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Thanks for the tips, we’ve ended up booking elsewhere - had a few family issues and by the time they were sorted enough for us to be confident of booking somewhere the hotels we’d been looking at were gone or too expensive.
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On 17/04/2024 at 14:30, KD1711 said:
Got London marathon on Sunday, got an email a few weeks ago asking me to confirm my place which I thought was a wind up so will be a laugh as training hasn't been the best. Will use this as a reminder to get my arse back into gear for the GNR in September and go for a big PB then.
How did you (and anyone else on here doing London) get on? Someone from my running club was under three hours and in the top 200 women!
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11 hours ago, highlandmac said:
We'll agree to disagree
The fact that Edinburgh's tram system charges considerably extra only for the airport,a mere 400m from the last stop at ingliston,tells you all you need to know
Not unique to Edinburgh - seem to remember certain US and Canadian cities charged more for trips to/from the airport. Not trying to justify or defend it, just pointing out it's not unusual.
It's airport drop-off/pick-up charges which annoy me more. Well, that and the lack of a rail link to Glasgow Airport.
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IndyCar deciding after six weeks to disqualify two cars from their first race of the season: https://www.the-race.com/indycar/st-petersburg-winner-newgarden-penske-disqualified-one-month-later/
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On 17/04/2024 at 01:36, houston_bud said:
I'd get this article up on the changing room wall before the Rangers games. Especially this bit.
They've chosen us as the easiest away game for Rangers. It would be brilliant if we rolled them over.
After last night Dundee will be complaining we’ve an extra home game against Rangers.
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7 hours ago, KD1711 said:
Got London marathon on Sunday, got an email a few weeks ago asking me to confirm my place which I thought was a wind up so will be a laugh as training hasn't been the best. Will use this as a reminder to get my arse back into gear for the GNR in September and go for a big PB then.
Good luck! Crowd is fantastic in London. Try not to get too frustrated at the amount of runners you’re having to dodge round. PB is unlikely for that reason alone unless you put your estimated time about half an hour quicker than you’re really aiming for.
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2 hours ago, conboyhibs said:
Congratulations, Stu! Brilliant achievement.
I ran 2:45:34 which I'm chuffed with, 13 minute PB. I thought it was a great event/course, definitely recommend if anyone is planning any for next Spring.
Amazing time - a good 10 minutes quicker than the six guys dressed as a caterpillar too!
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Hope @conboyhibs had a good run in Manchester today.
I was 3 hours 25 minutes and 19 seconds and have raised more than £2,000 for ACCORD in the process. Thanks to all those who sponsored me!
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Thanks to all those who sponsored me for the Manchester Marathon today - more than £2,000 raised for ACCORD is beyond anything I could have hoped for! 3 hours 25 minutes 19 seconds for those interested.
https://www.justgiving.com/page/stuartisturning40
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After we beat Rangers that season I did think it would be absolutely typical of us to win a cup when we were unable to have the open top bus etc. Given we made the last four in both cups that season, and who was left, it's pretty frustrating we didn't win at least one of them - and if we'd won both let's not pretend we'd have shut up about it by now.
Anyway, thank you to everyone who has sponsored me for the Manchester Marathon for Accord Hospice, I've reached an insane amount. This is my last plug before the race on Sunday (if I'm not in hospital or an ice cream induced recovery coma I'll try to post afterwards about how I got on), so if anyone else fancies chucking in a few quid... https://www.justgiving.com/page/stuartisturning40
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19 hours ago, Groundhopping Adventures said:
Prediction that the old couple get to Vietnam and decide that will do them and the mother and daughter are stranded at the side of the road having ran out of money
There is no way that mother and daughter are getting close to the end - didn't they manage to burn through nearly a third of their budget in the first episode? And there's a good chance the boy training to be a pilot will throttle his mate before long.
Having said that, I thought after the first episode last year that one pair were useless because it take them so long to get out of the park they started from and they ended up winning
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2 hours ago, conboyhibs said:
Haha we'll see how it actually goes, I will be right at the back of the white pen following the 2:45 pacer.
Yeah hopefully not, the wind the last couple of weeks up here has been atrocious.
Ah well, good to get that out of the way! Get the feet up & enjoy the rest. Looking forward to hearing how you get on! All the best
Cheers, you too. I see no rain in sight now on either the BBC or Met Office, which must be bollocks as it's Manchester. Did give myself a fright when it showed 26 degrees then realised it was a Manchester in the States!
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Conveniently, the latest episode of the new And Colossally That's History podcast with Richard Williams and Matt BIshop talks about Schumacher.
