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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Pastis on January 10, 2011, 01:17:59 PM
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I was doin' me usual constitutional this morning a bit late. Into the park trooped about 30 or so kids from the local school and once organised by their teechah started doing a run. These are early teenagers mind so one might expect full of surplus energy and bursting with enthusiasm to be out of classes… yes?
Oh dear noooo:. To start with only a few of them could actually run; most were waddling around like penguins, arms all over the place. Some were shuffling forwards on the balls of their feet hardly putting a heel down. Practically all of them were out of breath within about fifty yards and had to stop for breath, wheezing, body bent over as if they'd completed a marathon. Some of the gerlies carried the ubiquitous water bottle and were rehydrating after twenty seconds of movement.
Another youngish gent was walking the same way as me and we passed a comment or two. Like me he couldn't believe what he was seeing. What are they going to be like when they're older if this is their level of fitness now? I thought back to my schooldays when we used to do about an hour's cross country every week throughout the winter, that's an hour with barely a stop across fields, streams, through the woods, up and downhill. The only way out of it was if you were physically disabled or sick - and no water bottles either - even Fatty Arbuckle made it!
I suppose the upside is that when half of them turn to a life of crime they won't be able to run for it. eveilgrin:
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You should have offered them a race, like. Or just laughed and shouted abuse eveilgrin:
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I wonder if they would have followed a trail of chips...? rubschin:
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It werked when Miss D did that marathon thingy (though with voddy, obviously) rubschin:
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I wonder if they would have followed a trail of chips...? rubschin:
I doubt it. They'd probably just begin to salivate and then phone for a take away ::)
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And people wonder why I have my two boys out swimming, fencing and practising cricket every week.
Even the THW belongs to a gym, plays badminton and goes fencing.
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And people wonder why I have my two boys out swimming, fencing and practising cricket every week.
Even the THW belongs to a gym, plays badminton and goes fencing.
An unreserved happy088 to you matey!
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It werked when Miss D did that marathon thingy (though with voddy, obviously) rubschin:
Never again noooo:
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I agree with you Snoops tedious though it is for us parental types at times I had one playing rugby and in the Air Cadets one kick-boxing and coming jogging with me. The two younger ones were into dance and netball. All of them did Brownies Girl Guides Cubs and Scouts depending on their gender.
I kept fit by running backwards and forwards to the car and accelerating and braking meant that I had a nicely turned calf. 8)
And no Darwin it was not a dizzy young cow. whistle:
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no water bottles either - even Fatty Arbuckle made it!
Presumably he had a bottle of cola?
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I kept fit by running backwards and forwards ...
Running, or walking backwards is very popular in China and thereabouts; not a lot of people know that ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRM_uVB8QYc&feature=related
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This should be in Nick's thread about being left handed...She's obviously a left hooker...bag in the left hand...walking backwards...whacky115
Oh...wait a minute... rubschin: you're left handed as well...sorry, ignore the above...
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I don't think being a southie and walking backwards are necessarily related rubschin:, so, yes, I'll ignore it ;)
I've yet to fathom out the benefit of walking backwards although a retreat step in boxing is an advantage. I had a maiden aunt who always had to sit 'facing the horses' and I reckon that has much to commend it whistle:
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LL can't sit backwards on a train for some reason... ::)
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I prefer to see what's coming than to watch what has already been as well whistle:
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LL can't sit backwards on a train for some reason... ::)
The ex Mrs Tel would only travel on a train facing backwards.
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TBH I don't care which way the seat faces when I go by train ~ I'm usually asleep within a couple of miles anyway. redface:
When driving a car I find it pays to face the front.
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LL can't sit backwards on a train for some reason... ::)
The rough upholstery would prolly make her breasts sore. whistle:
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