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Robin Hood and his Merry Dad :-)

9:37pm, 28 Apr 2016
I'm a very proud dad today :-)

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  • :)
    Rosehip
    9:38pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • :-)
    Bintmcskint
    9:39pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • Aw he's a sweetie l. Puff out that chest indeed
    runnerbean
    9:39pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • Cool costume :-)
    Seratonin
    9:42pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • Cool dude!
    Jigs
    9:43pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • :-) so much better than a blog about that vv IT stuff :-)
    .B.
    9:44pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • He looks so like Alfie in this photo.
    KatieB
    10:04pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • Awwwww
    minardi
    10:13pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • *smile*
    Heinzster
    10:35pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • Oops. Done it again. Meant :-)
    Heinzster
    10:35pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • :)
    Sushi.
    11:36pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • :)
    Ness
    6:26am, 29th Apr 2016
  • he's beautiful :)
    fleecy
    8:35am, 29th Apr 2016
  • Great photo!
    Autumnleaves
    9:31am, 29th Apr 2016
  • Wow he's rocking the Green!
    jude
    9:48am, 29th Apr 2016
  • handsome lad.... (and i think he knows it!) heart
    MazH
    10:04am, 29th Apr 2016
  • Fab! :-)
    TeeBee
    10:41am, 29th Apr 2016
  • Aww, lovely pic. :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    11:07am, 29th Apr 2016
  • Happy chappy :-)
    Mandymoo
    11:49am, 29th Apr 2016
  • Yay. Well done Fetch Junior :-)
    Adorescience
    2:37pm, 29th Apr 2016
  • :-)
    Elsie Too
    7:28pm, 29th Apr 2016
  • Lincoln Green. That's the colour isn't it. Awesome
    jude
    5:26pm, 30th Apr 2016


Warning: Dull - some screen res stats

10:49am, 28 Apr 2016
This could be the dullest blog I've ever written, although my wife has reassuringly pointed out that I've written far duller ones :-)

Fetch has Google Analytics installed, which generates all sorts of reports that a nerd like me can have an indecent amount of fun with.

Anyway, screen width stats go like this:

0-400px = 27%
401-1000px = 21%
1001-1400px = 29%
1401px+ = 23%

So 48% of Fetchies have to do some sort of zooming in order to see the full width of our current pages, which are a fixed 1000 pixels wide. Right then, that's given me a bit more incentive to get my responsive design mojo going :-)
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Comments

  • Nice to see you are using the carpeggio ratio there. ;-)
    Limpet
    10:59am, 28th Apr 2016
  • I agree with your wife :)
    Neilio
    11:18am, 28th Apr 2016
  • i disagree with your wife... that was hellish boring.
    MazH
    12:02pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • That's interezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
    *have we got a sleep smiley by the way ?*
    Corona
    12:06pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • It was more 'eh? What the fuck is he talking about?' than boring...:)
    fleecy
    1:08pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • That's alright, that's less than half.
    Angus Clydesdale
    1:22pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • Am I the only one that finds that very interesting? Does it include the mobile version? I guess it must do as
    chunkywizard
    1:42pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • Don't know why my message was truncated... to finish - it must do as
    chunkywizard
    1:43pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • truncated again? squish that bug!
    chunkywizard
    1:44pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • What Fleecy said.
    Jigs
    2:24pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • no idea if that was interesting as it went straight over my head
    DocM
    3:37pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • Now I'm confused but I hope your width is growing or maybe shrinking !!? Lord only knows
    runnerbean
    3:38pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • So the 52% of us luddites are still winning
    Ocelot Spleens
    4:06pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • Worst blog ever.
    McGoohan
    4:08pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • TL;DR.
    RichHL
    4:44pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • I wish CW had managed to finish his message, because I'm wondering about the mobile version too.
    Columba
    5:38pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • So does the fact that I have to zoom Fetch to 125% to make up for my poor eyesight feature in these stats? :-)
    LazyDaisy
    8:12pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • I thought it must include mobile as
    chunkywizard
    9:44pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • Less than 400px must be mobile, right?
    chunkywizard
    9:46pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • It's the less than sign that truncated my messages!
    chunkywizard
    9:47pm, 28th Apr 2016
  • I'm assuming you've changed something? It seems to be slow scrolling up and down today on IE and the page number boxes have gone all funky!
    Gooner
    8:58am, 29th Apr 2016
  • It was only a matter of time.... I'm reliably told *everyone* is designing mobile and touch first now. So now I know!
    jude
    9:51am, 29th Apr 2016
  • Not mobile *first* jude. Tsk :-) *Everything* first :-)
    fetcheveryone
    10:48am, 29th Apr 2016
  • Google analytics is helpful. Adobe analytics arguably more so (I don't know how costs compare, cos I work in BigCo and we tend not to be bothered by costs so much!) :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    11:06am, 29th Apr 2016
  • Ah yes, silly old me :p
    jude
    11:36am, 29th Apr 2016
  • I find a simple tap and my mobile device zooms in automatically. Sometimes I miss and get taken to another place though. Definite benefit too having no adverts!
    Nightjar
    12:56pm, 30th Apr 2016


Responsive Design Update

11:51am, 27 Apr 2016
Last week, I blogged about updating the site to a responsive design. If you want to go back and read it (and you probably should, if you've not read it already), here's the link: http://www.fetcheveryone.com/blog-view.php?id=3&m=4&y=2016#blog351280

The next step is to look at all the main pages on the site, and plan which ones would need to be included in the update, and which ones could cope with being a bit of a mess until I got around to them. So I started building a site map:



And as you can see, it gets big pretty quick - and there are hundreds more pages in backwaters across the site. The solution really is to look at the numbers, and work out which pages get the most visits, and work from there.

The good news is that I've converted a fair bit already, including just about all of the forum, and a good chunk of the main training pages - the latter has taken a lot of effort, as there's such a lot of information crammed into a small space. Some of the pages will convert pretty easily, I'm hoping.

I think one of the things that you'll notice on the desktop site when I finally get to the point of uploading the changes, is that the form fields and text will be a bit bigger, and more spaced out. Old school web layouts (which is what we have currently) use pixel-based widths, so it's easier to squeeze things into smaller spaces (matron). But in order to be flexible for different screen sizes, it's better to work in percentages (so an entry field in a form occupies say 90% of the box that it lives in).

The plan then, is to make as many updates as I can on my test machine, and take special skin-thickening medicine for a couple of days, then put everything live. Then the real testing takes place :-) I'm thinking this is still a couple of weeks away though.

Right then, enough gassing - I've got pages to convert :-)

[Swimming this morning - and either my counting is getting worse, or my swimming is getting quicker]
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Comments

  • Lol at skin thickening medicines.
    Sushi.
    12:02pm, 27th Apr 2016
  • "I hate it, bring back the old version, I don't like the flavour of Coke anymore since they changed the recipe etc"
    McGoohan
    12:14pm, 27th Apr 2016
  • Change, I don't like change :-)
    Limpet
    12:39pm, 27th Apr 2016
  • This is all helping :-)
    fetcheveryone
    12:41pm, 27th Apr 2016
  • If your counting is worse, mine is worserer. Re: skin thickening, I'll hold your hand through the worst of it. :)
    KatieB
    1:32pm, 27th Apr 2016
  • I've given up counting on so many occasions, and just followed you :-)
    fetcheveryone
    1:34pm, 27th Apr 2016
  • It's taken me years to work out how to "Fetch" on my iPhone. I'm too old to learn anything else. :-)
    Nightjar
    3:23pm, 27th Apr 2016
  • Change is wrong. Change is bad. Stop change. Ooooh, shiny.
    RichHL
    4:08pm, 27th Apr 2016
  • It all sounds very complicated. Give us a week and we'll forget it ever looked any different.
    Fizz :-)
    9:17pm, 27th Apr 2016
  • Grab yourself a little lap counter. About 8 quid from Amazon
    Daz Love
    10:15pm, 27th Apr 2016
  • I'm about to flog a lovely Garmin Fenix 3, that does all the swim counting and metrics you'll ever need...
    flanker
    11:25pm, 27th Apr 2016
  • Bring back inkwells, that's what I say :-)
    Helegant
    7:51am, 28th Apr 2016
  • *wistfully* I remember when it was all just fields around here...
    The Teaboy
    8:15am, 28th Apr 2016
  • I feel rotten now, my tinker man comment was in jest (a clumsy reference to the tinker man having such success at Leicester), you do a magnificent job of continuous improvement
    Diogenes
    9:23am, 28th Apr 2016
  • Dio - please don't feel rotten - none of any of this was a dig at you either. Making a change and then people not liking changes is something that I am totally used to. You lot are the best testing department there is, and Fetch only works because of this. Look at the forum notifications thing. I made a change that worked for me and the way I use the site, but it was only when I put it live that I got the information about how the rest of you use stuff, so I was able to poke it around some more until I got a better solution. For the good of the site, keep the feedback coming :-)
    fetcheveryone
    9:34am, 28th Apr 2016
  • Thanks, I did worry that it hadn't come over as I intended
    Diogenes
    9:44am, 28th Apr 2016


For all you marathoners

11:15am, 25 Apr 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2ViNJFZC8&app=desktop
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Comments

  • :)
    DocM
    11:46am, 25th Apr 2016
  • :-)
    Adorescience
    12:35pm, 25th Apr 2016
  • Just off to try this ;) x
    oldbiddy
    1:44pm, 25th Apr 2016
  • :-)
    Helegant
    2:32pm, 25th Apr 2016
  • :)
    Ness
    6:16pm, 25th Apr 2016
  • Always makes me chuckle...
    Gooner
    10:06pm, 25th Apr 2016
  • 😂😂😂
    Roobarb
    10:19pm, 25th Apr 2016


