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Did you see anything interesting today?

  • 24-07-2010 05:35PM
    #1
    baza1976
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭


    As the title suggests "Did you see anything interesting today".......... while out running!!!!

    It came into my head to day as I was running.

    For example today I saw Tipp captain Conor Mahony picking up his hurley (from local man who makes hurleys) for the match against Galway tomorrow.......I asked him "is that for tomorrow" and he said it is. I wished him good luck........... I'm a Limerick man...shudder shudder, feel all dirty now :)

    I also saw cops pulling into local car dealer...... it's an isolated dealer at edge of sticks who is having trouble with scum when no one around during the evening:mad:

    I'm not sure of the limits of this thread, I just thought it might be interesting to hear/read what other people come across on their daily run.


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  • #2
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,535 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    I saw kits of cow-sh!te, but not nearly enough sign-posts. :)


  • #3
    JosDel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 881 ✭✭✭JosDel


    Did my longest run this morning 8 miles :)

    http://connect.garmin.com/dashboard?cid=2727221


    While out on the run I got lost in a estate just off Sandymount, Ran up 2 dead ends :confused:


  • #4
    donothoponpop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,608 ✭✭✭donothoponpop


    Great idea for a thread:)

    I saw the trigpoint at the top of a local mountain, only this time it was at arms length, instead of taunting me, silent and mocking, way away up in the distance, as it has been for the past five years. Who's laughing now, ya stinking lump of granite?


  • #5
    Daithi BC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 869 ✭✭✭Daithi BC


    Two red squirrels! For an animal that's supposed to be rare these days, I nearly have to herd them out of the way sometimes.


  • #6
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,113 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    I seen 53 km/h on my Garmin as I cycled through the Glen of the Downs with a slight hangover at 9am this morning.


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  • #7
    metamorphosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    I saw a kid eat (or something of an eat like fashion) the contents of a small disposable bin in a cafe where i was having lunch today. Her mam replied 'stop ... you will get germs'. No **** sherlock.

    Edit: i know its no really relevant to the thread but seeing as today's training was indoors on a spin bike staring at my HRM and laptop screen changing trance tunes to keep me going, i figured that the child story was more interesting.


  • #8
    Slogger Jogger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,441 ✭✭✭Slogger Jogger


    donothoponpop wrote: »
    Great idea for a thread:)

    I saw the trigpoint at the top of a local mountain, only this time it was at arms length, instead of taunting me, silent and mocking, way away up in the distance, as it has been for the past five years. Who's laughing now, ya stinking lump of granite?

    + 1. Well I can see it clearly now in the distance, whereas this morning it was well disguised behind a thick low cloud. A nice feeling to have run that.


  • #9
    TFBubendorfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭TFBubendorfer


    I saw Carrauntoohill, together with Caher and a few other mountains in the vicinity, from my long run along the Kerry Way today. The views would have been even better on a sunny day, but they were stunning all the same.


  • #10
    opus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,131 ✭✭✭opus


    I rather heard something interesting, was doing an easy 5m run today ahead of tomorrow's LSR and was wondering about the Abba music that seemed to be getting louder as I headed towards the Marina in Cork, once I got there I realised it was the matinee show of 'Mama Mia' going on :)


  • #11
    christeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭christeb


    This was the view in Howth for our run today


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  • #12
    chinguetti
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    I saw the seals over the fence at the back of the zoo and polo ponies in the Polo Grounds. i didn't see any deer though.


  • #13
    hunnymonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,365 ✭✭✭hunnymonster


    This!index%20image.jpg
    Followed by a seal who was trying to get in on the action in the Lee swim.


  • #14
    donothoponpop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,608 ✭✭✭donothoponpop


    donothoponpop wrote: »
    I saw the trigpoint at the top of a local mountain, only this time it was at arms length, instead of taunting me, silent and mocking, way away up in the distance, as it has been for the past five years.
    TFBubendorfer wrote: »
    I saw Carrauntoohill, together with Caher and a few other mountains in the vicinity, from my long run along the Kerry Way today.

    Don't leave it too long till you run up them TFB. What Nietzsche said about valleys, also holds true for mountains;) ("Stare long enough into the abyss, and the abyss stares back at you")


  • #15
    Git101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Git101


    More a case of what I didn't see.
    For the first hour of yesterdays run I didn't see another soul, no people no cars, no dogs.
    Over the next 1/2 hour I saw 1 pedestrian, 1 cyclist and 1 car.
    Living in a rural area can have it's moments.

    I did see millions of slugs on the roads - never noticed that before.


  • #16
    littlebug
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    3 seals and lots of crazy oystercatchers and lapwings and various other identifiable water birds (all of them making the strangest noises) a few horses and surprisingly few people.


  • #17
    christeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭christeb


    I saw 5 rats run in under a bush not far from the Wind Monument in Clontarf. Ahh seaside living!