Weirdly, it doesn't seem to show up on all feeds (including Apple) but you can get it at https://podcast24.co.uk/podcasts/and-colossally-thats-history
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1 hour ago, conboyhibs said:
I know how you feel, every tweak or niggle is a career ending injury in my head!
I have a bit of a reduced fartlek today then a couple of short plods Fri/Sat then I'll be good to go.
I'm in white. Just hoping the wind dies down a bit before then, looks like some pretty strong gusts that will be head on for the first half of the race.
White?! Are you planning on meeting someone for lunch?!
I see there's a bit of wind but can't be as bad as some of the stuff I've trained in. Looks like it's the perfect direction to be a pain in the arse for that long five mile stretch.
Safely negotiated my final run today, had convinced myself weeks ago I'd do my ankle (again) in a pothole. That combined with it pishing it down yesterday and then being frosty overnight added to my concern.
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13 minutes ago, Wilbur said:
Dundee ? Based on their recently published accounts and financial projections, it looks like Dundee have been overspending by an average of almost £60k a week for the last two years. Surely they should be tightening up on the big wages for a while ?
You're aware this is Dundee you're talking about?
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1 hour ago, FTOF said:
I think that supports my "hardly outstanding" observation.
Even Jamieson stood out for ICT at a higher level, and he's finding it difficult at the top level.
Would love him to make the step up, but I just can't see it.
I'm hoping that Fraser Taylor comes back and has matured enough to compete for a first XI place.
Wasn't it Henderson who had a good spell at Caley Thistle, or did Jamieson have one too? Is he injured now as he seems to have disappeared from the squad after getting a decent chunk of game time. Always felt more optimistic about Offord's chances rather than Jamieson but that was based on their stats and little else.
If Gogic leaves, where do people think he'll go? Only realistic options I can see in Scotland are Killie, Motherwell and Dundee. Guess if one of them is in Europe that convince him.
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1 hour ago, conboyhibs said:
Running Manchester marathon this weekend. I hate race week, my stomach flips every time I think about it!
How are you feeling @Stu?I'm not too bad, just everything I see is a hazard. Was out a run last night and convinced a dog would trip me up or the kids fishing would land their hook in my mouth.
Last short run tomorrow so hopefully I come through that unscathed. The race is the easy bit, it's all the other stuff like getting there that's the problem!
What wave are you in? I'm bronze. Forecast at the moment isn't too bad - if it can be dry for the hanging around before the start that would be good.
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4 hours ago, GAD said:
Our recent form hasn't even been that bad. Last 6 or last 10 matches both are still comfortably top six form. Last 4 we've played Aberdeen, Hearts, Killie and Well, the two best teams in the league outside the OF and one of the most in form and taken 4 points, most of the doomsayers were predicting 0.
The problem is of course, that Robbo has done a brilliant job and is now probably our most successful manager since the 80s. Now despite what they say, a lot of people wouldn't actually "love to be proved wrong" and they aren't happy at all about this. Therefore they have to blow every minor setback way out of proportion and can't enjoy any of the good times because 2 years ago they said he was Stubbs MK2 and won't just admit things changed.
I noticed that got brought up on Twitter the other day. At the time people were right to criticise and concern because our form was awful and we'd gone from pushing for the top six under Goodwin to being dragged into the relegation mire under Robinson when we should never have been in danger of going down. They weren't much better in the League Cup either.
Thankfully, things have obviously improved considerably and I've no problem admitting I was wrong but it seems not everyone is in the same boat.
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I take it from Robinson's post match interview and Langfield's comments on Twitter that some folk have been having a go at the team again?
I accept our recent form isn't great, but we've made it into the top six with room to spare - if I've done my maths right, it turns it Olusanya's goal against Aberdeen was what ended up putting us on enough points to secure our spot. Over the course of the season we fully deserve our place, even if we have stuttered a bit lately, and back to back top half finishes is a remarkable achievement after so long of not making it. Robinson has done a fantastic job over the past two years and the off the park work to improv the atmosphere and increase the attendances is also excellent.
Not saying folk can't be unhappy with the recent results, but the replies you see on club posts after some of our latest results are laughable and everyone - including the players and management (and me!) - would be as well ignoring them rather than giving them any credit. If we were just scraping over the line to stay in the league like when Gus shitfested us to safety seem to be the height of our ambitions, I'd understand it a bit more.
Last year we very much bottled our final pre-split game against Kilmarnock but yesterday we were up against the third top team in horrendous conditions and probably should have got a point. The recent form has probably screwed our chances of fourth - especially as we're incapable of beating Kilmarnock and they seem to be quite handy against the Old Firm - but fifth is very much up for grabs.
