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Sep 2017
10:09am, 1 Sep 2017
32,933 posts
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Toks
Morning and happy new month, got 5.24 miler under the belt this morning on 1.02.04 and that was a huge struggle, definitely out of groove and shape, got marathon no 70 coming Richmond park so need to get the body back in gear 😧😧😧😧
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Sep 2017
10:21am, 1 Sep 2017
33,673 posts
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Hills of Death (HOD)
Good luck MzG did it last year it's local one finishes a mile and half from my door.
I'm nearly at 1100 so I think I'm going to do it 
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Sep 2017
11:35am, 1 Sep 2017
2,088 posts
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jennyh
Good luck MzG! I'm sure you'll be fine.
Mrs J, well done on exceeding the 1500 miles for the year already, and Gobi, both your total fetch running miles and total combined fetch miles are very impressive!
I'm just over 1200 miles for the year, so should be fine.
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Sep 2017
12:42pm, 1 Sep 2017
32,934 posts
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Toks
Well done to fetchies who have reached the target of 1500 miles 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Am on 553 so not a chance a chance at all 🙄🙄🙄🙄😳😳😳
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Sep 2017
12:43pm, 1 Sep 2017
7,741 posts
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Watford Wobble
What a great day to run your first marathon Mzg.
I'm in Scotland.
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Sep 2017
2:47pm, 1 Sep 2017
2,004 posts
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IanS
Good luck MzG
Welcome to Scotland WW
(I'm just about to head south of the border for GTS )
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Sep 2017
5:38pm, 1 Sep 2017
1,704 posts
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jabberknit
Hello People! Am about to attempt to upload my August round up, but being a bit of a technonumpty, have no idea if the formatting will work, so fingers crossed please!
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Sep 2017
5:52pm, 1 Sep 2017
1,705 posts
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jabberknit
Welcome to the August Roundup, 1500ers! Well done to everybody for some excellent running in the last month, keep up the good work.
For this month’s roundup, I would like to continue to educate and inform you about my other obsession, the delightful art of knitting. Last August, I hope you’ll recall I introduced you to some of the different yarns used for knitting. This time, let me provide you with a bit of info on a range of techniques and styles used to work the yarns into garments and items.
My favourite Lace Knitting uses very fine yarn and large needles to produce a light and airy material, essentially formed by deliberately making holes in the knitting - something normally avoided! Several countries have a tradition of producing fine lace knitting, such as Russia’s Orenburg lace, and Estonia’s Haapsalu lace, each style identifiable by certain stitch patterns, and the far north of the UK has its very own Shetland lace, much sought after in the past to keep wealthy ladies’ shoulders warm, and to provide babies’ Christening outfits. So, a delicate shawl to each of the following for their excellent running performances over the past month:
NDWDave 1416.25 193.43 41.82%
Techthick 1411.7 120.87 41.36%
Tumbleweed90 1332.4 196.39 33.42%
StuHolmes 1317.76 201.3 31.96%
clare1976 1289.86 193.43 29.16%
SooWoo 1262.82 124.66 26.46%
jennyh 1205.7 145.21 20.74%
minardi 1190.7 157.51 19.23%
Scotland has more islands which provide another well-known type of knitting, known as Fair Isle or colour work. This involves using different colours of wool, which are interchanged along a row in an organised sequence of stitches, the sequence changing in different rows to produce the pattern. Usually only 2 colours are used in each individual row, but over several rows these can be changed producing much more intricate and colourful effects. Other countries such as Norway and Iceland also have their own traditions of colour work, understandable as the finished product has a double thickness of yarn and is thus nice and cosy. The Fair Isle style was popularised by the Queen’s uncle (briefly King Edward VIII, who abdicated in favour of her father), who wore Fair Isle tank tops for sports such as golfing and started a bit of a trend. So, a royal reward of a Fair Isle tank top for the sterling August efforts of the following 1500ers:
