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Some shout outs

10:27am, 29 Jan 2019

In the last week, the following Fetchies have either set up voluntary monthly donations, or else done an annual donation to the site. They each get a shiny gold background on their user profiles, and our huge thanks for supporting the site.

hurricanehamlyn
danyul
KelP
Ima Donkey
Hazelnut
Daz Love
anyonebutmatt
Jenelopy
PeterFay
mackers2
artypete
There We Are Then
Simbil

If you'd like to support us with a small monthly donation, that'd be awesome. Here's the info you need: fetcheveryone.com/invite.php

Oh, and episode 4 of the podcast is out - links to iTunes, Spotify, Buzzsprout and others can be found here: fetcheveryone.com/podcast

Happy Tuesday :-)

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It's great to see people are signing up and supporting
Autumnleaves
11:48am, 29th Jan 2019
I love seeing all these shiny gold banners as I look at people's profiles.
westmoors
1:06pm, 29th Jan 2019

Fix It Friday!

12:18pm, 25 Jan 2019

It's Friday, I've fixed stuff (some of which I broke in the first place). It must be Fix It Friday! It's been a good week for getting stuck in - I have a nice list to share with you.

1) First up is a new calculator, in response to a request (I can't remember who asked, so sorry - it's been busy). Rather than putting your race time in, and getting a WAVA/age grade out, you put the WAVA in, and it tells you what times you need to run. It saves fiddling about :-)

Try it here:

fetcheveryone.com/training-calculators-reversewava.php

2) Following on from that, I decided to tidy up Training > Calculators. I've grouped them into categories. Not much more to say about this, other than to ask you to leave a comment if there's a calculator you'd like to see added: fetcheveryone.com/training-calculators.php

3) Tackling a few Fitbit woes. Several of you have new Fitbits for Christmas, and have been pleased to discover that you can now import your Fitbit training entries to the site. BUT we've discovered some issues. Elsie Too's swims generate TCX files, but those TCX files have virtually nowt in them, so they're as good as useless. And when RunnyBunny imports a TCX manually, her heart rate data is there, but when she uses our importer, it's not there. I investigated this, because I thought maybe there was something wrong with our importer - but the data is simply NOT THERE. I've contacted Fitbit about both these issues, and am awaiting a response.

3b) In a similar vein, I'm also trying to get some reassurances from Suunto about our importing options, in light of some recent announcements they've made about a new platform, and the retirement of an old one. Fingers crossed for a response soon.

4) Our race database is huge and awesome. That's nothing new. Every month, the 'Visit Event Website' links on our race listings are followed over 10,000 times. But there are also a few companies that list LOTS of races with us. And I discovered that one of them (let's call them TrickyCorp) was selling a service to race organisers. Part of what they do is deliver traffic to the event website. TrickyCorp list the races with us, but when you click 'Visit Event Website', it first goes to the TrickyCorp website, and from there on to the event website. TrickyCorp get to say that they've generated XYZ views, and presumably use it to justify their fees. So.... (sorry Sharkie) I put together a little snippet of code that follows the link, grabs the end destination, and uses that instead. I think event organisers need to know that their traffic comes from us. And we don't charge for listings.

5) A few users (including McG) reported that 'Next Race' on the Race Portfolio page was only picking up straightforward 'distance run' races. So triathlons, duathlons, timed races, swims, bikes etc were not getting a chance. That should be fixed now. Your Race Portfolio: fetcheveryone.com/raceportfolio.php

6) Member of the Month. A few months back I put the voting, nominating and questioning reminders into notifications. Various people have reported that they've accidentally closed the notification, and couldn't then find a suitable link. So now, collected MOTM wisdom (including the last 12 interviews) can now be found at fetcheveryone.com/motm - it shows a link to voting from 1st to 7th, and link to question page from 8th to 14th. The nominations are open all month. Have you nominated someone yet?

7) Race Portfolio (again). Dvorak asked if WAVA data could be made available on smartphones when you put your phone on its side (landscape view). There are an increasing number of places on the site where flipping to landscape view gives you a wee bit more detail. I first saw this on the BBC Sport website. When they publish league tables, the mobile ones always look super simple, but if you flip your phone, it gives you extra stuff, like goal difference. Great use of smartphone tech :-)

8) I've added a box where you can enter your height on the weight page - and it'll automatically calculate your BMI based on your most recent weight data. I've also thought about whether to give you the option to turn on a notification, that would then pop up every day/week/month to remind you to record your weight. Thoughts? Anyway, here's the weight page: fetcheveryone.com/weight.php

That seems like a good place to end it this week :-)

I hope you have a good one. Don't forget to tune into the podcast - find out how here: fetcheveryone.com/podcast

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Comments

Yay for 5) and 6) (I always close the link...). Down with TrickyCorp!
McGoohan
12:22pm, 25th Jan 2019
Can I claim credit for 1) please ? You're all welcome

It's one of the marvels of this site - you have an idea, someone else thinks its good and a couple of weeks later it magically appears!! We all win!
larkim
12:28pm, 25th Jan 2019
yes please to a weigh in reminder - I forgot this morning.
Rosehip
12:31pm, 25th Jan 2019
And I can confirm 4) is working. My next race is indeed 9 days away. Nine days? Yikes!
McGoohan
12:31pm, 25th Jan 2019
I the wava calculator, and the 60% thread. I think those times are achievable Thank you.
LindsD
12:32pm, 25th Jan 2019
+1 for the weight reminder!
Sigh
12:46pm, 25th Jan 2019
Great work. Love number 1 and 4 particularly
DingDocMerrily
12:53pm, 25th Jan 2019
Hurrah for 4!
Carpathius
12:59pm, 25th Jan 2019
If I never asked you for 1) I should have! Thanks.

4 is right and proper!
3FrenchMs
1:09pm, 25th Jan 2019
Yay for bypassing TrickyCorp. If it's the same one I have come across, I always try to amend the link, and the rest of the listing, they never do it properly!
StuH
1:12pm, 25th Jan 2019
I like 4 - well done Fetch
Autumnleaves
1:19pm, 25th Jan 2019
What ho!
I'm back to playing fetchpoint (yay) but when you click on a bug/flower/etc the information box comes up with the top left corner located at the centre of the item. This means that you can't see what terrain lies beneath the 'quarter past to half past' quadrant of the 80m circle. Please can the boxes be offset a little?
Also, it'd be great to have the option of a satellite view again on fetchpoint; I can only navigate my routes by seeing field edges, which don't show on the map (and footpaths on the map are 'patchy' at best..!)
Keep up the good work!
Crash Hamster
1:32pm, 25th Jan 2019
Thanks for your efforts with fitbit
Elsie Too
2:47pm, 25th Jan 2019
For very different reasons, I've had to contact FitBit a few times and their reponse times have always been good. Hopefully you'll hear back soon. btw - my fitbit imports work fine !
bigleggy
2:53pm, 25th Jan 2019
I have many years of weight data in Fetch. Only sporadically record it weekly though. Reminder might be useful. I like the MOTM summary page. Could you put a link in the People menu, perhaps? 4 is norty. Not surprising though. The Race Finder is pretty valuable, actually. Good that people are entering stuff. Bad that they're trying to hijack it! Have a great weekend. G
Merry Christmas and Happy NewG(rrr)
2:54pm, 25th Jan 2019
to no.4 - cheeky barstewards!
clare1976
4:51pm, 25th Jan 2019
on 8, I mis-clicked and entered the wrong height. There doesn't seem to be anyway to change it, can there be?
chunkywizard
5:03pm, 25th Jan 2019
Send me some feedback CW
fetcheveryone
5:06pm, 25th Jan 2019
I wouldn't have thought to ask for any of these, but several sound like really user-friendly tweaks that will make things even more intuitive. Hurrah for Fetchies and hurrah for Fetch! (And "yes" to the weight prompt.)
♪♫ Synge ♪♫
5:46pm, 25th Jan 2019
Great work Fetch!

I’m not sure if there’s a slight glitch with the weight reminder, or if I’ve just done it wrong. I’ve set t up to remind me every Monday morning, but I’ve been getting daily reminder notifications.
jennyh
11:40am, 28th Jan 2019
Yeah, that should be better now Jenny.
fetcheveryone
12:25pm, 28th Jan 2019
Fab, thanks Fetch!
jennyh
3:41pm, 28th Jan 2019
I thought that WAVA one was new... was about to fiddle round with the old one for my gf, then realised that one was there. V useful, thanks!
Yazoo
7:50pm, 28th Jan 2019
Fetch, any chance we could add weight in stones and pounds ?
Corona
10:01am, 29th Jan 2019
like the new addition to the weight page - the only addition I welcome in that respect!
Old Croc
10:09am, 30th Jan 2019
I've made the same mistake @chunkywizard did - and I can't amend my height post-facto either.
gwowen
1:58pm, 16th Sep 2019
I've reset you, gwowen.
fetcheveryone
2:01pm, 16th Sep 2019
Thanks, oh great and powerful Fetch.
gwowen
2:23pm, 16th Sep 2019

Podcast Ep 3, plus some naming and faming

2:07pm, 21 Jan 2019

The third episode of our podcast is now live. You should be able to find it by searching 'fetcheveryone' in your podcast app, or failing that, all our episodes are hosted here: fetcheveryone.buzzsprout.com

Please subscribe, to be notified every time we upload a new one - and do call into fetcheveryone.com/podcast to leave comments, questions and suggestions :-)

And also thank you to the following Fetchies, who've either set up new monthly donations, or else made a donation to the site during the last seven days. They each get shiny gold backgrounds on their user profile, and big thanks from me!

kstuart
lenov
ferret
TomC82
auburnette
Santis
katypie
Haephestus
Tia

If you're a-willing to support the site and everything we do, you can find info here: fetcheveryone.com/invite.php - nice one.

