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The Rant Thread(a place to dump ur baggage)

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  • #1802
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,110 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    RayCun wrote: »
    What kids event has a 7k race?

    Community Games U16


  • #1803
    Tom Joad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,134 ✭✭✭Tom Joad


    BeepBeep67 wrote: »
    Would prefer to get a normal tyre repaired than replace a run flat!

    Been there twice in last few weeks - most tyre places now won't repair run flats so you end up haven't to replace them anyway - which defeats the purpose of them!!

    Anyway I'm going to stop now as I could fill a page with rants about BMW's!!


  • #1804
    Gavlor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,202 ✭✭✭Gavlor


    BMW drivers :D


  • #1805
    TFBubendorfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭TFBubendorfer


    Gavlor wrote: »
    BMW drivers :D

    Was waiting for that. Can't stand the feckers myself :D


  • #1806
    Finnt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Finnt


    Canvassers knocking at the door when your putting kids to bed.


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  • #1807
    KielyUnusual
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭KielyUnusual


    Finnt wrote: »
    Canvassers knocking at the door when your putting kids to bed.

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  • #1808
    ger664
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭ger664


    Finnt wrote: »
    Canvassers knocking at the door when your putting kids to bed.

    You should have sent them up to the kids they do tell a good fairy tale.


  • #1809
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,705 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Finnt wrote: »
    Canvassers knocking at the door when your putting kids to bed.

    Don't answer the door!


  • #1810
    Finnt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Finnt


    ger664 wrote: »
    You should have sent them up to the kids they do tell a good fairy tale.

    True but I'm always telling the kids not to tell lies!!


  • #1811
    belcarra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭belcarra


    First run of the year where I encountered clouds of midges...that's my protein for the week taken care of!:cool:


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  • #1812
    ultraman1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,742 ✭✭✭ultraman1


    DAT fcuki glohealth ad that says runners are awesome....we run because we are poor and can't afford bikes and togs
    .....


  • #1813
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Clearly visible freckle lines around where the sleeves on my running t-shirts stop and around where my Garmin normally is. It's only fecking May :mad:


  • #1814
    SamforMayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭SamforMayo


    belcarra wrote: »
    First run of the year where I encountered clouds of midges...that's my protein for the week taken care of!:cool:

    Be thankful you were brought up with midges, these flying midgets the Dublin people have to deal with are much worse;)


  • #1815
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,531 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    SamforMayo wrote: »
    Be thankful you were brought up with midges, these flying midgets the Dublin people have to deal with are much worse;)
    Much, much worse... At eye level, too! Bloody midgets.


  • #1816
    Beef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,182 ✭✭✭Beef


    Hay fever! I can't imagine how much of a clown I must have looked running down the bypass last night while sneezing 13 times in a row. I must have looked like one of those students on scuzz.


  • #1817
    ecoli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,762 ✭✭✭✭ecoli


    Not being able to find .03 of a second in a 10k fecking race :mad::mad::mad:


  • #1818
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Getting a long weekend and coming over to the west for 4 nights, and it's the only place in the country that has pissy weather! Ah, 4 nights away is still great.


  • #1819
    sconhome
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,468 ✭✭✭sconhome


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Getting a long weekend and coming over to the west for 4 nights, and it's the only place in the country that has pissy weather! Ah, 4 nights away is still great.

    Wrong part of the West, cracking day in South Galway :cool::cool:


  • #1820
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Mayo, a soft day you could say.


  • #1821
    Finnt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Finnt


    AKW wrote: »
    Wrong part of the West, cracking day in South Galway :cool::cool:

    Sure South Galway isn't in the west, you not really in the west until your the far side of moycullen!


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  • #1822
    adrian522
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,610 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    Finnt wrote: »
    Sure South Galway isn't in the west, you not really in the west until your the far side of moycullen!

    I thought once you hit palmerstown you were in the west. ?


  • #1823
    Finnt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Finnt


    adrian522 wrote: »
    I thought once you hit palmerstown you were in the west. ?

    No that's where "down the country" starts!


