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You lot with your sunny Sundays! Mist/fog here. Still we got the train to West Kirby - on the River Dee and walked home round the coast of the peninsula. There is a 30 odd mile circular walk, so thats 1/3 of it done. To begin with it was very misty - couldn't see Wales or the islands just offshore. Later it lifted a bit. Pretty cold though ...
(((Sluggie))) and(((Nog's and Penny's knees))) and ((((Tubs))) who last I heard was stuck here in the fog. I do hope you get sorted soon.
Slugs,the turbo is so boring but, today, due to a diary malfunction I managed to get out for a short road ride. It was glorious.
Again Slugs, I hope your gastropub thingy works out. The 'scenic' route is to be avoided if possible.
'J' got a shiny new half PB today 2:07 something!!!
Well done J
cup of hot chocolate and a roaring fire is just what the evening was lacking
Evening???
Go J. Is that faster than you, Spence? You might need to tie her shoelaces together.
Awww, not a lot of time with slug boy by the sounds of things, sluggy
No 1 is 17 now. Sweet soul but bit of a loner. Don't like the sound of your gastric tube, sluggy. Just make sure they wipe the tube
A kind offer to sort him out, m....eldy but no 2 is the type to respond better to the Stalag M..........eldy treatment
No 1 is too soft
Well cycled, noggs.
Evening
Just floating in and out - will just add ditto to everyone's erudite comments above me (and yes I did read back
Left home at 7am - cycled to 1/2 mara venue, marshaled for ever, cycled home and back by about 4pm..........that's an awful lot of fresh air for February........
I do enjoy marshaling and can't imagine not doing it.........and anyway I "owe" it for all the times I've raced in the past but TBH even if I didn't I'd still do it
Interestingly at the finish they were doing beetroot juice........I haven't tried mine yet but other ones I've tried in the past have been yummy
Tomorrow......hmmmmmmmm........going to try not to think about it more right now
Sweet dreams all and happy week's to come
PS - did ROFL at Meldy's "periscopic" investigation for Sluggy
I seem to have entered a 10k next Sunday that includes the biggest hill in Warwickshire....what was I thinking!?
Morning
Happy Birthday to US
Woo hoo, a birthday for us. That must mean cake.
I have an inset day today. There is a list of chores and missions waiting for me. A short road ride is on the cards too.
Happy Mondays.
Oh Indeedy - well remembered that Dragon
Happy Birthday Us
Ooh, cake!
How many years is it now?! 11? I wonder what we've all managed to achieve in those 11 years?! For me:
Love looking back, makes me feel like I've actually done something with my life
"sad tho
this thread wont last
2 reasons
1.its about running
2. its about SLOW running
Pity
prove me wrong!"
Happy Birthday
What crafty psychology, XB!
Yeah, they said we would never stick together but look at us now! 
Actually, look at Daffs, cos she has a list of brilliant accomplishments that all the rest of us can hide behind!! Stonkingly well everythinged, Daffers!
I've read back but I'm in a hurry and not taking much in so...
Sluggie, how nice that you saw SB, and for a happy(ish) occasion with his cousin. I didn't realise you had to be 'scoped'
Hope the gastroscope does whatever they need to do...
Nogs, bet it felt brilliant to be out on the bike in the open air again! Hooray!!!
Podds, that is a LOT of fresh air for Feb, and I still think you're bliddy good to do all that marshalling.
Pippi, seaside mist can feel really chill. Bet you were happy to sit down with a nice cup of tea when you got home!
((Yums))) Teenage boys are never easy. Some are aggressive, some are withdrawn, some are always faffing off, some take it all too seriously, some won't shut up, some won't talk to you at all.....it's just a difficult age for them and so for us mums. Hope the college can make some helpful suggestions. xxx
It's grey and cool here but no longer bitter, so Monty and I had a nice 5 mile walk by the side of the nature reserve. He is now totally flaked, bless! But there are still piles of stuff I have to do and with C2 and C3 both home for dinner I need to get it done so I can start manufacturing industrial quantities of food!! xx
Afternoon,
Nggy, I'm glad that you were able to get out on the road yesterday, so much nicer than the turbot.
(((Yumms))) as I said above, time does work its wonders on our teenage boys - but it's no fun for anyone just now.
(((Tubs))) I hope you are no longer fog-bound.
