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DFW Running Club!!

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  • chickadee
    chickadee Posts: 1,447 Forumite
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    Ooooh, I stay away for a day and look what I've missed! This has turned into a dating site! :D

    I met my OH through running. We used to have a running club at my old workplace and I joined up. I started running and before you know it, there you are after a race with your run club buddies, all high on endorphins, discussing the race, enjoying a well-earned beer and one thing leads to another..... we get married next June :o .

    Rich, Becky, be warned!
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  • beer_tins
    beer_tins Posts: 1,677 Forumite
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    Ha ha, poor Becky! Do you think she's started to get worried yet?

    P.S. Not that you're not a great catch, Rich. (beep beep beep - the sound of beer tins reversing).
    Running Club targets 2010
    5KM - 21:00 21:55 (59.19%)
    10KM - 44:00 --:-- (0%)
    Half-Marathon - 1:45:00 HIT! 1:43:08 (57.84%)
    Marathon - 3:45:00 --:-- (0%)
  • chickadee wrote: »

    I met my OH through running. We used to have a running club at my old workplace and I joined up. I started running and before you know it, there you are after a race with your run club buddies, all high on endorphins, discussing the race, enjoying a well-earned beer and one thing leads to another..... we get married next June :o .

    If i were single, then noone would ever want to date me once they'd seen me running!! unless the bloke had a penchant for beetroots, of course!

    No aspect of my running is ever attractive i'm sorry to say, not the runny nose, not the sweatiness, not the puffing, nor the red face... can't think why!!??

    Good job i'm not in it to pull a bloke!
    I'm just a seething mass of contradictions....
    (it's part of my charm!)
  • beinerts wrote: »
    Ha ha, poor Becky! Do you think she's started to get worried yet?

    P.S. Not that you're not a great catch, Rich. (beep beep beep - the sound of beer tins reversing).

    Judging by the fact that she's run off - I think she's worried!

    Poor Becky!:p
    Gt NW 1/2 Marathon 21/2/2010 (Target=1:22:59) (6:20/mile) 1:22:47 (6:19):j:j
    Blackpool Marathon 11/4/2010 (Target=2:59:59) (6:52/mile)
    Abingdon Marathon 17/10/2010, (Target=2:48:57) (6:27/mile)
    09/10 Race Results : http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=103461
    Racing Plans/Results - Post 3844 (page193)
  • chickadee
    chickadee Posts: 1,447 Forumite
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    If i were single, then noone would ever want to date me once they'd seen me running!! unless the bloke had a penchant for beetroots, of course!

    No aspect of my running is ever attractive i'm sorry to say, not the runny nose, not the sweatiness, not the puffing, nor the red face... can't think why!!??

    Good job i'm not in it to pull a bloke!

    That is why I knew he loved me. Because at the end of a race, red-faced, sweaty, splashed with mud, in some seriously dodgy running gear, he still found me attractive! :rotfl:
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  • chickadee wrote: »
    That is why I knew he loved me. Because at the end of a race, red-faced, sweaty, splashed with mud, in some seriously dodgy running gear, he still found me attractive! :rotfl:


    and more to the point, you loved him even when he took his hat off, so he knew it was mutual!

    (sorry, low blow, but i remember you saying he is kinda sensitive about his pate!)
    I'm just a seething mass of contradictions....
    (it's part of my charm!)
  • chickadee wrote: »
    That is why I knew he loved me. Because at the end of a race, red-faced, sweaty, splashed with mud, in some seriously dodgy running gear, he still found me attractive! :rotfl:

    It is an interesting point considering there are probably five times as many men as women in most running environments, women should find it a fruitful hunting ground!

    As for men, I think we should join a gymnastics club or ballet dancing or something to be in a similar advantageous position. :p
    Gt NW 1/2 Marathon 21/2/2010 (Target=1:22:59) (6:20/mile) 1:22:47 (6:19):j:j
    Blackpool Marathon 11/4/2010 (Target=2:59:59) (6:52/mile)
    Abingdon Marathon 17/10/2010, (Target=2:48:57) (6:27/mile)
    09/10 Race Results : http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=103461
    Racing Plans/Results - Post 3844 (page193)
  • beer_tins
    beer_tins Posts: 1,677 Forumite
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    RichOneday wrote: »
    ...considering there are probably five times as many men as women in most running environments...

    The DFW running club is an exception there I think though!
    Running Club targets 2010
    5KM - 21:00 21:55 (59.19%)
    10KM - 44:00 --:-- (0%)
    Half-Marathon - 1:45:00 HIT! 1:43:08 (57.84%)
    Marathon - 3:45:00 --:-- (0%)
  • Idiophreak
    Idiophreak Posts: 12,024 Forumite
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    RichOneday wrote: »
    As for men, I think we should join a gymnastics club or ballet dancing or something to be in a similar advantageous position. :p


    I've looked into this. The gym yoga class doesn't allow spectators though! :confused:
  • beer_tins
    beer_tins Posts: 1,677 Forumite
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    Idiophreak wrote: »
    I've looked into this. The gym yoga class doesn't allow spectators though! :confused:

    I can't think why! It's not like it's creepy in any way :rotfl:
    Running Club targets 2010
    5KM - 21:00 21:55 (59.19%)
    10KM - 44:00 --:-- (0%)
    Half-Marathon - 1:45:00 HIT! 1:43:08 (57.84%)
    Marathon - 3:45:00 --:-- (0%)
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