THE DARKSIDE - WHERE IS IT? - Page 2 - Clubhouse

fat buddha

09/08/2011 at 10:35

hehe

a random dip into the Darkside - one day from 2005

http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/forum/forummessages.asp?UTN=6965&URN=9&SP=&V=1&searchdate=0&cp=5326&dt=4

great fun

IronM.in

pirate

09/08/2011 at 10:52

Alot of old names on there FB, but alot still hanging around too!

Dave The Ex- Spartan pirate

pirate

09/08/2011 at 11:05

Redhead wrote (see)

Could you lot please control your badger. He's plucking his lute on our sofa and it's most distracting for the old folks )

You couldn't make it up could you ?

Nessie

09/08/2011 at 12:15

Hi Shambler! How the hell are you?

Didn't often venture into the Darkside myself (it was mostly an evening thang, and I only posted in the daytime) but I certainly remember it.

Just realised that I started posting on here (well, the forum before the forum before the forum before this one) almost 10 years ago.........................

phoenix

09/08/2011 at 13:42

I remember your bloody knee FB. I remember overindulging on the beer at the pub afterwards and the train journey home was a bit of a blur!

Thanks for the link to the old DS. I've spent much too long reading through and laughing. God knows how I managed any work at the time because there was so much banter going on I barely left my computer!

TransRockies, eh? That sounds amazing. I've done the TransWales...... doesn't sound quite so adventurous and hard though does it?

Nessie I must have started posting around a similar time. Scary huh?

fat buddha

09/08/2011 at 14:29

I was having a good giggle earlier at the DS - as you say, how did we manage to work as well??

10p was bloody funny but he could be a bit odd - both here and in real life. he just disappeared from view after dropping out of a walking holiday with Jon - not seen hide or hair of him since. bizarre. and Jon has recently moved to Germany to be with his long time g/f - he finally managed to get out of the HoP when offered redundancy (with a good wodge to smooth his way)

the Transrockies is like TransWales on steroids. they did it 2 years ago in awful weather so are hoping for kinder conditions this time. good luck to them.

I have Ironman Wales coming up in September - number 5 IM - and then that's it. this old body is feeling it's age now

what are you studying? and doing much on the bike or run these days?

phoenix

11/08/2011 at 08:52

Your 5th Ironman!! I'm suitably impressed. Wow! Puts my couple of marathons this year into perspective! That must take an unbelievable amount of training.

I'm still running and have done several 20+ mile events this year, all off road. I'm considering doing an ultra marathon next year but I'll build up slowly just in case my poor old body can't take it! As for the cycling, I rarely get out more than once a week since I started university because I commute to Reading from the New Forest, which takes up 4 hours a day in term time. Crazy I know, but I wouldn't want to live in Reading! (Sorry Reading). Running is easier to keep up because you can run anywhere, if you see what I mean, and it's easy to cart your kit about.

I'm studying habitat management and conservation, with the hope of getting a job at the end of it all of course. It's a major career change.

DickDastardly is getting into duathlons and triathlons now. He qualified for the European Duathlon Champs in April and the Worlds, which is in September.

fat buddha

11/08/2011 at 10:27

4 hours commute?? ferking hell - madness! but good luck with it - sounds like a great subject that has some relevance in this stupid modern world where we neglect the natural resource around us.

IM is bloody hard work with all the training - that workload makes the event seem "easy". this week, I've done a 95mile bike, two runs - 1 of 2hrs, 2 short rides, I'll bike turbo tonight and try to fit a sea swim in sometime before another long bike on Saturday. but only 4 weeks to race day, so it's heavy load time.

and good stuff with DD and his ambitions. my missus, Petal, is GB age group champ at standard distance tri (won this year at Dambuster) and has done 2 World Champs with the GB team.

and to think - I only signed up to this forum as I was training for my 1st marathon in 2003. and that was only a one-off marathon. AS IF!!!

20 marathons (including 3 ultras, one of 45 miles off road in the Beacons) and 4 completed IM later - I'm still frigging here. but I wouldn't change a thing as we've met some great friends through this place and have seen and done a lot.

phoenix

11/08/2011 at 13:00

Sounds as though I'm lagging behind you in the marathon stakes FB. I'm really looking forward to getting into ultras - although I might not think that half way through one! Congrats to Petal too. DD came 3rd in his age group in the European Duathlon Champs but was disqualified for not wearing his timing chip (The officials didn't give it to him until the transition between the first run and the bike - but then disqualified him even though it was their fault he didn't have it. He wore it for the rest of the race. It was a total farce.) Let's hope for better in the World Champs!

Haven't you got some godawful swim to do out round an island a couple of times in the Ironman in Wales? I've only just got into open water swimming this year and am a total wimp - acting like some novice swimmer! It'll come....

btw, I think we've hijacked the thread.....

fat buddha

11/08/2011 at 15:18

you could be right there P! where's that bloody Shambler - she started this.......

and no we don't have to swim around the island in Tenby Bay - it's a triangular course marked with buoys that we do twice.

TwoDogs has just posted on his FB page from the TransRockies - "ugh...it's grey and damp and slightly rainy here...and cold. today is rumoured to be one of the hardest...the mud won't help!". I think he's having fun....

Armadillo

11/08/2011 at 16:26

Mwah Shambler. Lovely to see you again.

Hello FB. Change of plan since I saw you last. IM Canada's off but looking at other IM distance races - one on the Czech border (£80) and one in Vichy, France. Was Petal in Budapest last year?

fat buddha

11/08/2011 at 17:48

bloody hell - they're coming out of the woodwork!

hi 'dillo - not so long time no speak

P didn't do Budapest - she's not particularly interested in racing GB again. although if the rumour of the world's being in London in 2013 comes true, and coincides with the ITU race, she might be......

Challenge Vichy looks good - nice and flat. if I wasn't retiring after IM Wales I'd be tempted

Nessie

12/08/2011 at 12:20

fat buddha wrote (see)

if I wasn't retiring after IM Wales I'd be tempted

Pffft!

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