  • #18
    MisterAdam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭MisterAdam


    Yesterday, as I ran past a football pitch, I saw a gang of ten year olds. One small boy was stuck trying to climb over a very high metal fence. In retrospect, he looked like he was up to no good - a gurrier, my mother would've called him. But I like to think the best of everyone.
    So when he asked me to throw him the golf ball which was lying in the middle of the road, I kindly obliged. My first instinct is always to be helpful. I oblige without thinking, as if it's a reflex.
    Only afterwards did I realise he might have been trying to hit the cars as they drove past. And when I heard the ball bounce on the tarmac again, I knew the little bastard was up to no good.


  • #19
    MarieC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 918 ✭✭✭MarieC


    wasn't entirely sure where to post this but if you had seen me running yesterday evening this is what you would have seen:

    girl running with bf.
    girl and bf stop running to have argument.
    bf thinks she is really crap for observation and is going to get knocked down some day.
    girl disagrees, and while continuing to fight her corner, walks into lamp-post.
    bf thinks his point has just been proven.
    girl has sore knee today.

    Im laughing now thinking about it.....


  • #20
    nerraw1111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭nerraw1111


    lol at Marie C.


    I regularly see an old man with his dog in the park. On some occassions, I'll run past them and he'll be standing on his head in some yoga pose. He'll be like an arrow, damn impressive as he looks to be in his 70s. 20mins later, I'll run by the same spot again and he is still doing it with his dog beside him.


  • #21
    shotgunmcos
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    I hardly saw a flippin thing. It was one of those heavy early misty showers and I was still mostly asleep. I passed a runner with a scrunched up face overtaking another runner with an even more scrunched up face. I'd been clenching my butt cheeks for 10mins and had 2 miles left to get home.... generally not a problem in the countryside but I could hardly drop my shorts in suburbia :o Towards the end of the loop though I saw one of those runners doing exactly that beside a church on the main road!


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  • #22
    2nd Row Donkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,737 ✭✭✭✭2nd Row Donkey


    TMI dude. TMI


  • #23
    metamorphosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    shotgunmcos wrote: »
    I hardly saw a flippin thing. It was one of those heavy early misty showers and I was still mostly asleep. I passed a runner with a scrunched up face overtaking another runner with an even more scrunched up face. I'd been clenching my butt cheeks for 10mins and had 2 miles left to get home.... generally not a problem in the countryside but I could hardly drop my shorts in suburbia :o Towards the end of the loop though I saw one of those runners doing exactly that beside a church on the main road!

    oh god i hate those situations. They always come up during the runs where your you say to yourself 'ah its been a while since that last hap penned' ... then BAM. I went through a 2 week long suffer last nov/dec where i was doing my runs that consisted of 2 loops around where i was living and i always had to stop and run home after the 1st loop and then go back out for the 2nd. You can always spot that emergency crawl/ sprint run/horrid look on face when nature calls for a runner. I found in the end it was berocca boost causing it for me (or so i think anyway).


  • #24
    connundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    More like what I didn't see, and that was a man out walking his pet horse (rottweiler) on a road which I've never seen another person on.

    I don't know how I didn't see them, as they were well within my field of vision but I was about 10 paces from them when the dog ran across my path and he may as well have bitten me for the shock that I got.

    I made a noise like you would if someone brushed against you in a dark room... like a uuuuuUUUUUUHHHHH!!! and then I kind of sideways/backpedalled a bit to get away from the dog.

    The dog's owner looked at me like I was a psycho, and my pace went up by about 20sec/km for the next while :p


  • #25
    robinph
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    Had a police helicopter flying over the woodland we were running in yesterday searching for some young hoodlum, then met an over-weight and rather exhausted looking copper running through the woods as well who then stopped us and told us who they were after and that we had permission to leap on the scallywag if we came across him.

    We didn't spot him, but I did then see the copper in the shop a while later as I was picking up some milk for my coffee in the morning and he said they had flushed him out of the woods with the combination of dogs and chopper overhead.


  • #26
    neonman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭neonman


    christeb wrote: »
    I saw 5 rats run in under a bush not far from the Wind Monument in Clontarf. Ahh seaside living!

    I also run along the coast in Clontarf and the rats are starting to run along with me for a while before making a b-line for a bush.

    Yesterday there were a lot of people out running. It's great to see and makes my run that little bit easier. Gets me thinking why that person is out running? Is it for pure fitness, training for their first marathon (like me), personal goals.

    I'll be out again this evening training for my first marathon with a look of pain on my face.


  • #27
    dolliemix
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    I saw loads of people going to work this morning when I was out running. Made me feel great because I'm not working today! :p

    I like this thread!


  • #28
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,113 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    While getting a tyre changed on my car I seen where Giant Bicycles have their warehouse - my 7yr old son went over and asked for one :D - but no joy this time!


  • #29
    cwgatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭cwgatling


    Saw a broken down Saab on the hill in Goatstown. Helped 2 lads push it up on the path.


  • #30
    InTheTrees
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    It was a treadmill day...

    So I saw office workers wandering past the gym on their way to smoke.

    Its actually quite motivating...


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  • #31
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    2nd Row Donkey wrote: »
    TMI dude. TMI

    That's pretty minor by runner standards as far as bodily functions are concerned ;):pac:


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