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Comments

I heard wind & seagull, may need to listen again for sea.
Another good podcast, thanks.
um
3:06pm, 21st Jan 2019
Although I don't see this episode in iTunes, just 1 & 2
um
3:09pm, 21st Jan 2019
Yeah, iTunes seems to be a bit behind - but I've subscribed using the iPhone 'Podcasts' app, and that seemed to pick it up pretty much straight away.
fetcheveryone
3:10pm, 21st Jan 2019
Have commented on ep. 3 on the podcast thread. Well worth a listen.
swittle
3:38pm, 21st Jan 2019

Fix It Friday

1:57pm, 18 Jan 2019

...is back (just about)!

December is one of those months where I tell myself in advance that I'll be able to get lots done, because you'll all be busy enjoying the calendar. This year I had every intention of writing a book about Fetch. Current word count = 0.

Not only that, but a bit of a break over Christmas means that I come back to tottering piles of stuff :-)

So the first half of January has been largely about having a bit of a square up behind the scenes. Of course, I did put together the Trader game, and have recorded a podcast, so it's not all been sweeping up :-)

Here are a few little nuggets that you might have missed, to tide you over 'til next week:

1) Who Squares Wins - now has a "Take A Break" button, for anyone wanting to sit out a week's worth of matches. It's fun to play, but everyone needs a break every once in a while.

2) When adding a race listing, there's a new surface that just says "tarmac". 'Cos I was asked, ok? :-)

3) I've updated the parkrun review page, so that you can see the other reviews now: fetcheveryone.com/parkrun.php - and you can also put a placename or postcode to look in different places.

4) When you upload an image to a route, or user profile, you can zoom/crop/rotate. A minor adjustment to the speed of the zooming will hopefully make it a little bit easier to adjust.

5) It was impossible to add a club with an apostrophe.

6) There's a lovely golden background on user profiles where the user is supporting the site. Oooh! Here's yours - is it shiny? ;-)

fetcheveryone.com/userprofile.php

Having dealt with the biggest of the tottering piles, I hope that next week's FIF will be a bit more interesting :-)

Feel free to leave your comments. If you have any site issues, click the 'Help' button at the top of every page, and send me a feedback. It's really helpful for me to be able to keep all the requests in one place. AND if you want to make MULTIPLE requests, please do so in SEPARATE feedbacks. I don't like replying to half a message, so I often won't until I'm able to tackle the whole thing - which means you're left hanging. Much easier to pick off the easy stuff in separate chunks.

Have a great weekend :-)

Don't forget to tune in to the podcast: fetcheveryone.com/podcast :-)

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Comments

Interesting...re 5, does using ' work? I'm guessing you may have already tried it as it's used regularly to enable the use of weird characters. Alternatively the encoding ’ is usually a 'good' version of this character!
Garfield
2:17pm, 18th Jan 2019
Oooh two of those were from me, sorry for adding to you workload!

Really enjoyed the last podcast BTW.
StuH
2:18pm, 18th Jan 2019
interesting, as the I included to precede the ' was ignored above! U+2019 is what I meant for the encoding but generated the desired character instead of the unicode equivalent!
Garfield
2:18pm, 18th Jan 2019
Road = Tarmac? No?
StuH
2:21pm, 18th Jan 2019
Looking forward to being able to take an occasional break in WSW
And glad to see FIF back

Thanks
DingDocMerrily
2:35pm, 18th Jan 2019
As DM said. Really pleased to see Fix It Friday back and *really* pleased to hear about the WSW pause feature!
roberton
3:16pm, 18th Jan 2019
D2’s blogs don’t usually show up even though she’s on my favourites list.....
runnerbean
3:26pm, 18th Jan 2019
@runnerbean - if someone has written a blog in private mode, then changed the setting to make it public, it doesn't then generate a notification. That might explain it.
fetcheveryone
3:35pm, 18th Jan 2019
Can we have mud as a surface for logging our runs?

The pedants are going to need counselling for that apostrophe thing
fleecy
5:01pm, 18th Jan 2019
Fetch how dare she do that almost making me miss it 😂😂😂
runnerbean
5:48pm, 18th Jan 2019
Would it be possible to have the WSW grid on the "Add a Route" page, would be helpful to know which squares are covered?
Chrisity
7:22pm, 18th Jan 2019
Shiny.
RichHL
10:29pm, 18th Jan 2019
Well done, you have been busy!
JCB
11:22pm, 18th Jan 2019
Now we know how Chrisity is at the top of the WSW league
flanker
1:55am, 19th Jan 2019

Fetch Chaos

9:15pm, 15 Jan 2019

We did some Fetch meetups last Saturday. It was lovely to see a bunch of Fetchies all together :-)

But bringing people together always results in more stuff happening. Here are two things that I know of:

1) Katie and Helegant ended up going swimming in the river :-)

2) Badger gave me a great idea for a bit of stats/analysis nerdery. There's a stat (covered in an old Fetch article) that shows that there's a cut-off point, somewhere between 3hr30 and 4hrs. Below it, 3hr marathoners train at an average pace that's slower than their race pace, but above it, 5hr marathoners train quicker than they end up achieving on race day. And the question is... how much of that is down to 'blowing up on race day'. Looking at my own data, my average pace in the three months pre-Abingdon was 9:40. I ran at 9:40 for about the first 20 miles. I ended up with a 10:07 pace marathon. So I trained faster than I got. Expect me to go quiet for a day or two whilst I get the numbers together on that, on a grand scale :-)

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Comments

The stats sound interesting. Especially as an interested participant! I'll look forward to that.
3FrenchMs
9:19pm, 15th Jan 2019
To throw another variable into the mix, how does mileage impact this?
Pothunter
9:46pm, 15th Jan 2019
Serendippily completed our Endure parkrun team and now she's entering a team of her own with one of our parkrunners who's not a Fetchie (yet)
LindsD
9:52pm, 15th Jan 2019
Those stats make sense. I think you will also find faster but less experienced marathoners train faster but maybe not quite at marathon pace. Running slower than race pace imo is key to a good outcome. There are targetted faster miles in there though.
Bazoaxe
9:59pm, 15th Jan 2019
On the whole, the longer the run, the slower I run it. I’ve done two marathons but I haven’t ‘raced’ them as such. It’s not a matter of blowing up, just running at a sensible pace I can sustain.
Fragile Do Not Bend
10:11pm, 15th Jan 2019
Running up hills. Running through mud. Running all night. All the fault of my fellow fetchies
Serendippily
10:54pm, 15th Jan 2019
getting into a massive grump trying to follow Ruth and Max on twenty miles I hadn't trained for
Maclennane
11:17pm, 15th Jan 2019
What chaos? Being blamed for at least one marriage, causing at least one divorce (not from the aforementioned marriage!), numerous stupid races, buying a Big White House, and more drunken and debaucherous nights than I care to remember. Thank god for Fetchies.
flanker
2:01am, 16th Jan 2019
I remember that stat and out it down to an unrealistic idea of what you would achieve at the marathon through experience as much as anything else. 3 hour marathoners know their running....you might want to think about how many marathons people have run too....
Ocelot Spleens
8:00am, 16th Jan 2019
Marriage. 😉
phal
10:09am, 16th Jan 2019
Ha ha - just seen flanker’s post. It’s all his fault ❤️
phal
10:10am, 16th Jan 2019
Marriage also. And this baby that isn’t far off coming out of me. And cycling adventures, they were all SarahL’s fault
Gymfreak
11:51am, 16th Jan 2019
Monopoly run with a bunch of people I'd never met before!
Garfield
12:14pm, 16th Jan 2019

Oooh! Second chance Berlin trip! And new subbers, podcast episode, and Trader.