A Poll

9:40am, 25 Apr 2016
I know which one I'm voting for:

http://www.fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=5353
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  • Seeing them at half way I wanted to join in, seeing them at mile 22 I didn't :-)
    .B.
    9:43am, 25th Apr 2016
  • I hate VMLM but always want to do it after doing Fetchpoint :-o
    minardi
    9:51am, 25th Apr 2016
  • Been there, done it, got the t-shirt. You couldn't pay me to run London again :-D
    westmoors
    10:36am, 25th Apr 2016
  • I would love to do it again - wearing earplugs and with no plans for " a time"
    Rosehip
    11:04am, 25th Apr 2016
  • I voted yes, but it does depend on how you ask the question. I answered as if it were 9 years ago, when watching the FLM, it made me want to do a marathon. But then I did one, and another one, or two, and VLM and some ultras. And now, no, I don't want to do it again, thank you! Well done all you Fetchpointers. One of the best parts of my VLM experience! :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    12:44pm, 25th Apr 2016
  • I have also been there, done that and got the (massively oversized and quite horrible) Tshirt. I do not want to do it again, but I spent years, before I 'became' a runner, watching it on the TV and longing to have a go at that some day. My love affair with the event ended in disillusion and disenchantment, as love affairs so often do. Having done several other, very different, marathons before and since running London, I discovered that I much prefer a very different sort of event, without the charity circus and the noisy, crowded course. But if I hadn't watched 'the' marathon on the TV for all those years, perhaps I would never have started running at all - let alone run a marathon - so my answer is 'no', but a qualified no, if that's allowed.
    Fetchpoint is still awesome, though :-)
    Schnecke
    1:23pm, 25th Apr 2016
  • London is an event I prefer to watch on the TV. As a participant it is everything I despise. That's why I enter the ballot every bloody year and get rejected every bloody year! ;)
    -x-x-
    3:15pm, 25th Apr 2016
  • It's one of those things I do fancy maybe having a bash at, but not that one, just too many people for me.
    pedroscalls
    11:25pm, 25th Apr 2016


Fetchpoint

8:59pm, 24 Apr 2016
We're all a bit knackered after an early start this morning, so it's an early night here at Fetch Towers. I'll blog in more detail tomorrow, but I just wanted to say a big thank you on behalf of me and Katie, to everyone involved in the London Fetchpoint - and a huge well done to all the runners. I absolutely loved being there, and the joy and support all round was really something special. As I have become used to saying (but never to the point where I take it for granted), you all ROCK! Sleep well!

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Comments

  • Thank you for creating this site, and the shouts today. Both much appreciated.
    paul the builder
    9:06pm, 24th Apr 2016
  • I wonder what aliens would make of pickled onion flavoured crisps? :-)
    Seratonin
    9:24pm, 24th Apr 2016
  • Doh... I was looking for the "like" button....:)
    D2
    10:07pm, 24th Apr 2016
  • :) :)
    oldbiddy
    8:28am, 25th Apr 2016


Ditching the forum categories?

12:14pm, 20 Apr 2016
Here's a thing. Of all the page views on the forum since the start of the year, only about 5% of them are going via the different categories (chat, train, race, clinic etc). So do I ditch them, or do I keep them? There's only one way to find out. Poll!

http://www.fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=5350
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  • No - because how would we hide all the Tri stuff ? or VLM for those that hide that etc..
    Rosehip
    12:24pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • Could you keep the race category please?
    Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
    12:34pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • Got to keep them to hide all that London marathon shit.
    lammo
    12:35pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • RH - that's a really good point. But I think so long as we keep the bit where the thread is categorised when it's created, and keep the bit that allows you to filter out the categories you don't want, then it should work the same, more or less.

    MrsJ - can you explain how you use it as a category? It'd be helpful :-)
    fetcheveryone
    12:40pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • +1 Rosehip & lammo
    Nelly
    12:40pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • Agree with Rosehip - I currently hide at least three categories most of the time. But I guess if you can make it work as you say than that's ok.
    Sharkie
    12:47pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • I never use the categories. I would like to go straight to the forum in one click rather than forum, then forum or polls. I never want polls if I am going to the forum. Thanks for listening :-)
    .B.
    12:49pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • The only time I use categories is when I'm looking for, say, the bike thread and trying to remember if it's in "Tri" or "Chat" or whatever - but I'll adapt to whatever happens ;-)
    Jubear
    12:57pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • I just used "VLM" to find all the Fetchpoint threads. Until you do a "better" (:-O) search then we still need the filter thing. Ooooh, get me, sooo demanding! Lots of love, :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    12:59pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • dont think ive ever really used that option...might have to try it! (but im sure i wouldnt miss it)
    DocM
    1:07pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • Agree Rosehip. Needed for filtering.
    The Teaboy
    1:13pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • Never used the categories. Always go there via All. Frankly I'm surprised there is a VLM category since as evidenced by the third comment people seem to hate it, or for that matter why should VLM be singled out for special attention? I'd go for categories for Swim Bike Run. How about a hide thread option so I can filter out the ones I am not interested in (for example counting to 1 million)?
    Nightjar
    1:14pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • As mentioned above, as long as I can still filter out stuff I'm not interested in
    *Anj*
    1:16pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • Agree with Anj and them^^up^^there. As long as I can still filter out all the London Marathon shizzle I'll be happy.
    Angus Clydesdale
    2:14pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • I don't use the categories - I mostly go straight to my watch list. Occasionally I scan the whole list but don't filter... ta
    JustCommando!
    2:16pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • will sometime use categories to find a forum as it will filter out the rest, but then tend to favourite it. Particularly if I'm looking for forums for upcoming races. Guess I could always use search for this.
    flanker
    2:18pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • I sometimes use those tabs - "site" most often to see if there has been a debate along these lines (as they tend to be short-lived threads that I might otherwise miss).
    paul the builder
    2:45pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • well, who'd of know that those were there or useful. Now you've pointed them out I think I'll actually use 'em!
    Windsor Wool
    3:17pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • I like to use it if I am looking for threads specifically about certain races, having said that if the thread is not appropriately categorised then chances are I miss what I may be looking for anyway so maybe it's not so useful after all.
    Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
    3:21pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • I use them to get to threads I want to post on or read, but aren't showing on front page of All or on my Watch List - is quicker than trying to remember an exact word from thread title then typing that into search.
    K5 Gus
    6:21pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • You should probably add a Deathmatch category so those who don't want to see the posts or polls can hide them.
    RichHL
    10:44pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • Rosehip hit nail on head. No VLM, no Tri
    Derby Tup
    7:53am, 21st Apr 2016
  • I forget the categories are there.
    Huntsman
    12:19pm, 21st Apr 2016
  • I block out 95% of the forum using the categories. They must stay :-)
    Gobi
    12:47pm, 21st Apr 2016
  • I should also say I use them when I want to open out the forum as well. Having been here a while there is no doubt I use them.
    Gobi
    12:51pm, 21st Apr 2016
  • I'm one of 5% who use the tabs so I'd say keep them!
    SueW
    12:56pm, 21st Apr 2016
  • I never knew I could filter or hide any categories anyway ;-)
    Lip Gloss
    10:39pm, 24th Apr 2016


Moving to Responsive Design

11:00am, 20 Apr 2016
Just a few notes, for those that might be interested. I promise that I will ignore any comments about apps :-)

I've been slowly nudging parts of the site into line, in preparation for making the site responsive to the type of device that you, dear user, are using to access it. So for example, on a nice big desktop screen, pages will render as normal - but if you look at the very same page on a mobile, it should (when I release the changes) reformat itself to be as usable as possible.

Example? My favourite has always been the BBC website (http://www.bbc.co.uk). Have a look at it in a desktop browser, but grab the side of your browser, and make it narrower. You should see the content on the page leap about. Of course, it's not normal behaviour to resize your browser all the time - but it illustrates how the site presents itself, depending on the available space.

The stopgap approach for Fetch has been the mobile site: m.fetcheveryone.com - but there are a few reasons why this is undesirable:

1) either I have to force you onto it when I detect a mobile browser, or you have to make the choice to switch. Pain in the ass either way.

2) every time I make an amendment, bug fix or add/remove a page, I have to remember to do it in two places, test it twice (lol), and then maintain it. This is a royal pain in the ass.

3) search engines: although you can tell them all about your mobile version, they still seem to prefer everything in one place too.

So in a couple of weeks, I'll be making some updates to a lot of pages that you hold dear. The forum, the training log, race listings, blogs, user profiles, fmail, and so on - clearing up all the big hitters first, and moving down through the list of most-used pages until everything is up to date. It's not fiddling for the sake of it, and I will try VERY hard to avoid foisting any functional changes on you. My hope is that for those of you on desktop (54.5%), there will be virtually no difference; and that those of you on mobile (about 26.9%) should have a much more navigable experience, without having to switch to a noticeably dimmed-down version of the site. And in between, those on tablets (18.6%) should see some minor differences, and can have lots of fun switching from portrait to landscape mode :-)

A bit more statty stuff - one of the figures I look at is 'bounce rate' - that's the percentage of people who arrive at any page on the site, and then clear off again without going any further. Ours is 26.6% (all these numbers are for Jan-Mar 2016), which seems to be pretty good :-) But if you break that down, it's 25.6% on desktop, 23.0% on tablet, but 31.1% on mobile. Significantly higher?

Sure, there are mitigating factors. Mobile browsing is often curtailed by signal, or by the simple demand for information quickly, or by the need to use both hands to wipe your backside. But I do hope that by making our site more usable on mobile, we can keep a few of those visitors around for a little bit longer :-)
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Comments

  • Sounds like your smoking monkeys have a busy few weeks ahead :-) Good luck , may your testing/rollout go smoothly !!!
    bigleggy
    11:09am, 20th Apr 2016
  • Sounds like good stuff :-)
    .B.
    11:09am, 20th Apr 2016
  • You use both hands to wipe your backside? I use toilet paper! moon (c) Ye olde schoolboys booke of jokes and gags. I certainly never use my mobile - no absorbency see.
    Waveydavey
    11:24am, 20th Apr 2016
  • Having read about the 1-2-3 hosting debacle (wiping whole websites from their servers, including Ross County FC's), I hope you have squillions of backups ;-)
    Dvorak
    11:25am, 20th Apr 2016
  • sounds good to me.I rarely use the mobile site as it doesn't do it for me, so this sounds like progress
    DocM
    11:29am, 20th Apr 2016
  • I doff my cap to you young man.
    Watford Wobble
    11:31am, 20th Apr 2016
  • Can I be the first to say 'I don't like it' and 'Can we go back to the old screens?'? I know I haven't seen them yet, but as we all know, all change is bad and to be resisted.

