Iron people.

316

Where will it all end, cycling malin to mizen head and back again and swim around Ireland folllowed by running 45 marathons in 3 days. Gone are the days when some one was running 5k for charity or cycling 100k.

Señor Fancy Pants

Why should it end?

Better than 3 days of boozing a week....every week.

PirateShampoo

I'm running 46 in 2 days and swimming to Africa.

Mint Aero

Ends at the finish line usually.

PARlance

When they realise that they can't run/swim/cycle away from their issues.

Sheep Lover

Señor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Why should it end?

Better than 3 days of boozing a week....every week.

Is it? I've never heard anyone go "jaysus lads I'm hanging for a 45km cycle"...

Gatling

PirateShampoo wrote: »

I'm running 46 in 2 days and swimming to Africa.

Applying for asylum ?

316

PARlance wrote: »

When they realise that they can't run/swim/cycle away from their issues.

What issues?

Señor Fancy Pants

Sheep Lover wrote: »

Is it? I've never heard anyone go "jaysus lads I'm hanging for a 45km cycle"...

Have ya not? Jaysis, it's all the rage, you should try it.

Might give those sheep a break and you can ride something else

PirateShampoo

Gatling wrote: »

Applying for asylum ?

The rate they are leaving, I could probably apply for the position of Dictator.

Dr Turk Turkelton

PirateShampoo wrote: »

I'm running 46 in 2 days and swimming to Africa.

Ah it's good to see lads getting their feet wet with an easy start. Can't say more now as I'm busy doing the backstroke past the Maldives on the way to Australia for a quick sprint across the continent before I bike across Antarctica.
I'd do anything for them little kids in Somalia with broken toenails. It's definitely the best charity.

Sheep Lover

Señor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Have ya not? Jaysis, it's all the rage, you should try it.

Might give those sheep a break and you can ride something else

That's a personal attack, reported.

Anyway, those lycra clad **** bet onto the saddle of a bike do not belong holding up the roads while they huff and puff along.

Massimo Cassagrande

316 wrote: »

What issues?

Dunno, but there's a lad down the road who is out in all weathers, legs swathed in bandages, hobbling along. I drive past him most days and wonder what he's running away from. He's revered for his ability to run marathons. TBH, I feel a bit sorry for him. The lad looks knackered.

Señor Fancy Pants

Sheep Lover wrote: »

That's a personal attack, reported.

Anyway, those lycra clad **** bet onto the saddle of a bike do not belong holding up the roads while they huff and puff along.

Hey, if the username fits.

So, you don't like people keeping fit. You don't like what they wear. You don't like where they train.

You do like boozing and you love sheep.

Hhhhmmm

316

Señor Fancy Pants wrote: »

You do like boozing and you love sheep.

Hhhhmmm

You calling him an alco too?

PARlance

316 wrote: »

What issues?

Escaping from Middle Management being the most popular afaik, but I'm sure there's a wide range.

riffmongous

Something needs to be done about these iron people, before they are turned to steel in the great magnetic field when they travel time for the future of mankind- Because we all know how that ended

Señor Fancy Pants

316 wrote: »

You calling him an alco too?

People can like alcohol without being an alco.

Do you think he is one? I don't.

Sheep Lover

Señor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Hey, if the username fits.

So, you don't like people keeping fit. You don't like what they wear. You don't like where they train.

You do like boozing and you love sheep.

Hhhhmmm

They don't look very fit to me, absolutely bolloxed from shifting their lardy arses up a slight gradient. Look on the verge of heart attack some of them.

Massimo Cassagrande

riffmongous wrote: »

Something needs to be done about these iron people, before they are turned to steel in the great magnetic field when they travel time for the future of mankind- Because we all know how that ended

Rust will sort them - don't fret. If their knees don't give out, their achilles will. If we were born to run around, God would have made us with Nike Air for feet. Excercise is like heroin -alright in moderation.

Señor Fancy Pants

Sheep Lover wrote: »

They don't look very fit to me, absolutely bolloxed from shifting their lardy arses up a slight gradient. Look on the verge of heart attack some of them.

Agreed but ya have to start somewhere.

You might only see them for a few seconds, yeah they may be bolloxed but they may have covered 200km.

