Running

I completed the ASHBY 20 mile road race last Sunday in 2hr and 43mins.

Any other NOOLers like running apart from Rocket who runs away from the Police ?

I used to really enjoy running. My Dad was a good runner, competing in marathons, road races and fell runs. So I spent my childhood waiting around finishing lines. I started running at school and ran for our local team for a time.

Gave it up late teens but took it up again in 2004/5 so I could train for the Great North Run. I enjoyed it so much I decided I wanted to do a marathon before I was 40. I've only a few years left to sort myself out now.

I've been out a couple of times recently but seem to struggle getting my breathing right these days.

But watch this space, maybe in 2012 you'll all be sponsoring me.

But don't hold your breath

Nice one Jem

I'm going for the Robin Hood Nottingham Marathon in September.

Doing 12 miles tomorrow morning :)

Can we look forward to seeing you in a hawaiian shirt on the day?

Hey if you finish, it won't be the first line you've crossed.

:p

I will be Hawaiianed up yes Jemma, really into the running at the mo :D

Geriatric Jem wrote: it won't be the first line you've crossed.

First he'll have passed though.

Or at least passed up on.

I'm going swimming every day at the minute. Less sweating and panting than with running. The smell of chlorine gives me a boner, too.

PETER COATES'S BELATED REDEMPTION wrote: I'm going swimming every day at the minute. Less sweating and panting than with running. The smell of chlorine gives me a boner, too.

Martin my sweet love, the smell of air gives you a stalk you prispistic deviant.

Geriatric Jem wrote: Can we look forward to seeing you in a hawaiian shirt on the day?

Hey if you finish, it won't be the first line you've crossed.

:p

I will be Hawaiianed up yes Jemma, really into the running at the mo :D

Err Mike, how did you manage to reply actually IN my post? Thats DEAD CLEVER!

Jems...moderators have these nifty little buttons that say edit...so we can do cool things like, oh...accidentally reply in your post as opposed to something as mundane as just using the quote button...

we're cool like that...

Oh top tip. Don't eat Weetabix in the morning!

...Sally Gunnell did and look what she ended up doing.

A poo

EDIT: It was Paula Radcliffe, wasn't it. The dirty mare

Wasn't it a wee wee?? If it was a poop then I want to see some YouTube footage.

Oh it was a poop alright. Right in front of a section of spectators in the 2005(?)London Marathon. The cramps were affecting her progress so she decided to go just there and then.

You've got to admire her! I'd have written the race off. But that's why I've no Gold Medals.

Quite enjoy a bit of the old running. Clocks go forward this weekend so will be nice to get out for a run on the clear nights.

Geriatric Jem wrote: Oh it was a poop alright. Right in front of a section of spectators in the 2005(?)London Marathon. The cramps were affecting her progress so she decided to go just there and then.

You've got to admire her! I'd have written the race off. But that's why I've no Gold Medals.

Ever wondered why racing drivers are always so shifty in their press conferences.....yup no toilet in an F1 car, and can you imagine a full bladder or bowell under 5 times to force of gravity. Sooner or later, the brown flag will be waved.

She stopped for a piss first:

But is supposed to have had a crap later on. She used those white gloves she was wearing to wipe her arse.

Link

Thanks for not posting a clip of her pooing!

Did she have the runs?

(See what I did there?)

I've had a good look, but can't see a gut-dropping one.

I remember seeing clips on the telly at the time where she was limping along with gloves on, disappeared behind a wall and then sprinted out, sans gants.

Hardly a topic for the dinner table though.

Would I be a national hero and a role model to millions if I took a shit next time I was in my local swimming pool??

Apparently it happened a few months ago in Urmston Swimming Baths. This resulted in the funniest thread (on another site) I have EVER seen!

Must find link to original article...

Littleinoil and I tried to go in our local baths a few weeks ago, but they were closed for the morning following an incident in the pool. The staff wouldn't reveal the exact nature of the incident but my mate who works there confirmed that the incident was about three inches long, brown and had to be removed with a net on a long pole.

Which was the team that was lobbed out of the Winter Olympics for wanking on the luge run? Germany, wasn't it?

Stink or swim

Dammit, all the comments have gone. I actually cried laughing at the time.

.......Little Alf dropped one in the baby pool in Majorca when he was 2....needless to say the family Alf made a sharp exit tutting and shaking our heads as we left.... ........that reminds me I'd better go and drop me lunch.......

Used to run quite frequently years back, around 5 miles daily. Would have loved to work up to a marathon one day but a tibial plateau fracture did me in(not a running related injury). I can't even get through a half mile anymore before the pain brings me to a dead stop.

Was a bit of a runner in high school and college. Received a few medals in national races. Loved the mile and 5k.

Currently assistant coaching a high school track team.

Never thought much of the marathon though... seemed to far for me to care about it... never ran further than 15 miles at one time.