The Rant Thread(a place to dump ur baggage)

Laois_Man

ultraman1 wrote: »

Israeli foreighn policy

And Russian!!

Gavlor

Laois_Man wrote: »

And Russian!!

They just use the bart simpson version of foreign policy:

It wasn't me, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything.

LaHaine

People who use the novices thread to log all their runs. I love the tips and advice but I dont want to know about every run you ran!! Thats what logs are for!!

Ososlo

LaHaine wrote: »

People who use the novices thread to log all their runs. I love the tips and advice but I dont want to know about every run you ran!! Thats what logs are for!!

Ah now:(
I disagree. I used it last year as I was a bit shy about having my own log (how things have changed:p )but found it great to have a place to put up some of my training and receive feedback and I loved reading about the training others were doing.
I do agree that it's great to have your own log and wish I had set one up before DCM to track my progress through marathon training and I'd love to have it all logged properly.
I don't want anyone to be discouraged from posting their training runs:)

LaHaine

Ososlo wrote: »

Ah now:(
I disagree. I used it last year as I was a bit shy about having my own log (how things have changed:p )but found it great to have a place to put up some of my training and receive feedback and I loved reading about the training others were doing.
I do agree that it's great to have your own log and wish I had set one up before DCM to track my progress through marathon training and I'd love to have it all logged properly.
I don't want anyone to be discouraged from posting their training runs:)

Each to their own!

menoscemo

LaHaine wrote: »

People who use the novices thread to log all their runs. I love the tips and advice but I dont want to know about every run you ran!! Thats what logs are for!!

LaHaine wrote: »

Each to their own!

Go on then, just because of this I'll log a rant.
People who have no idea what an 'easy' run means. If your easy run pace is sub 8 minute miles then you should be a sub 19min 5k runner or a sub 1:30Hm runner at worst.
If your easy pace is 8 min/mile and you cant run a sub 40 10k then you're deluding yourself. Cop on.

ClashCityRocker

dwayneshintzy wrote: »

People stopping their cars to ask the runner clearly exerting themselves for directions (especially when it's in a built up area with multiple pubs and shops about)

I remember being stopped by some Asian tourists once while running to work to take their picture. I wasn't too annoyed as i was about a 1/4 mile from the office at that stage, just baffled that there were so many people wandering around the place and the lads decided to stop a runner to take their photo

dwayneshintzy

I had someone drive to catch up to me after I didn't stop to help them, to call me an arsehole.

Woden

Too hot for this lunchtime running malarkey. Back at my desk. Sweating into my shirt

menoscemo

People on the fitness forum, discussing 'HIIT' as if they have discovered the third secret of fatima.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057246351

HIIT does increase your VO2 max, which improves endurance. It also helps your body become more comfortable at higher speeds which can overall increase your pace. I know quite a few marathon runners incorporate it in their training.

:rolleyes: No, all distance runners have been doing it for ever. We call it intervals, strides, hill blasts. The cross fit community did not just discover this new revolutionary training regime a few years ago like :rolleyes:

menoscemo

Logging too many rants at the moment

Just watching UFC. what a load of rubbish. Totally made up 'sport' prety much like triathlon .
Basically it's not a sport it's simply a TV show.

Has nothing on the noble art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1t2yAK_wU

vitani

LaHaine wrote: »

People who use the novices thread to log all their runs. I love the tips and advice but I dont want to know about every run you ran!! Thats what logs are for!!

I completely disagree. One of the points of that thread, IMO, is that it's where we can all talk about how training is going. Tips and advice are useful and I like to read them but I've plenty of books on marathon running. It's the shared experience of training for a first marathon that I'm really there for. In two months time, when I'm freaking out because I'm finding the LSRs exhausting or the midweek sessions tough, I want to be able to read that other people are feeling the same.

SamforMayo

menoscemo wrote: »

People on the fitness forum, discussing 'HIIT' as if they have discovered the third secret of fatima.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057246351



:rolleyes: No, all distance runners have been doing it for ever. We call it intervals, strides, hill blasts. The cross fit community did not just discover this new revolutionary training regime a few years ago like :rolleyes:

Combined with the term clean eating.

ThisRegard

menoscemo wrote: »

Just watching UFC. what a load of rubbish. Totally made up 'sport' prety much like triathlon .