4:28pm, 14 Jan 2019

Firstly, a big thanks to all of the following Fetchies who have taken out new voluntary subscriptions this week, or else renewed their annual contribution. They each get a shiny gold background on their user profile, and (hopefully) a warm fuzzy feeling inside :-)

If you've been planning on taking out a voluntary subscription, now would be great. Here's the info you need: fetcheveryone.com/invite.php

Cog Noscensme AHA
Dr Tibs
The Scribbler
hywel_davies
danbezza
Snogard
shyfire
JackieS
Fergie87
Maclennane
Chell
Goughy
Alice The Camel
Wednesday Mouse
Sporty2010
Bott
Foxy

Podcast
There's a new episode of the Fetch podcast! You can find it on iTunes here: itunes.apple.com (or just search for Fetcheveryone on your favourite podcast app). If you can’t find it on your iTunes yet, here’s an alternative link: fetcheveryone.buzzsprout.com

Trader
If you haven't had a go yet, do. See if you can predict which runners are gonna go large with their mileage: fetcheveryone.com/trader

Berlin Half Marathon Festive Fetch Calendar Winner
Our first-pick winner from the Festive Fetch Calendar has unfortunately had to pull out. But that does mean that if we're extremely quick, we can draw a new winner. Just to clarify what's on offer, Sports Tours International are offering you race entry plus three nights' accommodation for the Generali Berlin Half Marathon on 7 April 2019 for two people (flights not included).

Because we're two weeks on, it's entirely possible that folks who entered will no longer be able to do it. So what I'll do is to pick five names at random, and the first one on the list will have first refusal, and so on, until we hopefully find someone. The names in order are:

NEW WINNER: chewitt
FIRST RESERVE: LazyDaisy
SECOND RESERVE: Sunbed Athlete
THIRD RESERVE: Bazoaxe
FOURTH RESERVE: Hobbitbean

I will get in touch with chewitt, and we'll take it from there.

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Comments

I don’t remember seeing the list of winners, but I was really busy over Christmas so not on here as much. Is there a link to the list please?
Angus Clydesdale
4:37pm, 14th Jan 2019
Angus - if you look for the FFC2018 calendar thread, they're all listed in posts, as I drew them.
fetcheveryone
4:38pm, 14th Jan 2019
Cool. Thank you.
Angus Clydesdale
4:39pm, 14th Jan 2019
Lovely prize .... Hope the win enjoys it 😁
DingDocMerrily
4:45pm, 14th Jan 2019
I don't suppose the pie winner turned them down and you'll be re-drawing that one?
um
4:55pm, 14th Jan 2019
Unfortunately not, um - although I offered to look after them for him
fetcheveryone
4:56pm, 14th Jan 2019
Goes off to listen to podcasts
Sushi
4:57pm, 14th Jan 2019
Mmmm, pies...
RichHL
5:05pm, 14th Jan 2019
If I was LazyDaisy I'd be refreshing this comment thread every 30s for the rest of the day.
roberton
5:09pm, 14th Jan 2019
I am chewitt and so is my wife
McGoohan
5:43pm, 14th Jan 2019
New podcast? I only see 23rd Dec - is there another one? Am I doing something wrong?
um
5:50pm, 14th Jan 2019
Not just you um, I can only see the 23rd Dec pod too
jennyh
5:56pm, 14th Jan 2019
Another link here: fetcheveryone.buzzsprout.com
fetcheveryone
6:07pm, 14th Jan 2019
"This site can’t be reached fetcheveryone.buzzsprout.com’s server IP address could not be found."
McGoohan
6:39pm, 14th Jan 2019
fetcheveryone.buzzsprout.com

This one works for me McG
um
7:18pm, 14th Jan 2019
Obviously I wish chewitt no ill whatsoever, but...
LittleDonkeyDaisy
7:34pm, 14th Jan 2019
Obviously One wishes Chewitt and LazyDaisy no ill whatsoever, however if it does get to One please bypass One and go straight Bazoaxe 😊
Sunbed Athlete
7:43pm, 14th Jan 2019
dammit. I read Sunbed's comment first and thought my chances had increased and then I glance up to see LazyDaisy looks to have the trump card.
Bazoaxe
7:57pm, 14th Jan 2019
best of luck to whoever the new winner is
Bazoaxe
7:58pm, 14th Jan 2019
How does the trader game work in trems of defining increased mileage - over what time period does it work ?
Bazoaxe
8:12pm, 14th Jan 2019
Exciting! Fingers crossed for an outcome that will result in some excellent travel bloggage
Velociraptor
9:15pm, 14th Jan 2019
Aha, working now...
McGoohan
9:56pm, 14th Jan 2019
"Zips"??
McGoohan
10:00pm, 14th Jan 2019
The suspense!
Alice Navidad
8:00am, 15th Jan 2019

My week of running

2:19pm, 12 Jan 2019

Monday
Nowt.

Tuesday
A nice tour of the sewerage works, abattoir and football ground (aka the unholy trinity) with Katie. Gentle pace for me.

Wednesday
Nowt.

Thursday
I haven't done any speedwork in ages, so in order to jump start / trick myself, I ran a couple of miles, then did a "seedling tempo" run of ten minutes, just to remind myself of what it was like. Pace was 7:46/mile. I intended to jog a mile or so after that, but I've got my "going to the toilet" all wrong this week (read on, dear reader), and so I mainly just walked carefully home. But I was still pleased to get an idea of what speedwork felt like.

Friday
Building up my long run. I headed up the Erewash Canal, which is something I've done dozens of times before - but this time I was keen to check out a little side path. I'd always assumed that it led to a little wooded area populated by young offenders on dirt bikes (having seen a couple go that way before). But having consulted the map, I discovered it led on to something called 'The Nutbrook Trail'. Despite the first half mile being through a recycling plant (a rather smelly one), it soon turned into a nice leafy path. There was a little bridge going over the top of the path with its middle entirely missing - which always intrigues me. The trail itself follows the former Nutbrook canal from the Erewash Canal up to Shipley. On the way back, my toilet scheduling brought me to a couple of awkward standstills (I'll leave you to imagine the detail), and so whilst the running itself was not uncomfortable, I was very pleased to get home. #clenchy

Here's the run, in case you want a look: fetcheveryone.com/t-15813479 - I'll see if I can get a bit further along the trail next time. Nutbrook City Limits?

Saturday
a first chance of the year to get a benchmark for my 5k time, and to meet up with some Fetchies. I fancy seeing whether a focus on 5k and 10k this year might help me get close to my best times. The 5k best of 21:31 is now 10 years old, although I've been close, with 21:37 a few years back.

Luckily I was in a better place, toilet-wise :-)

But when I started running, I realised that I'd put my stomach muscles through the mill the previous day - and they're still a little sore now. On the plus side, at least it means I have stomach muscles - it was in some doubt over Christmas.

It was my first run at Great Denham parkrun, but I was familiar with the paths. The start was a little bit slower than I was hoping for due to starting too far back (because I didn't really know where the start line was), but I think that helped ensure I didn't go off like a loon. I'm super-pleased with the pacing (7:36, 7:29, 7:29) and would like to retain that consistency as I (hopefully) improve.

Here's the run: fetcheveryone.com/t-15817729

Afterwards, we herded ourselves together for some photos:

then decamped to Wine Legs and Binks' house for some coffee and cake, and a game of Super Mario Bros with Elsie Too junior :-)

Tomorrow
We're aiming to do a long dog walk, which starts and ends at a dog-friendly pub :-)

Reading the blogs, it's been a sad week - the tragic loss of KinkyS's dad, and Derpy Tup's cancer news. There's no way round it - sometimes things just totally suck. It all serves as a reminder to all of us never take anything for granted, and to be grateful for what we have. Keep fighting, Fetchies.

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Comments

Great running Fetch....’Ave it
runnerbean
2:29pm, 12th Jan 2019
This blog is like a 'pick n mix' of circumstances & events that most Fetchies will encounter, maybe not every week but certainly from time to time. 'Unexpected item in the bathroom department' makes everyone smile but it's no fun in the back of beyond!
swittle
2:42pm, 12th Jan 2019
I should have titled this Nutbrook Sh*tty Limits
fetcheveryone
2:45pm, 12th Jan 2019
swittle
2:46pm, 12th Jan 2019
That was a nice 5k.
Ocelot Spleens
2:59pm, 12th Jan 2019
Flushed with the success of the parkrun!
Sigh
3:03pm, 12th Jan 2019
Good running.

That's sad news. I really should spend more time reading the blogs.
Oranj
3:12pm, 12th Jan 2019
It’s all right in the back of beyond, it’s on residential streets that sort of thing is a real issue
Diogenes
3:21pm, 12th Jan 2019
It was a pleasure to watch your consistent Pacing from following behind.... And then take the credit from a runner behind me who thought I'd paced him very well
DingDocMerrily
4:07pm, 12th Jan 2019
Tuesday sounds … a treat. Good parkrunning (and meetupping).
Dvorak
4:31pm, 12th Jan 2019
All good fun - great pics!
Alice Navidad
6:13pm, 12th Jan 2019
A mixed week then! Have a lovely time tomorrow x
SarahWoo
6:33pm, 12th Jan 2019
You look like a giant in that first pic!
McGoohan
8:47pm, 12th Jan 2019
There is a nice path back along the Nutbrook Canal to the west of the trail, better than an out and back. Miles 8 to 10 on this route fetcheveryone.com/routes-view.php?id=1792808
Chrisity
10:21pm, 12th Jan 2019
And the winner of best blog title 2019,

well ....... take a look at what you could have won!!
MazH
12:53am, 13th Jan 2019

Naming and faming - this week

12:57pm, 7 Jan 2019

A big shout out to all the following Fetchies who have taken out new voluntary subscriptions this week, or else renewed their annual contribution:

rucksack
dillthedog
Billy Whiz
The Tinselator
D2
Adamantt
fuzzyduck79
DTs
lin50
choccy
DrDan
BS
tinebeest
wendyjames
Heinzster
LeighM

All these Fetchies get a shiny gold background on their user profiles, and the warm and fuzzy knowledge that they are supporting the site. Their help means that we can pay for servers, software, and all the necessary Marmite on toast I need to give me the power to look after you all. Unlike other websites, nothing is locked behind a paywall - so by donating, you're also helping other runners to find their way to us.

