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CatFromHue

No update from PJ so he must still be running....walking......crawling!

Pink Fairy

CatFromHue wrote: »

No update from PJ so he must still be running....walking......crawling!

I'd say he's in the brogue getting ossafied

Pink Fairy

Pink Fairy wrote: »

Was this the one in Tralee?

Yep.

I only did two 5km runs in advance of it... I play football once a week so have a reasonable base line fitness. Did it in roughly 2:05. Pretty happy with that! Most I've ever done before is 10k.

Pink Fairy

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Yep.

I only did two 5km runs in advance of it... I play football once a week so have a reasonable base line fitness. Did it in roughly 2:05. Pretty happy with that! Most I've ever done before is 10k.

Well done indeed......on another note, my cousin who is today 6 months pregnant did it in 1.48......i hate her

Podge_irl

Deleted User wrote: »

Yep.

I only did two 5km runs in advance of it... I play football once a week so have a reasonable base line fitness. Did it in roughly 2:05. Pretty happy with that! Most I've ever done before is 10k.

Jesus, for that level or training that's very good.

I have my first full coming up in May. The training sucks.

Stheno

The NFL have confirmed a linked between AF and CTE (the brain injury/disease))

http://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/35809485

Pink Fairy

Beers in Hong Kong?


http://m.momondo.ie/results?cur=EUR&o=DUB&d=HKG&dd=2016-04-25&rd=2016-05-03&a=1&ti=ECO&stops=any

swiwi_

The 33rd county

awec

Is there anything decent to do in Dublin today?

Pink Fairy

awec wrote: »

Is there anything decent to do in Dublin today?

Drink copious amounts of harp


Hang on...you said decent... Soz, no clue

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

awec wrote: »

Is there anything decent to do in Dublin today?

All Ireland Club finals in Croke Park.

mfceiling

awec wrote: »

Is there anything decent to do in Dublin today?

Take my kids while I go for a pint.

Can I go to the toilet? Can I go to the shop? Can I get a flag? I can't see. She's in my way. It's too loud. There's too many people. Can we get something to eat. Where's the bin. Who's that man in the suit. When does it start. Where's the GPO? Can I have your phone? How many people are here?

I say it every year but here goes again....next year I'm staying at home and watching it on the tele.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I say it every year but here goes again....next year I'm staying at home and watching it on the tele.

Much better on TV anyway plus you don't have to worry about wandering more than 10 ft from the parade and getting lost in a wasteland of drunk teens and vomit.

mfceiling

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Much better on TV anyway plus you don't have to worry about wandering more than 10 ft from the parade and getting lost in a wasteland of drunk teens and vomit.

Really only here cause the young one was in the parade doing something....but next year.....

awec

Think we're just going to head into town so for a wee dander.

mfceiling

awec wrote: »

Think we're just going to head into town so for a wee dander.

Don't....for the love of jesus don't!!

Podge_irl

mfceiling wrote: »

Don't....for the love of jesus don't!!

I've not once gone into town on Paddy's day while in Ireland (didn't bother even leaving Trinity when I lived there).

One of the few nights of the year you're guaranteed a good crowd in the pubs in Geneva though so I can't wait.

awec

mfceiling wrote: »

Don't....for the love of jesus don't!!

Found a bar to sit and have a pint in town. Pretty quiet too!

errlloyd

Im basically just lying at home nursing a hangover. Im devastated there is no Rugby on.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

errlloyd wrote: »

Im basically just lying at home nursing a hangover. Im devastated there is no Rugby on.

Ulster Schools Cup final is in BBC NI.

errlloyd

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Ulster Schools Cup final is in BBC NI.

Youre a Saint.

Pink Fairy

errlloyd wrote: »

Youre a Saint.

Feck sake, he helped you out and gave you a televised game and you call him a Northampton fan! Some people!

Synode

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

All Ireland Club finals in Croke Park.

Was in at this with my 5 year old son. Great win for Ballyboden. I'd a good laugh when we met back up with my wife and he explained how Ballyboden had hammered Castlebar Midgets :pac:

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Speaking of All Ireland Club finals. ... did anyone watch The Toughest Trade on RTÉ the last two weeks?

They sent Brendan Maher down to Australia to try his hand at cricket while Steve Harmison went to Tipp to play hurling. The second one Aiden O'Shea went to the US to take part in the NFL combine and former NFL player Roberto Wallace went to Mayo to play football.

They're both up on YouTube if anyone wants to check them out.

thomond2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCI

Phenomenal

Pink Fairy

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Speaking of All Ireland Club finals. ... did anyone watch The Toughest Trade on RTÉ the last two weeks?

They sent Brendan Maher down to Australia to try his hand at cricket while Steve Harmison went to Tipp to play hurling. The second one Aiden O'Shea went to the US to take part in the NFL combine and former NFL player Roberto Wallace went to Mayo to play football.

They're both up on YouTube if anyone wants to check them out.

On a different note, I remember a kicking competition held in Australia approx 27-30 years ago (with a prize of 10k) where an NFL kicker, a top Aussie rules player, West Hams Ray Stewart and Kerry's Maurice Fitzgerald were all invited to kick.
The competition was set up in such a way that it was heavily stacked in the Aussie rules players favour, kicking for distance and kicking a ball to land inside a circle half way down the pitch. Anyway, long and short of it was the last 2 kickers in every event were the Aussie and NFL lad as it was supposed to be a straight shootout... But Fitzgerald had an unassailable lead before either got to take their last kicks and he came home with 10k....which he didn't get to keep

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

^NFL kickers have to kick very fast in order to get a clear shot, 1.5 seconds or something, but other than that it's straight on front of the goal all the time. Kick off don't seem to require a lot of thinking either, hoof it as far as you can. Maybe I'm wrong on that.

thomond2006

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

^NFL kickers have to kick very fast in order to get a clear shot, 1.5 seconds or something, but other than that it's straight on front of the goal all the time. Kick off don't seem to require a lot of thinking either, hoof it as far as you can. Maybe I'm wrong on that.

Yeah you basically hoof it in the hope it goes for a touchback. You don't want to get the receiving team a chance to run it back.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

The highest paid kicker on the NFL last season was on $4.5 million. Even in a very high scoring game they're only on the field for a few minutes, if even, and they very rarely take any physical contact. You'd wonder why the likes of ROG and Johnny Wilkinson aren't over there now raking it in.

Journeyman_1

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

The highest paid kicker on the NFL last season was on $4.5 million. Even in a very high scoring game they're only on the field for a few minutes, if even, and they very rarely take any physical contact. You'd wonder why the likes of ROG and Johnny Wilkinson aren't over there now raking it in.

Dan Carter apparently went over to a team who thought he was there to try-out! On the radio the other week he didn't rule out going over for a couple of years to give it a go.