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**Weekend Chat Thread 27/28 June **

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  • spud30
    spud30 Posts: 16,872 Forumite
    Just looking at the race info......limited to 1000 runners. It sounds like a more 'proper' race to me :o
    Is it better to aim for the stars and hit a tree or aim for a tree and land in its branches :think:
    Loves being a Wonderbra friend :kisses3:
  • Buffythedebtslayer
    Buffythedebtslayer Posts: 18,924 Forumite
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    edited 28 June 2009 at 9:23PM
    spud30 wrote: »
    Just looking at the race info......limited to 1000 runners. It sounds like a more 'proper' race to me :o

    Blimey that's tiny!!

    edited to add - in comparision to Leeds
    Nevertheless she persisted.
  • sallyx
    sallyx Posts: 15,815 Forumite
    sammy115 wrote: »
    :osorry - although to be fair - I would never have bought her one but my sister gave it to her (cos she wanted a different colour).

    I think I need a garmin lesson....its hard to work with short term memory....


    I know hun, thats ok I thought it was funny that she is already saying but its not fair my friend has one !:rotfl:
    I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change And breakaway. I'll take a risk, take a chance, make a change and breakaway ....
    Finally Debt Free...
  • (Land_of)_Maz
    (Land_of)_Maz Posts: 11,738 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    spud30 wrote: »
    Maz, we're doing a flat 10k in November babes. You in?


    hmmmmmmn, depends how far in the faraway englandshire it is??

    maybe...!

    Is it near an airport?
    I'm just a seething mass of contradictions....
    (it's part of my charm!)
  • sammy115
    sammy115 Posts: 15,267 Forumite
    spud30 wrote: »
    Just looking at the race info......limited to 1000 runners. It sounds like a more 'proper' race to me :o

    A 1000 runners is quite a lot, there was only 374 finishers today...where did you find the race info:confused:
    Quality is doing something right when no one is looking - Henry Ford
  • (Land_of)_Maz
    (Land_of)_Maz Posts: 11,738 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    it's not about the limit of runners, more about any time limits they might impose.... look at previous years results to see how it looks...
    I'm just a seething mass of contradictions....
    (it's part of my charm!)
  • spud30
    spud30 Posts: 16,872 Forumite
    sammy115 wrote: »
    A 1000 runners is quite a lot, there was only 374 finishers today...where did you find the race info:confused:

    Here hun :p
    Is it better to aim for the stars and hit a tree or aim for a tree and land in its branches :think:
    Loves being a Wonderbra friend :kisses3:
  • spud30
    spud30 Posts: 16,872 Forumite
    (Land_of)_Maz wrote: »
    hmmmmmmn, depends how far in the faraway englandshire it is??

    maybe...!

    Is it near an airport?

    It's in the middle hun somewhere. Does Birmingham have an airport?
    Is it better to aim for the stars and hit a tree or aim for a tree and land in its branches :think:
    Loves being a Wonderbra friend :kisses3:
  • sammy115
    sammy115 Posts: 15,267 Forumite
    (Land_of)_Maz wrote: »
    hmmmmmmn, depends how far in the faraway englandshire it is??

    maybe...!

    Is it near an airport?

    Birmingham:T
    Quality is doing something right when no one is looking - Henry Ford
  • Buffythedebtslayer
    Buffythedebtslayer Posts: 18,924 Forumite
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    mind you last year there were only 340 runners?
    Nevertheless she persisted.
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