The Forum of Benfleet Running Club

Karl C · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:55 am Post subject: Welcome

Welcome - I did believe (in my heart of hearts) that this Island had sunk without trace,
but due to (some) poular demand I have saved it from a watery grave.......

mikemoreton · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:59 am Post subject:

What island? The suspense is killing me!!

Karl C · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:04 am Post subject:

MM2. this was before your time. Pat (on his sick bed) started a narrative based on an island which included (ahem) some of the BRC members.

It was funny in parts, and long and tedious in others.

Once it sank (Pat pulled the plug, literally) it had no posts for a month of so and the auto-archive-delete setting on the Forum deleted it.

I have since turned off this option.

Pammie · #3 Joined: 01 Jul 2006 Posts: 385

so is it gone for good

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Steffan · #4 Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 588 Location: Basildon

Raise it from the depths me harties!

Karl C · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 11:07 am Post subject:

All the original transcripts are (sadly) lost...so we start again from here.....

Mike Mason · #7 Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 1055 Location: Hockley

luckily the transcripts still exist in one very sick mind.....

damn I have just found an Emoticon for Lucycat.....

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'.

jacklarge · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject:

Being a late-comer to the literary feast that was the fabled Island story, I'm probably not doing it justice so suffice to say that Pat will need to put me right on certain sections:

Part 1: All at Sea.

Captain Blah, hoist the main-snail, lumber me timbers blah blah blah. "Shipmate Maston stop running round the yard-arm... blithering blah blah."

"Isle ahoy Cap'n" yelled Dead-leg Godfrey.

Then there was something about a huge rabbit named Lucky I think?

Something happened after that for about 540,000 words...
and finally the Island sunk due to a combination of alcohol and manic depression.

I may have got some of that mixed up with another story though - it was a long time ago (in a place far far away)...

Cheers,

John.
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Gordon: Go on then, run!
Dennis: Isn't there some kind of like... special technique?
Gordon: Well... yeah... you put one leg in front of the other over and over again really really fast.

Pat M · #2 Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 221 Location: Canvey Island

Couldn't have put it better myself, Jack. Perfect.

Mike Mason · #7 Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 1055 Location: Hockley

John, fantastic - that's like one of those exam synopsis books:

Muldoons Island for Dummies

or an existential treatise on the sadness of being ie, an england Supporters manual

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'.

Pat M · #2 Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 221 Location: Canvey Island

Yes, Mike, that joke was so old even I don't remember it!
Steve, did you get a PB at Dark Lane? Stevie D, lol, what's that all about? Anyway, seen a thingy online about shin splints. It's called the 'Shin splint cure report', and it's supposed to cure the splints very quickly and permanently. Now how true I don't know. It's $26.00ish. If you're interrested let me know and you can buy the book and i'll borrow it. I figure you spent so much already a few extra bucks won't matter. It's by Adam Rees. Forget where the site was.
Regards. Pat.

Stevie · #3 Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 452 Location: Benfleet

Hi Pat,

No PB for me at Dark Lane, wasnt expecting to get one either, but after running the first two mile at sub 6:05 pace I was on track but along Rayleigh road I got a bad stitch and had to pull up three times during the last mile

Still wasnt too upset as i know I can a PB at the Basildon 5km hopefully

I'll see if I can get that book in electronic format off the net, dont fancy paying for it, my shins are getting better, but only if i constantly ice them.
I've done two races in a week and I'm running 3 days in a row and they still feel fairly good, so hopefully they are getting better (fingers crossed).

Hope your going to be at the club Thursday for the Badger run, not sure if ill be there, as I'm doing the Saunders this weekend, and I've got loads to sort out for that.

Pat M · #2 Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 221 Location: Canvey Island

I noticed Terry T slipped in a little post there thinking I wouldn't notice. His 22nd one too! Oooooh.
MM1, 'work into a Muldoon somwhere', what does that mean? I mean, what does that meeeaannn? lol.
Steve, I mean Stevie, I mean Stephen with a ph instead of a v, I mean I just don't know what to call you anymore! Except for mad, I mean who goes out and runs 6.05s for two miles then dies. lol. What were you thinking, Retard? Why wasn't I there with my camera? lol. Did ya yak, Stevie, Steve, Stephen?....Oh, that reminds me you tight git. Buy that shin splint cure, I need it. lol.
MM1, Ernie, your opinion on the CANVEY ISLAND/benfleet ULTRA. What do you two think of adding a Canvey loop or two into the Ultra if it goes ahead? I've asked Mike Jordan but he's too shy to get back to me.

Stevie · #3 Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 452 Location: Benfleet

Pat - bring your camera along to the Gloucester Park 5km and you can take some pics of me getting a PB there - lol
My shins seem to be on the mend so I might not need to buy the book now, still if you buy it i wouldnt mind borrowing it :bootyshake: