What did you have for breakfast?
Raspberry, blueberry, pear, apple, pineapple, banana and yoghurt smoothie and a cup of coffee for me.
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What did you have for breakfast?
Raspberry, blueberry, pear, apple, pineapple, banana and yoghurt smoothie and a cup of coffee for me.
Two espressos, 5k run, PB, a puke a' phlegm, 3 Marlboro Lights.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
PB? Peanut butter?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Did my six miler last night down by the river. Getting a bit dark now, depressingly. Have to start road-running again. Bloody winter.
'Personal Best'. It's what we runners say when we go faster than we have before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
My treadmill cares not whether it is light or dark, wet or dry :cloud9:
My multigym is arriving tomorrow. I need monty's advice on how much to bench.
Treadmills are for women who don't want to go out running for fear of being raped. A real man wouldn't be seen near one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Multi-gym? A weights bench, some free weights and a set of chest expanders is all a chap needs. :nod:
Heggs and bay-can, toast, loads of coffee, half a Silk Cut. Finger of Weinbrand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Rude *****.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Why am I slightly disappointed by the Silk Cut, r? :-( Is it because I saw you as more of a Meerschaum man?Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Well yes, but we have to rehearse these little bickers. It's traditional. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
What does your multi gym look like?
What is your PB now?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
It's like a bench with a free weights bar but it takes attachments. I've got the leg extender thing coming with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
There's no way I'm admitting to that on an open forum, p. I could say 19:18 and every ***** here would claim to be doing it in 9 minutes flat. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
I don't smoke cigarettes but the wife occasionally does so I sometimes pinch a breakfast fag from her.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
The leg extender? For leg lifts, you mean? I can't do those. They fùck my knees. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
It's OK. Snin is no longer here to claim times that would make Mo Farah blush.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Yes. I'm working on the theory that they're good for building quads, and it's quads that protect your knees.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
In truth, I know fúck all about it. Yay!
Hearty congratulations on your ascension to the moderatocracy, by the way. You and I have always got on, I think.
HAVEN'T WE??
Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Yes, and the only way to do it properly would be to go to a gym and be patronised by some musclebound ***** who probably left school with 1 GCSE, so fùck that, obviously. Your hit-and-hope approach is the correct one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Actually, he sort of hounded himself out. Everyone stopped responding to him and he got huffy and left.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
And I would never be anything other than polite to you. You have firearms.
:hehe: Politeness is good when one may have to back up his acts with his life, as the man said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I use my treadmill. I have a fantastic view from it, listen to whatever the hell I want to listen to at full volume without disturbing anyone. And avoid rapists, car fumes, potential traffic accidents and inclement weather.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I think my car would struggle to do it in 9 mins flatQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
19:18 is a good time for an OAP imo
For what distance?
5km.... the old goats knees wouldn't take much furtherQuote:
Originally Posted by Mo Britain less Europe
I'm not running 19:18, p.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
19.18 for 5k is pretty good for an amateur. I might have done it in 16.00 in my heyday but would struggle to do it in 22.00 now I guess.
You sadden meQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
One of those new Quaker Oats - super goodness packs. They come in a super poncey new box and have a handful of drehydrated grits, masquerading as Guava, Cranberry and blueberry thrown into the bag. They're very nice but in an effort to maximise on profit, the reptiles at Quaker have charged a quid more for the experience than their more standard fayre of apple and blueberry, available in the boring normal box and they've quaintly short changed the consumer by providing 8 sachets instead of 10.. Nice..Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
convenience doesn't come for free, 7s
Cup of coffee and one slice of pear.
That's no breakfast for a growing lad, sw. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
:nod: back to the old S&E McMuffin for me tomorrow :cloud9:
Are you on remand, SW? Dieting perhaps?Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
I was making the kids breakfast and packed lunches and I found myself with a stray piece of pear so I thought I'm having that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
You used to run 16:00 5ks, m? Were you a professional athlete, perhaps?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mo Britain less Europe
I was bemoaning my relative lack of pace to a friend of similar age who regularly runs such times and he put things into perspective by suggesting I look around at all the people I know and ask myself how many of them could run 5,000 metres in any time without suffering an infarct. The number was suprisingly few. Of any age, even.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
No not professional. I didn't do many track 5000s. I ran 800 in 1.59 and 1500 in 4.17 but never trained enough to have the miles in my legs to let me kick on further.
Good Lord. Most impressive. wd you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mo Britain less Europe
Ah.. bittersweet. Like with many other things in life I now wish I'd put more effort into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Monty knows nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
A man of your years should pick a weight you can do 15-20 reps with and do 4 sets of as many as you can with 1-2 minutes between sets. Gets the heart rate up and will help with muscle definition so that V continues to see you as a sex god even in these twilight years.