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Post by boyboyboy on Sept 3, 2007 16:46:08 GMT
I accidentally entered next years Edinburgh marathon. I planned only to enter the ballot - where i probably wouldn't even get a place. I didn't realise that the first five-hundred entries get a guaranteed place. So I've got a guaranteed place. I think some other lowculture-ites should enter too. We could have a training thread where we moan about how shit it is and despite running for half an hour we still have moobs. It's not till the 28th of may 2008 so there's oodles of time to train for it. Also (believe it or not) it's all mostly downhill (check the route profile out www.edinburgh-marathon.com/?course_profile)So go on and enter: www.edinburgh-marathon.com/?enter . you might not even get a place... I've done a bit of running and stuff before so if anyone has any questions about running a marathon/training and wants some ill-informed and potentially dangerous advice, message me. Oh, and don't smite me. Oh, and check with your GP before youzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Post by pauliepoos on Sept 3, 2007 16:56:44 GMT
I got excited for a minute thinking someone wanted to discuss the Villa-Chelski game, and more importantly, Mourinho's blow dry.
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Post by boyboyboy on Sept 3, 2007 17:06:46 GMT
We can talk about that if you want...
But I don't even know what those words you typed meant. Villa? Chelski? Mourinho? I've been trying to be interested in football for years. Unless it involves one of girls aloud or a red-top-sex-scandal I just switch off and stop concentrate.
My life really would be easier if I knew about football.
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Post by xenomaniac on Sept 3, 2007 17:55:49 GMT
I got excited for a minute thinking someone wanted to discuss the Villa-Chelski game, and more importantly, Mourinho's blow dry. I will happily talk about that game all night if you want. Woo-yay!
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Post by pauliepoos on Sept 3, 2007 18:03:41 GMT
I got excited for a minute thinking someone wanted to discuss the Villa-Chelski game, and more importantly, Mourinho's blow dry. I will happily talk about that game all night if you want. Woo-yay! Agbonlahor and Ashley Young are two of the most exciting British players around at the moment. The second goal was just perfect, and the way Agbonlahor skipped past Terry AND Cashley and left them looking far from two of the best defenders in the country, was perfect. And Villa have two of my favourite pin ups, in the form of Gareth Barry and Mellberg. I'd even go as far to say I enjoyed that game more than watching my beloved Arsenal beat Portsmouth. Gosh, I feel terribly straight acting after typing all that.
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Post by xenomaniac on Sept 3, 2007 18:28:18 GMT
A load of my workmates went and say it was up there with the best games they have ever been to.
Mellberg lives just up the road from me and drinks in my local sometimes. FIT!
As for doing a marathon I think it would probably kill me.
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Post by David on Sept 3, 2007 19:05:09 GMT
I've just spent three weeks editing a rugby magazine, so if you want to know who to look out for, just let me know.
And yes, I never, ever thought I would be typing words to this effect.
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Post by pauliepoos on Sept 3, 2007 19:12:18 GMT
I've just spent three weeks editing a rugby magazine, so if you want to know who to look out for, just let me know. Where would we be looking out for rugby players? Gaydar?
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Post by boyboyboy on Sept 3, 2007 19:24:56 GMT
A load of my workmates went and say it was up there with the best games they have ever been to. Mellberg lives just up the road from me and drinks in my local sometimes. FIT! As for doing a marathon I think it would probably kill me. I was going to try to convince you. Then I realised that I've turned into the mother/daughter combination that were in an episode of Six feet under. Ruth took Claire to visit them to demonstrate how a truly *close* mother and daughter are. The mother and daughter are exercise obsessed and go to the gym together. They con Ruth and Claire into going to a spinning class at 6am by squealing at them about endorphins. Ruth and Claire promptly high-tail it out of there. So I'll shut up. I still think you should enter though.
