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Phoebe 5k charity fun run at Rutland Water on Sunday 1st October 2017
http://www.phoeberesearch.org.uk/events/phoebe-fun-run/ (http://www.phoeberesearch.org.uk/events/phoebe-fun-run/)
Not sure how I got talked into this but it's seems I'm doing a fun run in October!!!
Bit of a blur how it happened but the next thing I know I'm using Paypal for the privileged of doing something that I don't even want to do! Ah well, it for a good cause. I've not ever done anything like this so any advice welcomed.
Reassuringly I was informed that there is full first aid and ambulance services on standby and bring a torch if I think I'm going to take more than 5 hours to complete the 5Km!
Anyway, anyone on Mayhem want to join me?
Martin
Phoebe 5k charity fun run at Rutland Water on Sunday 1st October 2017
The course starts and finishes at Sykes Lane, taking in Whitwell and the Dam.
The 5k course is an achievable distance for all ages and abilities. You can choose to run, jog or walk your way around the course; running or jogging this will take most people around 30-45 mins to complete, approx. 1 hour if walking. ( or 5 hours crawling! Martin )Facilities on site: changing areas, toilets, refreshments
All finishers will receive a bespoke medal.
Cost per runner - Adults: £10.00 - Under 12s: £5.00
Pre-school: free, but must be accompanied by an adult
Date: Sunday 1 Oct 2017
Time: 10:00am
Adults: £10.00
Under 12s: £5.00
Pre-school: free, but must be accompanied by an adult
Venue: Rutland Water, Sykes Lane, Empingham, Oakham, LE15 8PX
Distance: 5km
Free Beer for all over 18 finishers, provided by Watling St. Beer
Live Music
Discounted parking at Rutland water
For more info Click Here (http://www.phoebe5k.org.uk/)
( NB: I've already been told that cars, buses, bicycles, helicopters, horses, piggybacks are all banned! ) :((
( NB2: I looked it up and 5Km = 3+ miles?!?!? :o )
( NB3: What "Fun" is there in running?! ) <:(
(http://www.phoebe5k.org.uk/images/phoebe5k.jpg)
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I only saw free beer for finishers.......
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I'll be in the back of a C-130 Hercules flying back from exercise in Sardinia! >:-o <*<
You may have to shout at me when I get back as I'll be deaf!
But I wish you luck Martin :-))
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Best tip. Find your doppelganger and send him. Also send the free beer to me for testing. {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-)
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Fun - - - Run
How do those 2 words work together!!
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perhaps we should turn up and
mock support him by drinking tea and eating pies!
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Can i have your free BEER
Dave
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Take a small boat you might find a pond on the way around....... O0
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Mainly sweat
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on a serious note..........get a bowl of warm water and add some surgical spirits into it.........soak your feet in it for 30 minutes every night for a couple of weeks upto the run...........it hardens the feet and skin and enables you to get through your run without blisters.
we used to do that before a long distance walk like the Pennine Way or Pembrokeshire coast path...worked well.
Jim.
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Um.... it's only three miles. Let's not get too excited. I probably did that last week walking around Portmouth and Gosport to see the Queen Elizabeth arrive and I have arthritis in my feet!
Colin
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Um.... it's only three miles. Let's not get too excited. I probably did that last week walking around Portmouth and Gosport to see the Queen Elizabeth arrive and I have arthritis in my feet!
Colin
I thought it was at least 15k, lol..........belay the soaking of the feet...........just harden the mind by taking the spirits internally, lol.
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Video: https://youtu.be/bcA3eiAWRvA
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Um.... it's only three miles. Let's not get too excited.
Colin
only?????
some of us are more beach ball than six pack :-) :-) :-)
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'Training' going well, I can now put on my trainers without getting out of breath!
I when to the chippy last week, only bought chicken kebab meat, no chips or anything else.....
... they looked very worried and put a 'Going out of business Sale' sign up in the window!
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on a serious note..........get a bowl of warm water and add some surgical spirits into it.........soak your feet in it for 30 minutes every night for a couple of weeks upto the run...........it hardens the feet and skin and enables you to get through your run without blisters.
we used to do that before a long distance walk like the Pennine Way or Pembrokeshire coast path...worked well.
Jim.
HIya Jim !
Have you tried to buy surgical spirits lately?
I did a about 3 weeks ago (before my ambulance ride to A&E I must add) on the 1st Sept. blue lights lots of noise etc... it was daytime and really really exciting..honest %%
The staff in my local Morrisons looked at me aghast and said oooh no we don't keep that! how about meths then I said inoccently...ooooohhh no chance they told me. I felt like a druggie...ok I'm on 10 pills a Day now but their from the hospital...honest no joke O0 <:(
You can't buy meths or surgical spirits around here for love nor money <*<
You try it yourself and get back to us with your findings :-))
Hope you are well.
John.
(JaB)
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I was thinking mobility scooter to prevent blisters ...
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Just don't forget the charge {-)
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Chemist for surgical spirit .Meths too but B&Q better.Failing that go online and Google " buy methylated spirit " Same for the surgical spirit
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I get surgical spirit, for cleaning plastic and fibreglass, from Tesco. Every little helps as they say.
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Thanks for the advice about the meths and surgical spirit. I don't know why my local morrisons are so reluctant to stock either of those %)
Oh well not to worry their loss not mine.
I'll have to send my son to find some, I'm still stuck indoors, I had a funny turn yesterday, legs like jelly...sweating ..tight chest {:-{
Sorted myself out with rest and a Nitrolingual pump spray...??? from the hospital...ok now,
lots of appoinments coming soon..3 up to now...they have put surgery off untill they have more test results.. think it will still be major heart surgery later, damit italics are back on %% {-)
Later
JaB.
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I would join you but...