Well, my gastroscope is now going to be done tomorrow afternoon. My iron stores keep dropping, in a way they had not done since before my hysterectomy (about 16 years ago). It's possible that I am leaking blood from somewhere in my gut, made more likely by the anti-inflammatory drugs that I have taken continuously for nearly 5 years. If they don't find anything in the upper bit, they will probably want to get the periscope out for the lower bit
. I should get the results before I leave tomorrow.
(((WIN)))
WAIST well xxx
If they have a camera one Sluggy you could stream it on You Tube
Swim swum and shopping done, decided against run club tonight as I need a night at home to get bits done and I want to run long tomorrow before going to the RAH to see Cirque de Soleil
One of the party cant go now so we had a spare ticket (no, none of you lot) and Helena from the yard (thats not her stage name) is able to get a last minute babysitter so that works out well
11 years eh ? Blimey, where did all that time go from the early days through to the Trail Plus days through to the Startford Tri and JW Ultra days ...you guys were all witnesses to my accidental marathon and my first Ironman, still going !!!
morning all
welcome to Donna
ooh Sluggy don't fancy cameras in any orifice
thinking of Tubbs x
woohoo and a happy birthday WAISters
I haven't been around for the full sentence -just looked at my race log - I said hello to you lot in 2006 as a race virgin - I've since done 54 running races including 16 marathons, plus 4 triathlons and 4 aquathlons 
had a few days off running due to a koffancold, and I can't get Jantastic to work now!
oh and I've signed up for an ultra (just 30 miles) as a birthday present in September - gah! I blame Meldy!
I've been around since near the beginning having never run a race then, and only started running a few months earlier. You were just what I needed.
Since then I've stopped and started a few times, done half-marathons, got one Masters degree and (I hope) soon to get the second. Had a troubled teenager who has now also got an MA and has turned into a mostly lovely young woman. We've been on exotic holidays for significant wedding anniversaries and birthdays. I've met strange people off the internet in real life a few times! I've also been to Stratford on Avon a few times! and done a triatholon. I've watched a few of you in marathons.
I think I'm not only fitter, I'm a bit more confident that I can do things that I didn't expect. I'm also rather pleased that Pippette is too - I remember thinking in the early days that at least she might think that if her mother could start running, maybe anything is possible! (jsut as long as she doesn't beat me in Liverpool half ... she will ....)
Who ate all the cake?
You'll love it Jenni. at least its flat
*waves* to XB
11 years ago I hadn't even thought about running and look at me now
Dotty Dog has had a very short hair cut!! Don't think she's too impressed!! But as she is a lover of puddles it makes for an easier life!
I'll let Murph know .... He's a lover of mud
Morning
Good luck with your telescope exploration, sluggy. Let's hope you don't see Uranus.
Good luck with your appt too, Larry. Hope you can avoid the op.
I missed our birthday ? Boo how. Lovely to see how we've grown over the years and that many of us old uns are still posting, friendships formed and most are still trotting in one way or another. M....eldy couldn't run a tap without getting injured when I first knew her and look at her now
Off to school this morning. Seems no1 has been falling asleep in study periods. I pulled the plug on the internet at 10.30 last night.
Morning
I too missed the birthday celebrations - my invite must have been lost in the post!? Think I joined at the same time as Jenni Farty pants. I have attempted to make her look good by always under performing. I think I'm doing OK, I've done a race or two and have managed a few runs this year. I am thinking of an ultra
as a really unlikely ever ever to happen event
(((((((those experiencing periscopes and other medical intrusions))))))
Hope school meeting goes OK Yums
FC had first day at school yesterday in a shiny new blazer and everything. She was very excited. It all seemed to go well and she will go from part time to full time later this week. I too am on a steep learning curve - how long can it take to get showered and ready in the morning? How do you do French braids? Why on earth would anyone want fake eyelashes? I am traversing strange and foreign lands and I feel for FC who must wonder how clueless we are!
Happy Tuesday one and all - it's my Mum's birthday today - she's really old
Morning all. What a lot of inspiring stories this place has generated over the last years, certainly of running victories of all sorts but also surviving teenage years, ups and downs of married and unmarried life, some major events like births and deaths. And here we still are.
