fetcheveryone

How many times I mention sausage. Also, because I forget what I did, things like place names, Oxford, Peru ( a plus would be that it isn't case sensitive), then I have a habit of looking back at 'training' blogs I have written, so pyramid, interval. Then race names, sizzler for example.

Good grief. I can't imagine having enough time....
Hope you get a good response though

Thanks! I would be searching for 'arthritis' as have been diagnosed with it and wanted a more rounded view and hopefully positives from others living with it

South west coast path, book titles, place names, toast of a monkey, shrubbery

South West Coast Path ( ^ ), SWCP, campervan, France, Dartmoor, Windermere (although less so now that blogs linked to races are so beautifully curated!), camino, Melbourne ...

I'm actually composing a draft blog right now (to be posted on 1 July), and my search term of my own blogs I'd use would be "weight", since I can't remember when I last blogged about it and that's central to the theme.

Nature , birds , books , Fetcheveryone !

I spent a long time searching for Dios ode to little nemo. So “the fighter who won” would have been my search. I’d probably also have tried to find out what ”is it Prague” was about as that was all long before my time.

Cafe + [location or town name]

Mine would be a word or two that I know, or am pretty sure I read about somewhere and would want to find again. Maybe even a fixed string in inverted commas to reduce well meaning but not wanted matches.

But given Dio & Synge's examples I'd also ask for results to be sorted (or filterable) by user and date. If that's not too much bother?

And just for Synge. The answer to one his searches is my blogs, 2-13 July 2021

[place name] + church

I suppose if you are searching ALL public blogs you might want to see how often you, yourself have been mentioned? (For nice reasons, not just ego ones )

Fetchfest, names of places or people

Oh I remember when Fellrunning blogged about xyz... Or searching one's own blog would be handy.

I'd search for diabetes

Also places and races.

I’d search for... holidays, walking routes, specific locations that I might be thinking about visiting, parkrun (to find out ones that I might like to go to when I finally do a bit of parkrun tourism) and maybe restaurants (for new places to visit when I’m holidaying somewhere new to me).

Race names, places, caravan site, names of injury I'm interested in! all as key words.
And probably an "advanced" search so I could put author and date range in too to filter the results down a bit.

Garmin, ASICS, Nike, Brooks, New Balance, Hoka, etc. Basically brands to see what people have blogged about

Before Fetch says it, I'll just remind people there is already a blog search by user, yourself or anyone else. Yellow text at the top of the archive list (on a pc, not sure about the phone layout)

Thanks um, that's helped me enormously! I found what I wanted.

Yeah thanks um, I often want to look up things in my own blogs. Didn’t know about this feature. Typed ‘200s’ in search box and bingo! Brilliant - thanks Fetch!

With nearly 6000 blogs to my name and given my attraction to obscure titles, reading through can take a while.

Races, places, routes, kit brand names are a few of the things I'd want to look for

Races, places, food stops, kit recommendations and reviews

names of footpaths, towns.

Gerald. It's always Gerald.

I could say one thing today but it would be something different tomorrow and the next day.

I would search for phrases I remember from blogs, but can't find the actual blog.

I remember random phrases for years.

I would search for specifics like shoes or gear to see what other folks use on particular running events....but would love for there to be a "give me a random blog to read button" which may lead me to a blog I would never have otherwise come across.

Oh I like dobbers idea!

I would search by a keyword linked to a race, kit, injury or whatever 🤔

Fetchpoint, wsw, conquercise. The good stuff. 🤪

It would be interesting to track instances of the word "COVID" and "Coronavirus" to see how it tracks the official statistics

I would want to look for half remembered things from previous blogs. I may well know who blogged about a particular thing/place but to search their blogs for that place name or indeed all blogs would be really useful.

^what Baroness wrote

I need to search a date range and author and link to race and then keywords all boolean eg I think _andy OR mrs shanksi OR flip wrote a blog mentioning keyword a pint AND the West Highland Way race OR WHW. Thanks. G

Suunto. Grumbling about their software has long outpaced running as my favourite hobby. (Unfortunately they seem to have their act together at the moment, just to ruin my fun).

Boscawen,
McGoohan wow a blog with that name in it and I wanted to show my dad, but couldn't easily find it again.

Oh, just read um's comment

One of the things I'd search for is recipes. Brownies? Protein bars? flapjacks? Welshcakes?

Doesn't it come up on Google?

Google can only index non-logged-in content.

I had no idea you were a puppet of Putin propped up with all that Russian filthy lucre

That's hilarious!

:D

Our own fetch oligarch who knew. It explains a lot about Facebook jail when things are taken out of context. Funny. Who thought managing a running website would be so diverse!