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Post by xenomaniac on Sept 3, 2007 19:43:08 GMT
A load of my workmates went and say it was up there with the best games they have ever been to. Mellberg lives just up the road from me and drinks in my local sometimes. FIT! As for doing a marathon I think it would probably kill me. I was going to try to convince you. Then I realised that I've turned into the mother/daughter combination that were in an episode of Six feet under. Ruth took Claire to visit them to demonstrate how a truly *close* mother and daughter are. The mother and daughter are exercise obsessed and go to the gym together. They con Ruth and Claire into going to a spinning class at 6am by squealing at them about endorphins. Ruth and Claire promptly high-tail it out of there. So I'll shut up. I still think you should enter though. I'm not a couch potato by any means, I could manage a half marathon but 26 miles!!? People die doing that! I don't think I could commit enough time to the training, I get a bit bored running.
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Post by David on Sept 3, 2007 21:05:17 GMT
I've just spent three weeks editing a rugby magazine, so if you want to know who to look out for, just let me know. Where would we be looking out for rugby players? Gaydar? Well, maybe, you never know, do you?
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Post by pauliepoos on Sept 3, 2007 21:17:43 GMT
Where would we be looking out for rugby players? Gaydar? Well, maybe, you never know, do you? My ex boyfriend used to tell a story about an encounter he'd had with a fairly well known player, but he was a compulsive liar. I'm quite looking forward to the rugby world cup. Last year's final came after a visit to the Vagina Monologues and a very smoky night out, and after all the shouting during the final I had no voice left for the rest of the weekend.
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Post by Adrian on Sept 4, 2007 9:27:39 GMT
I've just spent three weeks editing a rugby magazine, so if you want to know who to look out for, just let me know. Please. Preferrably from any South American nation, or Russia.
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Post by Gordon on Sept 4, 2007 9:33:12 GMT
How long does it take to run a marathon? I usually last 30 minutes on the treadmill at speed 13 whatever that means, but last week when I tried outside on a cycling path I go on a lot I was running into a wind and lasted 7 minutes before deciding I couldn't be bothered. Me and a friend sometimes run about in Edinburgh, but we just do it to go past the gay joints - if you know Edinburgh you'll know how tragic this is - and up to this big mountain thing. I'm going swimming at 12 - wish me luck!
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Post by boyboyboy on Sept 4, 2007 9:55:06 GMT
How long does it take to run a marathon? I usually last 30 minutes on the treadmill at speed 13 whatever that means, but last week when I tried outside on a cycling path I go on a lot I was running into a wind and lasted 7 minutes before deciding I couldn't be bothered. Me and a friend sometimes run about in Edinburgh, but we just do it to go past the gay joints - if you know Edinburgh you'll know how tragic this is - and up to this big mountain thing. I'm going swimming at 12 - wish me luck! Running a marathon takes anywhere between 2 and a bit hours (if you're paula radcliffe) and 6 and a bit hours (if you're Lorraine Kelly). Dermot O'leary and Johnny Lee Miller usually take about 3 and 1/2 hours. Running outside is harder because you go quicker and get tired more quickly but it doesn't take too long to get up to speed at running outside.
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Post by audrey notwhatsheusedtobe on Sept 4, 2007 10:12:17 GMT
Unfortunately I won't be joining you for running fun as I have completely fucked up feet and can't do "high impact" anything (they're not deformed or anything, just agony if I jump up and down). However sometimes the Edinburgh Marathon goes past my house and it's ace playing "spot the bleeding nipples" and watching all the half-dead people towards the end of the day. In foot-and-ball news, I'm dead excited as - star of my own LC top ten of men - Roque Santa Cruz has left Bayern Munich is now playing for Blackburn Rovers.
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Post by David Hunter on Sept 4, 2007 11:43:16 GMT
I like to watch the Men's Diving.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Sept 4, 2007 13:56:34 GMT
Yes that's good
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Post by coxy1979 on Sept 4, 2007 14:23:42 GMT
I can run about 8kms in about 40 mins, which I think is quite good, consider I smoke like Dot Cotton after a particularly bad piece of news.
