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Golden Years- best moments/memories from the Athletics/Running Forum
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06-04-2016 08:29PM#1I've a load of fond memories of times spent and friendships made on this forum. Whats your favourite thing/thread/moment/race/person over the years? What makes you happy to log on and check new posts first thing every day?
My favourite time is the Wicklow Way Relay from 2010, Boards entered two teams, one of which won. 87.5% of the team pictured below, 100% of whom are all vets now
Great fun, wouldn't have happened but for the friendships made and met here 
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RacoonQueen wrote: »We also have a couple of great weekends in Cork with the Cork marathon relay.
I quite enjoy looking back on the Cork marathon relay too.
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Kurt_Godel wrote: »I've a load of fond memories of times spent and friendships made on this forum. Whats your favourite thing/thread/moment/race/person over the years? What makes you happy to log on and check new posts first thing every day?
My favourite time is the Wicklow Way Relay from 2010, Boards entered two teams, one of which won. 87.5% of the team pictured below, 100% of whom are all vets now Great fun, wouldn't have happened but for the friendships made and met here
What is KC trying to do to joe?!! 0 -
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I quite enjoy looking back on the Cork marathon relay too.
I still think the best part of the Cork marathon relay ever was when Vaggabond pushed Claralara to the ground.
Or, poor RachelJev's fear of me and my insistence that the B team would finish sub 3:30 (and we did :cool: ) and she ran faster than she believed she could, still never thanked me
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rainbow kirby wrote: »Beers in Ryans after Phoenix Park races, and the people you'd meet at them :pac:
I believe you actually met in Cork? So it's my fault. I apologise to you. Brian however, you are welcome. 0 -
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I was thinking of that the other day, and the fact that we missed 3.30 as a team as she was not able to keep up 8 min/miles for the first leg of 3 or 4 miles [which is funny, as a year later or so later she was doing a sub 3 marathon and winning the 50k etcVaggabond pushed Claralara]
I was think of the craic we had on the boards training runs, as I was doing a deathly dull LSR on my own recently, I think I remember those runs far more fondly than any posts tbh0 -
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williestroker1 wrote: »All the closed/inactive accounts on that thread:eek: wonder did they quit running?
Can be sure they're still running, bound to have a ton more time available now 0 -
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The whole "Im closing my account cos I dont like what that person said.." thing.. is funny but what ever, each to their own! Dont actually care enough to waste time on it..oh wait...I am..****.All the closed/inactive accounts on that thread wonder did they quit running?
That being said, there are a lot of very knowledge folks about, who joined over the last year and have low post counts 0 -
cool. A few months ago I needed to start some exercise. Picked running as its inexpensive, a pair of old runners, tee-shirt and treckie bottoms and I was off. Just finished the c25k. Enjoying it so far.tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »The whole "Im closing my account cos I dont like what that person said.." thing.. is funny but what ever, each to their own! Dont actually care enough to waste time on it..oh wait...I am..****.
That being said, there are a lot of very knowledge folks about, who joined over the last year and have low post counts0 -
RacoonQueen wrote: »I've often considered trying to kick that thread off again but I wouldn't be able to commit myself half the time.
Long time since it was posted in - would be interesting to see if it could kick off again for shorter weekday sessions even. I think long runs are often organised in the DCM novices threads these days?
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055449727&page=181
There aren't that many long runs organised in the novices threads TBH, maybe open up a thread like this to coincide with that so that they, and the rest of us could partake together, obviously there will be lots of speedies but also lots of non speedies!
All the stuff you guys refer to is before my time - the novices thread is great though, that and the Bohermeen steaks thread last year are the two best for me, apart, of course from this years Rotterdam crew 0 -
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tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »That being said, there are a lot of very knowledge folks about, who joined over the last year and have low post counts
And they still question that decision every day Bit like flies attracted to sh!te :P 0 -
All the stuff you guys refer to is before my time
The past is always better than the present. The golden age of <whatever> is always <x> years ago. It's an ageless pattern. Just like "kids these days have no respect", "In my day we had real music, not this crap they play on the radio", and "grammar is dying", etc etc.
Or more relevantly, in mid race you might wonder why your going through all this pain, why bother. Finish saying never again. The following year you're back in the start line beacuse it was such a great event last year 0 -
Funnily enough the poster formerly known as menoscemo features in both of mine.
The first was him spewing a bottle of Merlot over both the foyer of the strand palace hotel and the good samaritan that was Claralara in London 14.
The second is crossing the line at 3.39.28 in dcm smug in the knowledge that tweedle dumb and tweedle dee had crumbled under the pressure of pacing the marathon
The build up and immediate aftermath of that pacing gig was great fun.0 -
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The past is always better than the present. The golden age of <whatever> is always <x> years ago. It's an ageless pattern. Just like "kids these days have no respect", "In my day we had real music, not this crap they play on the radio", and "grammar is dying", etc etc.
Or more relevantly, in mid race you might wonder why your going through all this pain, why bother. Finish saying never again. The following year you're back in the start line beacuse it was such a great event last year
Indeed, the golden years of those who were around from maybe 2008 - say 2012 are different to the golden years of those from 2012 - 2016. In 2020 the 2012 - 2016 stalwarts will have their own similar thread. (I'm not splitting into groups here I'm just picking random years, blocks of four years suits)
Boards AR(T) has made me many incredible friends, many great nights out, many great weekends away, a loser boyfriend or two, the push to do things I'd probably never have done otherwise - ultras, meeting strange men from the internet in the mountains for a run early on a Sunday morning, triathlons, Ironman - the list is longer. Most importantly, back to great friends from a wide range of ages and backgrounds who make you feel like you belong, that you can do better, that you can try something different and a couple of extra special boardsies who don't really post here anymore who have played enormous roles in my life.
That's not all from the 'golden years', this forum is still jam packed full of great posters and we've all made more great friends and met more great people in more recent years - I think the 'golden years' Kurt is looking back on, was the start of the running boom and we relied on each other a lot for camaraderie, advice, running partners etc - now all the people who did all those things will almost immediately recommend to people to join a club when they come here looking for advice, which has probably changed the dynamics a bit. Boards AC kinda disbanded once all / most of its members joined bricks and mortar clubs.0 -
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