fetcheveryone

Both hands in the air for LOTS OF BADGES

Yeah! Me too! 😀

and me

i may cry if cant get a badge from this

Cool hand Luke is the best film ever (apart from the Shawshank Redemption of course)

Lovely idea. But why did I see this after my little walk (and it was posted after my morning walk)?!

I’ve now rejoined fetchpoint and will endeavour to be like Pac-Man and gobble up what I can.

Yay, I got one today!

No!

Oh blimey, so sad and upsetting. RIP Oscar.

I can't believe it. Was only bantering about cricket with him last week. What a shame. What a loss

I'm misreading this surely?

The cricket-and-deathmatch chap?

I'm afraid so Greg.

so very sad…

So soon after Swittle. Terrible news.

Oh lord no that’s such sad news

Oh no RIP OtG

Oh no

Oh shit, Oscar was one of the good guys.

That’s terrrible news

Oh no, this is very sad.

Very sad news 😢

That's awful, I read his blogs regularly and he seemed such a decent bloke

Sad to hear this. The universe keeps sending me ‘seize the day’ messages at the moment. I am listening carefully.

So sad, and he was so pleased about the new job

That is sad 😢

This is very sad news. I will miss his contributions to this site.

Terribly sad. RIP

I have no words. So sad.

How sad 😢 R.I.P. OtG.

So sad . Thoughts are with his family

Rest easy Oscar. He used to pop in to discuss reggae on what’s now the Swittle Sound System thread Thoughts with anyone who knew him

Great guy,who i ran with a few timnes.R.I.P

Such sad news. I didn’t cross paths with him much but any loss to the community hits hard.

Oh, that's so sad. A real stalwart on here with a wicked sense of humour. RIP and thoughts to his friends and family.

No! What a shock and how devastating for his family and friends.

Oh no 😟

Just awful I’m lost for words.

So sad. RIP OtG.

So sad 😞

Noooooooooooooooo! They've taken the wrong man
RIP Scott. Condolences to all concerned.

Oh no! Very sad to read this

Just so sad

So sad to read this.

Another Fetch stalwart gone suddenly.

oh no..........

That is very sad.

Oh gosh, that's awful. He was a great contributor across the whole site. Will be very much missed member of the community. Sympathies and condolences to his family and close friends.

Such sad news

I am totally shocked by the news.We were going to meet at Newport marathon and he was kind enough to recommend hotel.
This is so sad.

Such sad news. Thank you.

Such terribly shocking and sad news. Love & condolences to his family and everyone who was close to him

I've exchanged comments with him on the DD thread, how he loved that race. Very sad news.

Oh that's very sad.

Very sad news, RIP and condolences to his family and friends.

Oh dear! He'll be missed, here and his family.

Crikey only 50/51 too. That is terribly young.

Oh ☹️ sad news indeed.

Crap :-/

Terrible news! Condolences to his family and friends.

Oh sad news and so soon after Swittle

Wow! Some Fetchies just seem part of the woodwork. Another great loss to the site ☹️

That's terribly sad.

Sad news. 😞

So very sad. 😔

That's shocking. Not old at all, and marathon-fit.

very sad. Warm, funny guy.

Very sad 😞

Truly devastating news 😢 RIP OtG

Oh no. Very sad news.

Oh my gosh!

This is terrible, shocking news. My condolences to his family and friends.

oh gosh thats another shocker

This is such sad news. He will be greatly missed 😢

Oh my god, just got home to this news. Despite his member name, he was a lovely guy.

Oh.

So sad. Thoughts are with his family and everyone who knew him.

RIP Grouchy

Oh no, thinking of his family and friends.

Another sad loss. You never know what is around the corner, this was his post for Switts 4 weeks ago.
"Sad, sad news. Like so many, I never met him, but lived vicariously on Crosby beach through his blogs. I will be thinking of him next time I am running at the coast."

Bloody hell, that's terrible to hear. Only ever met him virtually, but always seemed like a top bloke.
RIP

Such sad news

Oh crap. May his memory be a blessing.