    *Burns new fangled loom*
    *Smashes Spinning Jenny*
    McGoohan
    11:32am, 20th Apr 2016
  • FWIW I use a Windows phone phablet thingy and annoys me when sites like the BBC force me to use something designed for mobiles.
    GlennR
    11:44am, 20th Apr 2016
  • Good decision, sir.
    Keefy Beefy
    11:49am, 20th Apr 2016
  • I've never liked your mobile site. Too many drop-downs and just not pleasing to my eye.
    Hope this works out for us. :-)
    Angus Clydesdale
    12:05pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • I like the mobile site on my phone - as it's clearer and quicker - but with the planned changes I'm sure I'd switch back. We are launching a responsive website here at the Halle next month :)
    Autumnleaves
    12:10pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • Generally on mobile sites I try to zoom to fit the text to my eyesight. Those sites that don't allow it I just don't use on my mobile. I access Fetch a lot on the go so I'm quite happy with it as it is:-)
    Winded
    2:57pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • I don't like mobile sites in general although fetch is one of the better ones, there are some shockingly shit ones out there! All sounds good, I love the way you actually ask us when you change stuff ( even though some people always moan :))
    fleecy
    8:58pm, 20th Apr 2016
  • nice one Fetch. I thought the work you did to give us a mobile site was superb, to make the whole site truly responsive will be the icing on the cake :-)
    dan.
    7:08am, 21st Apr 2016
  • Hurrah. Proper responsive design web sites (and not mobile versions or apps that do nothing except serve up web pages!) are the future. imho
    shanksi
    8:03am, 21st Apr 2016
  • I think the bounce rate on mobiles might be higher because - if you're anything like as fat-thumbed as me - you'll use a mobile to quickly look something up but for typing in the forum and blogs, you'll need a laptop.
    Oranj
    8:14am, 21st Apr 2016


Sandy 10: Be Kind To Horses

9:29am, 11 Apr 2016
I'm pleased to report another fun weekend of running here :-)

On Saturday, I took my first stint as Run Director at Bedford parkrun, despite having been Event Director for over two months now. I thought I was going to hate standing up on the stool and doing the briefing, but it was actually fun. The run itself passed without incident (as they almost always do), although we caught a few people out by nearly starting at 9am :-) Note to all: we're trying to start as close to 9am as possible these days - spread the word :-)

And then on Sunday, it was the Sandy 10 - my third year in a row. I like this race, despite the sadistic hill that crops up in miles 2 and 9. I arrived just after 9, and as I walked into the venue (the local upper school) I was reminded why I like it so much - it felt like I knew loads of people :-) I chatted to some nice Fetchies including DocMoye, hurricanehamlyn and Jinksy - who, I'm pleased to report, all got PBs :-) (Ok, so DM told me before the run that it was her first 10 miler, but hey!) and quite a few people who smiled and waved (I'm really bad with names, but the faces were all smiling, so that's good) :-)

After the usual safety pin faffage, and a bit of chat, it was time to get to the start. It's about half a mile, so it's about ideal for a warm up, so I trotted along, trying to do a few little knee raises and heel flicks, to make sure everything was still attached.

All too soon, I was hemmed into the middle of a bunch of runners - and got all my nerves in one go. I didn't feel quite ready. But too late. We were off.

1) 1m - 7:29(7:29/m) 163/173bpm

My goal for the day was to get under 7:54/mile, in order to get a PB - but a lot of stuff was pointing at the fact that I could run 7:4X, and get away with it. But anyway, I overcooked that first mile, which probably didn't help with the second.

2) 1m - 8:17(8:17/m) 164/183bpm

It's difficult to say how much I dislike this mile of the course. It takes you up by about 40 metres, dropping you back down a few midway, so that you feel twice as heavy, and then taking you back up another sharp little evil twin. The race flattens out after this, before going back down the same hill - so it also fools you into thinking that you've maybe done most of the hard work. But there's still 8 miles to go - and a lot can happen in that time.

3) 1m - 7:36(7:36/m) 165/175bpm
4) 1m - 7:43(7:43/m) 173/177bpm

But hey ho, I'm recovering from the hill now, and cruising along at a decent pace. We go past a field that smells of very strong cheese. Did anyone else get that? My watch is staying mostly in line with the mile markers, which is useful, and I'm building up a bit of a buffer to keep me on the right side of my PB. I get a bit of cramp under my ribs, but I'm holding on nicely, and there's a very gentle downhill section, which is my favourite kind :-)

5) 1m - 7:44(7:44/m) 175/181bpm

This mile was a bit of a turning point - not least because it's half way. There a few minor undulations, but I got passed by a couple of people, and I think my head went down a bit. I ran past the donkey sanctuary, where the sole donkey was running up and down the fence - I can't make up my mind whether he was doing so joyfully, or because he feels compelled.

6) 1m - 7:54(7:54/m) 169/180bpm

This is starting to feel tough now, and despite my best efforts, I know I'm not in control, I'm just sliding down a slope, and trying to keep as much of a grip as I can.

7) 1m - 8:02(8:02/m) 148/179bpm

Whoa! Over 8 now? Suddenly, the average pace that I'd built up is starting to erode, and I'm not having much fun.

8) 1m - 8:13(8:13/m) 88/93bpm

Yep, this is starting to go pretty badly. My HRM took one of its several trips to La La Land during this mile. People rushing by, and I'm stuck in reverse.

9) 1m - 8:14(8:14/m) 113/179bpm

Ok, so I'm back at the hilly bit again, and this time there's more down than up. But the downhills are steep enough that it's still pretty uncomfortable, and there's a lot of effort going into just staying in control. The net effect is probably good, but it's not at all like I'm pretending to be an aeroplane, with a helicopter hat. I go through the 9 mile marker knowing that I need to get a sub-8 for the last mile to get my PB. There's a sniff of a chance, but it's no more than that, and it's accompanied by the smell of burning, coming from deep inside me.

10) 1m - 7:42(7:42/m) 178/186bpm
11) 0.02m - 8(7:16/m) 185/186bpm

The last mile is also fairly downhill (not that I noticed on the way out), but a lot gentler, which makes for slightly easier running. The lap pace on my watch is egging me on, and I get a shout from Rosehip, and all the marshals are being amazingly supportive (thank you all!) in their silly hats. 800m to go, and it feels like some sort of hell. 400m, and I'm desperately trying to do the maths, convince myself, and looking for the signal from the marshal up ahead that means I can cross the road. It comes, and I go - and I yell, like a jockey whipping his horse, except that I'm the horse too. The people who hear me give me an echoing shout of encouragement, and it's the blue touch paper that gets me over the line, desperate seconds inside my PB.

Hopefully.

I sat for a while, as various friendly faces came by, including Nightjar, who'd run a stonker, and we sat for a while and recovered - the lady handing out water fetched us a banana each, and we sat on the kerb retracing our steps, and regaining the wherewithal.

The chip timing system had a jazzy printing system at the finish, where you could key your number in, and get a print out of your time. I knew that a second either way at the start, and likewise at the finish could have made the difference, so I queued up for mine. I was a bit confused when it gave me a chip time of 1:18:30, where I'd timed myself as just a few seconds inside my PB, not 32. I emailed them later, and they've since downgraded me to a chip time of 1:18:50 or 1:18:51, depending on which link you follow on the Sandy website. So I'm still a bit unsure about the actual time that I got - but I've gone with 1:18:51 in my race portfolio, with the proviso that I'm gonna have to go beat it soon :-)

As always, one of my other favourite things about this race is the t-shirt, which is always a bit of an event in itself - and this year, they've not let us down. So many race shirts are uninspiring sponsor logos on one-size fits all pillow cases. Here's the design:



I got home, and Katie took me for the customary post-Sandy Macdonalds (I say that, in the hope that it will become a nailed-on tradition). I won a free ice-cream in the Monopoly game, and got ice cream head on the walk home - but it was all worth it :-) Same time next year, Sandy.

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Comments

  • Disturbingly this video shows as already 'watched' on YouTube so I must have already done this. But what the heck:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxbMk-8701M&nohtml5=False
    McGoohan
    9:37am, 11th Apr 2016
  • now i need to see aaaalll the previous tshirts!!
    MazH
    9:55am, 11th Apr 2016
  • Glad you enjoyed it :) - I'm glad they need so many of us to marshal - I hate Sand lane with a vengeance and would never chose to "race" up it - you did ace bunting
    Rosehip
    10:10am, 11th Apr 2016
  • I think the seconds might be the way race results are done - you go through with 45 on the clock, which is rounded up to 46. See it on the TV quite a lot with I think it was the Great North Run record being equalled in the women's race last year. It's an officiating thing, so what I do is just accept it as that's how it is :-)

    Either way nice work on the PB; my usual celebration for those is for a family outing to KFC, so glad it isn't just me with the junk food!
    boyband6666
    10:30am, 11th Apr 2016
  • Well run, Sir :)
    Jigs
    10:38am, 11th Apr 2016
  • Congrats on another PB :-)
    clare1976
    12:10pm, 11th Apr 2016
  • Great pacing (and hanging on!) for a PeeB. Well done. :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    12:11pm, 11th Apr 2016
  • I'm wondering if they timed us on that mat way out in front of the finish. I'll ask the ref if I see him later! Good blog.
    Nightjar
    1:08pm, 11th Apr 2016
  • fantastic race. Well done us. the marshals were awesome (thanks Rosehip and friends). Think my take on the race may be slightly different to yours! may be its time i wrote a blog!
    DocM
    1:23pm, 11th Apr 2016
  • Excellent bloggage and running bunting
    GeologyRocks
    3:18pm, 11th Apr 2016
  • I followed you into the hall at 9am and thought "I think that's Fetch" then lost you!! WJ fetchies rather took over it seems. A number of us had similar issues around the timing and it does seem to revolve around the second mat just after the start. Either way, we'll run and nice to see you, from afar!!
    Old Man
    3:55pm, 11th Apr 2016
  • Well done on hanging on for that PB. I loved the Tshirt, and the marshals were fab. I checked back to see when I had run this previously, and it was years ago! I was so glad the donkeys were still there - I saw two miniature ones as well, but you were probably moving too fast to spot them ;-)
    Schnecke
    4:34pm, 11th Apr 2016
  • Well done on the PB - and glad you enjoyed the race. I was sorry not to be able to direct you to a parking space, and cheer on Katie's Ladies as they passed the pub, but family duties prevailed this year. See you next year...
    EdJ
    4:58pm, 11th Apr 2016
  • Congrats on the PB. :)
    Ness
    5:23pm, 11th Apr 2016
  • Nice one, well done.
    Elsie Too
    7:18pm, 11th Apr 2016
  • "nearly starting at 9.00 a.m.", or "starting at nearly 9.00 a.m.?"
    Congratulations on the PB,
    Columba
    9:51pm, 11th Apr 2016
  • Fab t-shirt...
    Tazsedai
    10:18pm, 12th Apr 2016


Owls!