However, the realisation that I have to do this x5 and a bit more to do a marathon really worries me. Here's to the 10 K next year. Oh yes, it's fag time now...
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Post by boyboyboy on Sept 4, 2007 15:27:21 GMT
However, the realisation that I have to do this x5 and a bit more to do a marathon really worries me. Here's to the 10 K next year. Oh yes, it's fag time now... You get to train for it though. Add 2k or so onto one run a week, keep increasing until you get to about 35k and you're prepared to run a marathon. I really want to do the London one. I want to run alongside the Cheeky Girls, Floella Benjamin, Dermot O'leary and Lorraine Kelly. I might volunteer just so I can take lots of photos of the slebs looking awful. I might eat chips and drink coke while smoking a fag in front of some the more loathesome ones (Danny Baker, I'm looking at you).
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Post by David Hunter on Sept 4, 2007 19:57:32 GMT
If Fern Britton can cycle the Nile I think you should be okay. Granted, she was sitting down.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Sept 6, 2007 11:11:11 GMT
Good luck, boyboyboy. You poor bastard.
Every year when the London Marathon's on I think how amazing it would be to do and seriously consider applying for the following year, but two things put me off:
1) The training. I am not good at committing to things and know fine well that I'd do a Jade Goody and turn up on the morning having only done half an hours preparation a few months before. I am very good at walking, and am faster and can go further than most people, but I run like Phoebe off Friends and therefore never do.
2) Asking people for sponsorship. I know it makes me a cunt, but I really get fucked off when people ask me to sponsor them for doing something. Mainly because they seem to be doing it more for themselves than the actual charity, and I'd rather stick a few quid in a collection tin in town than make some marathon runner a bit more smug. I don't want to suddenly be one of those people.
EDIT: Actually, running a marathon is quite sponsorship worthy, it's just that the only folk I know who have done them are just dull smug types anyway. Much more annoying are the girls who think they're a martyr and want sponsorship to walk around the local park a few times dressed in hilarious outfits.
God I am horrible. I've not slept and am hungover though, in my defence.
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Post by boyboyboy on Sept 6, 2007 16:02:54 GMT
1) I am very good at walking, and am faster and can go further than most people, but I run like Phoebe off Friends and therefore never do. 2) Asking people for sponsorship. I know it makes me a cunt, but I really get fucked off when people ask me to sponsor them for doing something. Much more annoying are the girls who think they're a martyr and want sponsorship to walk around the local park a few times dressed in hilarious outfits. If you run like Phoebe then that's all the more reason that you SHOULD run. Ham it up a bit and make a game of it. See if people think you're special and ask you where your mam and dad are. I did the belfast marathon last year. Ever since then I've refused to sponsor anyone who runs less than a marathon. Unless they're fat. A girl at my work just did the IronMan Triathlon which consisted of swimming 2 and a bit miles, then cycling 110 miles before running a marathon. All in the same day. WIthout a rest. It took her 15 hours. She didn't bother to raise any money for it because she raised money for a marathon last year. The other day a girl had the audacity to approach her for sponsorship cash as she's running a 5k soon.
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Post by pauliepoos on Sept 7, 2007 20:31:21 GMT
I'm finding myself cheering for Argentina in the rugby. That never happens in football.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Sept 8, 2007 7:11:10 GMT
Is that coz they iz fit? I do love how a Rugby team can be roughly half muscular gods and half fatties.
Rugby is much more exciting than football though. I think it''s the fact that it's proper brutal and you've more chance of seeing a bit of blood or a bone jutting through the skin.
Oh HANG ON - are England and Wales in the tournament? Will they play each other? Because I do not want to be back in Wales when that happens. I'd rather hear about it for no more than 30 seconds on the news in England, than have to suffer it for two weeks in Wales.
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