More sad news RIP

Awful and so very sad news
Another friendly, totally supportive, ever present, gent.

Thoughts with his friends and family.

So sad 😔

So so sad

My next marathon is for you Oscar, we will get you sub 3:30 this year. RIP

Awful news. So very sad

It's hard to believe what I just read. I met Scott at the DD 2011 along with the other RunningForEver runners, Lynn, John and Peter. We were in the same B&B in Postbridge. This comes as a huge shock as he wasn't much older than me; we were both seniors back then in 2011. Scott is one of the few fetchies I have actually met in the wild. March 2024 has been a sad month, first swittle, now Oscar the Grouch. My thoughts are with their families and friends.

Bloody hell. I'd seen the post RIP Groucho on the current Deathmatch thread, but didn't twig.
Oh my gosh, how sad.

Oh FFS, such sad news.

RIP dude 🙏

Poor Oscar. Never met him in person but the forums really won't be the same without his posts. RIP

🥺😢

I am so sorry.

Terrible news we connected and was meant to meet up at Grizzly he didn’t get the message in time and we arrange to have a drink after Newport Marathon 🥲. RIP Scotty

Oh no, thoughts must be with his family.

RIP Oscar 😢

Oh, that's absolutely terrible

Oh no. This is awful. He was so kind to me recently. Devastated.

RIP. Very sad

RIP, thoughts with his family and friends.

Awful news, RIP and thoughts for his family and friends.

Whaaaat? No that's so sad, he wasn't very old surely? We sort of met at the Grizzly last year and often 'talked' via the forums as we were fairly similar pace / race time goal-wise. What a sad loss, so very sorry for all his family, friends and clubmates xx

Very sad news

RIP. The guy was so young.

😞

Such a shock - I never met him in person but he was part of the Fetch furniture.

So sad. Thoughts are with his family.

Truly shocking news.

Oh no. No age at all. Rest easy, OtG.

That's awful news.

Sad loss

That's sad, RIP.

Awful news. RIP

So sad. RIP OtG 😟

So sad to hear this

Oh my goodness. So sad to hear this.

R.I.P. Scott 🥲

Such sad news 😔

Not good news, RIP OtG

I'd picked up that something had happened but have only just read this and found the details - thank you for posting. Some people seem to have been around forever and we expect that not to change. A sad loss, and my condolences to all who are affected by his death.

😢

Inspirational. Keep an eye on those calf muscles.

Sydney or the bush

I have every faith in you! But maybe not if it involves that DIY surgery.

Nice, good luck!

You never know what you can do unless you try it. This is fabulous - it’ll be an awesome adventure 😀😀😀

That's nice. Are you delerlious? I've been thinking again about skydiving.

Best to have a go and challenge yourself. Be conservative. Glad to hear your hats fit.

Only the stretchy ones, Ocelot Spleens.

Good fir you!

Lol

Here's hoping you get a happy ending

Nice area. Should be fun.

Nightshadow ran the route of the Greensand Ultra last year, a week before the actual event as a training run for Race to the Stones. She enjoyed it but because she was on her own she struggled to find water to top up her bottles

Ya nutter, good luck with it though.

Good luck with it!

It'll be fun they said...

oh thats quite local, do you want a hi five, a massive hug or just a cheer on the way round?

All three would be lovely

Oooh, that sounds so good I'd followed the link before remembering it's Mývatn marathon weekend!
You'll have a great time; the route looks gorgeous.

I may be there but as part of relay team as club put in a few relay teams as well as a couple of people who will do full thing

Looked great!

It looks fine via the Mail app on my iPhone

Great idea 👍

I can read it ok and the data all looks correct. The layout isn’t great though; it’s very narrow as viewed on my mobile. Maybe it would be different as an email.

I like the content overall too, especially the little bit at the end with the games For me personally, the walking breakdown is overkill and I’d rather see my running ahead of my walking.

But mostly works and a great idea as I said!

I really like it as a neat summary, even though I know roughly what I did (I didn't get the email). It's much prettier than Duolingo or Toggl weekly summaries

Nice

A thumbs up from me! It looks fine and it’s easy to see what I’ve done (or not done) over the week.