2:18pm, 6 Apr 2016
My super-talented mam is raising money for the local cancer care charity in the Rhymney Valley - and she's been making and selling these owls:



I said I'd sell some for her, and she's given me 10, and I'm hoping to get £4 for each one. If you'd like one, please leave a first-come, first-served comment below. Thanks :-)
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Comments

  • So Sweet!! Can I have the girly pink one please?
    UltraMrsR
    2:33pm, 6th Apr 2016
  • I would like the top row second from left mainly blue one... But I want to send it to Night Owl who may not see this til too late , and I feel needs a bit of brightening and encouraging at the minute.
    Sharkie
    2:40pm, 6th Apr 2016
  • I'd love the Ulster Rugby red and white one please.
    HowFar?
    3:40pm, 6th Apr 2016
  • Yes please - one for a boy rather than one for a girl if possible - teen-mulbs is rather fond of wols
    mulbs
    3:43pm, 6th Apr 2016
  • Cool! Please may I have the black/red one on the bottom row, far left?
    Angus Clydesdale
    4:41pm, 6th Apr 2016
  • Me please. I'll take any :)
    LindsD
    5:14pm, 6th Apr 2016
  • Yes please. Bottom row, second from right please.
    westmoors
    5:30pm, 6th Apr 2016
  • I would like any owl from either row. I love owls.
    McGoohan
    6:51pm, 6th Apr 2016
  • Ooooo yes please anyone they're all fab
    runnerbean
    7:25pm, 6th Apr 2016
  • Thank you everybody. *pulls down 'sold out' sign* :-)
    fetcheveryone
    7:40pm, 6th Apr 2016
  • What do we do now,Fetch?
    Sharkie
    9:02pm, 6th Apr 2016
  • Rats, just got on to the computer. I reckon you could flog some more you know. They are very cute :)
    Corrah
    9:08pm, 6th Apr 2016
  • None left, sorry - although I might be able to persuade my mam to knit more. She's probably moved on to another project now though.
    fetcheveryone
    3:01pm, 7th Apr 2016
  • if she does unicorns next I'll get one for my little sister ;-)
    mulbs
    3:04pm, 7th Apr 2016
  • Sorry I missed this, OH loves owls. So if there's another tranche...
    Badger
    3:29pm, 11th Apr 2016


For Adam and Jamie

11:52pm, 2 Apr 2016
We've been having fun this weekend with bottle rockets. I thought I'd explain a bit about how we got on, in case anyone fancies having a go. I'd also like to dedicate this blog to the folks from Mythbusters. Their show might have been cancelled, but they've started something that has definitely not stopped. Thank you.

We got started by going to Lidl to buy some 2L bottles of water. These are 17p each, so we got two - one to build our rocket, and the other for transporting water to the park. Interesting side note: typically, these bottles will hold up to 150psi before something fails.

Then we took a stroll to our new favourite shop, Zak's DIY - which is as awesome as this:



We don't know whether the person behind the counter is Zak, or merely one of his earthly representatives - but his encyclopaedic knowledge of everything inside the shop was very helpful. Alas, they don't sell corks - but when I explained what we needed, he suggested we try the bit of rubber that goes on the bottom of a walking stick. This is apparently called a ferrule - a bit like Will Ferrule, or Ferrule Williams. I instantly felt at home. Cost 90p.

Back at home, we constructed the rocket. The pointy bit at the top is just a circular bit of cardboard from a cereal box, folded in on itself, to make a shape like a Chinese sun hat. Then we covered it in duct tape, and attached it to the bottom of the bottle. The wings are also just bits of cereal box - and then the whole thing gets a healthy dose of duct tape to give it a bit of strength, and to make it look epic. As you can see from the pic, the ferrule just about fits inside the bottle opening.



Luckily I have a decent track pump that I can attach a football needle to - so I used the needle to make a small hole in the ferrule - and that gave us all the essentials - except for a way of holding the rocket steady whilst we pumped. But we got lucky - our Christmas tree stand was just about perfect. Not only does it fit the girth of a 2L bottle, but it also has a space for feeding in the hose from the pump - so it's made for the job. If you haven't got something like this to hand, you could always surround the rocket with a few bamboo canes to keep it vaguely upright; or you could make the wings longer and stiffer, so that the rocket can stand on them.

The boy was carried away with the excitement, but I was totally unsure whether it would work. I had no idea whether it would hold together when under pressure, or whether the ferrule would pop out too easily. We did a couple of pumps to test whether it would pressurise, and it was very exciting to see that it did. Our back garden is pokey and wild, so we headed to the local park, past some staring bigger boys, and set up, nervously.

The rule of thumb with bottle rockets is to fill about a third with water - it's a trade off between having enough water to push out of the bottom, and not making them too heavy to take off. There's probably a chart somewhere. Sod that. We just pumped. There's a very disconcerting bubbling noise when you start, as the air you're adding rises up through the water, and the rocket wiggles about on the launch pad as it adjusts itself, and undoes the top button of its trousers as the pressure rises.

It's incredibly tense when you have no idea what's going to happen. The pressure mounted, and with every pump, I got more nervous, and got the boy to stand further and further back, not knowing whether we were about to be lashed by lacerating plastic at any moment. 60psi, 70psi, 80psi... that's more than I put in my bike tyres. Is anything going to happen? One more pump, up to 90psi. One more pump... BANG. We're showered in spray, and the rocket has vanished!



It's hard not to imagine at first that the whole thing didn't just disintegrate - but up above, a black shape is tumbling back to earth. It's lost the "Poopnik 1" sign we attached to it, but it's otherwise in great condition. The ferrule popped out, and is still stuck on the pump needle. We've got more water. We can go again!



Some key learnings:

1) after a while, and for some reason, the ferrule starts to slip out of the bottle that little bit easier, so that we started losing altitude. We made up for this by duct taping the ferrule into position. The rocket takes off when it's built up enough pressure to tear through the duct tape. This is an exciting prospect!

2) adding food colouring to the water is a great way to make the exhaust look amazing when it bursts out.

3) The bottle bulges in quite a scary way as the pressure builds up. We put strips of duct tape on it - and as it expanded, they separated to create gaps between the tape. A continuous spiral of duct tape all around the bottle would help to make it stronger and feel a bit safer.

Some ideas for next time:

We have a cardboard tube from a roll of carpet, that my neighbour left out, over a year ago. A 2L bottle of Lidl water fits into it perfectly. For our next experiment, we want to see whether we can make our rocket go higher by using it like a gun barrel.

We did try adding a parachute - but it got a bit floppy, and contributed to a very low altitude attempt. It'd be good to find a good technique for adding a parachute. This was part of an experiment to put an egg in space (Tim Beak) and return him safely to Earth. Tim is sadly no longer with us, but remains forever in our thoughts.

Great, kid. Don't get cocky :-)

EDIT: I've added a video where The Boy shows off his dance moves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5URX8-AU4o
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Comments

  • Great stuff!! It looks like a penguin with explosive flatulence :)
    Jigs
    12:15am, 3rd Apr 2016
  • Brilliant :-) I'm going to show this blog to Mr who relishes fond memory of bottle rockets from his days as a Scout leader. I know a 10 yr old lad who will find this great fun.
    Helegant
    3:48am, 3rd Apr 2016
  • What brilliant fun :-)
    .B.
    6:09am, 3rd Apr 2016
  • Fantastic! We have Brian's DIY shop near us - it's just like Zak's shop and Brian and his staff know where everything is. If we don't know where to buy something from, Brian's is the place to go. I wonder if they are related?
    GimmeMedals
    7:17am, 3rd Apr 2016
  • Awesome science and photos.
    TheScribbler
    7:19am, 3rd Apr 2016
  • and now add a raspberry pi (or zero) with camera to take pictures! Tim Peake would be proud of you!
    EvilPixie
    8:02am, 3rd Apr 2016
  • Lots of fun. Thomas says to come round and try Coke and mentos as it is more messy. Messy is important when you are 8.
    Adorescience
    8:04am, 3rd Apr 2016
  • There is a shop like that in Pembrokeshire, at Newgale. If we ever go that way on holiday we have to visit the shop. Even if we don't need anything when we go in, we always find something that we do need while we're in there. Goldings in town is a bit too organised to have the same feel.
    I found it amusing that you described a Chinese sun hat. I'm sure most people call it a cone?
    Elsie Too
    8:06am, 3rd Apr 2016
  • Flying bottle rockets ain't like dusting crops boy. Sounds awesome. How'd you get the photos? Video ? And take a frame? :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    8:41am, 3rd Apr 2016
  • That is brilliant. Will definitely have to try it out at school with my KS3 groups. They'll love it. :)
    Ness
    9:45am, 3rd Apr 2016
  • Great photos. We made a bottle rocket once. Its still on the roof of the neighbours house as far as I know :-/ It flew once, kids had no interest in making another lol
    bigleggy
    9:45am, 3rd Apr 2016
  • Ah, bodge tape, just like real rocket engineers use!! :-):-)
    Angus Clydesdale
    10:22am, 3rd Apr 2016
  • Molesy
    10:55am, 3rd Apr 2016
  • That is just brilliant. Love it! :D
    AngelWings
    11:18am, 3rd Apr 2016
  • awesome, plumbers PTFE tape should help hold the ferrule in (I use it for lagging glass joints in t'lab to hold
    stuart little
    11:54am, 3rd Apr 2016
  • Please will you adopt me? :-)
    HellsBells
    12:14pm, 3rd Apr 2016
  • Great pics
    LindsD
    12:50pm, 3rd Apr 2016
  • This is better than the current European space program. Fact.
    McGoohan
    3:17pm, 3rd Apr 2016
  • :-)
    BaronessBL
    6:25pm, 3rd Apr 2016
  • Can't believe you said sod that about the chart
    Nightjar
    6:30pm, 3rd Apr 2016
  • So much fun! :-) I want to build one, now!
    I need my grandson to grow up by about 7 years...
    3M
    1:00pm, 4th Apr 2016
  • Brilliant... :-)
    Yazoo
    10:12am, 5th Apr 2016
  • so cool!
    redpanda
    9:00am, 7th Apr 2016


