Where are you going tonight?

[Gooner Girl]

Are you a uni lecturer wiliam? What subject?

[William the White]

Are you a uni lecturer wiliam? What subject?

Creative Writing...

[Gooner Girl]

Cool! Up in Bolton?

[Harry Genshaw]

Spent the evening doing a fell race over Rivington. Knackered my bloody ankle on the way down from Two Lads

[Gooner Girl]

Spent the evening doing a fell race over Rivington. Knackered my bloody ankle on the way down from Two Lads

Wow! You must be super fit to do that! I'd love to give it a go but I've not got enough stamina. Looking to do some cross country next season though. Hope your ankle gets better soon.

[Bruce Rioja]

Gone into marking purgatory at end-of-semester-I-guess-we finally-have-to-do -a-little-work-and-grumble-about-it ... Twice a year, it just ain't fair...

Please, William. YOU of ALL people!

[William the White]

Gone into marking purgatory at end-of-semester-I-guess-we finally-have-to-do -a-little-work-and-grumble-about-it ... Twice a year, it just ain't fair...

Please, William, you of ALL people!

Sorry, Bruce, just how it's organised. Three terms, two semesters (obviously), and assessment happens at the end of a semester... Holidays happen at the end of a term...

Guess which ending I like best...

[William the White]

Spent the evening doing a fell race over Rivington. Knackered my bloody ankle on the way down from Two Lads

Feck me, Harry... do you do this every Thursday?

[William the White]

Cool! Up in Bolton?

Yep... keeps me near my football club...

[Bruce Rioja]

Gone into marking purgatory at end-of-semester-I-guess-we finally-have-to-do -a-little-work-and-grumble-about-it ... Twice a year, it just ain't fair...

Please, William, you of ALL people!

Sorry, Bruce, just how it's organised. Three terms, two semesters (obviously), and assessment happens at the end of a semester... Holidays happen at the end of a term...

Guess which ending I like best...

Term, term, term, term, year, year, year, year, I'm-not-listening, I'm-not-listening, nah, nah, nah, nah, der, der, der, der......

[Harry Genshaw]

Spent the evening doing a fell race over Rivington. Knackered my bloody ankle on the way down from Two Lads

Wow! You must be super fit to do that! I'd love to give it a go but I've not got enough stamina. Looking to do some cross country next season though. Hope your ankle gets better soon.

Cheers GG - I've got a marathon in 4 weeks so fingers crossed. You should defo give X Country a bash, it's great fun - fitness is all relative, to the freaks who win these things I'm sure they see folk of my ability as a bit of a carthorse.

[Harry Genshaw]

Spent the evening doing a fell race over Rivington. Knackered my bloody ankle on the way down from Two Lads

Feck me, Harry... do you do this every Thursday?

Not every Thursday but I like to get one decent race in per week. They're not all as tough as tonights was though.

[William the White]

Gone into marking purgatory at end-of-semester-I-guess-we finally-have-to-do -a-little-work-and-grumble-about-it ... Twice a year, it just ain't fair...

Please, William, you of ALL people!

Sorry, Bruce, just how it's organised. Three terms, two semesters (obviously), and assessment happens at the end of a semester... Holidays happen at the end of a term...

Guess which ending I like best...

Term, term, term, term, year, year, year, year, I'm-not-listening, I'm-not-listening, nah, nah, nah, nah, der, der, der, der......

Just to fry your (and our) brains a little more... a number of universities are thinking of introducing a trimester system... We could have three terms and a 'trimester' system... So, potentially, six breaks in learning and teaching...

Believe me, I hope no one asks me to explain this...

[William the White]

Spent the evening doing a fell race over Rivington. Knackered my bloody ankle on the way down from Two Lads

Feck me, Harry... do you do this every Thursday?

Not every Thursday but I like to get one decent race in per week. They're not all as tough as tonights was though.

Lost in admiration... and a kind of jealousy... Like, I WALK up Rivington... taking an hour each way from the barn... and am knackered...

[Gary the Enfield]

Spent the evening doing a fell race over Rivington. Knackered my bloody ankle on the way down from Two Lads

Feck me, Harry... do you do this every Thursday?

Not every Thursday but I like to get one decent race in per week. They're not all as tough as tonights was though.

Good stuff H. I had my first 'long' run tonight (7 1/2 miles), four weeks after my hernia repair. No ill effects so far. Marathon here I come.

[Gooner Girl]

Spent the evening doing a fell race over Rivington. Knackered my bloody ankle on the way down from Two Lads

Wow! You must be super fit to do that! I'd love to give it a go but I've not got enough stamina. Looking to do some cross country next season though. Hope your ankle gets better soon.

Cheers GG - I've got a marathon in 4 weeks so fingers crossed. You should defo give X Country a bash, it's great fun - fitness is all relative, to the freaks who win these things I'm sure they see folk of my ability as a bit of a carthorse.

A marathon will be easy after fell running so long as your ankle gets better. let us know how it goes.

I reckon cross country/fell/trail running is way more interesting then road running. I normally do track and field but before I fell pregnant had been road running a fair bit - got up to about ten miles at one point so I reckoned I could probably manage a 3 mile cross country. 2 little 'uns put paid to that last winter though. Barely got enough time to fulfil my coaching commitments at the moment, let alone do much training of my own!

[Harry Genshaw]

Good stuff H. I had my first 'long' run tonight (7 1/2 miles), four weeks after my hernia repair. No ill effects so far. Marathon here I come.

Nice one GtE. Which marathon are you doing? I've got a trail marathon in Coniston next month then a road one at Snowdon in October. Am doing a LOT of hill training right now

[clapton is god]

Spent the evening doing a fell race over Rivington. Knackered my bloody ankle on the way down from Two Lads

Feck me, Harry... do you do this every Thursday?

Not every Thursday but I like to get one decent race in per week. They're not all as tough as tonights was though.

Lost in admiration... and a kind of jealousy... Like, I WALK up Rivington... taking an hour each way from the barn... and am knackered...

Me too! Never been a runner but during the last Foot & Mouth epidemic the Pike was one of the first areas of the country to be opened up to foot traffic and I walked to the Pike from the barn every day just to keep my fitness up for my lakes walking. I was making the climb up in just under 17 minutes back then, might take me twice that now.

Two Lads? Twa Lads, shirley?

[Gary the Enfield]

Good stuff H. I had my first 'long' run tonight (7 1/2 miles), four weeks after my hernia repair. No ill effects so far. Marathon here I come.

Nice one GtE. Which marathon are you doing? I've got a trail marathon in Coniston next month then a road one at Snowdon in October. Am doing a LOT of hill training right now

I've got a place for London next year (deferred from this year due to aformentioned hernia). Got a few half marathons booked too as prep races. Not a lover of cross-country (although I do compete). Much prefer the road races in the summer, which have a large element of bridlepath and footpath so not really 'road'.

[Gooner Girl]

Good stuff H. I had my first 'long' run tonight (7 1/2 miles), four weeks after my hernia repair. No ill effects so far. Marathon here I come.

Nice one GtE. Which marathon are you doing? I've got a trail marathon in Coniston next month then a road one at Snowdon in October. Am doing a LOT of hill training right now

A trail marathon?! Wow. Think you might be my new hero! Seriously impressive Harry!