If you've been planning on taking out a voluntary subscription, now would be great. Here's the info you need:
fetcheveryone.com/invite.php

Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.

Comments

Happy New Year to all at Fetch Towers! GG
Merry Christmas and Happy NewG(rrr)
1:01pm, 7th Jan 2019
loving seeing the fetch family growing
DingDocMerrily
2:02pm, 7th Jan 2019
1step2far
3:29pm, 7th Jan 2019
wendyjames of Transvision Vamp?
ishep 🇪🇺
3:46pm, 7th Jan 2019
Ness
4:26pm, 7th Jan 2019
Thanks to all of them, every penny well spent.
Chrisity
10:05pm, 7th Jan 2019
Would it be interesting / appropriate (?) to see a counter (maybe not a full list) of Fetch subscribers - annual / one-off vs. monthly etc? Really just to get a flavour for the "health" of the subscribed community? Obviously without monetary values or anything. Just a thunk. When it's growing it would feel positive and when it's not, it might be a good hurry up for getting a few more folk to join in? GG
Merry Christmas and Happy NewG(rrr)
9:14am, 8th Jan 2019

Naming and faming

4:20pm, 2 Jan 2019

We picked up some new Fetch monthly subscribers today, plus an annual donation, and a renewal of an annual donation. So I'd just like to say thank you to:

millicent
cu-jimmy
Jovi Runner
awd70
Mave
JuanHubseeth
Tomski

You all join the list of wonderful Fetchies who support what we do. And I've adjusted user profiles of all our donators to highlight their awesomeness.

Without that support, we would not be here. Thank you everyone!

If you're able to spare the price of a pint each month to keep our wheels turning, here's a bit of info on how to do that: fetcheveryone.com/invite.php

Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.

Comments

Bintmcskint
4:23pm, 2nd Jan 2019
Excellent
sallykate
4:31pm, 2nd Jan 2019
Ness
4:36pm, 2nd Jan 2019
and thank you.
LindsD
4:52pm, 2nd Jan 2019
Nice work !
Albert O Balsam
4:57pm, 2nd Jan 2019
ooh, gold! Thanks for being awesome.
chunkywizard
5:02pm, 2nd Jan 2019
Rosehip
5:05pm, 2nd Jan 2019
.B.
5:11pm, 2nd Jan 2019
Awesome - even better the gold header means no-one can read how old I am!
HellsBells
5:31pm, 2nd Jan 2019
Loving the gold header And well done the newbie donating fetchies too
BaronessBL
5:37pm, 2nd Jan 2019
Nice
DingDocMerrily
6:45pm, 2nd Jan 2019
lol @ HB! Thank you for this site, Fetch, it really is fantastic.
Sigh
6:47pm, 2nd Jan 2019
I like the gold! Thank you for everything.
Cyclops
9:25pm, 2nd Jan 2019
Liking the gold
1step2far
9:28pm, 2nd Jan 2019
Naming and faming. Like it lots.
RichHL
9:46pm, 2nd Jan 2019
Mine's on a continuous thingy isn't it ?
Hills of Death (HOD)
2:21pm, 3rd Jan 2019
Yep Hod
fetcheveryone
2:23pm, 3rd Jan 2019
Ok keep taking my money (just like my ex wife )
Hills of Death (HOD)
2:45pm, 3rd Jan 2019
Gold header? I’m being blind here 😂
mjthomas
8:53pm, 6th Jan 2019
Nice! (mjthomas - gold header is on the profile page of supporters )
ishep 🇪🇺
12:15pm, 7th Jan 2019

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November (10)

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Granville... fetch your cloth

Orange is not the only fruit

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Swittle's Bench!

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October (16)

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Bat renovation

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It's not magic, it's you!

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September (6)

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I'm back :-)

It was 20 years ago today…

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Schrödinger's Holiday

Look what I've got!

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Would you do it for a Scooby snack?

Play Along

Pilgrimage

Site down for a short while this afternoon

Attention Chrome users

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Cadence Filter - a little tweak

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Today’s Task

Here's something cool

F'Laps - get togethers

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F'Laps - broken delete link :-/

F'Laps - your opportunity to withdraw gracefully :-)

Usability - look what's changed

RW Refugees welcomed

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V2 Training Beta

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April (13)

In case you haven't cancelled it yet...

Weasels and spiders

Blog Listings Change (nowt major)

Six New Badges! Adding pics to Conquercise zones.

Night Races - Can you help?

Sifting Chunks: Gradient versus Pace

Audible Free Trial - You get free audiobooks, I get five quid!

A donation from JH

Andy Townsend :-)

GCU50: Citizen on Patrol

Fetchpoint: The Game - Where I'm Headed

Fetchpoint: The Game - a consultation

Heavy Roller please

March (11)

I can eat fifty eggs

Oscar the Grouch :-(

If a Fetch fails in a forest...

Trialling a new weekly update email

Lasting Power of Suspicion

Fetch Virtual Challenge 2024 *bunting*

Swittle's Funeral

Cadence

Tea & Trails Podcast

Down to my last pen

A bench for swittle

February (8)

The Lightning Struck Tower

Swittle

Cholesterol

This year so far in pictures

Three Noahs

Fetch is as strong as you make it.

100k - what do I need?

Paywalls are BS: I'm on a podcast!

January (11)

Chasing Round Numbers - A Cautionary Tale!

MOTM - Decision Made (and a competition for EVERYONE!)

MOTM - a chance to rethink

Training Home Page updates

How much walking will I do?

Training Plans - Further Updates

Training Plan List

Butter Police

Why no app?

Useful Chat!

Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners

2023 (136)

December (6)

Nearly forgot...

Jam today

Removing another bit of Google's invasiveness

Fancy an extra challenge over the next 12 days?

Chewie, we're home!

Two tips for today's advent challenge

November (13)

Spammy McSpamface

40 days and 40 nights

EfM confirmed!

New Training Log Beta! 😲 (aka Change Is Not Good)

Escape from Meriden

Waiting for your training?

Route of the Century?

I didn't know I owned a nutcracker

Design our anniversary shirts/vests!

Holiday Reading - plenty of fiction :-)

Swimming in a metaphor

Hello

Off World

October (11)

Fl'update

To think I tried to mop it up!

Vote Please: How many F'Laps will you try to do?

F'Laps 2024

Long Run

So it still needs a name...

Front Garden Ultra?

The Boy is a man!

Festive Fetch Calendar

Creative K's

Signs

September (7)

Training Edit Screen - time to ditch it...

Stock check

The Doctor K Cup - October 7th!!!!

Removing the training edit screen

A Happy Applecart

Happy 19th Birthday!

Forgotten pictures

August (14)

Just in case

Weekly Total Hours

Dim Brys Dim Chwys

All hail our robot overlords!

Your local parkrun

Fool on the hill

Survey Follow Up

A survey?

Did you know?

I made a thing

VC Day

FBI Agent

What keeps you going?

Be careful what's in your paste buffer (and July training update)

July (13)

Delight

Respecting your eyeballs since 2004

Hot Stuff, coming through

Ocean Colour Scheme

18 years, 10 months, 13 days and counting...

Ooof #fail

Our listings need you!

Pics from the end of the swim

A whispered, half-remembered dream

Try the Heatmap!!!

Teaser

100 Running Words (and my June summary)

July Virtual Mile

June (8)

Last Big Swim

I can't be the only one...

Which is the real me?

#EveryoneDay

The legendary sixth samosa!

WSW Main Page Layout Changes

May Summary (contains swimming!)

Hoodies pre-order closes at 10am

May (17)

A new WSW challenge

Tagging images

Hoooooooooooooodies!!!!!!!!!!!

Another Sweatshop Competition

Did you get an email?

Fifty Years Ago - Part VIII

Fifty Years Ago - Part VII

Fifty Years Ago - Part VI

Help on a slippery slope

Fifty Years Ago - Part V

Fifty Years Ago - Part IV

Fifty Years Ago - Part III

Chuck-off: Round 2

Not my king?

Fifty Years Ago - Part II

Fifty Years Ago

And that was April

April (10)

Centurion Safari!

Sheep treats (and a routes feature)

And I’ll sail her up the west coast, through villages and towns.