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PB Potential? Fancy a quickie? ;-)
Division 12: Running Out Of Road?
Thank you everyone!
Making UTMOST moves :-)
Do you want a Fetch shirt?
I did my UTMOST :-) (plus new sharing infographic)
April (7)
Today's plan
NEW UTMOST BADGES!!!!!
A plug for some races
Raspberry Pavlov
Win a book :-)
United Colours of Cross Training
A little Streetview adventure
March (11)
The lockers are a pound.
Advice for Gym Noobs!
Feedback made easier
#EveryoneDay June 26th 2022
Fetch Virtual Challenge 2022 🎈
Thanks Chunky: parkrun routes!
Sniffer Dogs
Yikes!
Fetch Cycling Jerseys - Update
Route Plotting tweak
The Crow: A Pipedream!
February (7)
Fetch Kit Spares
Updated Race Listing Pages
Introducing Rundle!
I appear to be training for an OWS event!
Fetch Cycling Jerseys!!!
Does you wantz free shoez?
Post Office tomorrow - kit spares
January (13)
Updated Flanci Design (now with more Fetchness)
Badge Collection Graphic!
Updated elevation trace
Book Lists :-)
Updated sharing infographic - do you like it?
Spare Fetch Kit
Badge page refresh / feature requests
Flanci / Fetch Leggings
New Badge Pages
New hill badges
Join me on my fitness journey!
Are you the farmer?
Blog every day challenge - finishers
2021 (187)
December (14)
Book List
Ten years ago today...
A big slobbery elephant snog.
If you don't like hills, this must be getting tiring :-)
When does a hill end?
Hill finder - prototype v2
Hill Finder - prototype
2022 Targets
Chewie, We’re Home! Happy Fetch Independence Day!
Embed badges, plus a new badge :-)
Updated people page
Seeking map
Streak Watch
The new Fetch buffs are here…
November (23)
Almost there...
The Fetch Library
Update your thread titles
Ascent dissent
Mute a thread
Shortcuts
Training Import Queue
I fell off (but not really!)
Croeso i Fetcheveryone. Ydych chi'n siarad Almaeneg, Swedish neu Eidaleg?
New mobile nav
Last call for shirts
@
Just a trim please
Brought to you by wind power
300 miles later
Golden Ticket Shocker!
Banjobax (aka KOG)
Home and Away kit preorder - with long sleeve option
A little competition - win a copy of Daniels' Running Formula
Garmin testers - thanks
Add your grub stops!
Points Of Interest: Grub Stops
Garmin-owning testers wanted
October (19)
New home and away shirts and vests
Benchmark league - a few more updates
Benchmark league table
Hill areas
Preorder is now open!
'b'uffs then
Necktube design #1 & #2
Buffs (well, neck tubes)
Report dodgy GPS stuff
An apology for people who follow my training
New cycling and swimming badges
New Conquercise Feature: Grids
Sprouting a tiny biking antler :-)
Have a try of the cycling gradient analysis
Struggling with my big ring
Cycling: gradient vs pace
A question for cyclists
For Doctor K
Shan't.
September (14)
New comments (FID 1212)
Forum post previews
Garmin imports with a snippet more info
Gallery upload options
Golden Tickets
"No need to panic donate", says Williams
Forum Quotes
Spoiler Alert!
20th of March and all that.
Have you signed up yet?
This bit of crappy Upminister nearly cost me my f***ing life.
A guide with no pages
To steal a catchphrase from a wise lady...
Multiple choice polls
August (11)
Pre-Race Training - Updated
A connection!
New Member of the Month sponsor
Best Weeks - bug fixes
Your Best Week Ever
Rainbow Kit - preorder is open
Age Bests - filtering out the mistakes :-)
Sign up, sign up, for the Doctor K cup
A message from my lovely wife ❤️
Another batch of rainbow kit?
Spares: Event Clips, Swim Hats and a few rainbow tops
July (10)
A bunch of site goodies :-)
Hello kitty
Holy Simmering Mercury Batman!
Settings
A heart rate question
Sleepy Shuffle?
365 graph
Slipping on ma noob shoes
Meatronomes
World's Sexiest Bridges
June (11)
Benchmarks - a *tiny* little improvement
Race Leaderboards - some small improvements
Race Finder - Update
Up there ^
Routes - more updates
Last call for FE Event Clips
Server update
Minor code problem
Some little updates to your route list
Feature requests - two years on!
More than just a rainbow
May (8)
Rainbow Kit - update on delivery time...
Fetch Ron Hill Cycling Jerseys
Pre-order your rainbow kit now :-)
Jimi Hendrix vs Run DMC
The return of parkrun - a poll
Something in the woodshed...
Default to walk
A tour of the Fetch Office
April (11)
Instabanned :-)
I has Instagram
Fetch Event Clips
FERC
Castle Challenge Coaster!
My chess rating
Jab - symptom watch
This just in...
REVIEW: XMiles selection box
Let FE pay for your coaching qualifications :-)
Castle Challenge - A Quick Blog
March (18)
The Fetcheveryone Castle Challenge
Running vs Cycling Cadence
Fetch vests and shirts (and swim caps)
Elevation vs Follow Roads
£500 of England Athletics courses up for grabs!
TomTom users
Music by year: 1993
10k Analysis: Part 7 - Length of Training Runs
Music by year: 1992 (plus some 1991 additions)
Bot sniffing win :-) plus daily blogger count!
User profiles
10k Analysis: Part 6 - Training Pace Again
Time to update your injuries :-)
User profile - sticker button.. EDIT and race standard
More user profile adjustments
User Profile tweaking
Cute story of the week*
10k Analysis: Part 5 - Training Pace
February (17)
Year on Year mileage comparison
Elevation graphs
It's all kicking off in chess club!
Music By year: 1991
10k Analysis: Part 4 - Weekly Training Habits
Tagging virtual races
Chasing rainbows
Rainbow Shirts
Lance!
Blog writing improvements
10k Analysis: Part 3 - Accuracy of human predictions
Music by year: 1990
Smacking bots
29 slices - my seven days of dinner
10k Analysis: Part 2 - Age and Performance
Pass it on
10k Analysis: Part 1 - Distribution of best 10k times
January (31)
January
Mobile Usability Team Helping All Fetchies...
Salmon Ramen Recipe :-)
Salmon Ramen (for TBR)
Backup dog
The best GPS watches in the world... volume 1
Pick it...
People who liked...
Obscure bugs
Zen & The Art of Heart Rate Training
FIT file import - temporary issue
Keep the change, ya filthy animal
The honeymoon is over
Dirty data
Mobile Usability
Oops
Readership!
Stay sticky
It's Hip To Buy Squares
Related Threads - Exposé :-)
The Batshit Association
Jobs
Tag Team
Feed the monster!
An ad for Fetch Chess Club :-)
Estimating VO2Max
Three little birds
A not uncommon swelling
Church Mouse January
Honey, where's my super suit?
Not here.
2020 (128)
December (6)
Blog A Day 2021?
9 years ago today
Chewie, We're Home! Happy Fetch Independence Day :-)
Be Prepared
Becoming an effluencer
A few Fetch Mugs left
November (10)
The Festive Fetch Calendar is back!
FIT file import
Mugs!
Thank you, mysterious Fetchie!
Chess
UTMOST in the age of COVID-19
This'll cheer you up for sure...
Lost in translation?
Annual Infographic... updating now.
In theory...
October (11)
Training Plan Analysis
Mini plans with the training plan
5k with The Boy :-)
Welcome to tomorrow
Thank you
Become tradeable!
Pre-Race Training Volume
Doctor K Cup Week
Last orders
Advice for a friend
Trader Makeover
September (6)
The shop is open!
Hoodie Colour!
New Fetch Hoodies
A big up/holler!
VO2max
A benchmark derailed by GPS data *nerd*
August (8)
10k analysis
Officially a Sheepy Shuffler!
Pi Watering
Pre-order Avoid Everyone Face Masks
I got sent these...
Other sites? :-O
Benchmarks - an infinitely configurable set of ladders.
Try the monthly infographic :-)
July (10)
Update on Monthly Training Infographic
New Infographic
Monthly Summary (with a little tweak)
A quick Garmin update
Open Water / Wild Swimming Database
Avoid Everyone - spares
OWS Locations
Thread-level search
New Sharing Graphic & New Pastures
My first lamp post
June (16)
Replacing the Who's Training page
Combining some pages
In pursuit of the Gridmaster Ultra
15th Anniversary Kit - Spares
Shoelaces
A new How To video
Training Plan Updated
Black Lives Matter
Avoid Everyone Spares + Second Batch
Wikipedia page
Another YouTube video for sharesies :-)
Getting data to Fetch from **other places**
Feature Voting - some further updates
Feature Voting - speeded up
Another How To video - this time, Conquercise
Fantastisches Tweeten
May (13)
A video for sharing
Bees!
Fetch Introductory Zoom Presentations
A promise to all Fetchies
Fetch Virtual Weekend: Replacement Bus Service
How has Fetch use changed?
Fetch Weekly Virtual Races
Zoom Meeting - Thursday 9 til 10am
WAVA Standards Update
WAVA Standards + Poll
Fun with Age Grading :-)
New Badges Day
The test shirt fabric has arrived :-)
April (14)
Zoom Podcast - watch the video
What is WBC?
If you did the free Amazon trial...
Some small amends (and shirt version)
Pre-orders open
I was only joking, but...
If Fetcheveryone did lockdown merch
Site outage - Thursday 16th April 11pm