I'm in a worse condition !!! hospital have given me a ZIMMER FRAME :embarrassed:
it's about as much use for getting around as a rubber hammer...
I'm thinking about one of these Tri Walkers for the Blackpool show next month, basket for all the bits and pieces i will be buying..not sure if I will be able to carry a Deans Marine Cossack or Nubian kit in it though (not decided yet, I really like the Manxman, that one is even bigger %% )... you wont be able to miss me, look for the funny hat too.
http://www.millercare.co.uk/triwalker-flame-red-/ (http://www.millercare.co.uk/triwalker-flame-red-/)
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I've been persuaded..not difficult... O0 to sponsor my son's lady friend and her daughter, she's about 14 I think, for a 5k fun run for Cancer Research today, somewhere in Blackpool I'm told...
I'm in for £5 per kilometer..each %%
It's for a good cause so I don't mind spending a few quid :-))
JB.
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my last run was in 1998 or 1999 good luck martin,
tho my sister decided once again run into the sea ( she a barm pot) on boxing day in aid of the RNLI, she can run into the sea for FREE even in summer but no has to be winter and in aid for the RNLI, she still a barm pot {-) {-) {-) {-) {-)
me on other hand has more sence i take my models to lifeboat days and raise money for the RNLI that way lol
good luck martin you will enjoy the run :} :} :} :}
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Well I did it!
... more later..... I need to go lie down now as the ambulance crew are making a fuss over me!
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WELL DONE !!!!!!
Proud of you.
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Well done that man
Dave
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Where's the free beer? {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-)
Jolly good show. Marathon next? I'm right behind you (just over the horizon) :-))
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Well done Martin :-))
Your next challenge... can you do my fitness test! I'm due soon! :}
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You said you would, ... and you did
Well Done. Congratualtions :-))
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Memoirs from a non fit person!
Well sort of feeling a bit more sane today (Monday) , no ill effects so far... needless to say, best night's sleep in years!
Got to Rutland Water quite early, didn't want to walk too far from the car park to the start line, yes that does sound stupid today.
Daughter & I checked in .... and the good wife signed up too at the last minute!
Stood waiting around for what seemed ages.... right next to the coffee and bacon van ..... manage to resist (as I'm on a diet) but not easy, must stand somewhere else next year!
A good spirit was already noticeable with about 300 runners turning up.
20 minutes before the start, a warm up session was started .... what's the point of exercising before exercising?! ... I was to find out approximately 5 minutes after the start!
10 minutes before start, ambulance turns up with blue lights flashing and p[arks by the start / finish line... reassuring!
Positioned myself well to the back of the starting grid, I was going to 'walk this run' ... but I meant that quite literally, start at the back .... and hopefully stay there.
5, 4, 3, 3, 2, 1! We're off!
Excellent start for me, I wasn't even panting by the time I reached the starting line, excellent!
Straight on to damp grass, the field of runners quickly spread out, some of the front runners.... started of running?!?!?!!??
Couple of hundred yards into the first field and then a 50 yard "steep" rise up a grass bank / reservoir dam.... not too difficult... ... until I got to the top and back on flat ground when my shins suddenly started really burning! Brisk, walking suddenly got very tiresome.... I hit 'the wall' after just 10 minutes! :-(
I thought the burning would pass with a steady pace ... but no, just got worse. I tried doing my 'warm up stretches' at the next park bench... but just ended up looking like I was constipated.
15 min or so in, passed to finish line but unfortunately I was still on the outbound route, away from the finish.
Manage to pass several people, 2 & 3 year old kids, a WW1 veteran, someone in a wheelchair, a hearse and several sprightly trees.
20 minutes in, front runner comes charging towards me, really 'giving it the beans!'
He looked like he was about to explode with the effort he was putting in!
He must have been only a few hundred yards from the end and he was going SO fast, I wondered if he had enough room to slow down after the finish line!! ... anyway, 'good luck to him'... sigh... plod, plod, plod.
25 minutes in, the rest of the field was well out of sight now, plod, plod, plod.
I noticed my plod, plod, plod was becoming, 'Plod, Plod, Plod'?!?
Hmmmm, wearing heavy steel toe cap trainers may not have bee such a great idea after all.
30 minuets in, steady stream of runners coming in opposite direction now, most not even panting, some carrying kids on their shoulders and running pushchairs!
35 minutes, 2 & 3 year old kids, a WW1 veteran & hearse come trotting past me.... No.1 daughter run past in opposite direction.... laughing!
38 minutes, wife briskly walks past, also in opposite direction... I sure I heard her say; 'Nope, don't know him! Not with me!'
40 minutes, No.1 daughter trots back to walk with me for a while to keep me company.... check I'm not about to die.
42 minutes, No.1 daughter gets bored and runs off again!
I Pass a sign: "Welcome to Wales!" ... may have hallucinated that... plod, plod, plod.
45 minutes, race marshal says, 'nearly there' ... but he suspiciously laughing.
47 minutes, Pass a dad and his 6 year old daughter, daughter struggling. Wry smile to myself!
50 minutes, on my mobile phone now, to 'Lawyers 'R us' to see if I can sue someone?! ... plod, plod, plod.
55 minutes, check with a race marshal, that ambulance is still on standby at finish.
56 minutes, passed Stephen Hawking on the home straight.... 'said' dad and 6 year old daughter come running past me!
57 minutes. Finished! - - - - Surprisingly, I didn't Win!
I did ask if I could claim two medals as i was carrying twice the weight as anyone else in the race but they weren't having any truck wid dat!
'Next year is another year!'
MD
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You should be on the stage Martin, but well done anyway. Did you patronise the butty van when you finished or had they packed up and gone by then?
I suppose I ought to do something like that too but don't fancy the blue lights on the return leg.
Colin :-))