Boghead ranter

the penny has dropped for me now about ascent/descent on my tracker. I used to read it as vertical equivalent, and used to think "naw, no way I climbed that high, though now I realise it's how many metres laterally (or pavement-wise) you are ascending or descending for. Duh.

Thanks - I've used the Jelly Babies (or Haribo's, wine gums etc) thing for teams I've been coaching during basketball games, so I can see the sense in that. Just need to get my head round running, breathing AND chewing, all at once !

Nope - I'm just trying to go to 13 miles. I built up to a couple of 13 milers in Feb/Mar, then deliberately scaled back my running for a few months in deference to hitting the gym and bulk up a little. Since start of July I've been gradually building back up for the HM, but I've also got an extra 9 kg to carry round with me. While I'd be a very delighted 46 y.o. with anything under 2 hours, I'm mainly just wanting to get round. I thought I was doing as you say, running slower to try to increase the distance, but I just seem to have a running pace that my body naturally slips into. My per mile average yesterday was pretty much the same as I do on a 5 or 6 mile run, and that was with a monumentally slow 11th mile. Nope, do you think I should? Thanks for the interest from both of you, I don't really have any running experience, just took it up for something to do after 30 years in basketball, which is a totally different dynamic physically, so I'm a real uneducated amateur.

11.33 miles this morning, though I hit a brick wall just after 10 miles. Everything else after that was a real struggle, which is a ballache as I was feeling really strong up until then. Glasgow HM really seems to be looming large now!

Teasers.

Not got anything yet, but if I remember right from last year, it'll be another week or so yet.

He'd smell better.

I'm preparing for the HM next month too. Strangely enough I was just chatting to a pal on facebook, and she's doing the HM too, but has shelved any plans for time targets, she just wants to get round, as she has ITBS. And what she was telling me sounds exactly like what you're describing, so go with Young Bairn's recommendation. Shouldn't be long till the GSR packs start dropping through letterboxes, getting quite excited now. I'm doing one 13-14 mile run a week, supplemented with a couple of shorter, 6-7 mile runs. And trying to pick routes that have hills in them, that climb from the Clydeside Expressway up the slip road onto Kingston Bridge nearly did me in last year. Happy with the way I'm feeling though. Not really focussing on time, but anything under 2 hours would make me happy.

It's all relative Grant, I'd be delighted with any run where I averaged under 8 minute miles!

I seem to remember him having very little respect for authority in Soldier Soldier...

Is Off The Ball on today?

Had my first hands-on experience of the Social Unrest yesterday. At Burntisland with my kids, building a big sandcastle on the beach. 2 orclets clad in the strip of a team that used to exist, no more than 5, either of them, come along and stamp all over the thing, while I'm still building. Not a peep from their 'responsible' adults, both of whom were a tad overweight.. Thin end of the wedge, I'm going straight to ASDA to stock up on bread.

for anyone just re-joining after overnight, this is the best post between page 3000 and 3011. And probably the only one worth reading. not all the quoted stuff, just the word 'Bump'.

(b)! (b)! I pick (b)!

Administration > liquidation > 3000+ page thread with much hilarity on Pie & Bovril.

A neighbour's cat took a dump in the bark in my garden. edited for appalling apostrophe application.

well said. It's time to let go. The need to know who the 5 are should be for nosiness only. Hounding such a small minority by a large group is unnecessary. If the supporters of those 5 clubs want to take issue with their own boards, so be it, but supporters of other clubs would do Scottish football a far better service if they let go and moved on.

depends if you're looking at who said they would say no BEFORE the vote, or those who have said they said no AFTER the vote.

fixed.

still no apology for your incorrect Quislington jibe at Dumbarton then? Disappointing. You were wrong. Quite a few confirmed 'no' clubs on that list.

BBC Scotland podcast now up.

Another retraction please..... http://www.dumbartonfootballclub.com/news/?mode=view&id=4040

Sling your insults elsewhere, fannybaws. http://www.dumbartonfootballclub.com/news/?mode=view&id=4040 well predicted.

could well be Last time I was near the first was when I went to the Morton/DUFC playoff at Cappielow I reckon, and I've shed a good few braincells since then....

Spectacularly stoopid it is then!