thewelshrunner & kellogs_ontherun #8 ALL IN running in the Buff; you’ll get a PB if you WANT IT enough

Kelly has been going all in on Amsterdam 26.2 training, how will the day go?

  • DNS - excuse is the usual illness or another a&e trip

  • DNS - nothing mentioned ever again

  • DNF - balls to the wall for 13mi at BQ pace and blows up

  • DNF - injury

  • By some unicorn miracle a BQ happens

  • Sub 4h

  • Just over 4h

  • 4:15

  • 4:30

  • 4:45

  • 5h

  • >5h

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There is always a motive. Always.

Smug angled face always does stuff to help herself or tits.

Watch this space peeps. Watch this space.



Edit- Tits says that if you don’t give up you can’t fail. I am shattered from painting, cleaning and work but tomorrow I am going to think really hard about an example where that is not true. He is such a dick. All I can think of now is roller marks and how much of a dick he is.
 
zetta buttons said:
There is always a motive. Always.

Smug angled face always does stuff to help herself or tits.

Watch this space peeps. Watch this space.



Edit- Tits says that if you don’t give up you can’t fail. I am shattered from painting, cleaning and work but tomorrow I am going to think really hard about an example where that is not true. He is such a dick. All I can think of now is roller marks and how much of a dick he is.
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Well if you don't give up full time marathon training and regular international races, you fail at being a good parent
 
Tits’ statement has been bothering me. What is his definition of fail?

Coming from education, there are clear definitions of failure. I had students who never gave up, tried so hard during their GCSE and A levels and yes, failed my subject (I failed them too then 🥺).

Running is more difficult to explain. Our definition of failure is more subjective. We may never give up during a training cycle and set ourselves a target and if we don’t meet that target have we failed? Could we say no because we have improved our fitness? Is it a get out clause because we don’t have a piece of paper with the grade on it showing the fact that we haven’t reached the objective level of success?

If my students had gone back to college like we try another cycle could they have passed then?

I don’t know. All I do know is that he never can accept that he has failed. His ego is too big. Just accept it Matt. You aren’t a sub 2:25 runner.

(sorry for waffle- paint fumes 😳)
 
Your right, he's a dick. Sometimes giving up (or failing in Matt's eyes) is the right thing to do. If someone is completely burnt out and over focused on an unachievable goal that is not healthy. Those around such a person are probably doing all they can to turn them away from goal obsession. Matt comes along and effectively calls them a failure.
It's really his excuse for not bettering his marathon time over all these years. He hasn't failed as he hasn't given up he tells himself!
 
WeepingCassandra said:
Wonder if they’ve got a London ballot coming up for club members who are active only?
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Surely not... my club certainly has more strict rules than that for people who get to go into the ballot, don't most? I mean you can't just turn up at a random session, you have to do something like volunteer and you also have to race for the club - eg in their actual club vest not a bunch of free shite you begged for on insta
 
flyscraper said:
Surely not... my club certainly has more strict rules than that for people who get to go into the ballot, don't most? I mean you can't just turn up at a random session, you have to do something like volunteer and you also have to race for the club - eg in their actual club vest not a bunch of free shite you begged for on insta
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I'm fairly sure that technically if you're entering a race using your EA number to get a discount you're supposed to wear your club vest to race. It's the only time I do wear my club vest 😆 I think for our London place you have to be an EA affiliated member (we have social members as well) and show proof of a no from entering the ballot as you're expected to try that first not just hope you'll get the club place. We don't really have many members that we never see though, some post-covid drop off but not people who only join to try get another chance at a London place. I never put in for the club ballot though.
 
flyscraper said:
Surely not... my club certainly has more strict rules than that for people who get to go into the ballot, don't most? I mean you can't just turn up at a random session, you have to do something like volunteer and you also have to race for the club - eg in their actual club vest not a bunch of free shite you begged for on insta
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My club has good rules too. You have to have been joined 2+ years, participated in at least 25% of the club events they put on and not run London in the last 3yrs to be able to be in with a chance. Works so well and one lady got drawn at the start of the year and she gave it back for a redraw as she was doing Chicago and NYC and felt someone else should be deserving of the opportunity
 
instaclowns said:
My club has good rules too. You have to have been joined 2+ years, participated in at least 25% of the club events they put on and not run London in the last 3yrs to be able to be in with a chance. Works so well and one lady got drawn at the start of the year and she gave it back for a redraw as she was doing Chicago and NYC and felt someone else should be deserving of the opportunity
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Ours is literally just be registered, have a vest, have a no on the ballot 😂 but it’s a very casual club and we tend to only get about 15 entries for 4 places. Most people don’t enter the ballot if they’ve run it in the last few years or had the place previously.
 
WeepingCassandra said:
Ours is literally just be registered, have a vest, have a no on the ballot 😂 but it’s a very casual club and we tend to only get about 15 entries for 4 places. Most people don’t enter the ballot if they’ve run it in the last few years or had the place previously.
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This is the same as ours, although people who have won usually don't enter again to allow other people a chance, we're a small club and only have one place.
 
zetta buttons said:
Tits’ statement has been bothering me. What is his definition of fail?

Coming from education, there are clear definitions of failure. I had students who never gave up, tried so hard during their GCSE and A levels and yes, failed my subject (I failed them too then 🥺).

Running is more difficult to explain. Our definition of failure is more subjective. We may never give up during a training cycle and set ourselves a target and if we don’t meet that target have we failed? Could we say no because we have improved our fitness? Is it a get out clause because we don’t have a piece of paper with the grade on it showing the fact that we haven’t reached the objective level of success?

If my students had gone back to college like we try another cycle could they have passed then?

I don’t know. All I do know is that he never can accept that he has failed. His ego is too big. Just accept it Matt. You aren’t a sub 2:25 runner.

(sorry for waffle- paint fumes 😳)
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Great analogy. Similarly, people who have real jobs and live in the real world have unmovable timeframes around their goals. They're just like a pair of kids who keep cheating by changing the rules of the game they're playing.
 
Runhappy said:
Great analogy. Similarly, people who have real jobs and live in the real world have unmovable timeframes around their goals. They're just like a pair of kids who keep cheating by changing the rules of the game they're playing.
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I was going up write some angry post about shop targets but watching Buying Beverly Hills with the kids and a husband of a DHOBH is more fun.

(Runnerbeans is going to write about soar too. Maybe she saw his post about his topless run and capri leggings and wanted in on the £££.)
 
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