The A/R Off Topic Thread

For the day that's in it!
Throw those curtains wide

Would have posted this in the rave thread but seeing as that's closed...

I became a real runner this morning midway into a 14 mile session. I was on a main road in the Algarve near Faro/Luz so no chance of nearby facilities but did find a dirt track and some bushes to squat behind. The 2 threshold miles post poop were the most consistent of the morning

Breege Connolly's progression is pretty interesting - just over 10 years ago her times weren't exceptional, and now she's presumably tapering for the marathon in Rio:
http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=18985

Decent interview with her here:
http://www.the42.ie/breege-connolly-interview-2903333-Aug2016/

Also, this is funny:

http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/news/sport/208174/Breege-Connolly---fun-runner.html

“I was so naive, now when I look back on it that it was unreal. I did no training worth talking about for that first marathon. I had seen Teresa out running for it so I decided to join her and go for a few runs. I think I did two 18 mile runs and a couple of six mile runs but that was it.”

If there was a novices thread back then she'd have been told not to run it

Murph_D wrote: »

Would love to know more about how she made that journey from 4:01 to 2:37, which is typically glossed over.

By the way, how is this off topic? :puzzled:

I didn't think it was worthy of its own thread (they're expensive you know), and it wasn't a random running question... maybe we need a "random running stuff" thread.

ThisRegard wrote: »

Might of some use to some people, but I just realised today that Decathlon has an Irish website www.decathlon.ie that seems reasonable enough, especially when factoring delivery in.

Dearer than their shop in france, running top is 9 euros on it, only 3 euros over there.
But it is 9 euro's on the French website.

ThisRegard wrote: »

I never actually looked at running stuff there, I like browsing the equipment sections. I was looking for something related to camping that I couldn't find in an Irish store I saw reference on a UK forum to it being in Decathlon, and when I went there to see what the shipping fee was I was directed to the Irish site.

Their stuff is ok in fairness, bought a few t-shirts this year when in France and a few last year. Socks were cheap. Their shop is massive, spend a good few hours looking around in it.

Ososlo wrote: »

Yay the Olympics is starting
Enjoy!!!

Gonna try. Been looking forward to it for months.

But you can't go five minutes without hearing something bad about it.

I'm not fond of "only in Ireland" comments, but ticket-scalping at the worst attended games in decades is something special...