I like these. I. Going to have to up my game 🤣

I agree with Roberton, running summary ahead of walking.

It's great, with very relevant information presented clearly. I'll be looking forward to getting this each week.

Thanks, all good to me

Running before walking on mine, so guess you've changed it? All looks good to me 🙂

The order of the items was determined by the order in which you logged activities. But I've amended it now so that running will always come before walking.

I like that very much. 👍

Looks great. I think it’ll help keep me motivated

Looks good but I'm going to unsubscribe from it. It's not for me. Thank you, Fetch!

Looks great on PC and mobile. Thank you. Much better detail that the Garmin one I get about the same time.

One tiny thing - the email is showing in miles currently (or mine is). Is that because I flipped to miles briefly this afternoon to look at something, or will it always be in miles rather than the units set on your log? (The weeklyupdate link above shows km)

Hi Fetch - One comment, all the information is in miles but I have fetch set to display in km, minute/mile paces etc mean nothing to me (oh, Vienna), any chance it could follow the forum preferences?

Second theOtherRichard, could we have the distance units in whatever we use on the site please?

Can we have a separate opt-in for it, or roll it into the "Occasional updates from Fetcheveryone" category? I like getting emails about Fmails but these kinds of notifications make me itchy under my skin.

The units should be fixed in next week's email, sorry metric fans.

I like it

Looks good, though the content related to games is a bit of a waste of pixels for someone like me who doesn't take part. And perhaps would be similarly redundant for those you are trying to reach?

It looks good. Sadly though it just reminds me how little training I’ve done

Love Sam's Ultravox reference!

Also I've got the email through and layout is fine, both on mobile and desktop 👍

Thanks for chaning the logic for the order of running v walking. I suppose a further iteration could make it conditional on something like time spent on the activity; basically, order by what we guess the user is most interested in. But as it is now works well as it is for me.

Looked fine. Not sure how much use it would be to me now I’m mostly walking but thanks!

Looks great. My only comment is that strength days are not a 'Rest Day'

New user after listening to T&Trails podcast (catching up) last week, love the weekly summary. Love the site too, thanks.

I like it. Thanks, Fetch.

it was a lovely thing to see in my inbox and really useful. not sure if you would be able to add a comparison to the previous week? that would be cool but no issue if not!

nice. thanks

I like it, looks good on yahoo on mobile. Yahoo did mark it as suspected to be spam but allowed me to say it wasn’t, not sure if there are any tricks you can use to make it look less like spam to the algorithms.
I particularly liked the bit that tells you progress on yearly targets.

Looks great but now when I got the email, I got it in miles, but I have the site settings in metric.

I got one telling me I hadn't done any training and hoping I wasn't injured or sick, I have an injury logged currently so I was a bit disappointed it hadn't joined the dots. I suspect that now I have pointed that out Fetch will fix it 🙂

In Dark Mode (Android) the black text on grey background turns white, which is harder to read.

Well. The email does but it doesn't happen when I check your link above.

I hadn't got around to reading the email but it looks ok to me. The games I don't play I have no interest in. I visit the site daily and know what I've done but sometimes it's nice to see a chart or graph. I hadn't realised I'd done a 40 mile week last week so thank you for highlighting that for me.

Looks good 👍

Looks really good, both in email and browser! 👍🏼 (Gmail/Chrome on Android with system-wide dark mode enabled)

Work well for me, one thing though is I have selected metric system for my measurements, and I got miles in the email. Something maybe to think about in the future!

Looked great to me!

Looks good. Units already discussed above; would it be easy to include only info from games you’re registered for? Maybe have a comment about missing out on the fun if you’re not registered for any?

i liked it

I like it. Personally I'd love to see the week on week comparisons for mileage/time etc. but if that makes it too busy and squished then I could live without it.

It's good, thanks 👍

Looks great and will encourage me to look more at my weekly stats, thanks 😁

I like it!