Last season, making the top six after so long and the previous near misses was the achievement and we seemed to be on the beach after the split. Don't see that being the case this time around.
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11 hours ago, Hammerafc said:
I think Senna gets a pass for 90 due to what happened in 89. Prost must have known he wasn't going to back out at turn 1 so surprised he committed to the corner with the inevitable happening.
Senna also (eventually) admitted he did it deliberately - I don't think Schumacher did. He wanted Villeneuve disqualified after Jerez in '97!
As incredible a driver as Senna was, there is a lot of cultish stuff that has grown up surrounding his myth and legend, like the constant bringing up of that quote about not going for a gap. The view people have of him would undoubtedly be different had he survived Imola, regardless of what he then managed to achieve.
2 hours ago, Newbornbairn said:At first I laughed, then I wondered what this chump was doing in F1. The obvious answer is "rich daddy" and wow - not half. Harry Sargeant III is worth about £3bn, selling fuel to the American military amongst other things. He's also a Trump supporter.
So now I'll watch and laugh as this spoiled little rich kid is humiliated again and again.
I guess I assumed he had some backing behind him but I assumed it was sponsors rather than family cash. Given they're from Florida it's not really a surprise they're Trumpsters.
It's a bit of a shame to see him struggling as I like Williams, had been hoping for a good US driver and he seemed to have done reasonably well on his way through the ranks. While it seems he's a bit useless, it doesn't help that he's at a struggling team and there's sod all testing these days.
After Melbourne, it would have been some laugh if he'd demanded Albon's car for the rest of this weekend after ruining his own and it had to be explained to him why that wasn't happening...
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10 hours ago, Black_and_White_Stripes said:
Wind speeds of 49 mph forecast during the game in Paisley. Is that likely to cause a postponement?
It'll make watching the planes landing and taking off more fun.
In all seriousness, if the airport is able to operate then I'd imagine from a safety aspect it'll be fine for the game to be on. I guess the issue then is whether or not the wind is bad enough to turn things into a farce.
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A win would secure top six regardless of what anyone else does. It might suit us being a difficult game against a team doing well considering this time last year we just needed to avoid defeat at home to a team that hadn't won away all season and promptly shat the bed because Saints gonna Saints.
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12 hours ago, azazel said:
I'm staying five mins walk from London Bridge so I'm thinking that's about as handy as it can get for the morning at least.
Wife and two kids are coming along so that's another issue but at least her pal lives in London so will be on hand to chaperone. Plus, that's out of my hands for about three and a half hours so no point worrying about it!
Hope your training as gone well and you enjoy the day, I thought the crowds were great.
I hope after me saying that it was London Bridge I changed! Wherever it was, it was a bit chaotic and you realise they're giving runners free travel because it would be a nightmare checking tickets rather than out of the goodness of their hearts. However, 99 per cent of people there are runners heading to one of the starts and I think they were all accessed from the same line so it's almost impossible to get off. Same when you get off the train. The volume of folk will be the main issue - that and the loos. I think I just got into a loop of going to the loo and rejoining the queue until it was my time to head to the start - and even then the fences were getting a watering!
At the end there are boards with letters on so you can arrange in advance which letter you'll meet people at. It was five years ago so it might have changed, but from memory that bit wasn't actually too busy (aside from the loo queue obviously) - it was after you got out of that and tried to get back onto the tube it was rammed, partly because as well as the marathon you're in tourist central.
7 minutes ago, Central Belt Caley said:I’m a man of my word, chucked a few quid in the pot
Now…run like f**k
Much appreciated
Mind blowing how much people have donated.
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4 hours ago, azazel said:
Just catching up with the thread. I ran Manchester last year and I think I had the same start time as you. I got there about 8am and did use the bag drop, which, to be honest, didn't take much time at all. I don't remember having to do too much hanging around aimlessly but the queue for the toilets was pretty long, even though there were loads of them. From memory, by the time I'd queued for the toilet and made my way to the starting chute, I was about as close to bang on time as you can get.
If I was you I'd aim to get there for about 8.15am to be on the safe side as they're pretty keen to get you into the starting chute sharpish.
I was staying out in Stockport which meant a taxi and a tram to get to the start so it was an early morning for me.
Doing London this month and actually dreading the logistics of getting to the start more than I am the race itself!
Thanks for the help. I did London five years ago and the logistics of it on the day were fairly straightforward. Got the tube to London Bridge and at that point just follow the massive crowd. My (now) wife saw me about half way and I still made it to the finish before her!
Having to be there for the Expo the day before to pick up a number was a bit of a pain.
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We’ve just booked a week in Kos town for June, sounds ideal based on your description!