Mark: I put in my entry for LL100 (goal race!) then discovered I will be in Wisconsin when it starts - it will be the first in-person conference for the organisation I now work for in 3 years, so I really can't not be there or leave the conference early. I emailed and asked to be taken out the ballot but I was too late so I got an email saying I had got in, and I couldn't take it. Frustrating, but that's life. I'll try for LL100 for 2023. Meanwhile, if I enter SDW100 and NDW100 that will give me two chances for next year's WSER qualification.
Hello all, I hope all is generally well. I don't seem to have received an email for some reason, but I saw the press release so thought I'd come catch up on here!
This motivation has come at a good time for me. Need to get over a terrible bout of flu first, but I'm 2 stone overweight and quite stuck in a rut at work, so having next August as a target is a right boon. Long road back to even marathon but every journey etc etc.
I'm still very sceptical about international runners next year, and I don't even have a current passport, but at least now I can dream! Onwards and upwards....
New Comrades date could be awkward - I potentially have Comrades 28 Aug, Ultra Tour Monte Rosa 1-3 Sept, Tor des Geants 11-17 Sept - that’s 4 weekends back-to-back...
Johnny, come and do K2B on May 7th, 40 miles on road through The Lake District... you will have to wear a dress and we will call you Debra Sounds like a great day out to me.
Johnny, come and do K2B on May 7th, 40 miles on road through The Lake District... you will have to wear a dress and we will call you Debra Sounds like a great day out to me.
I've been called a lot worse! K2B definitely sounds like an option if I can get my arse in gear
I wonder what the qualification criteria might be for next year- I saw something from Bruce Hargreaves on Facebook saying they are going to be "relaxed".
Johnny, I want to see you fit again, so we will let you wear pants and call you Johnny, I will put you on the K2B list, hmm, I better write a list... goes out to buy more smokes...
If it's in August I'll not be there either. Trying to plan my leave for next year and not sure Comrades will figure. Haven't left Dubai in nearly 2 years and haven't been home in 3.
Mark: they don't allow transfers, so I simply didn't accept and pay for my place - which means it will have gone through to the charity places. It was the best I could do in the circumstances. I did -try- to tell them not to put me in the ballot, but apparently when my email went through the entries organisation people were away at another event and didn't see it in time.
Blimey Mark - that sounds majorly complicated. Sorry to hear you are having all these things I can only wish you well, first to get your fundamental health back, then to get back to running. Good luck.
28th August - my late Mother's birthday - will give me a few emotions beside the usual.
K2B Team for Saturday 7th May 2022 (we need 12 so please ask to be added):- 1owrez Slow Duck baldstan Peter R Becca7 JAR johnny1984 Southern Snail MARK A ALDERSON
Thanks Bike It, nice of you. I am doing things (atm, possibly) the other way round, running London slowly then to take some time out, hibernate a little bit then come back stronger....
K2B Team for Saturday 7th May 2022 (we need 12 so please ask to be added):- 1owrez Slow Duck baldstan Peter R Becca7 JAR johnny1984 Southern Snail MARK A ALDERSON Debra Bourne (thinking about jogging it)
Good luck to your daughter! Hmm Upper Thames? Gets kinds tunnely around there, or should I say "built over" by what though I can never figure out. Is it around mile 23/24? You are starting to get into the joyous feeling that the finish is within reach, if only you could keep going Brain Research UK are a little further down opposite the golden RAF eagle, probably not called Upper Thames by then though.
Did I mention I am running 4.5 marathons concurrently London proper (unless this life is just a simulation, but lets not get into that), and, Chester virtual full and half marathons, and Hull virtual, and Toronto virtual. I could have added the US Marine Corps and another yankee one I forget the name of, but I had to tell myself to stop they are damned expensive races!
Then in 3 weeks time I am running (the last ) Liverpool Rock n Roll 5k (Saturday) and marathon (Sunday) to face off against Toronto half and 5k races, I just need a 10k in the bag which I'll probably put in during training and I can claim the complete "Toronto Shebang" the full marathon, half, 10k and 5k need claiming before October ends (where are Green Day when you need them, already a month too late)
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This motivation has come at a good time for me. Need to get over a terrible bout of flu first, but I'm 2 stone overweight and quite stuck in a rut at work, so having next August as a target is a right boon. Long road back to even marathon but every journey etc etc.
I'm still very sceptical about international runners next year, and I don't even have a current passport, but at least now I can dream! Onwards and upwards....
I wonder what the qualification criteria might be for next year- I saw something from Bruce Hargreaves on Facebook saying they are going to be "relaxed".
1owrez
Slow Duck
baldstan
Peter R
Becca7
JAR
johnny1984
Southern Snail
We can have up to 12 in a team the first 10 of which will produce a result which might mean we get the accolade for first team home etc.
If it's in August I'll not be there either. Trying to plan my leave for next year and not sure Comrades will figure. Haven't left Dubai in nearly 2 years and haven't been home in 3.
Catch you in 2023 PeterDHM
28th August - my late Mother's birthday - will give me a few emotions beside the usual.
Anyone doing London this weekend?
1owrez
Slow Duck
baldstan
Peter R
Becca7
JAR
johnny1984
Southern Snail
MARK A ALDERSON
1owrez
Slow Duck
baldstan
Peter R
Becca7
JAR
johnny1984
Southern Snail
MARK A ALDERSON
Debra Bourne (thinking about jogging it)