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Aug 2018
9:46am, 2 Aug 2018
2,301 posts
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jabberknit
Gosh, that's a long way for an early morning run, Jono.
Mr JK is very happy this morning as he won a prize in a league 5 mile race last night - he was 2nd MV60+.
There may be a little run later today, to see how the ribs cope.
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Aug 2018
9:56am, 2 Aug 2018
763 posts
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bonners
Well done Mr jabberknit. What happened to the ribs, I've a feeling I've missed something?
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Aug 2018
10:38am, 2 Aug 2018
33,274 posts
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Toks
3rd run in a week done today 4.5 miler, happy with that before jetting off to NIGERIA
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Aug 2018
11:23am, 2 Aug 2018
34,180 posts
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Hills of Death (HOD)
Nearly 1k for the year
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Aug 2018
1:09pm, 2 Aug 2018
2,302 posts
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jabberknit
Stupid non-running injury, bonners - I reached over the sink to close the kitchen window on Saturday and managed to wrench some rib muscles. It's surprising how much you use your ribs in running, all that breathing and stuff.
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Aug 2018
2:02pm, 2 Aug 2018
764 posts
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bonners
Ahh I do remember now, yup, fully understand, cracked my ribs before my first marathon in 2011, lost about three weeks of training
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Aug 2018
3:04pm, 2 Aug 2018
3,173 posts
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jennyh
Ouch, you're not having mch luck are you JK? Hope the ribs feel better soon.
Well done Jono - that is an impressive early morning.
Ran a chip-timed 5K last night, which takes place on our local parkrun course. Gun time was 22:02, which would have been my second-fastest 5K this year, but as I started quite a long way back (unlike some people who lets say were incredibly optimistic about their abilities). Gun time was 21:52 which is a season's best, so very pleased. It does give a sense of how much time is lost at the start of my local parkrun though - there were 175 people at last night's race, whereas we regularly get 650-750 people at parkrun.
The round up is on it's way (I fear it will not live up to any sense of anticipation caused by its being late).
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Aug 2018
3:19pm, 2 Aug 2018
3,174 posts
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jennyh
Hello lovely 1500-ers. Apologies for the delay in providing the round up - I had rather forgotten that I was doing the July round up, so please excuse the hastily cobbled-together theme. Last time I wrote about Welsh castles, so I’ve decided to stick with the theme of things relating to my adopted home of Wales. Two years ago, I decided that as I’d lived here long enough I should probably start learning the language. I am a very long way from being fluent, but nonetheless, here are some of my favourite words and phrases (with apologies to anyone who actually speaks the language for my inevitable mistakes).
Smwddio. Pronounced “smooth-io”, it means “to iron”. Brilliantly literal – what do you do when you iron your clothes – why, you smooth them of course. Also plays into the misconception that to speak Welsh all you need to do is add “-io” to the end of a word (see “ffermio” – to farm, “syrffio” – to surf etc.)
NDWDave 1422.99 313.65
mole-thing 1488.99 300.29
Pikelet 1507.04 218.74
bonners 1189.78 206.65
Jaffa Cake 954.45 186.93
jabberknit 983.27 174.59
Sboncen. Pronounced “sbon-ken” (with the emphasis on the second syllable). It’s the word for squash (as in the sport), but it sounds so wonderfully silly, that most Welsh learners will suddenly profess to be avid players, just for the joy of uttering the phrase “dw i’n hoffi chwarae sboncen” (“I like playing squash”).
IanS 1014.41 173.39
jennyh 1051.74 173.31
DocMoye 1048.53 153.22
Hills of Death (HOD) 952.32 153.07
clare1976 1033.53 152.19
Gobi 868.85 151.64
Gwdihŵ (pronounced “good-ee-hoo”). This is the Welsh for owl, and is one of my favourites as the pronunciation is very similar to the noise the owl makes (similar to the English rendering of its call as “twit-too”), and who doesn’t enjoy a bit of onomatopoeia?
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) 926.65 150.72
HayleyB 1092.38 142.56
_andy 570.12 141.46
Maclennane 1089 133.22
Jenni-far-far 997.56 126.5
Jono. 963.44 112.41
Rhoi’r ffidil yn y tô (pronounced “roy’r fiddil un uh toh”). If you are feeling a little despondent with your lack of progress in learning Welsh, you may want to give up. Then you discover that in Welsh you do not “give up”, you “put the fiddle on the roof”, which makes you decide you have to persevere with a language that has such quirky idioms.
wrxmania 890.13 106.59
Bez-head 502.99 102.3
westmoors 788.85 101.1
That man from March 494.21 87.59
HappyG(rrr) 465.87 76.23
MzG 390.34 62.07
Hiraeth (pronounced “heer-eyth”). This is one of those Welsh words that has no English equivalent. It sort of means homesickness, but also a longing, a sort of wistfulness or a nostalgia for your homeland as it was in the past – or perhaps even as it never was. It can also mean the missing of a time, an era, a person etc.
RichHL 513.88 54.48
slimboy 551.11 48.59
Rog T 672.76 43.8
Garfield 393.69 41.83
Richard-M 607.07 34.85
Flatlander 637.2 34.61
Gobaith caneri (or sometimes “dim gobaith caneri”) - to have a canary’s hope – i.e., no hope at all. This is one of the first idioms we were taught when learning Welsh, and it dates back to the use of canaries by coal miners as an early warning system. If toxic gases were present in the mine, these would kill the bird before the miners were affected, hence “not a canary’s hope”, or “dim gobaith caneri”.
Neilio 231.73 33.74
stewartC 139 32.81
Toks 404.38 12.29
Ron Burgundy 702.3 0.7
Nellers 168.47 0
The Terminator 107.3 0
That’s it! Well done all (da iawn pawb), hope you all have a fantastic (bendigedig) August!
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Aug 2018
3:59pm, 2 Aug 2018
20,024 posts
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Maclennane
thanks Jenny! Enjoyed that
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Aug 2018
4:08pm, 2 Aug 2018
765 posts
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bonners
Brilliant round up Jenny, the only one I knew is the word for owl.
Well done on the 5k. Definitely an issue at parkrun wherever you are, numbers are too large to get those last seconds.
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1,500 miles in 2023....
Dec 2023