15,746 places to 💩

Track Your Blood Pressure

A couple of quick fmail updates

Rusty Metal and a Cycling Grudge Match

Please help me kick the fmail tyres!

Onset of Summer Watch. Have you got Onset of Summer? +fmail!

Premium?

March (10)

And that was March

Try the new fmail system

Can you help my boy?

Tell A Friend?

Some Sweatshop Competitions

Review: FORM Smart Goggles

UTMOST vs Treadmills

33,258

Embranglement!

February (13)

And that was February

This year's Virtual Challenge

What does Points make?

Automatic Everything Collector

Peaky Finders

FAO Fitbit users

My favourite training graph

You've got this.

Coffee Survey (for my stepson)

Access all the tips

Tiny Usability Changes

Cod science

Hot Tips

January (14)

Monthly Infographic Bug Fixes

No, but really...

Have a play with the monthly infographic

It's not ready yet, but...

Introducing Fetch Premium

Help me design a new Monthly Infographic...

Still following?

Fettle

Definitely Not Betting

Do you follow? (plus burp chat)

Advance warning for stalkers!

I'm back (and the Fetch LS, SS and NS shirts preorder is open)

Attention Fitbit Users

Review 50 albums in 2023 (badge!)

2022 (144)

December (8)

Treasure Hunt Day 1 - the best gift

Important updates to the Fetch Relay

Introducing the Fetch Relay 2023

Who Am I? (Solved, thanks) And How Am I?

Confessions :-)

12 Days of Christmas Treasure Hunt

Chewie, we’re home!

A few pics from the Foffice :-)

November (24)

Yesvember - Day #30 (and Festive Fetch Calendar Eve!)

The Fetch Festive 160.934 :-) [Yesvember #Day 29]

You'd better watch out... (plus Yesvember Day #28)

Brace Yourself (and there's one spare bobble hat!) and Yesvember - Day #26

Hats in the post! Plus Yesvember Day #25

Look what arrived!

Yesvember - Day #24

Training Graph Manager - usability update (Yesvember Day #23)

Yesvember - Day #22 - Cheating?

Last chance to enter the Advance Performance comp

Yesvember - Days #11 thru #14 (plus Jumpy Boy)

Weather on the training home page watch. Have you got weather on the training home page? (Yesvember - Day #10)

Oh, and... it's Yesvember - Day #9

Another bit of the internet fenced off

Yesvember - Day #8 - taking steps

Yesvember - Day #7

Yesvember - Day #6

Yesvember - Day #5

The curse of swimming GPS

Yesvember - Day #4

The Les Mis effect

Yesvember - Day #3

Yesvember - Day #2

Yesvember - Day #1

October (15)

October gives way to Yesvember!

Anyone fancy a threeway?

More thoughts on races

Racing, post-pandemic

Contracts exchanged!

Competition Time!

Last call for Flobble Hats

A record year for swimming?

Woburn Lido

Order your Bobble Hat! If you like.

I appear to have entered a race! (plus new Garmin import queueing system)

Eric the Eel

Get your hobbit on

The Doctor K Cup: Saturday 8th October!

I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind

September (16)

Take This Bus To Cuba

Fetch Bobble Hats

Trumpeting

Training View tweaks (switch maps, game overlays, mile markers)

Training View tweaks (and a play button bug fix)

A long ride and a cold swim.

Play Button

UTMOST Wava & Bike Division Rebuilds

New UTMOST leagues for cyclists and WAVA fans

The Doctor K Cup

Chance encounters

Do I ditch our Facebook stuff?

A keeper, from my feedback inbox...

Ultra distances - update

Adding ultra distances to Fastest Fetchies league.

Try the new Training Groups pages

August (11)

Training Groups Update - Coming Soon

Garmin Queue Issues

Donations without reference numbers :-)

New Elbow Laws

No longer the 3398th fastest Fetchie over 10k!

Pulling counties into league tables

What was I thinking?

County Champion?

Just bear in mind that you asked for this.

Wahoo and Coros users

How to make half a million quid (batteries not included)

July (6)

Club Listings

Book giveaway :-)

Updated Race Portfolio

Updated Targets Page

Exactly ***1*** Spare Ladies L Cycling Jersey

Search All Blogs :-)

June (10)

Imagine you could search all the public blogs...

Banking Scandal at Fetch Towers!

7pm on Baker Island #everyoneday

#EveryoneDay - Sunday 26th June 2022

Spare Challenge Coasters

The North West Passage

Feature Request Voting - Know Your Limits!

UTMOST Division 8: YIKES!

Shepperton Weight Gain Programme

UTMOST Division 9! Sub-50 10k :-)

May (16)

Four hours left :-)

Division 10: No hope of escape?

Book giveaway :-)

Division 11: No place left to hide

New HR Analysis

They're here! Well, not exactly *here*, but...

A quick Darth Mode update

Darth Mode! And a few biscuits for the hyperdrive.

Division 12: Two hours of pushing broom

Dark Mode: Beta

PB Potential? Fancy a quickie? ;-)

Division 12: Running Out Of Road?

Thank you everyone!

Making UTMOST moves :-)

Do you want a Fetch shirt?

I did my UTMOST :-) (plus new sharing infographic)

April (7)

Today's plan

NEW UTMOST BADGES!!!!!

A plug for some races

Raspberry Pavlov

Win a book :-)

United Colours of Cross Training

A little Streetview adventure

March (11)

The lockers are a pound.

Advice for Gym Noobs!

Feedback made easier

#EveryoneDay June 26th 2022

Fetch Virtual Challenge 2022 🎈

Thanks Chunky: parkrun routes!

Sniffer Dogs

Yikes!

Fetch Cycling Jerseys - Update

Route Plotting tweak

The Crow: A Pipedream!

February (7)

Fetch Kit Spares

Updated Race Listing Pages

Introducing Rundle!

I appear to be training for an OWS event!

Fetch Cycling Jerseys!!!

Does you wantz free shoez?

Post Office tomorrow - kit spares

January (13)

Updated Flanci Design (now with more Fetchness)

Badge Collection Graphic!

Updated elevation trace

Book Lists :-)

Updated sharing infographic - do you like it?

Spare Fetch Kit

Badge page refresh / feature requests

Flanci / Fetch Leggings

New Badge Pages

New hill badges

Join me on my fitness journey!

Are you the farmer?

Blog every day challenge - finishers

2021 (187)

December (14)

Book List

Ten years ago today...

A big slobbery elephant snog.

If you don't like hills, this must be getting tiring :-)

When does a hill end?

Hill finder - prototype v2

Hill Finder - prototype

2022 Targets

Chewie, We’re Home! Happy Fetch Independence Day!

Embed badges, plus a new badge :-)

Updated people page

Seeking map

Streak Watch

The new Fetch buffs are here…

November (23)

Almost there...

The Fetch Library

Update your thread titles

Ascent dissent

Mute a thread

Shortcuts

Training Import Queue

I fell off (but not really!)

Croeso i Fetcheveryone. Ydych chi'n siarad Almaeneg, Swedish neu Eidaleg?

New mobile nav

Last call for shirts

Just a trim please

Brought to you by wind power

300 miles later

Golden Ticket Shocker!

Banjobax (aka KOG)

Home and Away kit preorder - with long sleeve option

A little competition - win a copy of Daniels' Running Formula

Garmin testers - thanks

Add your grub stops!

Points Of Interest: Grub Stops

Garmin-owning testers wanted

October (19)

New home and away shirts and vests

Benchmark league - a few more updates

Benchmark league table

Hill areas

Preorder is now open!

'b'uffs then

Necktube design #1 & #2

Buffs (well, neck tubes)

Report dodgy GPS stuff

An apology for people who follow my training

New cycling and swimming badges

New Conquercise Feature: Grids

Sprouting a tiny biking antler :-)

Have a try of the cycling gradient analysis

Struggling with my big ring

Cycling: gradient vs pace

A question for cyclists

For Doctor K

Shan't.

September (14)

New comments (FID 1212)

Forum post previews

Garmin imports with a snippet more info

Gallery upload options

Golden Tickets

"No need to panic donate", says Williams

Forum Quotes

Spoiler Alert!

20th of March and all that.

Have you signed up yet?

This bit of crappy Upminister nearly cost me my f***ing life.

A guide with no pages

To steal a catchphrase from a wise lady...

Multiple choice polls

August (11)

Pre-Race Training - Updated

A connection!

New Member of the Month sponsor

Best Weeks - bug fixes

Your Best Week Ever

Rainbow Kit - preorder is open

Age Bests - filtering out the mistakes :-)

A message from my lovely wife ❤️

Another batch of rainbow kit?

Spares: Event Clips, Swim Hats and a few rainbow tops

July (10)

A bunch of site goodies :-)

Hello kitty

Holy Simmering Mercury Batman!

Settings

A heart rate question

Sleepy Shuffle?