On exercising responsibly
My Sports Quiz - how would you have scored?
Your creative thinking required
WBC My Favourite Teacher (a bit later than the deadline)
Updated Training League
Server Downtime, Thursday 9th 00:01BST to 04:00BST (and thank you!)
March (13)
New Fetch Game: Hide and Seek
Free trial of Audible
Do you have a good memory?
New Opt-In for Fetch Miles
New Badges for Fetch Miles
The Fetch Five: Don't Let CV19 Win!
Amending event dates and notifying of cancellations
A green light comes on over your head, and you can get on with life
Most Popular Shoe Brands 2019
A review
Android: Session I
Compare Your Training
Book Now to avoid disappointment :-)
February (10)
Imports from Suunto, Fitbit, Polar and TomTom.
Plot A Route - mobile improvements
Happy tugging!
Something to play with
Adding A New Feature
February Treasure Hunt
Server Downtime
Miles = Smiles
Build Your Mile
Pop Will Eat Himself: Update
January (11)
Clarence the Cadence Kitten
Trim your trails :-)
Seven Day Leaderboard
Let's try that again
Some minor blog amendments
Try the new Forum Search Prototype
Pop Will Eat Himself
A card from HowFar?
Thank you HowFar? (Statement, not a question)
Take the red pill
Climb every mountain
2019 (134)
December (7)
The Christmas Poem
Where your treasure is...
Listen to the dog breathe
Chewie, We're Home
Thursday's Challenge
Which GPS?
Fetch Shop (of sorts)
November (12)
The zeroth challenge
Polar users - auto import
Calling all Polar users
Mobile Optimisation
Calling all Android users
Did your ads disappear?
Pin that sucker down :-)
Easier tagging
Category now editable from VIEW
Kit now editable from VIEW
Working towards tagging
Manual Add Training bug
October (16)
Boring Cricket Blog
Books Part 2
Books :-)
42
Training tags Part 2
Training tags
Let's Jazzercise
My precious
Cricket Week 4: Footage :-)
Forum Training Threads
Benny Neutrino Returns
Cricket Week 3: Wingardium Leviosa!
Benny Neutrino's Filter Tips
Cricket Week 2
Continuing Amazon Affiliate Saga
In case you haven't seen...
September (11)
Updated: Spare Anniversary Kit
Affiliate links
I did a cricket!
Fetch365 - enjoy responsibly
Filth
My dear old things
Buddies vs Follow
Server Invoice Day
Our new MOTM sponsor
Fetch Power!
Race Listings: Please Read
August (5)
Everyone *rainbow*
Almost there...
Quick blog
Country Badges
A new set of badges
July (6)
Pre-orders open
Anniversary Shirts v2
Fetch 15th Anniversary Shirts
Fetch Fest 2020
Shout Outs
Missing imports from Garmin yesterday
June (13)
Who Squares Wins: 64 screenshot
Who Squares Wins: 64 Player Edition
Training summary - older pages
Training sub-menu rejig
Try the infographic
Steady Edina
Annual Summary Infographic
The height of daft things
The training summary - the morning session
The training summary - a wordier blog
Try the annual summary thing
How to listen to the Fetch Podcast
12 month summary mega-graph!
May (15)
£79.99 off the bottom line
Competition
parkrun reviews - now with routes
Fix It Friday; Project Joker Week 2; and some shout outs.
Fetch Kit Cupboard Sale
The bonus ball
Project Joker - Week 1
Fix It Friday
A quick update on the server
Fetch 15th Anniversary Kit
There is a good service operating
Oof.
In case you're wondering...
Trouble auto importing from Garmin?
Fix It Friday: Stuff that came to me in dreams
April (12)
Feature Voting - now with virtual badges :-)
The moment of triumph!
New Feature Voting
Fix It Friday: What would your horse be called?
Marathon Pacing: tyre-kickers required
Fix It Friday: Back to Basics
Podcast Poll
Fix It Friday: The League Of Everyone
Dom, dom, dom, I've got DOMS, I've got DOMS!
Crouch, Touch, Pause.... longer pause... what am I doing again?
Training Log - Update
Site Update: New Font
March (15)
Fix It Friday: An Endless Mission
Naming and faming :-)
2nd in my age category!
Fix It Friday: Brought to you by Surprise Inset Day
New training log
Route Matching - Ready :-)
Fix It Friday
What's your unit of measurement?
Ciderthon competition
Fix It Friday: Stroopwafels of Doom!
Route Matching - Update
This week's cool list
Me in the river
Big Fetch Miles 2019
Fix It Friday: Fingerprints!
February (13)
A Maths Challenge
Fetch Legends: Activate!
Whose coat is this jacket?
Fix It Friday: The Fix Awakens
Joining the awesome list...
Fix It Friday
Naming and faming :-)
Fix It Friday - Monthly Summary
Training Month Summary
Podcast Q&A
If you can't read this, don't panic.
*redsaber* The force is strong with these Fetchies!
Fix It Friday *bluesaber*
January (9)
Some shout outs :-)
Fix It Friday!
Podcast Ep 3, plus some naming and faming :-)
Fix It Friday
Fetch Chaos
Oooh! Second chance Berlin trip! And new subbers, podcast episode, and Trader.
My week of running
Naming and faming - this week :-)
Naming and faming :-)
2018 (138)
December (8)
A Christmas Message (in podcast form)
Rungeon :-)
Hey, Everyone!
France Trip Vote
Happy Fetch Independence Day
Actual free trip to France (incl. flights)
Litter
Sombrero's Lovely Cards
November (14)
Hoodies + other spares
Spare Fetch Kit
Festive Fetch Calendar 2018
Avatars
Book Giveaway - Can We Run With You, Grandfather?
Fix It Friday
Bedford Harriers Half - place offered
Updated Kit Bag
Family Fortunes :-)
Any adidas experts out there?
No Fixes Today - just two challenges
Big Fetch Mile Cardiff
Fix It Friday
Festive Fetch Calendar 2018
October (14)
Hello landlubbers
Embedded polls
Member of the Month
Fix It Friday
Spare Fetch shirts and vests
Abingdon
Fix It Friday
My Fetch Mile
One thing's for sure, we're all gonna be a lot thinner.
Fix It Friday - 'Ave It!
Automatic route matching
Automatic route matching
One last reminder for those cycling jerseys
Fix It Friday - Forensics and User Experience
September (14)
Fix It Friday
Server Downtime 2.30pm 26th September
Never Again
Fix It Friday!
Handling your weirdness
Cards ordered :-)
Just wondering...
Fix It Friday :-)
Try the Fetcheveryone Tutorial
40 days and 40 nights
Fix It Friday
ARION insoles - review part 1
Fetch Shirt - Black Ones, and sizing
Shirts and Vests Pre-Order
August (14)
Fix It Friday
Blog Height squished
Site Outage Last Night
New Mobile Nav
Fix It Friday
New feature - how you doin'? :-)
Sunflower spread
Fix It Friday
A new pre-race mileage graph
Fetch Social: Draycote Water September
Fix It Friday: The Supermarket Analogy
A run with _andy :-)
Suunto 9 Review
Fix it Friday
July (5)
Fix It Friday!
Five Get Wet In Devon
Big Glasgow Weekend - Part 1: Gies A Cwtch
Tom Williams Interview - Final Part
Glasgow Big Fetch Mile Results and Pics
June (17)
Abingdon Week 17 - P&D Booster rockets
Interviewing Tom Williams: Part III
Walking League (and one just for Nellers)
Follow Roads - continued
Week 18 in the bag
Tackling turds
Abingdon Marathon Training: Week 18
Interview with Tom Williams - Part 2
Server
Five Questions (ready for serious answers)
Kick some tyres for me
Interview with Tom Williams - Part 1
Five Questions
Follow Roads saga
Google maps progress, plus Abingdon plans
Training Summary - Infographics
Who Squares Wins - ranking update
May (10)
Training log maps converted
More mapping updates
Who Squares Wins - The Wizard's Hat
De doo doo doo... another one bites the dust...
Invisible changes
Silverstone 10k
Three year throwback
Why your support makes the difference
Some high mileage Fetchies
dryrobe winner
April (14)
Interviewing Tom Williams
Swimming Caps!
#finishformatt
New batch of shirts and vests
You make big mistake my friend
Fetchpoint
Glasgow Big Fetch Mile announced
Two tickets to the Running Awards
Pics from Dudley Big Fetch Mile
Notes for London Marathon Fetchpointers
Results from today's Big Fetch Mile
Who Squares Wins - prototype board
Attention London Marathoners!
New game - coming soon
March (9)
Intervals, Solidarity, Swimming and Fmail
Ready to give the new fmail a try?
More on fmail
New fmail system
Win a dryrobe :-)
For jabberknit...
Updating the Training Home page
Pics from Bedford Big Fetch Mile
Sledgends :-)
February (13)
Buffs On Sale
Big Fetch Mile Bedford
Vlog :-)
Marathon Talk
Important GDPR stuff - PLEASE read
A page of historical importance
Vlog :-)
Road Rash, Marathon Prediction and T-Shirts
This :-)
Capturing the dog
It's BACK!
Enter Wilmslow Half Marathon
An advertisement
January (6)
Local Fetchies - Opt In
Revealed: World's Best Shoes
How I chose the Big Fetch Mile venues
Big Fetch Mile 2018 - Venues & Provisional Dates
Try adding an image to your training entry
Mileage Targets 2018 - Update
2017 (147)
December (12)
Mileage Targets 2018
Thank you
Brownie Recipe :-)
Phew
Fetch Hoodies + Buffs SALE Update
Chewie, We're Home
Fetch Hoodies SALE - what's left
