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The Good Mood Cookbook

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    #242
    hf4z6sqo7vjngi
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    Super stuff, thats one testing course alright!!


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    #243
    Izoard
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    Great stuff Oryx - sounds like all those Tough Guy races had some use after all...:)


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    #244
    Oryx
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    Youve obviously done it jb. Fun, isn't it? It's been on my radar since I started. Was one of the bucket list ones. I'd recommend it, but only if you like hills. :)


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    #245
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    I have just seen the new Giant propel and my brain is currently attempting to justify getting a new road bike.:) Should I:

    a) Put my credit card in the freezer till the feeling passes?
    b) Ride up and down the nearest killer hill in the rain till I see sense?
    or
    c)Just do it?


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    #246
    Dory Dory
    Registered Users Posts: 6,888 ✭✭✭Dory Dory


    I suspect "c" is the correct answer at this point. ;)


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    #247
    Oryx
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    My credit card is on ice.


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    #248
    Kurt Godel
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    Oryx wrote: »
    My credit card is on ice.

    Stick that ice into a G and T and use the card. You only live once, and it's better to regret something you have done than something you haven't. You deserve that bike so much, the real sin would be in not buying it. ;)


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    #249
    Oryx
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    Kurt Godel wrote: »
    Stick that ice into a G and T and use the card. You only live once, and it's better to regret something you have done than something you haven't. You deserve that bike so much, the real sin would be in not buying it.
    I so wish you were my bank manager...


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    #250
    Kurt Godel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,361 ✭✭✭Kurt Godel


    Oryx wrote: »
    I so wish you were my bank manager...

    You should buy two of them, in case one gets lost.


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    #251
    Oryx
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    Kurt Godel wrote: »
    You should buy two of them, in case one gets lost.

    No, silly. In case one gets dirty.


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    #252
    Kurt Godel
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    Oryx wrote: »
    No, silly. In case one gets dirty.

    Yeah, that too. Three bikes please...


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    #253
    Dory Dory
    Registered Users Posts: 6,888 ✭✭✭Dory Dory


    Better to regret something you have done rather than.....??? Wow. Sounds like a new lease on life to me!! :D


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    #254
    Oryx
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    Dory Dory wrote: »
    Better to regret something you have done rather than.....??? Wow. Sounds like a new lease on life to me!! :D
    Facetious reverse psychology is his gift. And its effective.


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    #255
    Kurt Godel
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwknFJpjl9g


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    #256
    Dory Dory
    Registered Users Posts: 6,888 ✭✭✭Dory Dory


    I'll take the nudie oil painting Kurt posted on my thread any day over this. I may have been fat and round, but at least I looked happy and had friends around me.


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    #257
    Oryx
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    Dory Dory wrote: »
    I'll take the nudie oil painting Kurt posted on my thread any day over this. I may have been fat and round, but at least I looked happy and had friends around me.

    Yeah you get art I get Holocaust. :(


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    #258
    Dory Dory
    Registered Users Posts: 6,888 ✭✭✭Dory Dory


    Oryx wrote: »
    Yeah you get art I get Holocaust. :(

    My point exactly. I look at this as a glimpse into the mind of Kurt Godel....a cluttered canvas of chaos consisting of oily naked people, cherubs and animals on one end, and a disturbing cocktail of poorly displayed science fiction meeting the end of the world on the other.


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    #259
    Oryx
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    Easy jog this morning. My first post race session. It was slow, but deliberately so. 6.75k.

    I love running in sunshine. Sigh.


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    #260
    Kurt Godel
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    Dory Dory wrote: »
    My point exactly. I look at this as a glimpse into the mind of Kurt Godel....a cluttered canvas of chaos consisting of oily naked people, cherubs and animals on one end, and a disturbing cocktail of poorly displayed science fiction meeting the end of the world on the other.

    That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me, thanks Dory!:)


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    #261
    Dory Dory
    Registered Users Posts: 6,888 ✭✭✭Dory Dory


    Kurt Godel wrote: »
    That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me, thanks Dory!:)

    I knew you'd appreciate the spirit in which it was written!! :D


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    #262
    Oryx
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    Spinny spin spin on the turbo. It was muggy and warm and I loved it. Nothing special, but even so I was woozy when I finished, but I didn't eat properly last night, so that might be why. Probably need more recovery as well. :)


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    #263
    RacoonQueen
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    Just catching up now. Completely forgot you had a big race last weekend.

    Well done Oryx..great report too.


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    #264
    Oryx
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    Short swim tonight while the kids were training. The pool had a malfunction and was 38 degrees so it was exhausting to swim in. Not sure of distance but all drills and tumble turn practice.


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    #265
    Kurt Godel
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    Another double day from you, no rest for the wicked. What's the goal now?


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    #266
    Oryx
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    Kurt Godel wrote: »
    Another double day from you, no rest for the wicked. What's the goal now?

    Three easy sessions since sunday is rest. :)

    BoTE is next, but that's just an interlude. My big fat 2013 goal is Vitruvian, I have some ghosts to exorcise there!


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    #267
    Oryx
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    Easy run with the xc crew this morning. At first it was too easy, too slow to be comfortable, but by the end the guys at the front started to pick it up a bit and we had a good old run for the final kms. 9.5 total.

    As we were at the beach anyway I went for my usual dip. Most of the rest wussed out. It was refreshingly cold and by the time we got out our skin was bright pink. But its June ffs. We might as well, winter will be long enough.

    By the time I drove home I was chilled to the bone and the shower never felt so good. :)


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    #268
    Oryx
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    Long (ish) bike today. It was VERY windy out. Gusting cross winds and deep rims are really not a fun combination. This took longer than normal, partly because of the weather and partly because I didn't eat properly on the bike and blew up a bit on the way home, which was uphill, into the wind as usual. That bugger of a wind follows you around you know. Youd think when you turn on an out and back route youd get a break but nooooooo, the feckin wind KNOWS and turns with you!

    82k in 3hr 22.


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    #269
    Oryx
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    Monday am
    My early swims are finished for summer so I'm fitting them in where I can these days. This started well with a few 200s that felt fast. They might not have been fast but good to feel strong anyway . After those it was on to technique drills and hypoxic work which also made me bilateral breathe which need, as I am shockingly bad at it. 2200m

    Monday pm
    Kettlebells. My shoulders are a bit clicky the last while so I kept it light on the overhead stuff but otherwise business as usual. Makes a nice change from swimbikerun.

    My pal in the club heads to Austria this week and I'm like a proud but nervous momma waiting to see how she does. Go Marie!


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    #270
    shotgunmcos
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    Hey hoochie, NICE result last week! Wouldn't have minded being that stranger too :) Seriously well done, the pointy end of things eh. Thanks for the RedBesque report too, fun read


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    #271
    Oryx
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    I need to be a bit sharper to get to the really pointy end of things. :)

    Run this evening. The first time this year that I was too warm when running. Twas nice. Legs were stiff and heavy from kettlebells and it took a while to loosen out. 9.6k


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