Looks good on Gmail/Chrome on Android - a nice thing :D

I like it 😊

Looked at it both on my phone and on laptop, looked good on both.

Like it! Looked fine on iPad default mail client.

That was a nice surprise in my inbox this afternoon. I really liked it when I opened my mail on desktop. Thank you very much for that!

Looked good to me

It was a nice surprise!! Metric, as mentioned above. My gmail 'clipped' the message (stopped at Friday for walking) and when I click 'view entire message' it loses a fair bit of formatting. Maybe try and shorten the email so it's not clipped? I personally have no interest in heart rate zones but I'm guessing others might

Looks fab on Android, and as others have said, it's a great email to get 👍

This is cool epically cool. Made me smile. Great move Fetch.

I would like a monthly summarize too.

I liked it and definitely like the idea, although it stated that I hadn't logged any training when I had...

Looks good to me. It's what prompted me to visit today. And to set targets. And I really like that days with nothing recorded are listed as "rest" days when in reality I was just too lazy to do anything!

I visit enough to know my stats inside out anyway 😅 but I liked the email, nice clear summary.

ottima idea e anche motivante direi di implementare anche la mail di FINE MESE Buon Lavoro Jan

Looks good. A great addition. Diolch.

I really like the weekly summary. I think it will be a good motivator

Thanks for highlighting I have done so little training! I'm sure it will be useful prompt for some infrequent users. G

Looks great 👍

What a lovely surprise that was. Very good, Mr Fetch. Carry on!

Err, I use (and log) in km but the email had it in miles! (At least it was a week where I had some cycling too)

Also maybe I should read other comments before highlighting something that has already been noted (and fixed for next week)

Liked it thank you!

Looks great, lot of empty bits in Benchmarks for me, not sure why?

Can you offer up any more detail?

What?! That is appalling!! Well dodged!

My in-laws are doing their LPoA just now - they got someone to do it.
we have now signed the same form (with witnesses) 4 times .... 1 got lost in the post 3 are mistakes made by the person supposedly making their life easier by doing it for them!!
I have printed the forms and advice off the gov website but not done them yet for us as, like you feared, I assumed they would be tricky. Thanks to this blog I will JFDI!

Excellent knowledge, duly noted. Thanks.

Having worked in Sales (sort of) for a bit, it's called FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. If your prospect is unsure you sprinkle a little FUD into the conversation to get them over the line. Pretty effective too.

Wow, that's shocking. have you contacted the Coop and 'innocently' asked what's the difference for what they were going to charge?
And on the subject of Wills, instructions upon death and injury, etc, as someone who used to work in a hospice my advice to all is to not forget about things like social media. e.g. does the person still want all their pics up on Facebook and things like, ahem, running websites after they've died? If so, what's the passwords, etc.

Outrageous. Don't forget to register them when they come. I think that's what you do.

Fortunately when we did power of attorney for my MiL, my wife was wise to all this. She works in a social care setting and comes across such scams frequently, so she filled the forms in herself.

Oh yes, and from my own recent experience, leave VERY detailed instructions about what is (and is not) to happen to your ashes. If you don't care, please say so.

That is appalling and disappointing from the Coop who push their ethical standards. We did ours last year and found it straightforward as long as you are methodical - I did make one mistake (missed a witness's address) but the £41 resubmit fee is somewhat less than £1188.
Was the £1188 just for the poa or for the wills as well?

Haven't done LPA for Raffo and me yet (Me and our kid had it for my mum) but we will. As for wills SO much cheaper and actually 'more' personal - more your own decisions - done with a none rip off online firm. We used Farewill, which is excellent.

I'm told that the gov.uk web forms have been radically improved in the last 6 months or so, enabling self submission, although still quite a lengthy time to process and quite a high rejection rate.

It's on my list to do - probably putting all the 'children' on as well.

My IFA has also said I should include these words, as there have been some problems with discretionary funds
"My attorneys may transfer my investments into a discretionary management scheme. Or, if I already had investments in a discretionary management scheme before I lost capacity to make financial decisions, I want the scheme to continue. I understand in both cases that managers of the scheme will make investment decisions and my investments will be held in their names or the names of their nominees"

What's your fee for talking me through the web process?

