DISCLAIMER; YOU PROBABLY do know it but love running so much that anyone else’s feelings are secondary.
After all, what can beat a 30-minute blast around the town, city, park, field, mountain or lake after a hard day’s work.
But your running commitments can often get up people’s noses…when your dedication to it oversteps the mark.
Here are a few examples of how…
1) When you patronise everyone at work about how great your early morning was
Your colleague at work might have been up half the night tending to a screaming baby. Or just half the night necking beer and watching TV. The last thing he or she wants to hear is how you rose at 6am and ran 15 miles training for a race… six months away.
2) You pay €75 for a marathon, €40 for a massage but complain about the cost of the train
Pain costs quite a few bob these days. Marathons can be anything from €25, to €50 to even €100 in places, depending on where you compete. But it’s totally worth it because you get a, err, t-shirt, timing chip, bottle of water and a medal at the end.
Don’t be a cheapskate — and definitely don’t say you can’t afford to have a coffee because you spent your last dime on another sports bra.
3) You start to secretly freak out if you’ve gone two days without a run
Relax. Less is more sometimes. Don’t panic that you’ll gain weight or lose fitness because you haven’t exercised in 48 hours. Do something else for a change!
4) You’re just so damn efficient
Runners often demonstrate superb time management skills and pride themselves on having Type A personalities, as evidenced by their ability to get stuff done, competitiveness and determination when facing challenges. They’re the do-gooders, the people who get 34 errands done in the time it takes you to start your computer.
5) Your room smells
And you knew it too. All those expensive lotions and potions and unguents and sprays and gels. Oh, and all those sweaty shorts piling up in the laundry basket. Sort it out!
Absolutely brilliant and seriously underrated player.
Delighted for Chris Henry but at 32 I don’t think his door was being knocked down with offers from elsewhere.
He’s Ulster through and through and gives everything he has on the pitch but surely his best days were pre the heart condition.
@Ian Frizzell. My understanding is that there were at least 3 other clubs after him. At 32 I would not write him off getting back into the Ireland set-up, dedicated and committed on and off the pitch. A bit of good news from the Ulster camp.
Unless there’s a serious amount of injuries he’s not getting back into the Irish side. The competition in the backrow is tough and we have some serious younger players coming through.
Let’s wait and see………
@Chris Mcdonnell:
He won’t get back in but that’s more about age profile than form. He’s been great for us this year. Our pack is a disaster – we have a good eight but, back row especially, the depth is shocking and we’ve had horrible injuries that have all but killed the season.
The difference between Ulster with Henry and Henderson compared with an Ulster with neither is extraordinary.
Completely Chris. No way he would get back unless a mountain of injuries occurred.
Henry still worth the money and his place in the side.
He produces the goods on a regular basis, unlike Roger Wilson, who now only has one gear and that’s reverse
Good to hear but need more back row option’s and a scrumhalf, Hart would have been a good starter but obviously the Munster bench must be more attractive for him.
Why do you think that Racing’s 3rd choice scrum half is good enough to start for Ulster ?
Because Ulster’s first choice is leaving and their second choice isn’t very good?
Because all ulster have is Paul Marshall… Hart would be perfect for them
Marmion?
No argument there.
Shows the ridiculous amount of depth Ireland have in the back-row that a guy like this can’t get a look in. Wouldn’t write him off though. Savage player.
A true gent on and off the pitch
Delighted with the news, a great player and friend who gives his all every time he runs out.