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Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Rayleigh

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Fred Astaire

jacklarge · Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 239 Location: Rayleigh, Essex

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

- George W Bush, US President

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 953 Location: Hockley

"I wasn’t a truly genuine trail ultrarunner until March 7, 1992 at the
Wild Oak 50 near Harrisonburg, Virginia. It was a rainy day and
simultaneously, while I was piddling on the run, chewing on an energy
bar and washing it down with Mountain Dew, my nose was dripping and I
farted. That was the ultimate defining moment in my trail running
career, if not my entire life."
- Bob Boeder
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 953 Location: Hockley

"It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse."
Ann Trason
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Rayleigh

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Rayleigh

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Alan Bleasdale

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Rayleigh

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 953 Location: Hockley

'S@d off an leave me alone I feel bad enough anyway without being reminded of times winged chariot ....' (Mason)
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Rayleigh

The angry people are those people who are most afraid.

Dr. Robert Anthony

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Rayleigh

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Francis Bacon

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 953 Location: Hockley

“Hills are speedwork in disguise.”—Frank Shorter, 1972 Olympic Marathon champion
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

jacklarge · Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 239 Location: Rayleigh, Essex

"I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier," he said. He called the race "the hardest physical thing I have ever done" - even more grueling than his worst days on the Tour. Will he be back? "Now's not the time to ask that question. The answer now is no, I'll never be back. But I reserve the right to change my mind," he said. "I don't know how these guys do it."

Guess who said this recently after finishing the New York Marathon?

Should cut out a lot of the debate about which event is the most physically testing?

Cheers,

John
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"As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"

- Holly, ships computer, Red Dwarf

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 953 Location: Hockley

Was it Lance A?

rgds
Mike
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Rayleigh

Lance Armstrong

Do I get a prize...??

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Rayleigh

bugger, pipped by a Hockley Spurs man!

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Rayleigh

mmmm, no more please...I am full up !

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 953 Location: Hockley

Git!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Rayleigh

oohhh...tummy ache...!

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Rayleigh

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

jacklarge · Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 239 Location: Rayleigh, Essex

Karl,

You want a prize Shocked

? How about irregular constructive critism of the Benfleet Running Club website? Just think what I would have given you if you'd have come first! Doh.

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MM as the winner you get an unlimited supply of semi-thought out retorts to your generally funny postings. Cool

Cheers,

John.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 953 Location: Hockley

Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm stuck in a Vogon air lock with a man from Betelgeuse, about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.

Ford Prefect: Why? What did she tell you?

Arthur: I don't know; I didn't listen.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Pammie · Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 299

said by the character Ed Harris played in Apollo 13

"Failure is not an option"

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 953 Location: Hockley

“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.”
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 953 Location: Hockley

For Mikey and Karl......

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra

rgds

Mike Laughing

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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 953 Location: Hockley

"You can never run a hill too hard, you will collapse before hurting it."
- Submitted by Adam Born

rgds

Mike
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 953 Location: Hockley

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that spark should burn
> out in a brillant blaze than it should be stilled by dry rot. I would
> rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificanet glow, than a
> sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to
> exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my
> time." - Jack London
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Rayleigh

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.

Philipino Proverb

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 953 Location: Hockley

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious - Alan Minter."
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.