((((((((Sluggie))))) hope things go well today, quick and not uncomfortable, and that they find something expected that they can fix easily. xxxxx
Yums, good luck with the school. At least you can comfort yourself with the knowledge that teens falling asleep in study periods is normal. Apparently their body clocks make them natural night owls, and it's hard for them to wake up at our normal hours.
Spence, Dotty's haircut sounds like an excellent idea. I sometimes wonder if I should cut some of Monty's hair (and in fact I have but the long flags near his bottom for, um, hygenic reasons) but I don't think he'd look right shorn.
Pippi, you really have accomplished so much since we've known you--and Pipette too. Hats off to you!
JFF, you must by now be one of our champion racers. And what I admire even more is the fact that you do it whilst juggling a family and a heavy job. I honestly don't know how you fit it all in!
Oh yes, Meldy, we remember your accidental marathon. Only you...!
Also the interesting German concept of what your name is 
Hope you enjoy the Cirque, it should be quite spectacular. You could always keep an eye out in case they are in the market for a trapeze artist--would give Daffs that little push she's been looking for 
All 5 of us are going to the theatre tonight to see a new play that is a satire on the banking crisis. It's attracted a lot of attention here and is apparently very funny but also very pointed. Special marks to C1 because it will be in idiomatic Dutch, which she and I will find more challenging than the others will. Happy days all
Morning All
11 years eh? Yes a lot has happened in that time to many of us but as Yums said I think the nicest thing is the friendships formed between those who have stuck around
Lots of achievements both personal, familial and sporting.......and we're all so much greyer and theoretically wiser for the experiences.............
I too have happy memories of Trailplus and Stratty events and also witnessed "live" the accidental marathon.....in fact for a price I'm pretty sure I've got some photos somewhere..........
DL - I can imagine the FC morning situation - I am the world's slowest person in the shower but at the gym in the time it takes me to get undressed, shower, wash my hair, get dressed, and leave there are a couple of young girls who having started on their faces before I get into the changing room are still doing them as I leave...........and they really don't look much different for a good half hour's work!!!!
Good luck Sluggy - will be vibing for you
Yums - sounds like a plan re the internet cutting.....it's way too easy particularly with all the games and Fakebook and the likes to get carried away with the inanities of life in the evening and before you know it, it's time to get up again!!
Right - best go and do something constructive with my day.........failed miserably to get up and swim this morning
Enjoy CdS Melds if I don't see you before you go
I imagine it will be fab
Good luck at school Yums. I know how No1 feels today...
Glad FC enjoyed yesterday DL
Must be very weird going into a new school at that age, without all the other stuff that must have happened in her life. Good on her for making a good go of it.
(and I never understood false eyelashes either!)
Love reading what you've all done in the last 11 years
54 races Jenni?! 
Mind you, I'd never expect anything else from you 
Funny how many of us seemed to post before we started running!
Someone's brought coffee and bannoffie cakes into work today - because it's Tuesday, and February
Damn fine reasons 
Plenty left if you'd like a bit (although the rate I'm going it won't be round for long!)
Afternoon
Yes, it’s nice to be reminded of how we have developed over the years. Ups and downs and downs and ups, all life happens here.
Since our birth I’ve done 7 marathons, countless half maras and even more 10ks, several sprint Tri’s and some biking challenges.
I’ve also given birth to another 6 grandchildren (I already had 2) and another on the starting blocks as we speak. He should be here by this time next week with luck.
It’ll be 11 years next month since Kira died, I will never forget the wonderful care and support here and on other threads. I have to say that this event took me places in life I never thought I would go, much of it in a positive way I must add.
A BSc an MSc and a retirement all figure in those years. Daffs is right it does the heart good to look back and see where we have come.
Tuesday and February just HAS to be celebrated, and how better than with Banoffee cake - save me some, I’ll be there in a bit
11 years! and will probably still be going strong for many more
JFF 'just' 30 ? its still 30
Welcome to the dark side, we have cookies on the check points 
Which one is it?
Quick visit whilst I sup coffe
9 miles @ an average of 9.43 was quite pleasing and at an easy pace, I *will* get this half mara pb one day !
I appear to have gained a moorhen. It appears each morning along with the usual collection of sparrows and starlings, the 2 robins and blackbirds and the blue tit, the obese pidgeon and the 2 collared doves. The GPO thinks that the window is some sort of cat porn channel