fetcheveryone

I had a twitter ban a little while ago for questioning someone's flawed reasoning. They reported my tweet and the twitter bots went into action. I deleted the tweet as it wasn't worth contesting the flawed outcome of an algorithm.

Phal is an amazing artist. I love her work so much that I've got something heading my way this very day

Excellent Work There Sir Fetch I reckon it was the beard and it triggered the face recognition technology and thought you'd been hacked

More than likely it could be the influx of likes and followers..... probably made you look like some kind of bot was at work!

For anyone visiting Fetch on insta, under Fetch's pictures/posts on insta, please can you LIKE, COMMENT (even if it's just an emoticon!) and SAVE (the little ribbon on the RHS under the picture - it'll just store it in the instaworld somewhere) because Instagram *really* likes that kind of thing and it'll help it be seen by ooodles more people.

In fact, if you do that for anyone whose photo or captions you like on Insta, they'll be super grateful.

Thank you, that's really kind of you Mr Fetch xxx ((())) You are very welcome. We need fetcheveryone to take over the world! (Can I shamelessly plug that I'm on instagram too link on my website )

(I'm going to run away before Dio shouts at me for not doing what I'm meant to be doing again..... )

Ha! I didn't even get a Twitter ban for calling Donald Trump a ****

They can't ban everybody McG.

It was definitely the beard.

Another vote for the beard

[Can you use this as a platform for getting Instagram banned? My food is fearful of being snapped... ]

I don't do Instaspam. Hope all goes well. Are you allowed to be a company and all commercial and that? Is there like a Mercedes-Benz instagram and everything? Who knew? Thought it was just persons. G

I am stalking you anyway but yeah, I think your beard broke Instagram

Someone I know got a 24h Facebook ban for jokingly replying to a post “if I told you that I’d have to kill you”.

Eat your heart out, Jennifer Aniston

Someone I know got a Facebook ban for using the word "filly". About... an actual filly. The mind boggles.

That’s an insta-disgrace.

Instagram doesn’t like you doing too much liking if that makes sense

Fucking hell that is one dodgy beard! I think it definitely broke Instagram

I have IG but only use it for pottery. I suspect I’ll be naff all help in getting fetch to fitness peeps

I just deleted Instagram...

Last week I mean! Not because of you Fetch

Lol, I'm glad you clarified that

Lol Great to see you on Insta

I am stalking you already

Stalking too 😀😀

I often use #fetcheveryone on my posts

Whooaaah!! I was not ready for that beardage!!
Off to follow

I'm on it. I nearly didn't recognise you with that beard AND sunglasses!

Very incognito

Following- although I also didn’t recognise you at first. My Insta account is mainly bird pics!

I use the #fetcheveryone on my running related posts and saw that post yesterday I think. I didn’t recognise you with your 🥷 beard 😃

It's Whispering Bob Fetch!

I have an insta account apparently, I have followed you. I might even post a picture later. It's a whole new world

Sorry Fetch's uncle, but I'm not cool enough to have instagram. That world scares me a little bit! Good luck getting down with da kids though

I have had Instagram for years and have yet to post a photo on it, and am frankly unsure of how it works. I'm hoping that by following you I'll begin to understand it

As LD, I have had Instagram for ages, because people kept asking me to follow them on there - but I don't have a clue how to actually use it. Maybe I'll work it out

I have an Instagram account and now I’m retired from teaching I’m trying to add a few more photos to it. Will look out for the Fetch account.

Lolling @ McGoohan

That beard makes your head look long and wide. I do apologise if that causes offence.

I was also unprepared for the beardage.

Who is that man?

I was wondering why you had a photo of Mark Hamil.

This gives me an idea for a feature request... allow people to include links to their various socials on their Fetch profile (rather than just their Twitter feed)

(I'm @sheponbass btw!)

@runningforgood on the gram is me 😁

That is a magnificent beard

Even cooler that a slightly seedy looking cigarette-smoking pink panther!

Got to feed the hamsters.

Yes please

Thanks fraggle. Will see how it goes, but it seems a bit quiet just now

Mmm, I use magnetic clips, I lost one in a race, these look like a better option.

Yes. Event Clips are a wonderful invention.

(I've got 7 of the clips at the moment -i.e. 1 and 3/4 of a set!, after an unfortunate altercation between a shirt and a jumper stripping off post race!!)

Yes please

Yes please! When I'm doing live league races I use two sets, one for my race number on the front and another for my league group on the back. So I'll order 4 sets (2 spare). Thanks so much!