365 graph

Slipping on ma noob shoes

Meatronomes

World's Sexiest Bridges

June (11)

Benchmarks - a *tiny* little improvement

Race Leaderboards - some small improvements

Race Finder - Update

Up there ^

Routes - more updates

Last call for FE Event Clips

Server update

Minor code problem

Some little updates to your route list

Feature requests - two years on!

More than just a rainbow

May (8)

Rainbow Kit - update on delivery time...

Fetch Ron Hill Cycling Jerseys

Pre-order your rainbow kit now :-)

Jimi Hendrix vs Run DMC

The return of parkrun - a poll

Something in the woodshed...

Default to walk

A tour of the Fetch Office

April (11)

Instabanned :-)

I has Instagram

Fetch Event Clips

FERC

Castle Challenge Coaster!

My chess rating

Jab - symptom watch

This just in...

REVIEW: XMiles selection box

Let FE pay for your coaching qualifications :-)

Castle Challenge - A Quick Blog

March (18)

The Fetcheveryone Castle Challenge

Running vs Cycling Cadence

Fetch vests and shirts (and swim caps)

Elevation vs Follow Roads

£500 of England Athletics courses up for grabs!

TomTom users

Music by year: 1993

10k Analysis: Part 7 - Length of Training Runs

Music by year: 1992 (plus some 1991 additions)

Bot sniffing win :-) plus daily blogger count!

User profiles

10k Analysis: Part 6 - Training Pace Again

Time to update your injuries :-)

User profile - sticker button.. EDIT and race standard

More user profile adjustments

User Profile tweaking

Cute story of the week*

10k Analysis: Part 5 - Training Pace

February (17)

Year on Year mileage comparison

Elevation graphs

It's all kicking off in chess club!

Music By year: 1991

10k Analysis: Part 4 - Weekly Training Habits

Tagging virtual races

Chasing rainbows

Rainbow Shirts

Lance!

Blog writing improvements

10k Analysis: Part 3 - Accuracy of human predictions

Music by year: 1990

Smacking bots

29 slices - my seven days of dinner

10k Analysis: Part 2 - Age and Performance

Pass it on

10k Analysis: Part 1 - Distribution of best 10k times

January (31)

January

Mobile Usability Team Helping All Fetchies...

Salmon Ramen Recipe :-)

Salmon Ramen (for TBR)

Backup dog

The best GPS watches in the world... volume 1

Pick it...

People who liked...

Obscure bugs

Zen & The Art of Heart Rate Training

FIT file import - temporary issue

Keep the change, ya filthy animal

The honeymoon is over

Dirty data

Mobile Usability

Oops

Readership!

Stay sticky

It's Hip To Buy Squares

Related Threads - Exposé :-)

The Batshit Association

Jobs

Tag Team

Feed the monster!

An ad for Fetch Chess Club :-)

Estimating VO2Max

Three little birds

A not uncommon swelling

Church Mouse January

Honey, where's my super suit?

Not here.

2020 (128)

December (6)

Blog A Day 2021?

9 years ago today

Chewie, We're Home! Happy Fetch Independence Day :-)

Be Prepared

Becoming an effluencer

A few Fetch Mugs left

November (10)

The Festive Fetch Calendar is back!

FIT file import

Mugs!

Thank you, mysterious Fetchie!

Chess

UTMOST in the age of COVID-19

This'll cheer you up for sure...

Lost in translation?

Annual Infographic... updating now.

In theory...

October (11)

Training Plan Analysis

Mini plans with the training plan

5k with The Boy :-)

Welcome to tomorrow

Thank you

Become tradeable!

Pre-Race Training Volume

Doctor K Cup Week

Last orders

Advice for a friend

Trader Makeover

September (6)

The shop is open!

Hoodie Colour!

New Fetch Hoodies

A big up/holler!

VO2max

A benchmark derailed by GPS data *nerd*

August (8)

10k analysis

Officially a Sheepy Shuffler!

Pi Watering

Pre-order Avoid Everyone Face Masks

I got sent these...

Other sites? :-O

Benchmarks - an infinitely configurable set of ladders.

Try the monthly infographic :-)

July (10)

Update on Monthly Training Infographic

New Infographic

Monthly Summary (with a little tweak)

A quick Garmin update

Open Water / Wild Swimming Database

Avoid Everyone - spares

OWS Locations

Thread-level search

New Sharing Graphic & New Pastures

My first lamp post

June (16)

Replacing the Who's Training page

Combining some pages

In pursuit of the Gridmaster Ultra

15th Anniversary Kit - Spares

Shoelaces

A new How To video

Training Plan Updated

Black Lives Matter

Avoid Everyone Spares + Second Batch

Wikipedia page

Another YouTube video for sharesies :-)

Getting data to Fetch from **other places**

Feature Voting - some further updates

Feature Voting - speeded up

Another How To video - this time, Conquercise

Fantastisches Tweeten

May (13)

A video for sharing

Bees!

Fetch Introductory Zoom Presentations

A promise to all Fetchies

Fetch Virtual Weekend: Replacement Bus Service

How has Fetch use changed?

Fetch Weekly Virtual Races

Zoom Meeting - Thursday 9 til 10am

WAVA Standards Update

WAVA Standards + Poll

Fun with Age Grading :-)

New Badges Day

The test shirt fabric has arrived :-)

April (14)

Zoom Podcast - watch the video

What is WBC?

If you did the free Amazon trial...

Some small amends (and shirt version)

Pre-orders open

I was only joking, but...

If Fetcheveryone did lockdown merch

Site outage - Thursday 16th April 11pm

On exercising responsibly

My Sports Quiz - how would you have scored?

Your creative thinking required

WBC My Favourite Teacher (a bit later than the deadline)

Updated Training League

Server Downtime, Thursday 9th 00:01BST to 04:00BST (and thank you!)

March (13)

New Fetch Game: Hide and Seek

Free trial of Audible

Do you have a good memory?

New Opt-In for Fetch Miles

New Badges for Fetch Miles

The Fetch Five: Don't Let CV19 Win!

Amending event dates and notifying of cancellations

A green light comes on over your head, and you can get on with life

More on fmail

New fmail system

Win a dryrobe :-)

For jabberknit...

Updating the Training Home page

Pics from Bedford Big Fetch Mile

Sledgends :-)

February (13)

Buffs On Sale

Big Fetch Mile Bedford

Vlog :-)

Marathon Talk

Important GDPR stuff - PLEASE read

A page of historical importance

Vlog :-)

Road Rash, Marathon Prediction and T-Shirts

This :-)

Capturing the dog

It's BACK!

Enter Wilmslow Half Marathon

An advertisement

January (6)

Local Fetchies - Opt In

Revealed: World's Best Shoes

How I chose the Big Fetch Mile venues

Big Fetch Mile 2018 - Venues & Provisional Dates

Try adding an image to your training entry

Mileage Targets 2018 - Update

2017 (147)

December (12)

Mileage Targets 2018

Thank you

Brownie Recipe :-)

Phew

Fetch Hoodies + Buffs SALE Update

Chewie, We're Home

Fetch Hoodies SALE - what's left

Fetch Hoodies! SALE!!! (and Buffs available too)

Chewie, We're Home

Sharing pics

Fetch Jingle Mile Cambridge photos

Glorious Failure: Bedford Harriers Half Marathon

November (20)

Serpents, hamstrings and inversions

A special anniversary approaches...

Hamstring and prototype updates

Training Log Prototype - Today's Improvements

Red Venom sale

For what it's worth...

Training Log Prototype - Update #2

Training Log Prototype - Update

Big Fetch Mile - venue hunt

RT for a Garmin

Training Log Prototype - To Be Fixed

fetcheveryone.com/amazon

The Weekly vLog (by me)

Thanks :-)

New Training Log Prototype - Available Now

Thanks for following

VLog - footage from the Cardiff Big Fetch Mile

Big Fetch Mile[s] 2018

Win a place in the Surrey Half

I vont to scan your barcode.

October (12)

Big Fetch Weekend :-)

Fetch Mile Results

Festive Fetch Calendar :-O

Calling Parkers everywhere!

In which I decorate a cake.

Regent's Park Fetchie Discount

Elevation in colour

"I didn't come here to walk to Sparta!"

New elevation info

Chicken Ballot-ine, with a side order of beef

New training log headers

Ballot day tomorrow - help needed

September (19)

Weekly vLog - COCONUTS!!!

River Thames Half Marathon

The lollipop update

On failing gracefully

Doctor K Day

Fetch Kit Sale - Updates

Weekly vLog

Fetch Kit Sale

Training Log View Update

Fetcheveryone Weekly? Vlog?

Fetchie Race Discount - Regent's Park 10k

Training Log Tags - Live

Training Log Tags

Weekly vLog - Derby Mile, and a pause to salute the legendary Doctor K

24 hours later

Doctor K donation page

Doctor K

Fetch Weekly vLog

Derby Mile - tomorrow!

August (8)

Race Prices; and an alien earworm

Straight outta Cromford - the Fetch Weekly vLog!

A Fetch vLog! With prizes!