  • #1824
    FITZA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭FITZA


    Not being recorded by timing company in 10k!!! Today (Maynooth 10k) is the 4th race that I have not been recorded correctly....all 4 races timed by the same timing company. 1st time I noticed it at the event when results were posted and I was 'put in' the results on the day. 2nd time I checked results again before I left event, same thing, not recorded, fixed at the event. 3rd time I spoke to the company before the race, and coming up to the finish line waved to them to make sure they recorded me. 4th time - today! My number is recorded but different name...and to make matters worse I should have been 1st in my category (oldies!!). Had to rush away after event today so didn't get to check results before I left... have tried to get it fixed since but to no avail as yet!


  • #1825
    tang1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,121 ✭✭✭tang1


    FITZA wrote: »
    Not being recorded by timing company in 10k!!! Today (Maynooth 10k) is the 4th race that I have not been recorded correctly....all 4 races timed by the same timing company. 1st time I noticed it at the event when results were posted and I was 'put in' the results on the day. 2nd time I checked results again before I left event, same thing, not recorded, fixed at the event. 3rd time I spoke to the company before the race, and coming up to the finish line waved to them to make sure they recorded me. 4th time - today! My number is recorded but different name...and to make matters worse I should have been 1st in my category (oldies!!). Had to rush away after event today so didn't get to check results before I left... have tried to get it fixed since but to no avail as yet!

    Just as a matter of interest, where do you wear your race number?


  • #1826
    SeanPuddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭SeanPuddin


    FITZA wrote: »
    Not being recorded by timing company in 10k!!! Today (Maynooth 10k) is the 4th race that I have not been recorded correctly....all 4 races timed by the same timing company. 1st time I noticed it at the event when results were posted and I was 'put in' the results on the day. 2nd time I checked results again before I left event, same thing, not recorded, fixed at the event. 3rd time I spoke to the company before the race, and coming up to the finish line waved to them to make sure they recorded me. 4th time - today! My number is recorded but different name...and to make matters worse I should have been 1st in my category (oldies!!). Had to rush away after event today so didn't get to check results before I left... have tried to get it fixed since but to no avail as yet!

    You must have slept with his daughter or something. Too much of a coincidence otherwise.


  • #1827
    FITZA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭FITZA


    SeanPuddin wrote: »
    You must have slept with his daughter or something. Too much of a coincidence otherwise.

    :D LOL....being a 'older' FEMALE...I don't think thats it SeanPuddin!! But something is definitely amiss:( I have had 'chats' with the guys at the different 10ks and my number is where it should be, as I am a tad short I asked could it be that the scanner is not picking up the number, I was told no! I wear my number as high up on my singlet as possible....but yesterday my number is actually recorded but the details with it are not mine:confused:


  • #1828
    FITZA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭FITZA


    tang1 wrote: »
    Just as a matter of interest, where do you wear your race number?

    Hi tang1, I wear my number in the correct position, except for yesterday I have chatted with the lads doing the timing at the 10ks and they didn't seem to know why! But as I replied to seanpuddin yesterday my number was recorded but details don't match?? I have to say it's putting me off wanting to run 5k or 10ks timed by this company!:( By the way congrats on your great run yesterday, I didn't have a wonderful experience, nothing to do with the event, just didn't feel great on the day, tempted to drop out, but glad I didn't. Finished (as my number says) in 47.16. Measured it at 10.1k on my Garmin, spoke to another lady at the finish and she showed same. I was spot on with distances until the 8k marker, my watch 'beeped' a good bit back from it! What did you measure it at?


  • #1829
    kabuxa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭kabuxa


    Fitza!!! I am the same.... the 2 races this year with them, none of them recorded. I told them who I was and they fixed it but pity it does not show straight away and 'glad to know' I am not the only one. Maybe only happens to 'older ladies' ;o)))) What have we done to them ;o)))
    I took a lot longer than you, but as well it said 10.1k on my Garmin, and Samsung race was 10.2k...
    I wear the number correctly I think, but now I start to wonder too.


  • #1830
    28064212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,101 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    FITZA wrote: »
    Measured it at 10.1k on my Garmin, spoke to another lady at the finish and she showed same. I was spot on with distances until the 8k marker, my watch 'beeped' a good bit back from it! What did you measure it at?
    kabuxa wrote: »
    I took a lot longer than you, but as well it said 10.1k on my Garmin, and Samsung race was 10.2k...

    GPS isn't accurate enough to measure a race: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057195502

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  • #1831
    kabuxa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭kabuxa


    ;o( Mine is one of the worst.... but I stick to it ;o))) Thanks 28064212!


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