3M - I also have 7... mine are from the magnet type though (which are really good and don't wreck your clothes)

Event clips are a pain, but if you do magnets . . .

I only used magnets once, they must have been rubbish ones as they moved around with the number while running, so the number protuded and I caught it with my hand and it ripped.

Yes please

I love event clips, but I already have two full sets and I’ve never lost any . . .

I love event clips but we have loads as one local race gave them out free for several years and with 2 of us racing we collected a few! They are brilliant though!

Yes please. Count me in if you go ahead. 👍🏻

Definitely for me please

Yes please! If you’re getting “selly” then I wouldn’t mind getting another face mask (or two) as well.

Yup - keep meaning to buy some to try and never get round to it, FE brand would do me just fine!

And a matching Fetch branded hole punch?

Oh yes, I forgot that: "Punch Everyone!"

Yes please!

Yes I would

Yay! Yes please. And more masks

These look like they might damage your shirt? Any chance of getting some that use the really strong magnets (like the ones flower sellers use to hold corsages onto posh dresses).

What Linds said

Sorry, only just read back through the comments. I agree with all those up there ^^^ that already asked for magnet versions.

Yes I’d order two pairs, using magnets at present but never fully confident with them and have lost some from catching / movement. Also did someone say Buff / neck tube 😉

id be interested

They’ve never damaged any of my shirts, AC.

I’ve got a fair few of those already. I’d love a new red Fetch vest though - mine’s .. er .. shrunk somehow.

I'd like a set, please.

great news and well done all

Thanks Fetch. I’m looking forward to getting on the course and being able to offer help to the Fetch community. 😁

This is GREAT!

A great result all around

That is fab. I really struggled with the CiRF vote they were both so good and I’m delighted we’ll get access to them both. Top teaming

Fab!

awesome

Well done folks!

Great!

I'm so excited to get started! Thank you to everyone who voted and to Ian for getting the funding to allow this to happen.

That is very good.

I'll buy one

Da Iawn 😀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I’d buy one. It would add to the very small collection I already 😜



Really like these. 😁

Yes, I'd buy one too

Should say small collection I already have... 😁

I'm in

I'm definitely in!!

I'm in

I love a slate coaster, me!

Now I have FOMO

yes please

Go on then

Me too please! 😀

Diolch yn fawr iawn

600 slate coasters would probably weigh quite a lot. Do you have a fork lift?

Yes, I'd like one.

Unusual for me, but yes, definitely.

I'm in...!

Definitely up for it - more incentive to finish the challenge!

Probably!

~ rubs hands ~
~ mortgages hovel ~

It’ll go very nicely with my ‘Hoffi Coffi’ and ‘Caru Te’ slate coasters.

Any chance of some Welsh on it too?

I’m in

Love it and it would go nicely with my wooden coaster from last years Snowdonia virtual Marathon.

Very nice. I'm highly unlikely to finish the trek though, so don't deserve one! £10 seems to be a cracking price.

Oh lovely, defo would like one of those:)

Yup. Personalise my workspace

I wouldn't normally buy a memento but this is a special challenge which the Fetch community has taken to its heart , so I'd be very interested.
How about an outline image (subject to image copyright) of one of the castles on the route to make it more relevant?

Nice idea from Sushi about some Welsh text on it as well, since that is where we started.

Yes. Count me in

Love it! Yes please.

Ordered and paid

👍

Ordered and paid. I love it

Looks good - what do people think about including the distance in the text as a reminder of what it was all about, ie "600 Mile Castle Challenge" ?

I’m in

Looks good!

Ordered and paid.

Great idea. Agree with K5 Gus, could the distance be added?

Ordered and paid 😀

As for distance, I wondered whether it’s presence might put off the folks who aren’t hoping to complete the full thing.

Very nice....I’ll order one.

Well ... I suppose I’ll take two, please!

With the greatest of respect, SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

A coaster? For a mug? Of Welsh Brew Tea? Absolutely. I'm in.

I’d love one. To even stand a chance of getting to that distance, I’ve added all my walking miles in too.

I’ve ordered one but the link to pay has disappeared. Will you be fmailing people Fetch?

Jenny - if you put in your address again (link on the challenge page), it should take you to the payment page - and I can delete the initial order.

OK

If you need help sourcing a company for these coasters, I had coasters made up for my wedding 10 years ago. The company is from Wales and they still exist and make bespoke coasters for dinners and balls at the base my OH used to work at.