LOL @ the betting!!

Barclays staff have too much time on their hands

Apart from answering the phone, when required D2!!

This is absolutely hilarious. My name for the game is 'Sandbagging'.

Perhaps Penny's Team want to join the game but are not sure of the rules?

£4? Oligarch.

Could we call Trader game "Buying and Selling People"? You might have to move your hosting to the Dark Web! G

Call it 'overachieve'. Who will overachieve against their target? Or Beat the Clock. Or some such.

Btw, 4 quid is about a billion roubles, no?

Anyway, you know what they say, look after the Penny's...

I'm outraged by the Russian influence of your betting scandal page.

Looking forward to refreshed game

Excellent stuff.
Suggested new names:
"LaundryTime"
"Putin's Puppets"
"Scam-a-lam"
"Crypto-Trading-FastProfit-NFTs Game"
"OligHierarchy"
"Death to the West"

Look after the Penny's actually might be a good name for it.

This is funny. My name would be "steak/stake my hat on it" or crystal ball gazing "

The obvious question for the Barclays team is "do you run"?

Disgraceful goings on. I shall deregister immediately in protest.

""Moss-Go" for a Run!"

I have always thought in Russia Oligarch should be spelt Oiligarch. Predict-a-Fetch.

Lol.

buying and selling people?

Not just Russia that Fetch is supporting it seems he supports the slave trade too

Brilliant! And our banks actually pay people to do ask this stuff?!

So funny 😀

Brilliant!

Am I sad in admitting that the bit of the bank communication that wound me up the most was when the team were asked to 'reach out' to the customer? Any non-American and supposedly reputable company who uses the phrase 'reach out' when 'contact' will work perfectly fine deserves to be named and shamed.

The absolute worst bit was that the first call I received from them came from a mobile. I told them to bugger off.

And rightly so!

What's Penny's 10k time?

Next time they call, you might to ask them to about their ethical actions..!

ethicalconsumer.org

McG and Oscar have had me laughing at my phone with their name suggestions. Which is fine, but I'm alone in a bar and getting funny looks...

Meanwhile, the CIA collect evidence that it's all your fault anyway:

Thanks for the smile.

Nothing to see here, move along Comrades.

Been thinking about the trader game. Perhaps it could have a ‘stock exchange’ type name like Nasdaq or Euronext but relevant to Fetchies? FetchSE?

Brilliant? But is Penny her Fetch name or her real name?

Hilarious 😂

You'd need v long arms to "reach out" to the diaspora of Fetchies!

Can we just call it Lemon Drops?

🤣

Just wow

I thought that you were a Putin puppet when you posted that pick riding your bike without yer vest on.

ROFL!! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! They ought to keep an eye on their own business from what I've read in the past.

Wait till they discover that Fetch Towers has been moved 'off-galaxy' to the Great Temple on Yavin 4. Presumably for tax avoidance purposes.

Just as long as Fetch doesn't spend a year dead for tax reasons.

Love the dateline facts! I’m in for a Baker Island atoll badge for 2023!

Cool, and my guesstimation was not that far away!

This was fun

It was great fun! Hopefully I’ll be able to make a more significant contribution next year.

So if we had started from "here" and run etc 0.87 th of the distance round the world where would we be now?

There should be a mid-winter version for comparison.

good idea, OC

Loved watching the totaliser throughout the day. It's in the diary for next year

There are also FOUR unexplored Conquercise Zones on Baker Island that are up for grabs

Good spot

Will get it in my diary for next year

badge you say?

Well if there's a badge..

Great idea

Does crosstraining count? Can contribute equine miles if so!

If it were the following Sunday, I could add 1508 miles

I’m still in Covid recovery so won’t be doing anything on that day. Sadly. Think it’s a great idea though. Hopefully next time for me.

Can I do mine on Saturday, please, Sir? I'm not a Sunday runner due to other commitments unless I plan things weeks or months in advance!

I am sure I will be adding a few miles

a badge, there will be Km logged

If there's a sweepstake/guess for the number, is there any chance of help with the magnutude?
eg the number for last Sunday, or any other recent Sunday?
Guesses in the thread, or elsewhere?

Thanks for doing this Fetch. Will any training logged be auto counted, or do we have to opt in anywhere?

He sounds like a decent fellow, the Grouch.

LOVE THIS

@um - it'll pick up everything from the training log. Try Training > Today's Feed for an idea of typical Sunday figures.

Mentioned elsehwere, but do visit the original blog. I need the readers

Do I get a badge if I log cross training - rest day - for I have the dreaded covid.

Oooo excellent. I’m due for a red square on Sunday 😀

I’ve got a run which will hopefully cross over Saturday and Sunday so might need a Fetch adjustment for mine to count…

I forgot about this as I was away without 'net access. Spent hours wandering around Arundel Castle on Sunday but didn't record any of it. Doh!

I forgot to order but would be interested if there was a spare. Thanks

I'm assuming I didn't order, but if I did then it hasn't arrived and if I did then I'd like one please.

I've got one here for you - hoping to pass it on via mer-net at Box End or similar

I'd like a spare, please.

Changed my vote. Ours have arrived and they're excellent

Also changed mine. Love it 😍

We're away until Sunday so won't know whether they've arrived until then.

I have mine. It is magnificent.

Ours arrived today, really pleased with them, thanks

Arrived , and its a thing of beauty. Changed my vote too. Thanks Fetch

Mine is awesome and is in use. Not going to lock the bling away until i finish. Like to think can do run and swim. Bike bit of a stretch

We have them and they're great!

Have fun!

Isn't that also Palin's book Erebus?

Adding complexity - multi-layer mazes? Sounds like the sort of programming I used to love playing with, but was never good enough to make a real decent go at!

Hope you used the affiliate link on the site and got a kick-back too

I just thought. Could you make them Crop Circly?

I found The Terror a rare case of the TV adaptation being better than the book. There is too much padding to create a doorstop. Erebus is a more factual account but no one knows exactly what happened to Franklin and his crew. It probably wasn’t a monster. More interesting is the way Europeans ignored information from the Inuit.

The game sounds great.

It's hard enough already ...
- work out the conquersize boundaries and near edges
- memorise rundle number circles
- watch where I am on the challenge
- and run
- and look for deer

And now you'll be trying to make us collect spaed to bash goblins with (or some such activity) and collect treasure and avoid death traps and work our way through a maze.

I need to step outside for a bit. I may be some time.

(But what I really want is a way to monetize rundle numbers)

spades, not spaed
(although I doubt the NW passage had goblins. Probably polar bears and cannibal eskimos to help if the ice & cold didn't finish you off)

Will there be an Open Water Swimming section?

Sounds great!

I have another idea for a game - I'm calling it Wormhole, or maybe ALT-CONQ. You could play it the same grid as conquercise. Each day a random square or squares opens a wormhole to a random square in another part of the world. Once your route drops through that square you start building up conquercise zone in your new location where there are other wormholes taken you to other parts of the world, and some that will return you to your home square. As well as earning ALT-CONQ zones and exploring new parts of the world, there can also be badges for the longest streak, in terms of squares conquered, before ending up back home. The main challenge I can see is programming it so you don't end up in the middle of the ocean, (but does that matter?).

LOVE THIS! Like Dio's idea, too.

"You are in a maze of twisty little passages all alike"

Are you ever coming out?

"Throw the axe at the dwarf" comes to mind. McG clearly had the same thought process! 😂

I've built some sprites (like Carcassonne tiles) - here they are randomly sprayed onto a 100 x 100 grid:

Sounds very D&D to me. I’m only playing if I get to be Elf Lord Ankh

The best book I’ve read about the Franklin expedition focuses more on John Rae, the Hudson Bay Company man who ended up searching for him (them). It was very good. Fatal Passage, by Ken McGoogan. Highly recommended.

This sounds fun!

The game sounds fantastic (adventure games are the best). Love a good maze.

I enjoyed The Terror on TV though it didn’t really need a monster to make it scary!

Sounds a very interesting book. Someone told me the story when we could see Mt Terror and Mt Erebus in Antarctica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Terror_(Antarctica)).

The game sounds like it will be a good one

Could be multiplayer - playing as a team (say 3 or 4) - could have certain blockages that can only be cleared if say 2-3 runners pass through that square

Ooh, sounds exciting!

I like! I'll be rubbish at it, because I always am at these things but it'll be fun anyway

I'm hoping for something satisfyingly mystifying, where half the fun is working out what the bloody hell is going on And if it's competitive, then some form of league system so you're pitted against people at your level, rather than multi-sporters/cyclists just dominating

And the third option? Those fetch hamsters work faster to clear the 'yes' votes
(I guess that's the end of any of my requests!)

I vote 'meh' for this change!

Ooh, I'm on 198. I have 2 more to hand out.

I've exceeded my limit by 11!

I’m over the 200. If there’s a limit on voting yes, and not on no, that will surely skew the voting… does that mean the yes:no ratio will be biased to the nos? Yes or no? 🤣 (Sorry you’ve already used your quota of yesses.)

oh gosh im way over

209. Hmmm…

240 Yes votes

Only 60 yeses. I'm such a disagreeable chap...
That said, seems an odd change to me - would make me vote meh or no more often...