I watched the first two rounds of one of the earlier fights to see what the hype was all about. Seems like the main tactic is to spend the first 4 minutes jogging around and then the last few seconds actually trying to hit the other guy. Probably because if you come out worse you'll have the bell to save you in a couple of seconds.

ultrapercy

menoscemo wrote: »

Logging too many rants at the moment

Just watching UFC. what a load of rubbish. Totally made up 'sport' prety much like triathlon .
Basically it's not a sport it's simply a TV show.

Has nothing on the noble art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1t2yAK_wU

Completely agree, an over hyped load of ****e.

Krusty_Clown

menoscemo wrote: »

Just watching UFC. what a load of rubbish. Totally made up 'sport' prety much like triathlon .
Basically it's not a sport it's simply a TV show.

True enough, but certainly better than that WWE/WWF w@nk.

walshb

WWF rules. Pure entertainment. Rave over!

Bandwagon Dubs supporters! Don't even like football but it's cool to be seen on the hill!

ThisRegard

In fairness, there can't be too many bandwagon dubs left considering their domination of Leinster over the last 10 years. It's probably rather passée and boring at this stage.

gerard_65

walshb wrote: »

Bandwagon Dubs supporters! Don't even like football but it's cool to be seen on the hill!

Dublin always have a large following in both the championship and league. Home and away, good times and bad.

pa4

Going clothes shopping today for some jeans and shorts. I'm a 32 waist and 34 leg yet all as I could find in my leg size were sizes 36 waist onwards. Why don't they cater for normal sized people! Seriously there was actualy one size that was 40 waist and 32 leg! Is the whole country gone obese now or what.

gerard_65

pa4 wrote: »

Going clothes shopping today for some jeans and shorts. I'm a 32 waist and 34 leg yet all as I could find in my leg size were sizes 36 waist onwards. Why don't they cater for normal sized people! Seriously there was actualy one size that was 40 waist and 32 leg! Is the whole country gone obese now or what.

Ha ha. I have the same problem. You'd think a 32 waist and 34 leg was freaky. It was once normal.

pa4

gerard_65 wrote: »

Ha ha. I have the same problem. You'd think a 32 waist and 34 leg was freaky. It was once normal.

Seems like it's far from normal now! The 40 waist 32 leg was taking the piss though haha. The good news is I eventually found my size hidden away on it's own, think it was the only one there. :pac:

Gavlor

pa4 wrote: »

Going clothes shopping today for some jeans and shorts. I'm a 32 waist and 34 leg yet all as I could find in my leg size were sizes 36 waist onwards. Why don't they cater for normal sized people! Seriously there was actualy one size that was 40 waist and 32 leg! Is the whole country gone obese now or what.

Stop shopping in the sales ya big cheapskate

TFBubendorfer

pa4 wrote: »

Going clothes shopping today for some jeans and shorts. I'm a 32 waist and 34 leg yet all as I could find in my leg size were sizes 36 waist onwards. Why don't they cater for normal sized people! Seriously there was actualy one size that was 40 waist and 32 leg! Is the whole country gone obese now or what.

Oh God, I could go into such a rant here myself. One for the pain in the arse that clothes shopping has become and another one for how obesity is spreading at an alarming rate yet it is seen as virtually taboo to point that out.

ThisRegard

Try finding a size 30/32 waist and 30 in the leg. Zara are great for 'slim' blokes, but you have to factor in the cost of getting the leg altered, size 40 or some madness like that seems to be standard.

PaulieC

Top shop is yer only man for the skinny pants

jebuz

pa4 wrote: »

Going clothes shopping today for some jeans and shorts. I'm a 32 waist and 34 leg yet all as I could find in my leg size were sizes 36 waist onwards. Why don't they cater for normal sized people! Seriously there was actualy one size that was 40 waist and 32 leg! Is the whole country gone obese now or what.

+100! I'm a 30 waist and I found one pair of matching pants in M&S, ONE!, leg was almost up to my knees but I still bought em because it was such a thrill to have found them in the first place

pa4

Glad to hear I'm not the only one with the skinny waist dilemma!

ultraman1

http://www.waterford-united.ie/100milechallenge/

A 10 week training plan for a 100 miler....why did I not think of dat...

walshb

Skinny jeans on men!:eek: