Iron people.

smash · 07-09-2015 02:24PM

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

goose2005 · 07-09-2015 04:14PM

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 · 07-09-2015 04:27PM

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 · 07-09-2015 04:28PM

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 · 07-09-2015 04:30PM

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 · 07-09-2015 04:56PM

A little booze and a little exercise!

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

valoren · 07-09-2015 04:59PM

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 · 07-09-2015 05:00PM

donegaLroad wrote: »

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

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

donegaLroad · 07-09-2015 06:04PM

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..