The idea is to encourage voters to prioritise.

Do we get our vote back once something we've voted 'Yes' to has been closed? (Not that it matters to me at present - I've only used 55 of mine - might have to start selling the remainder)

239 need to do some pruning…

...now down to 54 (and not all of mine, either)

@CumbriAndy - yes, once a request is closed, you get your vote back.

I had 216 and now I'm at 99, CW's a good boy!

351 Yes votes!!! Yikes!

Love this!

I only have about 75 yes votes anyway. But I think this is a good idea for some folks.

I like the idea even though I'm well under the 'yes' limit.

Ooh. If it's really to prioritise then I'd have it much lower than 200. Says the woman who has voted for 7 things! How many gold's = a yes?

230 yes votes from me. I’ll look at having a cull.

Is there a risk here, unless there is a killer feature, that you'll end up with a very large number of items all with a very small number of votes as everyone spreads out there limited votes, which will have the opposite result to that intended. Unlikely to impact me either way.

I doubt it.

😂 only 9 yes votes used. "Get your votes here, votes for sale..."!

6. I can’t remember voting for anything

How do I see how many yes votes I've done? Do I just have to count? By doing find on page I *think* it's about 150. I mostly Meh if it doesn't affect me, rarely No and try to reserve my Yes for things that either affect me or u think are good for site overall.

What about prompts, esp to ne users, to encourage them to put in requests and poss to vote too?

Happy Thursday, G

It says it at the top And yes, encouraging voting is something I'm keen on. The requests seem to be coming in at a decent rate

What might be useful to help me narrow down how many of the 167 "yes" answers that I've given is a fetch view on difficulty. I might think twice about a yes for a really hard or expensive thing to implement, even if I'm still in the "yes" camp generally, whereas "dead simple" things can attract a "yes" with more confidence.

Utmost is certainly making you put some effort into your running.

Hai! 👋🏼:)

Try not to bugger yourself in the process!

Do a marathon then you get something more than 0 there?, or is there a sorting that not all points are accounted for? Or something?

Only your five best scores count.

If you imagine a 'real life' version of UTMOST, where all those in your division are running the same actual race with their division number pinned to their back so they can be hunted down - well, that's what I have with the North Staffs League.

*all those in UTMOST are running the same race, not just those in your division

Ah, i thought it was something like that

Coooool!

sounds like a brilliant fetchfest of an event - the swim equivalent of Equinox24

I happen to know that first mentioned Fetchie (L****D) feels the same about you two. What a lovely weekend you all had.

Sounds brilliant, very well done to everyone concerned.

I too would recommend LindsD Sounds like a pretty well perfect way to spend a weekend - well swum!

That sounds fantastic!

Cakes, Flapjacks, Pizza? Tasty. I would sink after scoffing all that. All sounds brilliant. Da iawn. 👏🏻

That actually sounds really great. Well done everyone xx

Looks wonderful, apart from the swimming bit.

That’s terrific! Well done!

Sounds like a pretty awesome event. Well done on your epic swim!

I would also totally endorse LindsD as an excellent Fetchie that I feel like I've known for years.

Sounds brilliant!

I feel quite envious, it looks as if you had a wonderful time. I've just realised I can name all bar two of the people in your photo (and should probably know at least one more!)

That's epic.

That looks fab. Great report too. Top fetching and fund raising. G

Sounds brilliant!

Well done! sounds like a good weekend out!

Wonderful!

Ah, and there’s me just behind/to the side of the goon.

That sounds wonderful

Fantastic! Well done everyone!

It was such a fab weekend.

Fantastic!

Wow what a cool event!

That's fabulous Linds is a keeper.

My home town Shepperton.

Good work 👍

Good work, really been bailing those times!

Now that’s me in 4th, having only gone up one division recently. Can I spoil the fetch party?

Your fast mile time suggests that you can. Give it your best shot

Well done!

Amazing. Quite flat around Shepperton

Well done, based on that 48:03 10k you should be able to go sub-1:20:00 for 10 miles and 1:46:00 for the Half Marathon so you're in good shape to improve those times and gain a few points... Good luck!

That fast mile involved the careful selection of a route with a net negative elevation 😀

If you pop out a gentle marathon, you’ll be dead cert a promotion next week 👍✅

Well done! I'm currently stagnating in my division. Lots of improving for me to do, but not till after MK24 😃

Mind you, I may pick up a few incedental marathon points along the way.

Great stuff!