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I predict we will reach 50,000 on August 9th, for no better reason than it is my birthday, but I suppose Sarah will need to start a new thread now!
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Yes of course it is den, though you did set the Iceberg score abit high!!:mad:
Only joking mate.
Maybe everybody should just take a chill pill, so to speak.
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Sorry Jeff, they were reset the day after I posted this and I didn’t notice your reply til now.
I am going to get that trophy, ahem…now that you’ve “disqualified” den.
I understand what Tigerblade and Spike are saying here but I’ve communicated with den by pm and found him to be really quite an interesting bloke with alot to say for himself. I think the problem maybe a slight lack of confidence [excuse me den but it’s just my impression of you] rather than disintest in everything else that’s going on on the site.
I’ve just tried to pm you about this but your mail box is full again. Most annoying as their doesn’t appear to be a facility for saving unposted messages or anyway of storing it until you clear some room out.
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Yes, Sarah, I did four marathons in the eighties and I have to confess that the longest run I did in training was about half of the total distance because it gets so boring after awhile and it’s hard to find the motivation to keep going when your legs get so weary and you’re running alone [the group runs sound like a great idea!]
However, I’m sure any physical training guru will tell you that the important thing is to keep at it, to do that training week in week out from now until the event, rather than exhausting yourself proving you can do the distance to yourself as a big one-off and maybe not training for a week.
I found that on the day of my first marathon [which I’m assuming this is Jeff’s] the crowds cheering us on made a big difference, all the others competing help to hold your interest and so boredom is not a problem.
One thing I was wary of was the so-called “wall” that you can hit at about twentytwo miles into the course, I kept well within a pace I knew that I was capable of sustaining, enjoyed the crowd and the scenary and once I’d passed that early twenties peril I knew I was going to finish it. You just know!
Jeff mentioned a 72 year old woman and I can aver that i got a particular inspiration from the golden oldies I saw infront of me throughout the course. It was a case of “Well, if he can do it…”
Good luck with it, Jeff. I know you’re about my age and I find your determination inspiring. I keep thinking maybe I’ll try a half marathon but my last full one was about twenty years ago so it was easier for me then that it would be now.
My best time [in my 2nd attempt] was 3 hours 13 minutes and 58 seconds but I’ve never been so tired as i was when I finished that one. I knew I’d never do better than that, and I didn’t!
MrEggsalad;216088 wrote:Usually for me anyways, I’ve found that I don’t really pay attention to what people are saying on their phones. And, if I am, I can make a game out of it and ad-lib what the person on the other end is saying. Heck, you and a few friends could all do that, bunches of fun 😛(Just make sure the person on the phone doesn’t know what you are doing)
You made me smile with that one Mr Salad!
If I were more than a quarter of a century younger than I am today I would certainly have played that game. That would have been my type of fun.
Nice one.
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Tigerblade and Mr Eggsalad I accept that neither of you are the type to play your i-pods at levels that invade the space of those around you and that you respect their space [even if they are probably not worth talking to].
I agree with Sarah about the mobile phone conversations in confined spaces with strangers around you.
Perhaps I’m being pernicky here but I wouldn’t want to have a private conversation in the presence of strangers who cannot avoid hearing every word I say.
I’ve only ever answered my mobile phone once on public transport and that was to my girlfriend to have the briefest of conversations as I was getting off the bus.
Yet some people board a bus with a phone conversation already in progress and continue it throughout the whole journey as if that’s their entertainment, their way of getting through the tedium, which of course every other passenger [except those with their i-pods on too loud!] has to share in.
Maybe I should start another thread about mobile phones on public transport?
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Sorry guys but I find it hard to comprehend any distinction between “tuning out” and being “antisocial” but I do see a big difference between going for a walk where you know you will be isolated [infact that is the whole point] and sitting next to somebody on a bus who perhaps doesn’t share your taste in music, doesn’t want to hear your songs, is only trying to read the paper or escape into their own thoughts without bothering anybody else but is distracted from doing this by somebody’s i-pod playing too loud.
Doesn’t this amount to saying that if one person wants to be loud on public transport then they are more important than somebody else who wants to be quiet?
After all, like David says, they are probably not worth talking to anyway!
Yes, I agree about the Pringles Sarah [and Phillip] but I tend not to buy them unless I have decided beforehand that this is an occassion where it is okay to pig out.
Once you pop you can’t stop is definitely true for me, they are addictive and I recognise from experience that if I open a tube of those nothing is going to stop me from eating them except reaching the bottom of the packet.
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I used to say “night night” as a kid and also to my first two kids when they were younger but now it’s always “Goodnight”.
I say “Goodnight” to my 7 year old now although it would have been “night night” to the first two at that age.
Mmm…never really thought about that before.
Hi,
It’s a shame but I just wrote you both a long extract from Doris Lessing’s biog and guess what, when I tried to submit it the computer had logged me out [again], mind you it has been playing up ever since my daughter got on online!!!
So I’ll just say thanx for your reply Polarbear, even though the subject didn’t ticly appeal to you you still took time to reply and I appreciate that!
Sarah, unfortunately I hav’n’t read any of the books you recommend although I will [like you] put them on my reading list [and that’s no idle threat because I’m coming to the end of my present read so will be scouting around the shelves soon]. My Sarah highly recommends Bill Bryson tho and I usually trust her judgement.
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Ta for that link, Sarah.
Odd to read the whole procession of queries reflecting my own, guess that’s always a problem with an evolving site population because nobody who joins is going to have the time to read every thread to make sure they arn’t repeating something that has been said or asked before.
Like Eagle Kiwi says on the link it retained my PHS but that is all.
Now I’m going to try ticking “remember me” and playing for less than an hour to see if that works.
A quick note added later: i tried all that, ticking the box and making sure I register some activity on the forums before begining a new game but it still logged me out [didn’t time it, tho. I don’t see the point in that].
I give up, you can keep your jewels!!!!!! LOL
