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Jun 2020
4:52pm, 3 Jun 2020
16,595 posts
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Bazoaxe
1992 married
1996 child one
1997 child 2
1999 (3 July) I started running.
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Jun 2020
4:59pm, 3 Jun 2020
16,596 posts
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Bazoaxe
It really bothers me that I have no record of my training from 1999 until my first run logged here in October 2007.
I do have records of races I did in those missing years although I didn’t always have the exact date for the race portfolio and so guessed.
Sept 2000 was my first race. A 10k. It was the day after Cathy Freeman won gold in Sydney. I felt like I had won gold when I sat in the bus home wearing my medal and reading the paper reports.
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Jun 2020
5:00pm, 3 Jun 2020
46,893 posts
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Velociraptor
Also four 1990s children. 1991, 1994, 1996 and 1998. The oldest likes to point out that the youngest is not a Millennial and is quite keen to turf no. 3 out to Gen Z too.
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Jun 2020
5:00pm, 3 Jun 2020
46,894 posts
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Velociraptor
I also have no record of my early training. Around five years missing, from 2001 until I joined Fetch in late 2006.
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Jun 2020
5:03pm, 3 Jun 2020
12,925 posts
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Garfield
No children. I don't have any of my training from 1998 to 2006...and joined Fetch in fairly early 2007, bored looking for somewhere online to log my running while recovering from a sprained ankle!
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Jun 2020
5:25pm, 3 Jun 2020
11,683 posts
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Ness
I als have gaps in my training record, from when I started running after my hip op in February 2003 until I started using Fetch. I did use another website. Think it was an American one but cannot remember it’s name.
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Jun 2020
5:41pm, 3 Jun 2020
46,897 posts
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Velociraptor
I posted my training on a BlogSpot blog for around six months before joining Fetch (I don't think anyone else ever looked at it, I kept quiet about it and it's evaporated now) but otherwise it was just handwritten training plans which I ignored and did whatever I wanted.
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Jun 2020
5:43pm, 3 Jun 2020
12,927 posts
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Garfield
I didn't have any stopwatch/running watch until 2007 so didn't know how far I was going, except for vague ideas/guesses!
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Jun 2020
5:53pm, 3 Jun 2020
46,899 posts
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Velociraptor
I started off using an analogue watch (though it did have a second hand) and a rough knowledge of local driving distances. After a few months I got a cheap digital watch with a stopwatch function. There wasn't really much other option. In mid-2006 my boyfriend gave me his old Garmin 101 or 201 and I was so grateful that I married him 
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Jun 2020
6:02pm, 3 Jun 2020
27,011 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I ran for nearly 2 years with a local OS map, and a piece of string that roughly equated to 1 mile on the map....
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