Fetch Hoodies! SALE!!! (and Buffs available too)
Chewie, We're Home
Sharing pics
Fetch Jingle Mile Cambridge photos
Glorious Failure: Bedford Harriers Half Marathon
November (20)
Serpents, hamstrings and inversions
A special anniversary approaches...
Hamstring and prototype updates
Training Log Prototype - Today's Improvements
Red Venom sale
For what it's worth...
Training Log Prototype - Update #2
Training Log Prototype - Update
Big Fetch Mile - venue hunt
RT for a Garmin
Training Log Prototype - To Be Fixed
fetcheveryone.com/amazon
The Weekly vLog (by me)
Thanks :-)
New Training Log Prototype - Available Now
Thanks for following
VLog - footage from the Cardiff Big Fetch Mile
Big Fetch Mile[s] 2018
Win a place in the Surrey Half
I vont to scan your barcode.
October (12)
Big Fetch Weekend :-)
Fetch Mile Results
Festive Fetch Calendar :-O
Calling Parkers everywhere!
In which I decorate a cake.
Regent's Park Fetchie Discount
Elevation in colour
"I didn't come here to walk to Sparta!"
New elevation info
Chicken Ballot-ine, with a side order of beef
New training log headers
Ballot day tomorrow - help needed
September (19)
Weekly vLog - COCONUTS!!!
River Thames Half Marathon
The lollipop update
On failing gracefully
Doctor K Day
Fetch Kit Sale - Updates
Weekly vLog
Fetch Kit Sale
Training Log View Update
Fetcheveryone Weekly? Vlog?
Fetchie Race Discount - Regent's Park 10k
Training Log Tags - Live
Training Log Tags
Weekly vLog - Derby Mile, and a pause to salute the legendary Doctor K
24 hours later
Doctor K donation page
Doctor K
Fetch Weekly vLog
Derby Mile - tomorrow!
August (8)
Race Prices; and an alien earworm
Straight outta Cromford - the Fetch Weekly vLog!
A Fetch vLog! With prizes!
Quick search location for sharing
New WAVA graph
Weird FIT file thing
Back from me 'olidays :-)
Linking race results to training log entries
July (12)
Race Pricing - crowdsourcing
Appdate for Android and iPhone
Inhalers
Fetch Mile - Cardiff?
Bookends
Race listing omelette
Coding and town planning
Please review your races
A2B winners
Motivational Sounds - the final 10
Two more Big Fetch Miles? :-)
Bedford Fetch Mile Results
June (19)
Big Fetch Mile
Motivational Sounds
Fetch fug - updated design
Fetch fug (available at the Fetch mile)
I've done the naughtiest thing ever.
Donating Blood - my Vlog
Fapp In the App Store :-)
Can I kick it?
A***biscuits
This just in...
For Bean
Your app status is Waiting For Review
A2B
Fetch Caps
Garmin Communicator Plugin
Fetch App - strong and stable testing
HTTPS is here
Fetch App progress
https access to the site
May (14)
Fetch App
Apostrophes
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
Site down at 11pm
Round and round the garden
Try the new home page layout
Server down tonight @ 11pm
Browser testers wanted
The Big Fetch Mile!!!
Site *NOT* down tonight. [cough]
Bluffer's Competition - Winner
Bedford parkrun timelapse
Return of the cap
April (8)
Fetchpoint (London and Milton Keynes!)
Base camp, VMLM
Bronze!
Just for D2
Off to the awards
Bloodvlog
Hoodies - it's on!
Updated Training Home Page
March (6)
'Train' page
Project Joker
Hoodies and Londons
Hands up, hands UP! Draycote Water 10
Bluffer's Competition
Project Joker
February (12)
Draggable?
Running Awards shortlisted
Route Plotter now with OpenStreetMap
Plan for Bluffer's comp
Update to Route Plotter
First update to the route mapper
For Angus
Virtuous Circles
Competition coming soon
Race Guide Ads
Club La Santa vLog
Fetch Fixtures
January (5)
Word Clouds
Buckets Ready
New Home Page
Do me a favour...
Limited Companies, filing accounts, that sort of thing
2016 (128)
December (11)
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
Five Years Ago Today
Pantsfest! May the stains be ever in your favour!
#FEXIT
Photoshop SOS
Attention: Fitbit users
Bedford Half 2016
Luton Fetchmob: Breaking Point
Vote Fetch!
Breaking news: Paris Marathon
November (21)
How to end a LiveChat.
Define wrong
TomTom Runner 3 Review - Any Questions?
Deliveryman
Movember: Project Beard: Day 24: Beardraggled
Festive Fetch Calendar 2016
We're gonna be in the Hudson
Hey Chiefy
I've written summat
Going Postal
A special mention
Training Log Beta
Spare Hoodies
Updates to Training Beta
Movember: Project Beard - Day 8 (The Seven Day Itch)
Vote for Fetch
Training Log Detail View - Some Changes
Aberdeen University Study
Consultation V2
[Untitled]
Fetchpoint - October Winners and November Prizes
October (16)
Alien nuggets!
Keeping a tight lid on the biscuit tin
Training Log Beta
100 Running Words
Pssst....
Fetchmob, December 3rd
Where to mob?
Little things
That All-Time Mileage League
The sudoku that keeps on giving.
Sub-25 for 1km :-)
Fetchmob - December 3rd
New Training Log Preview
Fixed the overlap...
Why the new training log isn't ready yet...
vLog
September (12)
Doughnut or Donate
Training Log - Sneak Peek
Fetch Shop Sale! Old stuff clearout!
vLog!!!
The consultation system...
Garmin support for timezone info
The GMT/BST/Timezone problem
Training Log Consultation...
Training Log - Consultation
Fetch Social Runs
Subscriber shirts, vests and hoodies, and determination.
Fetch Voluntary Subscriptions
August (3)
Ze Gryndylows! My first #OWS :-)
Testing Fetchpoint exclusion zones
Fetchpoint scoring system
July (7)
Conquercise Prize Draw?
Fetch Games: Checkpoints (and what's wrong with them)
More owls...
Your Favourite Fetch Game?
Even More Utmost Than Before...
Chiswick!
15 days later...
June (10)
Five days on...
[Untitled]
A quick thank you...
What do you think?
If you'd be so kind...
Poised
Which watch?
Run Bedford 10k
Import from a TomTom
Attention TomTom users
May (10)
Race Distance poll
An ungainly fish
A five year plan
What Club La Santa can learn from parkrun
Cream Me Up, Scotty
Greetings from Club La Santa
And a quick poll...
Club Charter
A poll about intervals
More owls!
April (11)
Robin Hood and his Merry Dad :-)
Warning: Dull - some screen res stats
Responsive Design Update
For all you marathoners
A Poll
Fetchpoint
Ditching the forum categories?
Moving to Responsive Design
Sandy 10: Be Kind To Horses
Owls!
For Adam and Jamie
March (11)
Bacon Smoke!
Benchmarks Update
Bath - Race Report
PB!!!!!!!
An annoying eight-year-old.
Let's Cook and Cut and Paste :-)
Let's Cook :-)
RIP Gramma
Book Winners
Dog farming
Site header update
February (5)
Book Giveaway
Pi Club
Pi Project Update
Because I'd like to check the blogging badges are working...
Crapruary
January (11)
Snooker Freak
Badges - Another Update
Unlockable Badges - Update
Unlockable Badges
TomTom Runner 2 Review
Gallery updates
Snowball coding and Fetch Unlockables!
Achievement Medals - what do you reckon?
Run The Sum
2015 Book List (and a bit of a review / plan)
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
2015 (175)
December (7)
Red Red Wine
A Poll
Gis a job!
Bedford Half
REMEMBER!!!
Vote for Fetch
Now you've hopefully got the idea...
November (13)
The Festive Fetch Calendar
Don't get excited or anything...
Slightly Dismal Friday
Pre-order your Fetch Buff now :-)
A message from our sponsor
Dr Fetch will see you now
Only the grumbliest, achiest chocolate... :-)
The Stanford Experiment
Buff Design
Snugs - Review
Love, Commitment, Support
The pre-wedding blog!
Good morning Fetchers, good morning Everyone
October (9)
Monthly Totals
Did you write a blog yesterday?
The First Rule of Web Server Maintenance
The gain line
Fectch
The zipper challenge!
Sugar daddy
Now in colour!
Competition Time!!!
September (14)
Teach your kids (or yourself) to code
Sticky Training Choices
Goodies: GetMore water and the Alcatel OneTouch Watch
Shirt size guidelines
This nearly made it...
Subscriber Shirt Design
I've got wood!
Humbled
New Beginnings
Some more questions answered
Swimming
Some responses to your comments
Standing on the shoulders of Fetchies
Funtleks
August (8)
24 hours in the south
24 hours in the north
Fetchies Assemble!
Thank you
Better knowledge than riches
Fitbit Urge
The villainous Mr Fetch!
Uncomfortable rear
July (8)
Why don't you play Conquercise?
Another week of strange training
Book Giveaway - Winners
GPS Reviews
Criteria for reviewing a GPS
Auto-bike-detector :-)
Win some bookses :-)
Half Way!
June (13)
Time Lapse Clouds
TomTom Bandit - very QUICK first impressions
My wings are like a shield of steel!
Running plus Cycling update
Embarrassingly...
Stalkers Paradise!
Recommend me a bike :-)
Holy Steamrollers Batman!
Rest day (no such thing)
Sqveeeeze!
We will now imitate the flight of a goose :-)
You made me ink! Snorkel safari :-)
Good morning from CLS :-)
May (10)
Club La Santa :-)
The AWESOME Power of Fetchies!
Home Insurance Shaftage :-/
Editing Forum Posts
The Future!
