Turning a mule into a race horse.

Sunday

A very nice half km run alongside my daughter who was doing her first ever race - a 1km in length kids fun run at the national sports campus. I had told her to take it easy out there and enjoy it and if she had a bit left in the tank at the end to speed up but the most important thing for me was to see her happy and smiling at the end. There will be plenty of time for her to run eyeballs out races but for now it's just about the fun aspect. 6:05 for 1km and a very proud me.

On the reverse side of that I saw some parents there absolutely roaring at their kids and one in particular - well I felt like going out on course and clothes lining the daft cow. Her child was roaring crying, in great distress, hanging on for dear life and she running beside him shouting at him to cop on, he won't be allowed out to run again if he's such a cry baby etc. Made my blood boil :mad:

Monday

Not related to the above but a general day of absolute pissed offness ensued. Some personal stuff off boards and some historical bullsh!t on boards left me really pissed off. :mad: Top tip folks: Be very careful who you PM slagging off the community here with snide remarks. It could well bite you in the ass some day. PMs are of course private but don't expect to hide behind them for ever. Enough said about that for the moment but suffice to say it added fuel to a fire. Also only had a 30 min window left in the day to get a run in before baby sitting duties tonight. So I'm out the door quite worked up for 30 minutes. Schedule was for 4 easy miles. Didn't have time for that and didn't want to run easy. Wanted to run some steam off so warmed up with a brisk walk up to my usual starting point and decided to open it up on a strava segment I haven't ran since last December. 1:40 off my previous best on this and a CR too. Felt a good bit better after that.

Total approx 3 miles.

Promise a more cheerful post next time. :pac:

Tuesday

5.5 miles easy avg 9:18

Fraction faster than easy so or easy is becoming faster ! Had the headphones in and Beastie Boys Fight For Your Right To Party was responsible for part of that speed - pace increased without me realising. What a kickass song to run to. :pac:

Wednesday

4.5 miles - 2 ST, 1MP, 1St 0.5 E

9:00, 8:56, 8:37, 8:55, 9:41

Sore feet once again for this. Stretching and rolling like a lunatic these days but feel like I'm fighting a losing battle. Pace wise an absolute doddle. Easily hit the times.

RedRunner wrote: »

I've a lot of logs to catch up on so just getting to this. Well done P on the 5k result. Great to see you making progress.

You lost me on the whole PM drama thing though???

Cheers R.

Yeah that's come across as a random rant with no explanation. The fundraiser I setup around the Bohermeen half marathon was for a cause very close to me. The support that was received was awesome. It was a truly special thing to witness, be a part of and to see just how great this forum and the majority of posters here are. A real community event that I can't put into words how much it meant to me and Zachs family.

It turns out that there were certain conversations taking place in private that had the opposite opinion. The fund raiser was ridiculous, it had no place on a running forum, shouldn't have been allowed by mods, was organised by a clique within the community and was an internet dick waving contest to see who was more generous - a vanity excercise on everyone's part. I saw screenshots of this the other night and it has really pissed me off especially given that on the public board these people pretend to be supporting of me and the community.

It would be wrong to post up screen shots of private messages no matter how ****ty they are and I won't be doing that but I just had to vent a bit the other night.

kit3 wrote: »

Really surprised to read this PM. The fundraising event was one of the most positive things I've seen on here in a long time & I thought it showed a great community spirit & was great fun. I suppose you'll find dickheads everywhere - some people have a very narrow view on what should be on here - I can't understand this one though! Forget about it - people like that aren't worth worrying about. It was a great initiative & a credit to yourself & Ecoil. I hope that had nothing to do with Ecoli closing his account !

Thanks Kit

I hope it didn't either. Tbh don't know if he was aware of it before now (and only would be because reading why I was off plan) I am forgetting about it now though and viewing it as a lesson learned in true colours. I ran it off the other day and had a rant here but it kind of needed an explanation I suppose before people thought I had lost my mind over something childish.

PaulieC wrote: »

It was a fantastic thing to organize, and well done on the money raised. I remember being quite busy in work at that time and it always seemed like a very fast-moving thread anytime I dipped in. To be honest, there was a lot of 'banter' that could have made it seem cliquey ( I don't know most of the people that posted there, so I don't know if it was a clique as such). I just didn't really get involved because I don't understand handicap betting that much and it was just confusing...gimme normal odds any day

Ha no chance of normal odds in that scenario. That was the only way to level the playing field and give anyone a chance to win it. Perhaps once involved in the thread there was a group vibe to it but anyone could be in the group There was over 40 seperate donations made to that - that's way too big to be a clique.

And tbvh that aspect would p!ss me off the least if at all. It's the other views that sent me ranting

kit3 wrote: »

Thanks for adding that - I sooooo wanted to but thought I'd be nice seeing as it's PM's log

Don't let me stop you