DFW Running Club!!

beer_tins

RichOneday wrote: »

Spot on, take a bow!!

Now to try to get back to something closely resembling exercise, how about this for showing how good walking is:

Man eats 23,000 Big Macs ......but is not overweight.

He walks 10 miles per day and is fit as a fiddle. Just shows.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Health/Big-Mac-Eater-Don-Gorske-Has-Consumed-23000-Burgers-Over-36-Years-And-Is-Writing-Book/Article/200809215097010?lpos=Health_8&lid=ARTICLE_15097010_Big%2BMac%2BEater%2BDon%2BGorske%2BHas%2BConsumed%2B23%252C000%2BBurgers%2BOver%2B36%2BYears%2BAnd%2BIs%2BWriting%2BBook

To be honest, I had to look through a list of past FA cup winners before it dawned on me, so I half cheated!

Not sure about "fit as a fiddle", he might have high cholesterol etc. Still, he's not overweight so his odds of diabetes, heart disease etc are greatly reduced.

I just went for a lunchtime stroll myself. Just 1.5 miles to stretch the legs though.

beer_tins

OK ladies come back! We're not talking about football anymore!

(Land_of)_Maz

beinerts wrote: »

OK ladies come back! We're not talking about football anymore!

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, sorry, did you say something!! must've dozed off!!!

Nah, i like football, scottish football.... i'm really not very up on English leagues.

Which reminds me, i better go off and do my predictor for the weekend......

beer_tins

(Land_of)_Maz wrote: »

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, sorry, did you say something!! must've dozed off!!!

Nah, i like football, scottish football.... i'm really not very up on English leagues.

Which reminds me, i better go off and do my predictor for the weekend......

(tchock!) Women! Always changing the subject back to football!

Who's your team? Do you not find the SPL predictable?

Not the EPL isn't predictable these days as well!!

redsquirrel80

beinerts wrote: »

OK ladies come back! We're not talking about football anymore!

Hehe.. not a problem (as long as you don't expect me to play it!)

I've been off reading on a running/ fitness site and forgetting I wasn't on MSE - I'm so used to reading everything from a money saving point of view that I was getting shocked at people recommending expensive bits of kit and their tips to 'cheer yourself up' by doing things like joining a gym and using the spa etc. I think I am officially a skinflint

becky_rtw

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

Hehe.. not a problem (as long as you don't expect me to play it!)

I've been off reading on a running/ fitness site and forgetting I wasn't on MSE - I'm so used to reading everything from a money saving point of view that I was getting shocked at people recommending expensive bits of kit and their tips to 'cheer yourself up' by doing things like joining a gym and using the spa etc. I think I am officially a skinflint

I dont GET gyms becuase they are too expensive so I must be one too...although I did spend £40 at lunchtime on other non running non essential kit (Rich will know what I mean ).

And oi you too stop blaming me for everything - ganging up is rude!

sallyx

afternoon all
god whats all this talk of football...lets get back to running please!!:)

think I am going to have to give up work, far too much goes on, on here whilst I am away !

Forgetmenot68

Hi RichOneday and Maz, thank you. I know there will be other races, and I think it's better for me not to try and do it when I'm not fully fit - my longest run has been only 14 miles... when I did London I was up to 20 at this point!! It's Loch Ness Maz, the other end of the country for me, so now I'm thinking about Hastings in December, a bit closer...! Very disappointed as I love Scotland (grew up there), but I guess it isn't going away.

I'm glad everyone else's running is going well. Busy thread this one!

FMN xx

beer_tins

becky_rtw wrote: »

I dont GET gyms becuase they are too expensive so I must be one too...although I did spend £40 at lunchtime on other non running non essential kit (Rich will know what I mean ).

And oi you too stop blaming me for everything - ganging up is rude!

Eh? I'm intrigued what this bit of kit is now!

Sorry about the ganging up it's just so easy when you're not around to defend yourself!

As for gyms, I get offered 50% subsidised membership by my company (though the taxman still taxes the other half as income). £36.45 a month for Virgin Active's swankiest gym* and I'm STILL too tight to join, lol!


*here's the description:
Virgin Active Moorgate is a new stand alone 45,000sq ft health club in the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) Headquarters. Steeped in history, this six-acre oasis in the heart of the city is a perfect setting for London’s finest luxury health club.

The club is located on Bunhill Row just off City Road, close to Moorgate station.


What the membership includes:

Free access to all facilities. Gym facilities (200 pieces of Equipment), health & fitness evaluation, 25m swimming pool, hydrotherapy spa, mind & body, aerobics and spinning studios, steam room and sauna, free towels and toiletries. Available at a charge – clubroom & juice bar, squash courts (2 x Glass back courts), health & beauty spa and sunbed’s.

Idiophreak

We get a decent gym for 34 quid or something through work (the electric climbing wall is the mutts nuts), but I gave it up and used the money for my bike through the cycle2work scheme instead - seemed better value and gets me outdoors - and running's much more convenient, you step out of the door and you're there - none of this driving to the gym nonsense...Honestly, I miss the climbing wall and the rower a little, but that's it