Exactly why I’ve done ours myself, as I did for my mum.

top tip thanks Sharkie - I need to do an uptodate will, Mr got a free one with the union

Local solicitors here were quoting £600 (paralegal person doing the work) to £1300 ('proper' solicitor/partner) plus the gov fees.

LPA is 100% worth doing as it can be an absolute nightmare trying to sort out someone else’s affairs without one if it came to it. But well done for avoiding the rip off from Coop. I find that the money saving expert website is good for finding out about these sorts of things.

One of my good friends works on a stroke ward as a physio - she and her partner had LPoA for each other in their 30s - the folks she has come across and the awful situations people have been in as a result of not having an LPoA just cause so much extra stress on top of the rest of the shit caused by the stroke/accident etc. Thank you for the reminder - we should get this done too.

Well done. We haven’t done LPA yet but I’ve seen a few folk on here say they’ve done it themselves - good to know it’s straightforward.

The worst bit of the LPoA forms is the length of time it takes for them to come back through the system!
We cut it a bit fine with my Mum - a bit of a naff situation (personally) in that she was no longer able to sign hers to say it was her wish... It seems it's okay to sign with an "X" ("her mark") provided it's duly witnessed. I'm very glad we did it when we did - now it's in use!

Will writing and estate "planning" advice, definitely worth paying for. LPA - definitely not worth paying for.

To clarify, not worth paying for as it is very easy, especially if everyone involved still has full mental capacity etc. They do forever to come back though!

Coop were similar with probate - quoting about £3000 - I persuaded MiL she could do it herself and we would support if required and it was just a case of following instructions and providing documents.

For the bargain price of only £82 I might take out some LPOAs on several other people while I'm at it

You have to pay extra if they're not consenting McG

Our solicitor did them for free (ie we just paid the court fee) when updating our wills. Obviously the rules are slightly different in Scotland, and the ones I did for my Dad in Jersey were different again, and a lot more complex.

Yup, see also probate, which costs a fortune if done through a solicitor, and if the will is relatively straightforward, much less to do it yourself.

Same £80 something in Scotland but just x 1 that I did for my mum. Note also it takes 6-9 months to be checked and in force. Also, if you do make legal wording booboo it could be challenged later. But by who? I decided to just chance it. G

What a scam from the Co-op! And they’ve cancelled their points card too. I might boycott them

That's a great find. I'll add it to the links on the Retirement Thread. Thanks!

And I thought the co-op was meant to be reputable and trustworthy. Thanks for the info

It absolutely is a Very Good Idea to set up LPAs - thank heavens my Dad had sorted this out years before he went completely doolally with Alzheimers, it made it so much easier to deal with his affairs once he was no longer able to do it himself. We set it up via his solicitor, but I don't remember it costing anywhere near that much - Dad paid for it so I'm not sure of the exact cost. I must do this for myself, and set my boys up as attorneys - thanks for the link. Incidentally, not entirely unrelated, but I handled the probate for my Dad's estate, saving myself and my brother a shedload of money. It was not quite as straightforward as I had anticipated, as his estate was on the cusp of incurring inheritance tax, but I managed to work out that we weren't liable because Dad hadn't used any of Mum's tax allowance on the estate when she died. Trying to deal with it all during Covid lockdown was, however, a complete nightmare .....

This is great advice, thanks!

Smart move.

Thanks for the tip and link.

Brilliant LPAing Fetch! We didn't do ours ourselves but it was wrapped up in new wills and various other legal/financial things which were done at the same time, and the total cost for all of it came nowhere near the Co-op's fee.

Blimey - by 4 paragraphs in I was bouncing up and down on my seat shouting at the screen "No! LPA is easy! Do it yourself!" Glad you realised before handing over any money. Charging that amount is an absolute scam. Worth noting that if you DON'T have an LPA in place and you (or the person you're acting on behalf of) lose mental capacity, then you can't then set it up and you have to go to the Office of the Public Guardian - which is way more complex, and realistically does need solicitors, and cost me about £3k when I had to do it for both of my parents. So, yes, LPA, just get it done, everyone!

