Harry

Yeah I saw that last night. Only just signed up to it and my first email from them was one saying it’s all change!! How much is it to subscribe and what does it give you?

Looks good mate. Tricky. The most uphill run I did was back in 2004/5 ish when I took part in a John O’Groats to Lands End race. We had teams of 7 or 8 runners and each team had an 80 mile leg. Our leg was from Culloden to Blair Atholl, going over the Cairn Gorm mountains through Aviemore. My 10-mile stint was as you approach the mountains, so I had some super-steep sections. Worst thing was, we had to fly to Inverness the morning after England beat Wales 2-0 in a qualifying campaign. I was out all night, no sleep, nearly missed the flight, and was absolutely hanging the next day when I had to start my leg at 8am!! How I completed that I’ll never know - particularly as in my rush for the flight I forgot to pack my running shoes so had to run the 10 miles in a standard pair of daps!! My toes were bleeding for a few days after, ha ha!

Yeah, I don’t think any of them will be 100% accurate. I’ve been using Map My Run for years now and I did a regular 5k to the top of the hill and back. Did this for about 3 years and then one day it clocked it as 4.82k instead. Thought it was a one-off and the GPS was playing up that day, but then that run started clocking 4.82 every time!! So I had to adjust the run and extend it to 5k again. Judging by Strava so far, I think it’d clock that at 5, whereas MMR is 4.8. Weird really, as I’d assume they all tap into the same satellites. I’m gonna persevere with Strava, just to keep things going in the otib group, but I think I’m gonna stick to my old, known routes, so my 10k I’ve always done to Michaelwood, I’ll keep the same route, but Strava will likely log it as 10.25. Anyway - in slightly more interesting news, ha ha, my 7k this morning takes me to 104k for the month. Want to try to get over 150k this month so I’m well on course for this.

Mate, with the amount of running and cycling you’ve done over the last year you’ve probably gone past everyone’s mums house!! ?

I tried having two apps open at once on my run this morning. It worked. Had Strava & Map My Run both running. Interestingly, and as I experienced with my first use of Strava on Sunday, they log different distances! I stopped the Strava app at 7k on 33:13. The Map My Run app only reached 7k at 34:49. So there’s quite a difference - 1:36. That’s quite stark for a short distance.

Yep. Plenty of quiet country roads up this way. Park up anywhere from Tytherington, Wickwar, Charfield, and there’s plenty of quiet roads to run along. You can easily get a 10-20k in along any of these country roads

She lives in the farmhouse between Yate Rocks and Wickwar, by the closed gate to the quarry. You’ve likely ran past her plenty of times then - she’s the crazy woman who’s often seen taking her cat for a walk ?

Hey. I’ve just looked at your route and you run past my mums house on Gravel Hill Road.

Well....that 20 year break from football was always come back to bite once you started playing again!! Pre-lockdown I was still playing 5-a-side on Monday nights, and that also hampered my desire to run more. I’d run Sat & Sun mornings and play footy Monday night, then my body was too stiff to do owt again til Saturday! Fair play to you though Reg, that distance you clocked last month was incredible. It’s good to be part of this Strava group now, I hope it’s gonna spur me on to keep challenging myself and not let things slip again. I hadn’t realised Norwegian Chris was also in the group. I was with him in Benalmadina just before lockdown and I talked to him about upping my game. Interesting Chris fact - he has a tattoo of all the cities where he’s run a marathon.

I think it’s possible. I was going to do this today, but just ran Strava instead. I’d initially opened both and set them off, whilst I went to get ready and they both clocked time.

Cheers. Yeah, sounds a bit of a faff. I’ll persevere with Strava and see if it adjusts. It seems to have lost me a bit when I went under a bit of a tree canopy in the road. Maybe it’ll pick it up better next time.

So. I tried Strava this morning. Did my usual 10k, no deviation, and Strava clocked it as 10.2. I’ll persevere with it for now, but now I’m unsure which is correct, Map My Run clocks it at 10, Strava at 10.2. Looks like Strava had a bit of deviation around the 4-5k point

Hey folks. Only just recently discovered this thread. I’ve just sent a request to the otib strava group. I don’t use strava - I’m a Map My Run guy, but I’ve just loaded it up and will give it a go tomorrow. To catch up on my running history. Always used to play football so didn’t really focus on actual running. After a back injury at 37 stopped me playing I started running more. Haven’t done too many ‘official’ races. My first proper one was the Bristol Half in 2013 where I clocked 1:50. Then did the Bristol 10k in 2015 at 46:54. My next proper one was Forest of Dean half in 2017, clicking bang on 1:55. Every time I’ve done a race, I’ve trained well for it and then lost motivation after and ended up back at square 1! Having kids severely hampered my running too - having to do the school run has prevented me from running in the morning so for the last couple of years I’ve mainly been restricted to Saturday & Sunday mornings. Lockdown (and no school) has allowed me to up my game. Did 100k in March, and then 135k in April. I’m already on 87k for May. My Map My Run screenie below of month to date (plus a 5 Thursday and a 10 sat morning). @CyderInACan god knows how you did over 200k last month. You’ve spurred me on son! So, signed up to the club, will try Strava tomorrow morning. Planning on a 10k, so hopefully it works well. Good to be in the club - good extra motivation.

