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6 Jan
2:02pm, 6 Jan 2025
31,441 posts
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fetcheveryone
Do you have to meet a qualifying standard to get in?
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6 Jan
2:17pm, 6 Jan 2025
44,451 posts
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Nellers
Not officially but there is a running league table through the year where people submit their times for the 2km test so if I'm way down in the bottom half of that for my age group then I'm probably wasting my time turning up.
To be clear I'm not thinking I'll be challenging for a medal. I'm just hoping (and realistically aiming) to be top half of the field in my 55-59 year olds race.
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6 Jan
2:41pm, 6 Jan 2025
31,442 posts
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fetcheveryone
Top half or bottom half, it sounds like it'd be a nice experience to go - and it might squeeze a bit more out of you to be there 
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6 Jan
2:44pm, 6 Jan 2025
60,931 posts
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EvilPixie
That would be awesome
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6 Jan
2:50pm, 6 Jan 2025
22,568 posts
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Cerrertonia
<q uid="3">@EvilPixie what’s stopping you? Write one twelfth of a book in January, and see how you go./q>Exactly this. I've written several books (and published at least a dozen books written by others). A couple of them have done OK too. A page every day is all you need for a first draft to be done in a few months. Or sign up for NaNoWriMo.
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6 Jan
3:32pm, 6 Jan 2025
60,932 posts
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EvilPixie
I’ve signed up for nano so many times but never finished!
No excuses this time
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6 Jan
4:22pm, 6 Jan 2025
2,474 posts
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auburnette
Mine are:
Running:
sub 20 5k (gulp)
Run in one of the Podium 5k events (double gulp as I might very well be last)
Sub 1:35 half
Sub 3:15 marathon - ideally 3:12 by the end of the year
Plus the usual goal of "don't get injured".
Non running:
Successfully finish my part time MSc / do as well as I can in it
Finish knitting the sweater vest I started in 2022!!
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6 Jan
4:46pm, 6 Jan 2025
16,299 posts
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Meeps
Mine is to try and get my 2nd dan black belt in taekwondo, got my first 1st dan before covid and then lost my way.
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6 Jan
4:48pm, 6 Jan 2025
4,223 posts
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Lesley C
I am hoping to run a faster marathon time, with the intent on finishing stronger than I did last year.
Complete my masters, thesis writing is not easy.
But also at work finally get regraded and get paid for the job that I actually do. Been ongoing for 3 years and I have had enough of waiting.
I have an idea for a book but not had the time to sit down and start writing it. Maybe once the thesis is complete.
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6 Jan
6:35pm, 6 Jan 2025
60,941 posts
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EvilPixie
Sounds like there should be a (wannabe) writers thread
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