Thanks for the tip

I did it for my dad … by myself and when he died it had just been granted so they gave me a refund. He would have laughed his nuts off at that.

I tried to persuade my mother of this easy way when she did hers. She was swayed by the man from the Co-Op who came to visit.

~Waves supporting ~

Marvellous!

woohoo!

Entered x 3. You are a genius with the way you've done that there StreetView.

Looking forward to it

Nice touch on the run route

Very nice touch with the Checkpoint images on the run/walk challenge.

Swimming the great glen way ... Fun

Yay!!

I haven't actually done *any* swimming this year but I reckon the Virtual Challenge might get me off my bum and into my goggles. So... yeah, let's sign up for all three.

Looking forward to it very much Will help me do more walking - am OK on the running front but walking gets a bit left behind sometimes.

Excellent! Thank you, and thank you those who put each challenge together!

Thanks to all of you! This looks fantastic! Best ever etc

Thank you

Ooh, the run/walk comes to Kent. I might try and start from the actual start point

❤️❤️❤️

Fabulous. Looks like I won’t get this years finished but not massively far off completing it.

Whoop whoop

Nice one, thanks for sorting

Good

I'm in but my mileage will probably tail off once THE marathon is out of the way.
BTW, I'm still being awarded milestone badges from the 2023 challenge...

I've signed up for all three - no hope of completing either the swim or the cycling one but will be intrigued to see how far I can get this year. I think the run/walk one will be ok assuming no injuries and illnesses!
I love the ideas behind all three.

Excellent behaviour

Thank you.

Looking forward to this year's run edition. Thanks to those who make the challenge work (all variants)

Hi Ian, Are the notes being displayed, or am I too quick?
I've added a few, but they don't seem to show.

Lots of pre 1974 memories for me McG. I wonder how much the north Kent coast has changed since then. I might have to take a few personal virtual detours (on gmaps, not in real life) to revisit where I grew up.

I'm not seeing anything on the map view for the swim challenge - just me?

Elsie Too - You're the second person to mention the swim map - I'll have a look.

um - I think they must be busted - I'll take a look.

Note uploading should now be fixed (they were all getting assigned to last year's notes).

Thank you I've joined the run/walk and will be very happy to think of Swittle as I rack up the miles

Swim route should now be visible.

Great stuff. Run/walk for me 👍🏻

Excellent. I'll just be doing the run/walk challenge. I'm looking forward to it. Thanks.

Swim map now working Fetch. Thank you 😁

Yay! I’m so excited!

I’m excited. I wonder if I can do it without running. I’ll certainly have a good go at the swim.

Notes now appearing,
Thanks Fetch !

Brilliant thank you. And Sushi and McG.

Looks great and I love that it goes through some of my old haunts 😊

I love the fact that it starts and ends with summer time.

Exciting, signed up for all 3 again. Just finished bike from last year....

Thank you!

Is there a way to see the 2023 challenge? I signed up to it but then forgot about it and I don't know if I finished it or not?

Just change the 4 to a 3 in the URL.

Thank you very much for representing us.

Yes, thank you for going, Fetch.

Thank you Ian

Thank you, Ian. We may be able to attend, will confirm once I know for certain.

Thank you forcthe details. Sadly I won't be able to attend.

This is very good of you Ian and this is why Fetcheveryone is such a wonderful place to be xx

Thank you for representing the community, Fetch.

Thank you Fetch. I can’t attend but I’ll be thinking of you and Steve’s family and friends on that day

I will be in the location the day before and may be able to extend my stay - but thank you for representing x

Glad the community will be represented by a small contingent, and I hope the family can take comfort with how well liked and respected Swittle was around this corner of the Internet.

Sadly I won’t manage but I will remember him on a bench at the sea on the day. X

Thank you for this. I would like to attend but am not able to so I'm really glad you will be representing us. I will spend time sitting on my own bench and remembering how kind he always was to me.