@Bristol Rob has certainly succeeded in his sales strategy. He got Tinnions Love Child and me to sign up.

But what about the guy who opens and closes the gate to the car park. Had he been furloughed and now has to come back into work? Is he employed by Bristol City, Ashton Gate Ltd or Bristol Sport? We need to know - there’s gotta be a story in there somewhere for someone to run with!!! ?

Glad they’ve said that. It was the clearest and most obvious thing to do.

And yet you still find a snide, critical remark. “they put it in in the first place”. The initial agreement had a “contribution” to fixed costs. They’ve now removed all costs. An analogy might be that you rent a house. You pay the landlord £1,000 per month. You are then responsible for the gas, electric, water, Sky tv, council tax etc. They were giving it rent free but were asking for some of the running costs to be covered. Just like you’d be expected to pay the running costs of a house you rented. Stop being so critical. This is a positive thing. Why try to poke around at it and find something sinister.

Well, no. There’s no debate at all. There was initially some fixed costs put into the agreement, and now they’ve removed those. Maybe you’d like to take back the comment of them being *********?

Your impression of the private medical industry is very negative and very false one. In taxes, the private medical industry pulls in nearly £2 billion per annum for the treasury. The annual NHS budget is roughly £135 billion. The private sector treats around 10% of population. Yet they do this on a cost of less than 4% of the equivalent NHS budget. It's hugely efficient and it shields the NHS from another 10% of cases, many of which are very expensive cases to treat. Private healthcare helps many people to live longer. Take cancer for example. Many of the drugs and therapies which the private industry fund are way too expensive for the NHS. If you have cancer, and are privately treated, you'll be entitled to things such as proton beam therapy, very rarely available on the NHS. Some cancer drugs cost £100,000 per year per patient - the NHS simply couldn't afford that, even if we threw all the money we possibly could at it. The private sector does a good job of keeping people alive and shielding the NHS from a huge number of treatments. If the private industry was closed tomorrow, the NHS would lose around £2 billion funding, and yet would need to increase it's budget exponentially to cover the extra treatment it would need to provide - it would not be affordable - unless you wanted everyone to pay another 40% on their tax rate. Quite simply, more people would die, because of lack of funding. Anyway, back to your initial argument - you want football clubs to give free tickets to thousands of people. I still don't get that. It's not just the NHS staff who are keeping this country going at the moment. Hats off to them, for sure, they deserve respect, but so does every other worker in this country who is keeping things moving. My Asda delivery driver deserves a ticket too. As does the person who packed the shopping in the supermarket, as does my postie, as do the binmen, the list can (and does) go on. I don't know why you want to single out NHS staff (only a proportion of which will be actually dealing with covid patients). To your final line. Yes, the NHS is a wonderful thing. But I needs the private medical industry too. Don't be so dismissive and one-eyed.

Pops - why have you quoted me into a conversation of which I have no previous? You are a strange chap. Why do you have a bee in your bonnet about me working in private healthcare? It’s my job, it pays me handsomely, but it doesn’t rule my politics or my morals. Since you’ve brought me into your conversation, I actually agree with Bristol Rob on his points toward you. If football clubs want to offer free tickets to NHS staff then great, that’s their lookout. But you seem to be on a mission to ‘expect’ all clubs to do this. Why? Why is it footballs responsibility to do something? I admire the NHS folks who are currently ploughing through a tonne of shit. I’d also point out that private healthcare is also putting everything to this cause too. Non urgent appointments have all been cancelled, no new appointments are to be booked, client premiums are going to be refunded for the fact that no claims can be made whilst this is ongoing and those refunds of premiums actively impact on my commission earned, thus my own take home pay. But I’m not bothered about that, as I know my industry is doing the right thing for the greater good. Rob’s point about profits in football is a valid one. Most clubs don’t make money. Most actually lose a lot of money. There are multiple reasons for that, mainly player wages. Football might have a kick up it’s backside after this to sort itself out. But right now, most clubs make a loss - why are you expecting loss making businesses to offer up free stuff. Many retail outlets have been feeling the pinch lately, making losses - maybe River Island should start making face masks instead of menswear and give 10 million of them away to every nhs worker, every delivery driver, every shop assistant, etc. Why is it footballs job?

I think I know who.....

My guess is that many restaurants who thought they could do a takeaway service didn’t fully understand the concept of the government salary replacement scheme. I think many simply thought that they could just carry on as normal, get staff to come in and prepare the meals, and claim the 80% salary from the government. Many misunderstood this, I believe. You can only claim the replacement salary for staff who don’t work. If you have staff in the restaurant cooking food, then you have to pay them yourself. I know a couple of proprietors who misunderstood and thought they could claim the money even for staff they had continue working.

Ah yes. I’ve just messaged him to say top work. And I now know he’s still active on here in another guise. He said “takes me back to us being in school writing songs about our classmates”. He’s a proper good lad.

Yes! @cheesleysmate. Superb Not sure why his tag ain’t working? Is he on here still!

4,789 new cases yesterday. 5,239 new cases today. They’ve increased today by 450. Unless the site I’m using is wrong, they’re not coming down.