Good on Paula - back on form again

Because she thought she would win, and everyone would love her.

When she realised she wasn't going to win, she thought "**** this for
a game of soldiers" and dropped out.

Perhaps the Olympic organisers should have taped half a million
dollars to the finishing line, then she might have done better.
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It probably should have been "greetin faced coo" might have been more
easily understood.

 

That was my view too. I'm absolutely certain she could have continued
to the finish, but obviously an also-ran finish didn't appeal, so she
jacked it in.

Ob: running - I've somehow persuaded myself to run a 20km race in
Brussels in May next year - some friends are doing it and I'd been
talking about the last time I did it, nearly twenty years ago, and
somehow talked myself into doing it again.

It'd be nice to think I could beat my 1h49m time from then, but I may
be just dreaming...

 

She didn't say at the time, but she had injury and other problems. To
continue to run, knowing the problems could have made it worse.
Obviously, she knew what the cynics would say if she mentioned these
problems and decided to not make any excuses.

Should be easy to beat, 1h49m isn't fast.

 

Well that rather depends on how much training one does, I'd say. For
many 40+ people, that would be quite fast, in fact.

I'm not going to set it as a target or anything though, as I don't
intend to do a lot of specific training; I'm relying on it being the
end of the ski season for my general fitness (50-odd days on the
slopes tends to make for a very fit Ace) with just a few sessions in
the month or so beforehand, starting at perhaps 10km.

 

8<

Now, a cynic might say you're already making excuses...

Hmm, Brussels is only 130km down the road. Haven't done any running since
having meniscus ops on both knees. However, I'm now under 2 hours for a 40
mile cycle ride.
I'm also the wrong side of 40.

 

Not at all - my objective will be to get round it in a 'reasonable'
time, which, given that I'm not, and never have been, a competitive
runner, would probably be anything under two hours. Beating my
previous time would be a bonus.

Likewise, actually, but I reckon if they can stand up to the beating
they take over 50-odd days skiing they can survive a 20km run.

Nice. I've been very lax on the cycling front since we moved over
here, which is ironic since we're in a great position for both off-
and on-road work, but I'd got up to a best of ~55 mins for the 20-mile
commute I used to do. Last time I cycled to work here (~25miles, some
of it off-road, but downhill on the way in) I took a leisurely hour
and a half. On the way back, however, I boinked out at ~28miles and
had to get off and walk up a hill :-{

You're still younger than that, then?