mole_thing 1179.54 116.13 18.12%
Hills of Death (HOD) 1093.55 137.32 9.51%
Richard-M1 1067.4 125.49 6.89%
RunningInCircles 1058.13 103.24 5.96%
Unity 1051.98 143.96 5.34%
Maclennane 1042.48 121.9 4.39%
Gobi 1038.49 129.03 3.99%
_andy 1019.25 111.77 2.06%
Moving from the far north of Scotland over to the West coast of Ireland, another group of islands provides a different tradition – Aran knitting. Originally made using undyed, unscoured wool, meaning the natural grease lanolin was left in the wool to make the garments water-resistant. This technique manipulates the order in which stitches are knitted, often using a third small ‘cable needle’ in addition to the more usual 2 to do this, forming highly textured plaits and woven, intertwining cables. Not as old a tradition as you’d think, mainly started in the 1930s/40s to provide work for the locals, and a lot of myths have recently sprung up about Aran knitting (eg that there are ‘clan’ patterns attached to particular surnames, or that the early Celts invented this type of knitting) – these are untrue and mainly for the purposes of extracting money from gullible tourists. With winter approaching, I would like to reward the fine running efforts of the following with a nice warm Aran jumper:
Doc Moye 1016.59 144.21 1.80%
HappyG(rrr) 1014.76 255.93 1.62%
RuthB2 1001.95 28.72 0.33%
RedAlex76 995.4 76.12 -0.32%
RichHL 923.7 116.35 -7.50%
MzG 918.29 163.64 -8.05%
FRU (KeepTheFaith) 888.28 117.65 -11.05%
Nellers 882.17 159.78 -11.66%
A more recent development in knitting fashion is known as Intarsia Work. Another form of colour work, this uses different colours of yarns, but in blocks and shapes to produce pictures. A technique interesting for its links to traditional tapestry work, the different coloured yarns must be linked together by twisting, or the knitting will have unwanted holes. Very popular in the 1980s, intarsia designs continue to appear in Decembers of more recent times in the form of Christmas jumpers, besprinkled with seasonally appropriate snowflakes, reindeer, snowmen, Santas, etc. A tastefully designed and artfully executed winter jumper goes to each of the following in recognition of their August running:
Tom the Cymro 845.6 49.35 -15.32%
westmoors 808.42 89.64 -19.05%
Huntsman 806.53 1.55 -19.24%
Zeb 782.6 14.91 -21.63%
zuistu 771.67 101.64 -22.73%
IanS 760.72 138.28 -23.82%
Bez-head 721.85 68.73 -27.72%
carolyn_t 709.7 86.36 -28.93%
Bringing us bang up to date is Illusion Knitting. This uses very simple techniques – just straightforward knits and purls, which are the two basic knitting stitches, and 2 colours in 2-row alternating stripes. The sneaky art of this style is in the arrangement of the different stitches and colours. Seen head-on, the work looks just like stripey knitting, but when observed from a particular angle, an image magically appears in the work. This can be anything – a picture, writing, symbols – as long as it can be drawn up on graph paper, it can be knitted into the pattern. For the following runners then, for their running efforts in August, a scarf providing the image of their choice:
Garfield 702.5 105.65 -29.65%
Neilio 701.9 69.07 -29.71%
That man from March 593.71 111.58 -40.55%
Toks 547.6 34.59 -45.16%
Flatlander 538.95 78.5 -46.03%
kstuart 198.28 38.36 -80.14%
mr d 147.23 52.25 -85.26%
Ron Burgundy 134.08 79.72 -86.57%
Keep up the good work, 1500ers, enjoy your running – I hope September proves a good running month for all of us!
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Sep 2017
6:00pm, 1 Sep 2017
2,663 posts
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mr d
Great work Jabberknit, the road to recovery continues, over a third of my miles last month (52 out of 147), going to do Parkrun tomorrow and a 7.5 on Monday, my longest run since Jan 9th!
No return of knee pain yet, fingers crossed.
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Sep 2017
6:02pm, 1 Sep 2017
1,706 posts
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jabberknit
Excellent news, mr d - hope it all goes splendidly for you!
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