I still haven't got over losing 9 games in a row at the Liverpool Chess Congress when I was little. Never again.

A big thank you for setting up the chess league and putting up with us brainstorming weird and wonderful ways to change the league. I had a bit of a wobble a couple of weeks back, forgot the fun factor, but it's great to be pitted against people (mostly) my own standard.

Well said JK

How about a SuperLeague? I hear that's a popular proposal at the moment?! I'm enjoying the chess but flip it consumes a lot of time. Second most time app my phone tells me! G

Snackmasters is a brilliant series. Michelin starred chefs trying to make shreddies has been my favourite

65 minutes until I join the jabbed club

Let us know which one you get Elsie

I love Snackmasters! I work in the food industry and love having a nose in other peoples' factories!

We watch DBVB, it's strangely compelling viewing!

chin up old chap! By the way, any stats on daily bloggers in 2021 coming soon?

and the owners always use the wrong voice with their disruptive dogs

There are currently 48 still standing

Sounds like the best approach, post vaccination.

Hope that your feeling right soon.

2nd jab this morning. No side effects from the first and nothing so far from the 2nd.

Sore arm for a day & tired for a few days. Awaiting 2nd Jab 😀

Binge watch 24 if you need to lie low tomorrow It’s on Disney+ now. You’re feeling like I did but my arm was ok because I iced it to death.

I have had both of mine ( Mavis is important you know ) and side effects with either. I had the PZ

*no*

"as if the school bully had punched me in the arm and stolen my Monster Munch* " That's quite specific Fetch, are you speaking from experience, is everything OK? 🤣🤣

Excellent 👍

Good news

Lucky you. I'm having to phone the GP practice daily to try to get my first jab (in priority group 9).

Very pleased to see this.

I never got a sticker!

you got a sticker ! I didn't get one *sulks*

@westmoors - I just went to the NHS website and booked - no GP involved.

I will demand a sticker on Saturday when I have mine!

We asked specially, fraggle! Big kids that we are....

Twice I went and no sticker either time 😫

@fetch, if I book through the NHS website, the nearest centre is about 9 miles away and I would have to drive right past the PCN cente which is 10 minutes walk away.

Excellent! I have sticker envy

You got a sticker. I didn't get a sticker.

Good news. I didn’t get stickers either time

I don’t give a shit about a sticker, but I do have my jab booked for tomorrow!!!!

Nice one. Hoping you have no side effects.

You got a sticker! I didn't get one either.

They didn't give me a sticker either, so I got myself one of these...

(My wife got stickers for BOTH of her shots, so I was in a bit of a grump)

For anyone with sticker envy, mine was stuck to the bit of paper, so I couldn't stick it anywhere useful. That's a snazzy badge though Andy

Brilliant. I smile every time I see another person 'done'

Cool

Can we have a badge if we can prove our vaccine ?

no sticker for me neither, pah!

Nice!

yay!

Yay!!

I've got two stickers

Yay 😁

But as they wielded the hypodermic, did they say "you might feel a little prick"?

Yay (we've got our first one on Saturday) - +1 for Stevce and Fetch vaccine badgers.

I didn't get a sticker

I use the Kendal Mint gels - like liquid after eight mints and they recovery powder is fab too

I tried a Kendal mint taster pack at the end of last year and was pleasantly surprised by the gels. The mint is quite refreshing unlike a lot of fruit gel flavours, a "palate cleanser"

Now, if only you could get a marzipan flavour gel...

How about marzipan flavoured marzipan instead?

That could work (It was my go-to food for the last couple of hours of a 12-hour TT when sugar is all you need and you don't need to worry about the consequences). Just about the most energy dense food in a supermarket.

I like the sound of the Mango and the Chocolate Mint - but definitely don't need any extra calories at the moment.

Did you have all these in one go?! And did you eat any real food for the rest of the day? All that syrup is above and beyond the call of duty.

Great blog! I absolutely agree with the slit thing that stops you losing the top end of the gel back. The alternative is a quick shove back in the pocket (with high risk of stickiness later) or trying to hold onto it alongside the main packet till you find a bin. I'm most envious of the range available to the UK Fetchies, especially since I cannot go on my usual academic-tourism-shopping trips to stock up.

Active Root do a gel powder xmiles.co.uk which you make up yourself and carry in a special silicone bottle - I think the bottle designed for it holds 3 or 4 gels worth.
The KMC Mint is like a gel version of extra strong mint - was a bit much for me.