Won’t make it unfortunately, but will be thinking of him and his family on the day.

Unfortunately I can't attend due to a prior commitment. Thank you for representing the Fetch community.

I have something at work that day that I can't get out of I would like to donate to a bench though

Thanks for sharing.

Fetch, I will donate for the bench and may be able to make the funeral. Good to know that Fetch will be represented.

I need to see whether I'm required to be elsewhere that afternoon (not sure if volunteers are pitching the night before or on the day for a scout event) but I'll be there if I'm free.

We have conferred. Definitely count eL Bee! and me in.

Fetch really is an amazing place. I'm looking forward to contributing to his bench.

I use this a lot. It’s been useful to see when I was getting calf injuries and if my cadence had gone up or turn beforehand.

Interesting, thanks

Interesting. Another one for me to keep an eye on. My cadence often seems to be around 150, even on some of my faster runs, while I see a lot of speedier folks logging 170+. I think I need to shorten my stride (might help avoid injury) in increments while trying not to lose too much off the pace.

Interestingly I seem to have a fair bit of action at all cadences between my walking and running peaks. I guess that’s due to my trail running which tends to be more ploddy than my road running.

Also I have a spike at a cadence higher than my normal running cadence where the pace is significantly slower - probably due to running the hill at my home parkrun

very cool!

Looks good - small point: your units for stride length say cm rather than m

(That's when you click on the graph and get the details box up)

Interesting. I was able to zoom on android using two finger reverse pinch (hope that makes sense!).

Two finger pinching to zoom works for me on android as well.
Might be useful to add cadence to the details box?

Like it but in Darth Mode I can't see the scales on the graphs.

It would be interesting to have a drop down to select Run-General or Run-Trail Run. I'm doing a half marathon trail run each month which are throwing my average pace graphs off completely so I'd like to isolate them from the other runs in analysis.
Even better - be able to display them side by side - but accept it might be hard to fit it all in meaningfully if you did that.

My graph doesn't look right, the min/miles look really whacky going from 0 to 100, I don't run that slow!

This is the wobbly stuff at extreme cadences that I was referring to. The y-axis scales according to the slowest value - but if you highlight the section of the graph where you did most of your running e.g. 150-180 strides per minute, it looks reasonable.

Aha, yes looks more useful like that thanks Fetch

I love tea and trails - try Young Hearts Run Free I have messaged them about how amazing Fetch is.

Love that podcast! Can't wait to hear your episode! I'm a couple of weeks behind so I need to make an effort to catch up x

I spent my evening watching this on YouTube. Time very week spent 😊
You were fabulous ❤️

Oh blimey, I didn’t know they’d put the video up. 😳😂

😊 I might have linked to it on the Exciting Thread *shuffles feet*

❤️👍

Good job, boss.

I may have put the youtube link on the mundane thread yesterday morning, tea&trails is probably my fav podcast and that was an especially good episode

I listened to it today to help me get through a tough training run. Great podcast all round, I got the giggles when the aubergines were mentioned 😅

I love Tea & Trails so I was really excited you were going to be their guest! It was a great episode.

amazon.co.uk ?

I use pencils now, less plastic. My current set have seeds embedded in the ends. I'm using Basil today

I use Bic 4 colour pens (in one). Had them as a child and now into my 50s they still make me smile. I have converted people through jealously in my office. Why have 4 individual pens when one can do it all.

I was going to suggest an office supply company that I know of but we only stock them in packs of 12 of a single colour - I feel 4 packs of 12 could dry out before you got round to using them.

I'm put off doing a scorer's course purely because of my notoriously weak bladder.

Another fan of the Bic 4-colour pen. Cheap as chips as long as you don't cost of all the plastic waste and the inevitable write-off when blue and black have run out so you buy a new one and start again.

If you promise not to out me, or the company I work for, I can send you a few pens and a notepad for free?

I would happily donate a new 4 pack of coloured pens to help your ever lasting creative flows.

Teachers nowadays mark in green pen (or did in the school where I worked!). Less threatening or something 🤔

I used to like brown ink in a fountain pen - now I've found roller balls in brown and am very happy! I have a pack of 12, should you ever need one...