Quick search location for sharing

New WAVA graph

Weird FIT file thing

Back from me 'olidays :-)

Linking race results to training log entries

July (12)

Race Pricing - crowdsourcing

Appdate for Android and iPhone

Inhalers

Fetch Mile - Cardiff?

Bookends

Race listing omelette

Coding and town planning

Please review your races

A2B winners

Motivational Sounds - the final 10

Two more Big Fetch Miles? :-)

Bedford Fetch Mile Results

June (19)

Big Fetch Mile

Motivational Sounds

Fetch fug - updated design

Fetch fug (available at the Fetch mile)

I've done the naughtiest thing ever.

Donating Blood - my Vlog

Fapp In the App Store :-)

Can I kick it?

A***biscuits

This just in...

For Bean

Your app status is Waiting For Review

A2B

Fetch Caps

Garmin Communicator Plugin

Fetch App - strong and stable testing

HTTPS is here

Fetch App progress

https access to the site

May (14)

Fetch App

Apostrophes

[Untitled]

Site down at 11pm

Round and round the garden

Try the new home page layout

Server down tonight @ 11pm

Browser testers wanted

The Big Fetch Mile!!!

Site *NOT* down tonight. [cough]

Bluffer's Competition - Winner

Bedford parkrun timelapse

Return of the cap

April (8)

Fetchpoint (London and Milton Keynes!)

Base camp, VMLM

Bronze!

Just for D2

Off to the awards

Bloodvlog

Hoodies - it's on!

Updated Training Home Page

March (6)

'Train' page

Project Joker

Hoodies and Londons

Hands up, hands UP! Draycote Water 10

Bluffer's Competition

Project Joker

February (12)

Draggable?

Running Awards shortlisted

Route Plotter now with OpenStreetMap

Plan for Bluffer's comp

Update to Route Plotter

First update to the route mapper

For Angus

Virtuous Circles

Competition coming soon

Race Guide Ads

Club La Santa vLog

Fetch Fixtures

January (5)

Word Clouds

Buckets Ready

New Home Page

Do me a favour...

Limited Companies, filing accounts, that sort of thing

2016 (128)

December (11)

Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners

Five Years Ago Today

Pantsfest! May the stains be ever in your favour!

#FEXIT

Photoshop SOS

Attention: Fitbit users

Bedford Half 2016

Luton Fetchmob: Breaking Point

Vote Fetch!

Breaking news: Paris Marathon

November (21)

How to end a LiveChat.

Define wrong

TomTom Runner 3 Review - Any Questions?

Deliveryman

Movember: Project Beard: Day 24: Beardraggled

Festive Fetch Calendar 2016

We're gonna be in the Hudson

Hey Chiefy

I've written summat

Going Postal

A special mention

Training Log Beta

Spare Hoodies

Updates to Training Beta

Movember: Project Beard - Day 8 (The Seven Day Itch)

Vote for Fetch

Training Log Detail View - Some Changes

Aberdeen University Study

Consultation V2

[Untitled]

Fetchpoint - October Winners and November Prizes

October (16)

Alien nuggets!

Keeping a tight lid on the biscuit tin

Training Log Beta

100 Running Words

Pssst....

Fetchmob, December 3rd

Where to mob?

Little things

That All-Time Mileage League

The sudoku that keeps on giving.

Sub-25 for 1km :-)

Fetchmob - December 3rd

New Training Log Preview

Fixed the overlap...

Why the new training log isn't ready yet...

vLog

September (12)

Doughnut or Donate

Training Log - Sneak Peek

Fetch Shop Sale! Old stuff clearout!

vLog!!!

The consultation system...

Garmin support for timezone info

The GMT/BST/Timezone problem

Training Log Consultation...

Training Log - Consultation

Fetch Social Runs

Subscriber shirts, vests and hoodies, and determination.

Fetch Voluntary Subscriptions

August (3)

Ze Gryndylows! My first #OWS :-)

Testing Fetchpoint exclusion zones

Fetchpoint scoring system

July (7)

Conquercise Prize Draw?

Fetch Games: Checkpoints (and what's wrong with them)

More owls...

Your Favourite Fetch Game?

Even More Utmost Than Before...

Chiswick!

15 days later...

June (10)

Five days on...

[Untitled]

A quick thank you...

What do you think?

If you'd be so kind...

Poised

Which watch?

Run Bedford 10k

Import from a TomTom

Attention TomTom users

May (10)

Race Distance poll

An ungainly fish

A five year plan

What Club La Santa can learn from parkrun

Cream Me Up, Scotty

Greetings from Club La Santa

And a quick poll...

Club Charter

A poll about intervals

More owls!

April (11)

Robin Hood and his Merry Dad :-)

Warning: Dull - some screen res stats

Responsive Design Update

For all you marathoners

A Poll

Fetchpoint

Ditching the forum categories?

Moving to Responsive Design

Sandy 10: Be Kind To Horses

Owls!

For Adam and Jamie

March (11)

Bacon Smoke!

Benchmarks Update

Bath - Race Report

PB!!!!!!!

An annoying eight-year-old.

Let's Cook and Cut and Paste :-)

Let's Cook :-)

RIP Gramma

Book Winners

Dog farming

Site header update

February (5)

Book Giveaway

Pi Club

Pi Project Update

Because I'd like to check the blogging badges are working...

Crapruary

January (11)

Snooker Freak

Badges - Another Update

Unlockable Badges - Update

Unlockable Badges

TomTom Runner 2 Review

Gallery updates

Snowball coding and Fetch Unlockables!

Achievement Medals - what do you reckon?

Run The Sum

2015 Book List (and a bit of a review / plan)

Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners

2015 (175)

December (7)

Red Red Wine

A Poll

Gis a job!

Bedford Half

REMEMBER!!!

Vote for Fetch

Now you've hopefully got the idea...

November (13)

The Festive Fetch Calendar

Don't get excited or anything...

Slightly Dismal Friday

Pre-order your Fetch Buff now :-)

A message from our sponsor

Dr Fetch will see you now

Only the grumbliest, achiest chocolate... :-)

The Stanford Experiment

Buff Design

Snugs - Review

Love, Commitment, Support

The pre-wedding blog!

Good morning Fetchers, good morning Everyone

October (9)

Monthly Totals

Did you write a blog yesterday?

The First Rule of Web Server Maintenance

The gain line

Fectch

The zipper challenge!

Sugar daddy

Now in colour!

Competition Time!!!

September (14)

Teach your kids (or yourself) to code

Sticky Training Choices

Goodies: GetMore water and the Alcatel OneTouch Watch

Shirt size guidelines

This nearly made it...

Subscriber Shirt Design

I've got wood!

Humbled

New Beginnings

Some more questions answered

Swimming

Some responses to your comments

Standing on the shoulders of Fetchies

Funtleks

August (8)

24 hours in the south

24 hours in the north

Fetchies Assemble!

Thank you

Better knowledge than riches

Fitbit Urge

The villainous Mr Fetch!

Uncomfortable rear

July (8)

Why don't you play Conquercise?

Another week of strange training

Book Giveaway - Winners

GPS Reviews

Criteria for reviewing a GPS

Auto-bike-detector :-)

Win some bookses :-)

Half Way!

June (13)

Time Lapse Clouds

TomTom Bandit - very QUICK first impressions

My wings are like a shield of steel!

Running plus Cycling update

Embarrassingly...

Stalkers Paradise!

Recommend me a bike :-)

Holy Steamrollers Batman!

Rest day (no such thing)

Sqveeeeze!

We will now imitate the flight of a goose :-)

You made me ink! Snorkel safari :-)

Good morning from CLS :-)

May (10)

Club La Santa :-)

The AWESOME Power of Fetchies!

Home Insurance Shaftage :-/

Editing Forum Posts

The Future!

Some London Marathon stats

Walking On The Moon

Hardest parkrun?

New found wisdom

Week 1

April (11)

Marathon vLog

I owe some hugs!

And that concludes the voting from the Danish judges

Adventures in geocaching

Your video clips wanted!

Jelly with no spoons

Random Ultra

Suncream in my eyes - a review of 'Running and Stuff'

Books what I've read this year

Measuring the effect of wind

Wind Roses

March (18)

Watching the tide roll away

A great week of running!

Happy Jigs Wisdom!

Mobile Fetch

I don't do this very often...

Breathless Optimism

20 miles yesterday

This Week's vLog

Decision Trees and the sub-4!

Democracy Street

Mayan Maths

Bath Half (at last)

Still a chicken

Costume Drama in Bath

TomTom importing

Updated 'Train' page

Zonked

Nearly

February (29)

Pheasant

An Unexpected Journey

Wind picking up...

An unplanned kit alarm

Race Pace Test

2nd place

Week ends

Bounceback

Barking carrots

Bedroom pizza

Top of the mountain

Blogs get the mobile treatment

Supersonic Katie, and a marathon pace question

Back home

Racing parkrun ;-)

Unblocking the sink

Start in Darkness

Some times I'd like

Mobile Site - Forum Section

All-Time Leaderboards

Batteries

Sword fighting

PB Attempts

Duct tape and WD40

Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants

Lessons

Shoe horning

Training vLog Week 13

Big February Project

January (35)

Cake, invalidated

Small sips

LiRF, award shortlist, beginners, books, boy.

