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Royal Parks Half Marathon running group?

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    CptCoatHanger wrote: »
    How does one enter?
    By emailing Cat and asking nicely.

    Or by going here.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    frankipanda wrote: »
    By emailing Cat and asking nicely.

    Or by going here.

    Wait, I have to pay in order to raise money for charity?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    CptCoatHanger wrote: »
    Wait, I have to pay in order to raise money for charity?
    Yes.

    Get over it.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    You have to pay to enter the half marathon, yup.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Scary Monster wrote: »
    You have to pay to enter the half marathon, yup.

    How much?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    CptCoatHanger wrote: »
    How much?
    £40.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    FYI you guys: http://www.justgiving.com/ohgodimgoingtodie :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    frankipanda wrote: »
    £40.

    That seems prohibitively expensive. I know a handful of people I'd ask to run with me, but some of them simply don't have £40 spare in order to be allowed to be charitable. It's making me think twice.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    CptCoatHanger wrote: »
    That seems prohibitively expensive. I know a handful of people I'd ask to run with me, but some of them simply don't have £40 spare in order to be allowed to be charitable. It's making me think twice.
    Well, Youthnet only have 10 spaces and the rest of the spots have already been handed out via ballot, so they'd be unlikely to be able to anyway.

    Also you would have thirteen miles in which to abuse me mercilessly. You know that's worth £40.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    frankipanda wrote: »
    Well, Youthnet only have 10 spaces and the rest of the spots have already been handed out via ballot, so they'd be unlikely to be able to anyway.

    That's not really the point.

    Would I have had to have handed over £40 if I'd registered directly with RPF, or is the £40 a YouthNet thing?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    You're a tight ass...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    katralla wrote: »
    You're a tight ass...

    Well that's one way of over-simplifying it, I guess.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    perhaps

    na, fuck perhaps- you do understand that it costs money to organise these things?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    CptCoatHanger wrote: »
    That's not really the point.

    Would I have had to have handed over £40 if I'd registered directly with RPF, or is the £40 a YouthNet thing?
    When I first did it it was £50.

    Like kat says, it's not like they're doing the whole event for free. They have to shut down major roads in London and section off whole portions of Hyde Park for the day. That don't come cheap.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'm happy to have a discussion about the prohibitive nature of charging £40 to take part in a charitable event, but let's be honest, it seems I've raised people's hackles and I suspect potty-mouth, righteous indignation, insinuation of stupidity and charitable piety are all that are likely to ensue.

    And this isn't really a thread for that.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    cry on, do you want to take part or not?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    katralla wrote: »
    cry on, do you want to take part or not?

    No. I do not want to take part.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ah, ok.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    katralla wrote: »
    ah, ok.

    Unless you meant the race? I presumed you meant the discussion about the entry fee.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'm ok with either.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    katralla wrote: »
    I'm ok with either.

    I'm undecided about the half-marathon.

    I'd be open to having a discussion about entry fees for charitable events, but let's be straight up, with an opening salvo of 'you're a tight-ass' a reasonable discussion about prohibitive fees isn't what drew comment from you. :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Run the half-marathon with me, you bloody cheapskate. You get to see me all red-faced and sweaty, and not in the good way!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Bog off to P&D and have a good old barney about entry fees for charitable events. It could be fun.

    Then here can be all about the running.

    And how amazing Franki is going to look with sweaty panda facepaint.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Damn freakin' right. :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Duly sponsored.

    ps please sponsor the panda lady, or else I might fill you all in (joke)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i paid £45 to do it by public ballot.

    At least if you pay to do it, youre definitely going to show up
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I refuse to sponsor anyone until nearer the time :p
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Slartibartfast wrote: »
    I refuse to sponsor anyone until nearer the time :p

    Me too
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Slartibartfast wrote: »
    I refuse to sponsor anyone until nearer the time :p

    That's fair enough!

    So, we have 30 weeks to go, how does that look with everyone's training plan?

    Because I've run 5k before I have a plan that will only spend 6 weeks getting to 5k, then 10 to 10k and 10 more to the end, which leaves 4 to spare.

    First official run this morning went really well but I got horrid foot cramps. I started getting them a while back when I was running, are there any stretches that people know of that might get rid of them?

    Also, do you think it's worth starting a general running thread so that non-Royal Parks runners can jump in and share tips?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I think we should probably make use of the sport forum
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