I'm with you on the cinnamon- the devil's spice 🤢

Thanks for the review. I like the slit idea to keep the top end in place. I have a bumbag with outside pockets that I deposit my used gel wrappers - it's mesh so I can easily clean any stickiness away.

Very interesting as I'm about to figure out what to fuel my ultra with.

Love it thanks for the review Fetch 👊🏻

I’m loving the idea of taking marzipan on long runs.

I did eat a pork pie on my last two marathons.

Rosehip we have the Active Root gel at XMiles too, this was a small sample of our range. To name a few more Maurten, SiS, High5, Veloforte, Torq, GU we have over 70 brands at XMiles.

I’m inclined to think “Real Food Energy Gel” is an oxymoron.

Thanks Ant

Unless it's an ARM mac that Intel CPU will still talk to the microchip

at you joining the happy jabbed

It's going in my ARM flanker

Have you had a lot of applications, Fetch?
I feel so old, I have an appointment for my second jab

I get jabbed on Saturday! Oddly very excited

Badger - I've had a few now - enough that we'll have to choose

Hope you feel ok after your jab.

Some sort of visual representation of a Slough of Despond above your head when going through Newport would be reasonable. This can be virtually or in real life.

On a serious note though, this is the only virtual event thing I have ever done. Hopefully it will prod some serious buttock after a rather lethargic March.

On mobile if you have the map on the top of the screen and the list at the bottom of the screen you can move either of those 2 elements but not navigate the page. If that doesn’t make sense I can show you tomorrow

I had one mad idea, which is that the first one to finish gets to run back around the course picking up others in a virtual "wings for life" style race, sort of. But then I thought that might put some people off joining in altogether. If collecting others also allowed them to continue then that's be okay though.

I know what you mean Elsie! Same for me!

Are there going to be badges for reaching the castles? 😄🤞🤞

So far very impressed with it - did it take much development?
A few first thoughts/requests

- any chance of a full screen map option? (like the big map in conquersize)
- maybe add the name on the 'mouse over' user pic, or maybe that will diminish as we get more spaced out and people are more obvious. Or I need to learn 463 other user pics.
- 50 mile (or so) markers along the route? Or will the 100 mile stages become obvious?

But it's also great as it is.

There's the most southerly point in mainland Wales around by Lavernock somewhere which I think you go past. Also the Marconi plaque (first radio transmission over water, or something), and the anti-aircraft battery from WW2 knocking around by there as well.

If you can get my iPad issue fixed, it would be good to click/tap on a map pin and get the option to see that point on streetview, rather than finding that person on the list and clicking on the glasses.

It's fab, Fetch, thank you
I'd like to see the people whose training I follow in a different colour on the map and/or the list so I can find them easily.

Looks very foggy around Cardiff at the moment, judging by the map.

I asked Synge if he could put the 50 mile route maps up with the mile numbers on, so that we can get a better idea of where we might want to get to. He put two on the thread, but could all of them be put in the thread sidebar please?

I struggled with page navigation on mobile (Android, Samsung Galaxy S9) with the map and names on view. I'd quite like to see placements through the "checkpoints" at each castle, so that in September I can see how I did over time (50M in 280th, 100M in 300th, etc...)

And if we're in wishing territory then it'd be nice for there to be an app so that part way through my run I can look at my phone to see where I am, to see if my virtual surroundings are nicer than my real surroundings (Spoiler: they are)

some sort of passport control badge or something as you pop over the border.....

With such a large number of (wonderful) participants, how about a "Zoom to my location" button on the map and a "Go to me" button on the leaderboard? (But it's a brilliant implementation already!)

Synge - you can zoom to any participant on the map by clicking on the red target next to them, or the goggles to see what their view is 😃 I've also noticed this morning that there is a link at the top of the map to where I am, not sure if that's appeared since your suggestion or not? It's ace, I'm loving it, and thanks for the badge!

Great work thus far Fetch - liking what we have very much

Just a thought - on the basis that 'everybody loves a graph', any chance of some sort of rolling progress tracker against the mileage required to complete by a given/selected date? A bit like the one we have for our annual targets. No need, for me, to show me anybody else's progress or create any more 'league tables' but I would like to be able to judge for myself where I am against my own arbitrary goals. Thanks for thinking about it.

Another vote for um’s suggestion of showing the name with the pic on mouseover on the map.

Thanks, Em - I must have missed the new main map rosette! Looks as if Fetch has been doing weekend engineering works.