The Barnya Half-Marathon Challenge (on again)
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[quote name='Barnsey']<br />
I would like to verify that Barnya has got three sneaky pashes from<br />
various women over the last three weeks, two of them back to back<br />
and one of them wearing my shirt which will be subsequently burnt.[/quote]<br />
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I assume that Barn's payment to you for this post will include cost of shirt expenses <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /><br />
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Barn - well done on the drunk at work thing. You're an inspiration :happy: -
Barn, Only just stumbled across this (pun intended). Good on ya. YOU CAN DO IT. PdP's got it in aces. If you could manage half the distance in the 1st week you have got to be able to do this. Don't listen to the nay sayers. When I used to do marathons (a loooong time ago) I went 2 yrs without running at all then ran a half marathon with a weeks preparation. Your body remembers. You also need to factor in the rush you'll get on the day. I reckon physically you can manage the run already. How fuckin hard is it. It is not 20 km's. You're going to run 1 km. Not 20 x 1km. Just 1 km. Then you're going to think "fuck that was easy I'll run another km". Never focus on more than an easily achieveable target - the next lampost etc. You'll be surprised how easy it is to con yr body and mind. Helps if you're thick I suppose. Get yr headspace rightb and you'll manage it. Imagine the satisfaction of proving everyone wrong.Â
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[quote name='dogmeat']<br />
Helps if you're thick I suppose. Get yr headspace rightb and you'll manage it. Imagine the satisfaction of proving everyone wrong. <br />
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Yeah I think that's pretty much it
 Thanks alot for that Dogmeat, yeah it's gonna be a pretty emotional moment if I make it across the line. There may be tears, there may be dry rooting, there will be beer.<br />
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THE FINAL PUSH<br />
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Tuesday 29/8...decided I was ready today and ran beyond Ross Creek to the foot of Flagstaff and back. I made it but had to run up two of the longest steepest hills in the Dunedin in the process. Don't know if my legs will ever be the same.<br />
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So 12km (approx), 75min, at an average rate of 9km/h. Running at that speed in the HM will get me there in 2 hours 20...people have run full marathons in less time than that <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /><br />
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Though in my favour I do run a pretty undulating course in training, whereas the HM course is more or less dead flat, following the shoreline as it does. The weather will hopefully have warmed up by a few degrees, I will be able to rehydrate during the run (presumably, I mean they must have drink stations), I will have mates to pace me and the adrenaline will be pumping full blast. <br />
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Breakfast: banana<br />
Lunch: Chicken fettucine slice<br />
Dinner: 160g scotch fillet (flatmates out of town - woo hoo!)<br />
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Thesis: 6,678 words down, 11,322 words to go. -
Thursday 31/8<br />
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Easy 40min jog today. Felt a bit flat so want to save myself up for a big one on Saturday, and for once I'm not talking about getting on the lash. <br />
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Breakfast: banana<br />
Lunch: chicken foccacia<br />
Dinner: sausages, eggs and beans on toast (flatmates still out of town, must remember to get the locks changed before they get back)<br />
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Ok so I'm now into the last 10 days before the run, what should I be doing in particular during this time? Anything I should be eating or drinking? Going to do three more runs: Saturday, Monday, Wednesday, then the HM is on Sunday.<br />
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[quote]Ok so I'm now into the last 10 days before the run, what should I be doing in particular during this time? [/quote] pray
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Nah mate you'll be fine as long as you don't let the occassion get to you. Go out at a steady pace and only concentrate on the next 100m. You only have to finish, not win the sodding thing. Feel the force.<br />
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Hmmm, I'm in Dunedin tomorrow night. I might send a cruel text to Barnyard telling him there's free beer all night if he joins me.
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Good luck Barnya, you make us proud now you hear!?
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[quote name='Barnsey']<br />
I would like to verify that Barnya has got three sneaky pashes from<br />
various women over the last three weeks, two of them [b]back to back[/b]<br />
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Siamese twins only count as one pash! -
I didn't make it. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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I apologise to everyone I have let down, you guys have been absolutely fantastic and believe you me I am far more disappointed in myself than you are. But my head is in a bad space at the moment - work commitments and relationship fuck ups and family illness and all the usual shit - and I just wasn't mentally or physically prepared. I do however believe the training and hard work I put in has been of benefit going forward, to coin a phrase.<br />
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Feel free to further bring me down by posting insults and abuse but I won't be reading TSF until I hand in my thesis next month.<br />
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Nevertheless the fatbusting is ongoing. Thank you and God bless. Over and out. -
Barn, needless to say I'm disappointed in your inability to front up.<br />
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However I am exceptionally proud of your commonsense in the face of other commitments.<br />
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You tried and you failed. The lesson is: never try <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
