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Re: "real" runners get muddy

charlene_gib...@hotmail.com (Beelzebub) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 21:11:48 UT

Heh, felt like it. Doing the Salomon Turbo X this Sun, so more mud and
frolicks

Re: "real" runners get muddy

br...@nospam.demon.co.uk (Brian Howie) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 20:56:39 UT

In message <1j9g3mv.14ettq8sm3k74N%charle ne_gib...@hotmail.com>,
Beelzebub <charlene_gib...@hotmail.com> writes
Biathlon then ? wading and running ?
B

Marxist she-man cuntbag Harriet Harman bans Christmas

whitemanfi...@ymail.com (Western Voice) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 20:41:58 UT

The Labour Government’s Equality Bill, announced yesterday in the
Queen’s speech, will actively discriminate against all white people in
business and put large companies under a legal obligation to employ
Asians or blacks rather than whites.
The Catholic Church has also warned that other clauses could lead to

Re: "real" runners get muddy

charlene_gib...@hotmail.com (Beelzebub) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 20:32:35 UT

<grins> Nice picture. I did the Hellrunner on Sunday
[link]
Race number 5846

"real" runners get muddy

br...@nospam.demon.co.uk (Brian Howie) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 19:49:35 UT

Braid Hills X-Country in Edinburgh last Saturday.
Http://[link]
I'm at :-
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It was tough going mud and puddles all the way.
In spite of the conditions I stayed inside my personal worst for the
course.

Re: The role of racing in a developing athlete

johnbhur...@sbcglobal.net (John Hurley) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 15:05:50 UT

snip
Hey she is out working and you are out running so it looks like you
are a smarter dork than most of us!
Life changes though when one is supporting teenagers and staring at
college tuition right around the corner.

Re: The role of racing in a developing athlete

charlie.pend...@gmail.com (Charlie Pendejo) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 15:02:58 UT

Anthony:
Nice.
Perspective is harder to come by in road racing these days because
there's such a vacuum of elites and sub-elites at our races. e.g. the
various NYC half marathons (excluding the new big-money "NYC Half")
with ~6000 finishers will typically be won in roughly 1:10.
It'd be easy for a novice runner to assume that if 70 minutes beats

Re: The role of racing in a developing athlete

charlie.pend...@gmail.com (Charlie Pendejo) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 14:24:47 UT

Double Ed:
Well, duh! :-)

Re: The role of racing in a developing athlete

edward.edmo...@gmail.com (Edward Edmonds) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 13:11:03 UT

Well thanks Doug. When March/April rolls around I'll be sure to write
up some race reports, good or bad I'm not going to stand anybody up,
I'm not gutless. I've gotten lots of good advice here and I feel
obliged. I was talking about this with my wife this morning, she said
we are a bunch of dorks, and I was like seriously that Newsgoup is a

Re: The role of racing in a developing athlete

dfre...@hvc.rr.com (pithydoug) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 11:49:35 UT

I think we are all waiting for some specific times to see if this is
real or Memorex. You are correct we have been asked to the prom a few
times and stood up. In the mean time his posts are polite,
interesting and very running related.
-D

Re: The role of racing in a developing athlete

anth...@nospam.biu.ac.il (Anthony) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 06:03:19 UT

+2
Our relatively small club (~50 runners) over the years has had several
non-elite runners in the 2:30 - 2:35 range. At the 2:20 level we have
(so far) 2 runners. Both of them were at the 30-31 min 10K level, and
around 1:06 for the 1/2 Marathon...
Anthony.

Re: The role of racing in a developing athlete

edward.edmo...@gmail.com (Edward Edmonds) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 05:08:38 UT

Re: The role of racing in a developing athlete

charlie.pend...@gmail.com (Charlie Pendejo) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 03:14:27 UT

JBH:
Whoa there, it's within a minute per mile of elite, but let's not
hurry to water down what's "elite". Twenty minutes off the women's
world record is definitely not. His 2:20 goal, one would get plenty
of argument for either side; strikes me as fairly borderline.
One national metric in that neighborhood has, for some years, been

Re: The role of racing in a developing athlete

johnbhur...@sbcglobal.net (John Hurley) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:07:54 UT

snip
Just being real here.
E2 has a lot of plans and a lot of confidence. Nothing wrong with
that. So far e2 has posted nothing as far I can recall about any
actual results from any race.
While we all may wish him well it is gonna take a lot more than wishes
to get to 2:20 or to the "slow" 2:35 mark that he thinks he could

Re: The role of racing in a developing athlete

edward.edmo...@gmail.com (Edward Edmonds) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:39:49 UT

Ah yes, the infamous incident with Zola Budd.