Some London Marathon stats
Walking On The Moon
Hardest parkrun?
New found wisdom
Week 1
April (11)
Marathon vLog
I owe some hugs!
And that concludes the voting from the Danish judges
Adventures in geocaching
Your video clips wanted!
Jelly with no spoons
Random Ultra
Suncream in my eyes - a review of 'Running and Stuff'
Books what I've read this year
Measuring the effect of wind
Wind Roses
March (18)
Watching the tide roll away
A great week of running!
Happy Jigs Wisdom!
Mobile Fetch
I don't do this very often...
Breathless Optimism
20 miles yesterday
This Week's vLog
Decision Trees and the sub-4!
Democracy Street
Mayan Maths
Bath Half (at last)
Still a chicken
Costume Drama in Bath
TomTom importing
Updated 'Train' page
Zonked
Nearly
February (29)
Pheasant
An Unexpected Journey
Wind picking up...
An unplanned kit alarm
Race Pace Test
2nd place
Week ends
Bounceback
Barking carrots
Bedroom pizza
Top of the mountain
Blogs get the mobile treatment
Supersonic Katie, and a marathon pace question
Back home
Racing parkrun ;-)
Unblocking the sink
Start in Darkness
Some times I'd like
Mobile Site - Forum Section
All-Time Leaderboards
Batteries
Sword fighting
PB Attempts
Duct tape and WD40
Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants
Lessons
Shoe horning
Training vLog Week 13
Big February Project
January (35)
Cake, invalidated
Small sips
LiRF, award shortlist, beginners, books, boy.
Dog Available :-)
Cutback
New Recipe Section
Lazy
Another threshold run
New Beginnings
Blah
But far more importantly...
Fetch Beginners Programme
Give it a go :-)
Training vLog - Week 11
Threshold Run (a running blog)
Long day, short blog
(Lack of) Pump Action
A thread to follow
This Boy Can
Local Leaderboards for Checkpoints
Choking.
February 18th
Godzilla!
The Travelling Checkpoint Salesman
Acorn Antiques
Bearing Up
Deleted Bridges and Dodgy Lasers
I'm Batman!
Healthy and Appy
Punch O'Clock!
The plan, then.
Ten mile toes
On Parliament
[Untitled]
Bold Claims, and a Challenge for 2015
2014 (262)
December (9)
A trip to Wales (vLog)
Christmas Messages from Fetchies
Various
FERC London Marathon Places - Draw
It's gone in my sock...
Festive Fetch Five
This Week's Training
To the Post Office!
Training vLog - Week 4
November (12)
I Am Groot!
Slightly Dismal Friday
Week 3 - in which I nearly drown my wife!
I said yes :-)
Free Daps! aka Test GORE-TEX® footwear this winter!
Training vLog - Week 2
More chances for VMLM entries
Marathon Talk
My first training vLog :-)
Second place?
In :-)
Questionnaire about personality traits amongst runners
October (16)
Adidas API
Horseplay minimiser
Running with the big dog
Flat and Windy
Who'd like to test the Garmin API then?
Advantage Borg
Deal?
Jumble
Milk Tray Reps in the Rain
Geneva
Quote
Hatfield 5k, and some other running thoughts
Site layout changes
Vote for Training Plans
Maths help
3-2-1
September (8)
A quick device poll
Garmin Connect API
Cake at the lake :-)
Empowering Women
This Week's Training
Tick :-)
Article help
First outing with the Harriets
August (7)
Book club and Harriers
A treasure trove for bookish types
What I did on my Summer Holidays
Local decoration
The Fisher King
Mojitos and no mosquitos!
Cake-athlon
July (26)
James Mason
Missing Week
Camping View
Wild Camping
Quick
Transalpine Race
In brief
Urgent! Pair of runners wanted!
Fetch Kit Available to Pre-order :-)
Fetch Anniversary Kit - Preview
API and FAK!
That dog has a puffy tail
More books
Reverse Moses
Zombies vs Plants
Shovel required
Nightfever
Dayfever
Catcher in the Rye
My sister the psychologist
Drink your strong limey drink
Keep me in the loop
Bread knives, hedgehogs and the dog in the night time
Whoops
Pinteresting
Q&A?
June (34)
Checkpoints video
Walden
Happy boys and giggly imps
Spring loaded
Elbow grease
Fetch 10th Anniversary Kit
Fetch YouTube Tutorial - Race Guide
Finding the Library folder on a Mac
Stoat!
Sonic screwdriver
Live wires
Wiring help needed
Garmin Express Experiment
Scalded sloth
Garminge
Potching
New Forum Layout
Further updates to the blog layout
New blog layout
First woodpecker
Beastin' parkrun
Pantoball
All was well
USA! USA! USA!
Marking Territory
The People's Poet Is Dead :-(
Holy Water
Throwing shapes
Life moves pretty fast
Recursion is beautiful
Win an OS Explorer / Landranger map of your choice
Intervals with a Suunto Ambit 2S
Tick
Economy done two ways
May (31)
[Untitled]
Vorsprung Durch Lego Technic
How do I liberate my boy from his XBox?
Questions?
Life in the Woods
Lazy
MovesMissed
Intervals with a TomTom
Electioneering
[Untitled]
Tree fluff
More camping
Zen and Camping
Not eaten by bears
Bear food
Camping List
Camping Venn Diagrams
Floppy dog
Routes but not Rathbone
Illustrator wanted
Masking
Highlights
The Cosmic Ballet Goes On
Silverstone 10k :-)
Quick one
[Untitled]
Superhuman snooker
Dogturdflagman
Numbers!
Whittlin'
Chapter 1
April (29)
King Bin
Quiet day on Feedback Mountain
Listing
42
Go directly to parkrun. Do not pass Godzuki.
A day in Wales
[Untitled]
Spanner
The Lost Diadem of Fetchbook
Falling asleep in my dinner
Egg
Sofathon
God gave rock and roll to you.
Sugar Mule
Not bad, consid'rin.
Tinkering
Can U Dig It?
A weekend in Wales
Looking forward to Oliver!
Thank you, and more App talk
RIP Nan
Blah
Appy
Pyjamas at both ends.
Thump. Saturday has started.
Sore tum :-/
Zombies aside... first impressions of the new TomTom
TomTom Runner Cardio Press Event
Am I pregnant?
March (31)
Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes
Sandy 10
#bedfordhappy
Me on YouTube
New graphs live
Follow the dot
Only the best for the Captain's table
Mrs Diahann Wagner is GOING HORNY
Sport Relief Win
Hot dogs, quick blogs
Toton Sidings
A sign!
Owen Farrell visualisation technique
Kebabs!
Booster fails to ignite
Myton Rugby Run (5 Miler)
Rugby before rugby
Sweetcorn antidote
Custard factory
Pooped
I did some intervals :-)
Speed work?
Many things
A bit cabbagey here.
Angry Wasp
Minty
Rainbow's End
Core Dump
Bath Half (in detail)
A quick overview
Down to business in Bath
February (28)
Made it to Bath
Unexpected hugs
Slider
I like to go a-wandering
Spring cleaning
Tongue-lolling
Because We're Worth It
I don't know what!
Thanks Jim
Enough now
Clearing the pipes
Crouch, Touch, Pause...
Medication, that's what you need.
Symptom Tour
Hello FBI
Dazed day
Why I'm an optimist
Mobius birds
Snotty knuckles
In this house...
Retch Everyone
Carrots
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also
Ultrahalfmarathoner
Angry Birds
Belching
Clarkson averse
Good day :-)
January (31)
*bunting* *cake*
Bigger Boys
Zombies!
Pretending to be Saga Norén
Waiting for the AA
Ship shape
Readthrough
Technology takes you further
Love Garden
Cushions
High Heel Striker
Bit of a rubbish one
Ta
Hot Re-fills
Coding Grinch
An august prediction
Some Running Goals for Q1
Wipe-clean dog
Breaking it down
Snakes and Ladders
Bigger Ponds
Drink Your Weak Lemon Drink
All in All
Panning the pancake
Does JK Rowling own a dog?
Back to the kitchen table
Steve Davis shoes
Pigs on a water slide
Sloshing
Protocol
19 books :-)
2013 (29)
December (3)
Oh...
Engine Management Light
Hannibal Vector
November (3)
Speed skating
Stew-pendous
Cool Hand Grandpa
October (3)
Bookish
Minecraft Cake
Random dump
September (2)
Blog by Email!
Catchup blah
August (3)
Big Green Caterpillar
Questions answered - final CLS blog
Last Days at Club La Santa
July (10)
A nice morning of swimming and tennis
Please Read: Questions for a sports coach
Snorkeltastic
Hitting the straps
First Impressions at Club La Santa
Mile High Blog
Clocking off
For the second week running...
Another Club La Santa catchup
The Floor In The Plan
June (3)
Club La Santa
Bulk Uploading, and win a book
FERC Charities 2011-2012
March (1)
Bath Weekend
January (1)
Meet Steve
2012 (39)
December (2)
Tired Now Boss
Bath - Week 14 + Foodbank
November (3)
White Level Reading
Bath - Week 15
Bath - Week 16
October (2)
Onwards!
C'mon Dave
July (1)
RIP Arnie
June (2)
Rub some bacon on it
18 weeks
May (9)
Techy not tetchy
Time for a techy blog
Time to walk the dog
Stevington 12k
Properly coldy
Still a bit coldy
New blog design live
A bit coldy
Blogs Redesign
April (2)
Easter
SERIOUSLY LORD FETCH, SORT IT OUT
March (8)
A long run up
Running Tick
Weekend
Sport Relief Mile
Back once again
Swimming sweetcorn and other vegetables
Joy Rides, Sticks and Medals
Training Tip
February (9)
And...
Katie, ICT, and some more MySQL
May The Ground Force Be With You
Functions
Well done Batman.
Optimisation Crossword
Snow Days
Gallery, and parkrun
Pleased
January (1)
There Are Some Really Sexy Girls On Fetch







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