Dog Available :-)

Cutback

New Recipe Section

Lazy

Another threshold run

New Beginnings

Blah

But far more importantly...

Fetch Beginners Programme

Give it a go :-)

Training vLog - Week 11

Threshold Run (a running blog)

Long day, short blog

(Lack of) Pump Action

A thread to follow

This Boy Can

Local Leaderboards for Checkpoints

Choking.

February 18th

Godzilla!

The Travelling Checkpoint Salesman

Acorn Antiques

Bearing Up

Deleted Bridges and Dodgy Lasers

I'm Batman!

Healthy and Appy

Punch O'Clock!

The plan, then.

Ten mile toes

On Parliament

[Untitled]

Bold Claims, and a Challenge for 2015

2014 (262)

December (9)

A trip to Wales (vLog)

Christmas Messages from Fetchies

Various

FERC London Marathon Places - Draw

It's gone in my sock...

Festive Fetch Five

This Week's Training

To the Post Office!

Training vLog - Week 4

November (12)

I Am Groot!

Slightly Dismal Friday

Week 3 - in which I nearly drown my wife!

I said yes :-)

Free Daps! aka Test GORE-TEX® footwear this winter!

Training vLog - Week 2

More chances for VMLM entries

Marathon Talk

My first training vLog :-)

Second place?

In :-)

Questionnaire about personality traits amongst runners

October (16)

Adidas API

Horseplay minimiser

Running with the big dog

Flat and Windy

Who'd like to test the Garmin API then?

Advantage Borg

Deal?

Jumble

Milk Tray Reps in the Rain

Geneva

Quote

Hatfield 5k, and some other running thoughts

Site layout changes

Vote for Training Plans

Maths help

3-2-1

September (8)

A quick device poll

Garmin Connect API

Cake at the lake :-)

Empowering Women

This Week's Training

Tick :-)

Article help

First outing with the Harriets

August (7)

Book club and Harriers

A treasure trove for bookish types

What I did on my Summer Holidays

Local decoration

The Fisher King

Mojitos and no mosquitos!

Cake-athlon

July (26)

James Mason

Missing Week

Camping View

Wild Camping

Quick

Transalpine Race

In brief

Urgent! Pair of runners wanted!

Fetch Kit Available to Pre-order :-)

Fetch Anniversary Kit - Preview

API and FAK!

That dog has a puffy tail

More books

Reverse Moses

Zombies vs Plants

Shovel required

Nightfever

Dayfever

Catcher in the Rye

My sister the psychologist

Drink your strong limey drink

Keep me in the loop

Bread knives, hedgehogs and the dog in the night time

Whoops

Pinteresting

Q&A?

June (34)

Checkpoints video

Walden

Happy boys and giggly imps

Spring loaded

Elbow grease

Fetch 10th Anniversary Kit

Fetch YouTube Tutorial - Race Guide

Finding the Library folder on a Mac

Stoat!

Sonic screwdriver

Live wires

Wiring help needed

Garmin Express Experiment

Scalded sloth

Garminge

Potching

New Forum Layout

Further updates to the blog layout

New blog layout

First woodpecker

Beastin' parkrun

Pantoball

All was well

USA! USA! USA!

Marking Territory

The People's Poet Is Dead :-(

Holy Water

Throwing shapes

Life moves pretty fast

Recursion is beautiful

Win an OS Explorer / Landranger map of your choice

Intervals with a Suunto Ambit 2S

Tick

Economy done two ways

May (31)

[Untitled]

Vorsprung Durch Lego Technic

How do I liberate my boy from his XBox?

Questions?

Life in the Woods

Lazy

MovesMissed

Intervals with a TomTom

Electioneering

[Untitled]

Tree fluff

More camping

Zen and Camping

Not eaten by bears

Bear food

Camping List

Camping Venn Diagrams

Floppy dog

Routes but not Rathbone

Illustrator wanted

Masking

Highlights

The Cosmic Ballet Goes On

Silverstone 10k :-)

Quick one

[Untitled]

Superhuman snooker

Dogturdflagman

Numbers!

Whittlin'

Chapter 1

April (29)

King Bin

Quiet day on Feedback Mountain

Listing

Go directly to parkrun. Do not pass Godzuki.

A day in Wales

[Untitled]

Spanner

The Lost Diadem of Fetchbook

Falling asleep in my dinner

Egg

Sofathon

God gave rock and roll to you.

Sugar Mule

Not bad, consid'rin.

Tinkering

Can U Dig It?

A weekend in Wales

Looking forward to Oliver!

Thank you, and more App talk

RIP Nan

Blah

Appy

Pyjamas at both ends.

Thump. Saturday has started.

Sore tum :-/

Zombies aside... first impressions of the new TomTom

TomTom Runner Cardio Press Event

Am I pregnant?

March (31)

Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes

Sandy 10

#bedfordhappy

Me on YouTube

New graphs live

Follow the dot

Only the best for the Captain's table

Mrs Diahann Wagner is GOING HORNY

Sport Relief Win

Hot dogs, quick blogs

Toton Sidings

A sign!

Owen Farrell visualisation technique

Kebabs!

Booster fails to ignite

Myton Rugby Run (5 Miler)

Rugby before rugby

Sweetcorn antidote

Custard factory

Pooped

I did some intervals :-)

Speed work?

Many things

A bit cabbagey here.

Angry Wasp

Minty

Rainbow's End

Core Dump

Bath Half (in detail)

A quick overview

Down to business in Bath

February (28)

Made it to Bath

Unexpected hugs

Slider

I like to go a-wandering

Spring cleaning

Tongue-lolling

Because We're Worth It

I don't know what!

Thanks Jim

Enough now

Clearing the pipes

Crouch, Touch, Pause...

Medication, that's what you need.

Symptom Tour

Hello FBI

Dazed day

Why I'm an optimist

Mobius birds

Snotty knuckles

In this house...

Retch Everyone

Carrots

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also

Ultrahalfmarathoner

Angry Birds

Belching

Clarkson averse

Good day :-)

January (31)

*bunting* *cake*

Bigger Boys

Zombies!

Pretending to be Saga Norén

Waiting for the AA

Ship shape

Readthrough

Technology takes you further

Love Garden

Cushions

High Heel Striker

Bit of a rubbish one

Hot Re-fills

Coding Grinch

An august prediction

Some Running Goals for Q1

Wipe-clean dog

Breaking it down

Snakes and Ladders

Bigger Ponds

Drink Your Weak Lemon Drink

All in All

Panning the pancake

Does JK Rowling own a dog?

Back to the kitchen table

Steve Davis shoes

Pigs on a water slide

Sloshing

Protocol

19 books :-)

2013 (29)

December (3)

Oh...

Engine Management Light

Hannibal Vector

November (3)

Speed skating

Stew-pendous

Cool Hand Grandpa

October (3)

Bookish

Minecraft Cake

Random dump

September (2)

Blog by Email!

Catchup blah

August (3)

Big Green Caterpillar

Questions answered - final CLS blog

Last Days at Club La Santa

July (10)

A nice morning of swimming and tennis

Please Read: Questions for a sports coach

Snorkeltastic

Hitting the straps

First Impressions at Club La Santa

Mile High Blog

Clocking off

For the second week running...

Another Club La Santa catchup

The Floor In The Plan

June (3)

Club La Santa

Bulk Uploading, and win a book

FERC Charities 2011-2012

March (1)

Bath Weekend

January (1)

Meet Steve

2012 (39)

December (2)

Tired Now Boss

Bath - Week 14 + Foodbank

November (3)

White Level Reading

Bath - Week 15

Bath - Week 16

October (2)

Onwards!

C'mon Dave

July (1)

RIP Arnie

June (2)

Rub some bacon on it

18 weeks

May (9)

Techy not tetchy

Time for a techy blog

Time to walk the dog

Stevington 12k

Properly coldy

Still a bit coldy

New blog design live

A bit coldy

Blogs Redesign

April (2)

Easter

SERIOUSLY LORD FETCH, SORT IT OUT

March (8)

A long run up

Running Tick

Weekend

Sport Relief Mile

Back once again

Swimming sweetcorn and other vegetables

Joy Rides, Sticks and Medals

Training Tip

February (9)

And...

Katie, ICT, and some more MySQL

May The Ground Force Be With You

Functions

Well done Batman.

Optimisation Crossword

Snow Days

Gallery, and parkrun

Pleased

January (1)

There Are Some Really Sexy Girls On Fetch

fetcheveryone

Some shout outs

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Fix It Friday!

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Podcast Ep 3, plus some naming and faming

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Fix It Friday

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Fetch Chaos

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Oooh! Second chance Berlin trip! And new subbers, podcast episode, and Trader.

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My week of running

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Naming and faming - this week

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Naming and faming

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