race Director for the last 4 years which consumes at least 2-3 months of my time to pull it off, hence it being a top 10 RW race, during the 4 years I’ve reduced the event selling out in 3 weeks down to 36hrs, next year I hope within 24 hrs. With regards to Sue Ryder, that incentive started only yesterday and I spoke personally with Henry about it at SR head office, regrettably my incentive clashed with theirs which was looking to be launched in 3 weeks but they turned it around as fast as possible for the same reasons I initially had the idea to raise (again) for Sue Ryder (as well as WHO, who tbh I feel deserve more injection than Sud Ryder at this time. The reason I raise for SR is because I watched my mother in law dwindle away slowly over 4 years and sadly pass away in the local hospice.
As with the Strava challenge, where do I find this free of charge challenge?
Glorious day here in the UK. But that obviously makes it busy. Done my run for the day so can now stay firmly at home away from everyone. Actually looking forward to some gardening, a family quiz later and some fillet steak for dinner. Not bad.
My intention as said was to do something for motivation of my fellow running community during this uncertainty, and raise for charity. Certainly not soliciting, that is not what I’m about. If the thread / forum permits to talk about other training and races in a build up to Comrades then what is wrong with a virtual post? The mission you constantly refer to of course that is someone business, as with any race in all fairness, that is nothing to do with transparency of honesty. I said from the start that approx £8 goes to the software company. The other missions have no large outlay as that does and so that would generate more for charity. I took on board what you said and reduced the pricing so it is now effectively a cost but you still find concerns? To add do you seriously think that 100% of an online donation via the Sue Ryder link you shared goes straight back into the charity, let me tell you for a fact it doesn’t. I’ll not talk more of either incentive but can I ask again where do I find that challenge, also what does one have to do to join the RW Strava group?
Anyway, I think this topic is best left behind so that everyone can get on with what they do best - good training and enjoying the countryside. I really feel for Dubai with having no ability to get out and train outside of his back yard! Dubai, I hope your test comes back negative.
I wonder when Comrades organisers are going to finally accept reality and put out an update. There was no way I could qualify but I feel for the rest of you who were/are training hard and 'ready to go'.
I just hope after next weekends Easter bank holiday that we are not on complete lock down caused by people being idiots.....
The half Ironman the week before Comrades has not been cancelled either, however many around this time have elsewhere in the world.
Keep running folks and keep having fun.
Here's a bit of fun; a race only in the the very early stages of planning which will potentially be staged in 3020 by the CMA (Comrades Mars Association). I was trying to get more competitors placed virtually on the map but Strava went and cleared the table at midnight! So, based on your Strava mileage since April 1st this is how far you have got along the course (in your space suits of course). Peter is about to cross the finish line in Murban and receive a Mill Rowan! Marty and Slow Duck are at the top of Mields Mill. Southern Snail is belting up Minchanga almost at half way. Dubai is plugging away earnestly about to tackle that very annoying hill prior to Minchanga that should have a name but doesn't, and I've just sneaked through the M3 subway and the first cut-off at Mion Park with 35 minutes in hand - day dreaming again I suspect, that is far too late!
Of course everyone's virtual clocks are running at a different rate, I suspect Peter will be over the line in our reality tomorrow whereas it might take me 3 more weeks to come in for my Mic Clapham!
I don't know if gifs run on this board, but here is what the stadium in Murban is planned to look like:-