Charlie Massey

It's OK. Users of Grok and X aren't interested in facts, just in applying their confirmation biases to anything and everything.

Curling by humans is pretty skillful.
Superhumans say, "hold my beer"...

Peak Farage now a mere dot in the rear view mirror. How could anyone be fooled by this weasel, sycophant of authoritarians?

Iran struck Bahrain's Bapco refinery processing 267,000 barrels per day, attacked the US Fifth Fleet base in Manama and a US base near Erbil, Iraq. Brent crude topped $119 per barrel. Trump called critics of rising oil prices "stupid" for opposing the campaign against Iran's nuclear threat. #Iran

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Putin's man in the White House is doing a great job of helping fund the war in Ukraine. Oil futures are up 16% as Asian markets open. Black Monday anyone?
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The asset in the Oval.

Haha. I remember those days well from when we lived in Sticklepath.

Moreton in the murk 😆

I'm realising that I'm way too old and have read too much 20th century history. Of course Starmer is right. As was Harold Wilson. I'm just thankful it's not still Johnson or Truss, who think we are still a "great power".

Below is a comment about Iranians just trying to survive. Trump/Israel will keep bombing them and one day Trump will say “the war is over; we won” and try the conquering hero lie. But he will leave behind the Iran people in chaos. He was never and will never be a humanitarian.

Back to backs only for long trail ultras, and at very low intensity. My personal experience plus coach advice says no benefit whatsoever for road marathons or 50 km trails of that much Z1 work in one weekend. Most runners have no idea of where their aerobic threshold is anyway, & run them too fast!

We already know the winner in the war with Iran and that's Russia. The closure of the Straits of Hormuz has swung Russian crude from pariah to prized commodity. Urals oil price is the highest since right after the Ukraine invasion. Putin is loving this...
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And the "fast finish" to a LR can be the injury dessert. 😆 Knowing you still have 30+ minutes to run has a wonderfully moderating effect on parkrun ambitions!

That is really good. Even better would be a 90 minute easy - parkrun - another 30 mins easy / steady. Quite a stressful session but v. good training effect. That type of session came on personal advice from Robbie Britton, who coaches elite trail runners and still races 24 hr but also 10k - 50k.

Probably a debate for another time then with your marathon in April. Now not the time to start on muddy stuff. Better than 3 hr + runs are long runs with paced blocks in them or negative splits. Eg 1:35 out and 1:25 back

Do you train off road at all?

Yes. I've run marathons on quite a few different "styles" of training. 😄 IMO shorter LR are fine if your weekly volume is higher.

It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain.

This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region.

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I feel like we are all members of a wonderful club that gives an hour of unqualified joy every single week. And all we have to give for it is our time and goodwill to the other clubmates. Amazingly I know runners who've run 100 miles several times but never a parkrun.

My self goal is to get to 250 runs and 50 v on the same day, currently 192 and 28. Doable.

That's maybe the problem with it. It becomes a sort of obligation. But another way would be combo milestone gear. "Yes, your black 100 tee is nice, but mine has a gold V10 on the back too" 🤔

Not embarrassing at all. Good for you.

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Yes I think there should be volunteering challenges that are valued. There should be a conviction in the community that you are not really a "proper" parkrunner without a 1:10 V ratio. Maybe get 25 and 50 milestones free of any v-obligation. But no 100 unless you v5, no 250 unless you v20 and so on.

Six Nations, you are drunk. Appellez un taxi.

Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...

And so easy to integrate with running or walking, Ali. Course check, set up, parkwalker, tailwalker, scanning if you are speedy, close down, token sorting etc, etc. So why miss out on that?

There is nothing more rewarding, Nessa. Personally there was a point after about 20-30 runs that I told myself I couldn't be part of it all without the V side. But I've done thousands of volunteer hours in whatever activity I involve myself in, and probably can't expect others to think similarly.

Each to their own I guess, and I wouldn't pick on any individual. Every briefing I've attended mentions volunteers and how parkrun can't survive without them. I'm just amazed that anyone can hear that 300+ times, at multiple venues, and not get involved with that equally rewarding part of it. 🤷

I just can't understand how anyone could turn up on 300 Saturday mornings and watch 25+ people provide them with something for free that they obviously value highly and not make the connection. "Thank you, Marshall" is a nice thing to say, but it is also a nice thing to hear!