Anyway, I'm off ta bed. Night Sheep Lover, love you! Mwah!

Cold War Kid

I resent not being as fit as them too.

lalababa

There are a couple of lads swimming around ireland this summer. I think it will take 3 months. And they did something almost as big last year as well, although i think it was only a couple of thousand miles on a bicycle. Yea what will happen to these iron people? I don't know , I suppose some other kind of fad will surface and they will stop. Why are there a lot of ironpeople these days? A fad coupled with charity fad, coupled with sedentary work ,coupled with atheism,coupled with social media coupled with another few things? **** knows Ha:rolleyes:

Reiver

Foolish mortal, don't you see?

Son Of A Vidic

PirateShampoo wrote: »

I'm running 46 in 2 days and swimming to Africa.

Lightweight.

donegaLroad

JAMES F. FIXX.. author on running, dies jogging, he was 52.

James F. Fixx, who spurred the jogging craze with his best-selling books about running and preached the gospel that active people live longer, died of a heart attack Friday while on a solitary jog in Vermont. He was 52 years old.

whiskeyman

Cold War Kid wrote: »

I resent not being as fit as them too.

Don't fret.
They resent us for being so overweight and unfit!
They'd long to have bodies like us to really make a difference with.
When you've got such a tiny percent body fat, a couple of triathlons isn't going to make much different to your already super toned frame...

biko

They don't bother me.

mariaalice

Is the holy grail of all this carry on not ultra running in the Artic or maybe its the Antarctic.

Maybe its because modern life is so comfortable and boring they need some sense of excitement risk and challenge in their lives.

Bio Mech

316 wrote: »

Where will it all end, cycling malin to mizen head and back again

Guessing it will end in eh...Malin Head?

PARlance

mariaalice wrote: »

Is the holy grail of all this carry on not ultra running in the Artic or maybe its the Antarctic.

Maybe its because modern life is so comfortable and boring they need some sense of excitement risk and challenge in their lives.

Nothing screams excitement like a 10 hour run in whiteness.

smash

I wish it was possible to block hell and back photos and posts on facebook.

goose2005

donegaLroad wrote: »

JAMES F. FIXX.. author on running, dies jogging, he was 52.

That's just one person. Jack La Lanne, for example, lived to 96.

Maximus Alexander

Personally I'm envious as f*ck of anyone who has the willpower and determination to iron anything.

I hate ironing. Always leave it until Sunday night and then regret not having done it sooner.

Kev W

goose2005 wrote: »

That's just one person. Jack La Lanne, for example, lived to 96.

Yeah but he didn't have a Bill Hicks routine about him for people to base their opinions on.

godtabh

Sheep Lover wrote: »

Is it? I've never heard anyone go "jaysus lads I'm hanging for a 45km cycle"...

I do it every morning

topper75

A little booze and a little exercise!

No need for extremism. Mental issues are usually behind extremism in both.

valoren

It's chasing the next high.

You get the happy chemicals from doing a couch to 5k when the year before you could barely climb a flight of stairs without becoming a wheezing wreck. You are thrilled to finish the 5k and the endorphins that resulted were intoxicating. You do more 5k's but the buzz is no longer there, so you sign up for a 10k. Wash, rinse, repeat. Before long you've done a few marathons and the feeling of completing them (which for most people is a major once in a lifetime achievement in itself) starts to diminish. Where's my next hit? What's this Ironman all about?!? Enduroman?

The only limiting factor for me is the expense.

Pherekydes

donegaLroad wrote: »

JAMES F. FIXX.. author on running, dies jogging, he was 52.

Fixx's father died of a heart attack at 43.

donegaLroad

fit people live longer.. there is no doubt about that. I am a relatively good swimmer, when I bother. But there is no way I would go into training to swim Galway Bay, or from Donegal to Tory Island. I find it monotonous enough at the best of times..

tigerboon

Bio Mech wrote: »

Guessing it will end in eh...Malin Head?

Nope, Mizen Head!

fryup

they'll get arthritis in they're 50s

libelula

fryup wrote: »

they'll get arthritis in they're 50s

:rolleyes:

Señor Fancy Pants

fryup wrote: »

they'll get arthritis in they're 50s

Or die of obesity when they are 40