Running and lifestyle

Missed this whole thread - I was obviously working too damn hard on 20 -23 August.

Yes, I remember everything. Particularly remember Bazooka Joes, I really wanted the perfume pendant but I couldn't send off for it cos we were living in Belfast at the time and they didn't send things across the water.
Parma Violets YUK -how could anyone?
I really liked sherbet fountain.

Does anyone remember clackers - those two plastic balls on the end of string that you clacked together - banned in most schools after a term.
Spacehoppers - Joanne Hall (where is she now) bounced through our glass front door, again in Belfast. When I think back, two kids on spacehoppers bouncing in a space 5ft by 4ft (our front hall) - what was my mother on? (Valium actually) Parenting was different in those days.
Ahh, the memories.

Runnings changed my life : I have no time to learn piano anymore, my bathroom radiator's constantly covered in sports kit, I'm leaner than I've ever been in my life (still not very), my husband calls me nethead, my dog loves me.

Oh I remember clackers-or my knuckles do! Actually I got quite good at them. What about skates, none of the fancy inline ones of today, these were adjustable ones that grew with your feet!


Running's changed my life: it's made me more organised with my time, more selfish, obsessive, healthy and fit. My sports massage therapist tells me I've not got an ounse of cellulite and my children think I'm a fitness freak.

Being fairly new on the Forum I seemed to have missed this thread before. Ratbag, we must be from around the same era, I remember Twizzle, Brian the snail, even Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men. Played bulldog, ate Jubblies, sherbet dabs, 1/2p chews - how about gobstoppers? As a schoolgirl I used to rush home to watch Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates in Rawhide. Bet my memory goes back further than most of you - I saw most of the running 'greats' of yesteryear. Anyone else ever go to athletics internationals at White City stadium? I was 11 when I started running with my dad - am a lot older now! Thank heavens for age groups.

Did anyone ever have a pair of shoes with animal tracks on the sole and a compass set in the heel that always smashed.....
I think they were called Wayfinders...

Running has really changed me, I sleep better, eat better, have cut right down on alcohol, and isnt running so addictive!!! if I miss a run I get upset and cant wait to get out on the next one.....