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    P&b Running Club

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    Hmm, I've always thought it was vertical equivalent. It would tie in with my estimate considering I stay pretty high above sea level, run down low, then run up again.

    well confused now then. My run tonight says "Elevation - 977 feet up, 959 feet down". So that means my house is 18 feet higher than when I left it? And it also says "Altitude 208 ft/404 ft"

    Fecking Endomondo, I've enough to concentrate on while running, without trying to figure that out.

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    P&b Running Club

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    Well that wasn't too horrible. 10.04km in 56:36, not bad for a route that has 184m of ascent. Had to take it slow for the first km as I was running along a road with no lights. Absolutely gubbed now but feeling great.

    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. ph34r.gif

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    P&b Running Club

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    Definately start taking some water on board - chances are you are just a bit dehydrated or body is starting to use the stuff it doesnt want to use. I dont like the sports drinks so usually do long runs with a wee pack of jelly babies and eat 3 or 4 every 4 miles or 25 minutes (whichever is longer). The sugar gives you a quick fix.

    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 :lol: !

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    P&b Running Club

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    Are you trying to increase your pace and distance at the same time? Maybe you should make your next long run a bit slower just to get the confidence that you have done 13 miles.

    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.

    Are you taking fluids with you or something to eat/sports drink?

    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.

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    P&b Running Club

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    If you are running for any more than an hour you should probably take some water with you. I think 45 mins is the recommended time but I find that I am ok up to the hour mark.

    When did you guys get your half marathon packs through? I havent recieved anything yet.

    I've managed a 1:34 the last two years and was hoping to go under 1:30 this year but having my wee boy now means that my training has been disrupted and I have missed a number of the longer runs - i have been getting faster but my stamina has been suffering. I think I will probably make it round in the same time as the last 2 years.

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

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    P&b Running Club

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    Preparing for the Glasgow half next month and building up the miles. Just in from only m second ever 10k-did it in 1hr3mins. About 7 quicker than last time. A lap of the north inch in Perth then up the hill and out to Bridge of Earn for anyone interested!

    One issue I'm having is an annoying injury I've picked up about a week ago.

    Getting a reall irritating pain in the back left area of my left knee. It ranges from mildly uncomfortable to absolutely killing me over the length of my run. Sitting with an ice pack on it now.

    Any suggestions what it could be and what, of anything, I can do about it?

    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.

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    P&b Running Club

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    Eek, was out for 3 and a bit months with really bad ligament damage on my foot and I just started last week, could barely run two miles before I had to stop, didn't even bother timing it.

    So done two of those runs and then done my football training session on Thursday and went out for my first time run today, 3 miles in 23 minutes, much slower than what I know I can do, but atm I'm just happy I reached the 3 milesdry.gif

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

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    Big Rangers Administration/Liquidation Thread - All chat here!

    in Celtic v Rangers, Rangers v Celtic

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    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.

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    Big Rangers Administration/Liquidation Thread - All chat here!

    in Celtic v Rangers, Rangers v Celtic

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    Greeny duly delivered for making me laugh out loud with this paragraph....:D

    What will happen is that the SPL will be invited to bid for the rights like anyone else, which means one of two things: either (a) they'll make a sensible and reasonable bid that's higher than anyone else's (which surely means a minimum of £2m, and perhaps a maximum of £3m, a year for three years), or (b) Neil Doncaster will defy all known human science by proving himself to be an even bigger idiot than we currently think he is.

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

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    Big Rangers Administration/Liquidation Thread - All chat here!

    in Celtic v Rangers, Rangers v Celtic

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    Yes but if justice was to be followed through to it's rightful conclusion then only Stranrear did the right thing. In case you never picked me up from the lack of emotes my last post was aimed at letting everyone know how spiteful and vengeful the mob has become.

    We have not gotten full justice yet but most of us agree to some concessions, Sevco in Div3, yet the majority are willing to punish clubs who did the same and gave concessions. Who are we to judge on those clubs when we have failed ourselves to settle for an outcome short of total justice? The attitude of talks of boycotts etc for clubs who are not Sevco is what is going to kill Scottish football, not loss of revenue from punishing the one who deserves the punishment.

    As things stand I am happy justice has been served and I believe we all need to get behind every team in Scottish football so what we, as fans, have achieved is not wasted. We have the greatest ever chance to take our game back and there are some who just want to do more damage. If Sevco are slipped further up the leagues than they are in the coming days then I shall walk away from the senior game but until such a time I believe we all need to help each other.

    ICT fans will demand answers from Kenny Cameron and if we are not satisfied we will do what is needed, fans who do not agree with their own clubs' actions will do the same, we do not need to look for scapegaots when we have dealt with the actual perpetrator.

    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.

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    Big Rangers Administration/Liquidation Thread - All chat here!

    in Celtic v Rangers, Rangers v Celtic

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    usual stuff

    still no apology for your incorrect Quislington jibe at Dumbarton then? Disappointing. You were wrong.

    Let's have a bit o fun now, lets see who can get the treble up

    latest made up odds on the lubed up toe touching five market :

    accies - confirmed vaseline appliers

    q.o.s - confirmed vaseline appliers

    partick - 4/11

    falkirk - evens

    dundee - evens

    queens park 6/4

    stenhousmuir 2/1

    forfar 2/1

    east stirling 5/2

    albion 5/2

    brechin 11/4

    dumbarton 11/4

    berwick 7/2

    montrose 7/2

    elgin 7/2

    7/1 bar

    If you fancy an outsider - annan 50/1 stranraer 50/1 raith 60/1 and clyde 80/1

    Quite a few confirmed 'no' clubs on that list.

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