I feel like I've finally lost it. Today, I am fed up of:
1) Waking up in the "morning" to find another grey overcast day with rain pouring past the window, meaning my cycles to and from anywhere require three changes of clothing and that a soggy behind is achieved before anything else that day. It's summer, these days are supposed to be spent lounging in the Meadows with a bottle of Magners and a good book and friends, alongside the occasional game of frisbee. Not sat in on Saturday afternoon with the heating on and a duvet watching Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves (which incidentally, is a rather brilliant film.).
2) It's Sunday and there's no orienteering, meaning I have to pick from the rather non exciting choices of drizzly run in the Pentlands, drizzly cycle in the Pentlands, drizzly run on the Seat etc etc, or the gym. Sodding gym.
3) Edinburgh being full of "boho" (read Sienna Miller wannabe) types with "just got out of bed" ( read three hours ago and have been carefully styling ever since) hair talking loudly about contempary American playwrights or even worse, singing about Tony Blair in that appalling overly demonstrative "I'm in a musicaaaal" kind of voice, or alternatively, parties full of twenty something shaven headed rugby boys who deem it perfectly acceptable to grope girls behinds when they dare to walk down the street at 11pm on a Friday. No eye contact, no cheeky grin, just a grope. I was ANGRY!
4) The likelihood of the salvation at the end of this rubbish "summer", Connect festival and Bjork, becoming a post apocalyptic Glastonbury style mudfest, leading to a rather large chance of acquiring a nasty spot of gangrene whilst attempting to dance like an idiot to Big Time Sensuality in three feet of mud (Which I'm sure any aqua jogger will inform me is tricky at the best of times, without the involvement of a few tons of earth).
RAR! Someone say something, anything, to motivate me out of this big fat hole, before I go to the gym and waste my day doing intervals on a cross trainer accompanied by the Hollyoaks Omnibus and a whole host of perfectly made up gym bunnies in yoga pants. I already watched all of Hollyoaks this week, so this cannot happen.
Rar.
Rar!
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Cheer up Becky and stop complaining!
1) You were in on Saturday afternoon because you were out on Friday night, presumably having a good time. If you had not been hungover there was orienteering to go to which was perfectly pleasant and even used a new control site!
2) Running in the rain is the most fun form of running. Have you forgotten what it is like to be a 5 year old when the most fun thing you can possibly think of is to jump in puddles and make a big splash? When you go running in the rain there are so many puddles that the fun is never ending. In fact it is most disappointing that the morning's rain appears to have stopped for now before I got a chance to enjoy it.
3) I won't deny that Edinburgh has some more annoying folk in it, especially these days with all those silly tourists. But generally you pick your own company and generally I get the impression that you're happy with the company you spend most of your days with. The rest of them are necessary for some variety in the world and most of them are good for laughing at in some way or another.
4) Connect festival will have good music, be fun and provide ample opportunity for cross training. I don't know what else you can possibly hope for.
Now go and buy a bar of chocolate and make yourself feel mildly better before eating more and feeling sick.
I'm going for a (disappointingly dry) run.
1) You were in on Saturday afternoon because you were out on Friday night, presumably having a good time. If you had not been hungover there was orienteering to go to which was perfectly pleasant and even used a new control site!
2) Running in the rain is the most fun form of running. Have you forgotten what it is like to be a 5 year old when the most fun thing you can possibly think of is to jump in puddles and make a big splash? When you go running in the rain there are so many puddles that the fun is never ending. In fact it is most disappointing that the morning's rain appears to have stopped for now before I got a chance to enjoy it.
3) I won't deny that Edinburgh has some more annoying folk in it, especially these days with all those silly tourists. But generally you pick your own company and generally I get the impression that you're happy with the company you spend most of your days with. The rest of them are necessary for some variety in the world and most of them are good for laughing at in some way or another.
4) Connect festival will have good music, be fun and provide ample opportunity for cross training. I don't know what else you can possibly hope for.
Now go and buy a bar of chocolate and make yourself feel mildly better before eating more and feeling sick.
I'm going for a (disappointingly dry) run.
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Becks, take up a new sport where the rain makes no difference. Personally, I recommend scuba diving.
Spent the whole of yesterday standing in the rain, (then diving) not getting wet in a drysuit - spent the whole of today standing in a drysuit getting far too hot in the sun. It's a funny old world.
Spent the whole of yesterday standing in the rain, (then diving) not getting wet in a drysuit - spent the whole of today standing in a drysuit getting far too hot in the sun. It's a funny old world.
What are pictorial descriptions?
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Becks. Just for future reference is it ok to grope your behind as long as I look you in the eye and give you a cheeky grin? Thought not.
Hope your feeling cheerier today.
Hope your feeling cheerier today.
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this thread has cheered my (grey) Monday morning.
1. get some decent waterproofs, then you don't care about the wet and don't get wet wearing them.
2. see 1, get out there!
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4. I shall end with a ray (or actually quite a lot) of sunshine for you:
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/14d ... e=PA32+8XE
1. get some decent waterproofs, then you don't care about the wet and don't get wet wearing them.
2. see 1, get out there!
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4. I shall end with a ray (or actually quite a lot) of sunshine for you:
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/14d ... e=PA32+8XE
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Thanks folks, you'll be pleased to hear I just did a stonking intervals session (nice pyramid from 200-1000 and back down), beat all my previous times for each distance, and it was sunny.
My experiments might even be providing my first original result in a year too.
D.Ream were right all along weren't they?
My experiments might even be providing my first original result in a year too.
D.Ream were right all along weren't they?
Will? We've got proper fire now!
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Becks. Connect wouldn't dare be anything but ace. It's been a while since our festival going heyday but surely you haven't become so old and boring as to mind a bit of mud?! That's the sort of thing that only happens to dull city types
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becks, you may think it's all better now, but i'm still feeling the summer (read winter) blues...
notice they admit its cloudy from 'nearest observations'. no $hit.
notice they admit its cloudy from 'nearest observations'. no $hit.
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Yup, it's all grey again today and I got wet on my cycle between labs. But I did get out for a recovery run along the Crags in my incubation period and it was lovely. And I saw my favouritest comedy show ever last night so I'm still giggling.
Will? We've got proper fire now!
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