Weekend ramblings...

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:05 pm

Friday, BBQ, Tonic, Candy Bar, Living Room, Opal, Garabaldis, Poo Na Na
Sat, Jazz fest, Maggie Dicksons, Henricks, BBQ, Speigel tent.

Not feeling the best today, too old for all this.

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:07 pm

po na nah, oh dear lord!

mac · Post by **mac** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:08 pm

Friday - Cars (don't laugh -it's brilliant) followed by curry.

Sat - Morning serviced car

Evening - Slept

Night - Glasgow Central - watching the drunk folk stagger home remembering that I was doing the same last week.

Sunday - Slept, washed car, watched TV.

Another rock n roll weekend for me

thinfourth · Post by **thinfourth** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:53 pm

Saturday Moved garden shed

tools used Landrover, big rope

Sunday tried to get Ali out of 7

Tools needed crowbar.

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:13 pm

Well I achieved a wee personal goal at the weekend - swam about 3k non stop across the width of Loch Lomond and back early on Sunday morning. Fairly barking thing to do perhaps, but I had set myself the aim of doing this a while back when I took up swimming after being forced to give up running due to a knee injury. Well chuffed

Mark

gordon · Post by **gordon** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:27 pm

ryallm wrote:Well I achieved a wee personal goal at the weekend - swam about 3k non stop across the width of Loch Lomond and back early on Sunday morning. Fairly barking thing to do perhaps, but I had set myself the aim of doing this a while back when I took up swimming after being forced to give up running due to a knee injury. Well chuffed

Mark

Thats very impressive

. Your quite right to be chuffed. How long had you been running for before you had the injury?? What kind of distance/times did you do.

I've been training/running for about 6-7 years on and off now. Mostly 5 and 10km. I'm focusing more on the gym these days to build strength for racing (my arms, back and shoulders ache after race day

) but still run about 15miles a week. Best 10k road race time was 41.05 and 19.03 min for the 5km. Had few injuries, but i'd be gutted if i got one that forced me to give it up.

Post by **ironside** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:41 pm

Bought and stuck together engine crane and stand.

Simon

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:52 pm

Sanjoy wrote:Friday, BBQ, Tonic, Candy Bar, Living Room, Opal, Garabaldis, Poo Na Na
Sat, Jazz fest, Maggie Dicksons, Henricks, BBQ, Speigel tent.

Not feeling the best today, too old for all this.

Maggie Dicksons......where you on a hen night?????

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:03 pm

This weekend I ad mostly be looking at fog. Bloody fog. More fog and just to finnish of with, some fog.

We were four days behind with our flying schedule, not a sodding thing moved for days.

We were so fogged in I had to drain down our air compressors because the sucked in so much water.

Do you know what a fog horn sounds like...

Booop .. Booop.. Booop...... BoooooooooooP

god I am sick of it. My poor car sitting in Aberdeen pining away waiting on me coming back.. Three weeks without driving. Its (almost) as bad as not being able to Ma£$%^ate because you have to share a cabin.

Why do i work out here.

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:35 pm

Cos you get paid loads and only work 4 weeks in 9?

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:40 pm

RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:Cos you get paid loads and only work 4 weeks in 9?

Its cos I get paid heaps and only work 20 weeks a year.. but on day 19 of a 21 day trip, its a bummer...

Groundhog day..

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:28 am

Andy G wrote: Maggie Dicksons......where you on a hen night?????

Actually one was attending the Jazz festival, mmmm nice.

Price of lager was not though £3.15! London lads I was with were not happy, they thought it was still pound pints in Scotland.

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:31 am

Thats very impressive . Your quite right to be chuffed. How long had you been running for before you had the injury?? What kind of distance/times did you do.

I've been training/running for about 6-7 years on and off now. Mostly 5 and 10km. I'm focusing more on the gym these days to build strength for racing (my arms, back and shoulders ache after race day ) but still run about 15miles a week. Best 10k road race time was 41.05 and 19.03 min for the 5km. Had few injuries, but i'd be gutted if i got one that forced me to give it up.

Thanks! I had been running around 5 days a week most of my adult life, so as you can imagine I was indeed totally gutted when I had to give up. My best marathon time was 3.14, but endurance hill/mountain running was really my thing, which with hindsight was probably what did for my knee

. Literally couldn't swim a single length of crawl a couple of years ago, but now doing around 11k of swimming a week. Still really miss the running, but get a real buzz out of open water swimming in the summer

Mark

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:48 am

ryallm wrote:
Thanks! I had been running around 5 days a week most of my adult life, so as you can imagine I was indeed totally gutted when I had to give up. My best marathon time was 3.14, but endurance hill/mountain running was really my thing, which with hindsight was probably what did for my knee . Literally couldn't swim a single length of crawl a couple of years ago, but now doing around 11k of swimming a week. Still really miss the running, but get a real buzz out of open water swimming in the summer

Mark

I try and run every morning. If anyone is short of time try this;

5kms - split every 0.25km . Run 0.25km's then 0.25km sprint etc etc. (must do the 5km in less than 21 mins)

Majorly good for your cardio fitness

Still nothing on my sister! She got selected for the GB team for a hill race in Italy on the 27th! 8km with a 700m climb, no descent! Nutter!

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:16 pm

Andy G wrote:
Still nothing on my sister! She got selected for the GB team for a hill race in Italy on the 27th! 8km with a 700m climb, no descent! Nutter!

Blimey

Respect to your sister - that is really serious running

Mark