You could literally go shopping for pens in my house. I’ll bet there’s 300

I can increase my monthly donation if you like?

You can get refills for ballpoint pens, e.g. thewritingdesk.co.uk
Search around other websites for your particular pen or biro and you could well find yours.
Your pen could end up like Trigger's Broom.

It was only when I saw one of the commentators scoressheets that i realised the meaning of 'dot ball'

When I was still teaching, in the latter part of my career, we used two colours for marking. Green for positives/well done type stuff, and 'pink for think' ie comments that gave students ideas on what they needed to do to improve their answers or work. I hated pink ink!

I used to know someone who only ever wrote in green. I knew him in my early working years when we all still wrote things a lot and had a pool of typists to type things up! Wow, how old am I. Anyway said person once told me to "f**k off" in a meeting which was normal then and I duly did because he was very senior and I very junior. So you have licence to be a bit quirky if using a green pen

When I was in a job where someone else paid my back in the day, I used green ink for auditing......

I used to love producing a cricket scorebook work of art with the different colours for each bowler, but the last three seasons I've scored directly on a laptop - much easier but functional rather than aesthetically pleasing.

Only a month to go before I start again with the new season...

Impressive work from those pens. We have a local shop I think you would like allthingsanalogue.co.uk so many pens and other stationery “essentials”

Stationery makes my heart flutter. Like bookshops.

I have too many pens…if you want some let me know!!

Oooh stationary! I love a good pen! I have Parker jotters which all have different coloured cases! I prefer black ink to blue. Ink has to flow nicely too!

I have a green pen, I like to write in green or purple. Love stationery, my favourite shop in Kettering closed a while back, now only have the supermarket for supplies, guess it’s saving me a fortune 😂

I have quite a supply of hotel pens, accumulated over many years and stored in many boxes and giant Sports Direct mugs. Let me know if ever you want a free top up set.
Unfortunately there's only black (ink). Different coloured plastic bits aroundthe outside though.

One of the presidents used to always sign in green ink? Or was that a fictional president in a Roald Dahl story? Happy Green Day. G

I have a green pen. Its a nice pen but sadly i find it hard to read with the reduced contrast.

Get yourself a Lamy 2000 Multipen and stop fartlekking around Lord F. Go premium....

IIRC, the first head of the agency we now know as SIS (or MI6) used to sign his initial 'C' in green ink. And, as we all now, 'C' has been used as a code name for his successors to this day.

Another who started cricket scoring young, I still miss the red ink for 6's and 4's....

Another who started cricket scoring young, I still miss the red ink for 6's and 4's....not sure I could keep up in these T20 days anyway....

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Seems very appropriate thank you for organising this
It’s not raining

I like this idea and will contribute.

I was thinking of a statue in the style of Gormley but recognisably swittle and with a descriptive plaque of his attributes and personality. However, that would be horrendously expensive, even beyond the generosity of Fetchies, so a bench is definitely a good alternative.

I like this idea and will contribute.

I like this idea and will contribute.

Good idea. I am in.

This sounds perfect

I like this a lot. More than happy to contribute. Thanks Ian ❤️

Definitely in xx

Thank you. And a. (I have voted)

I’ll contribute. It’s a really good idea.

That sounds a great idea and will happily contribute.

Excellent.

this sounds like a perfect tribute. Thank you Fetch for thinking of and organising this.

I'm in!

Like, will contribute and have voted. Thanks for this Ian

Good call. Thank you!

sounds great. do we know what the opinion of his family is?

@DocM - I've emailed his sister to get her thoughts on it.

I hope the family will approve. Happy to contribute.

Lovely idea. Thank you.

Such a great idea x

thanks for finding out about this, I'm in.

I love this idea and if his family approve I'd happily contribute. Thank you for doing this.

I think it’s a great idea if the family are happy

Looks like £2 each ... how much is a new bench?

As per Carps, are his family OK with it?

Great idea, also in

I’m in, doesn’t matter that I didn’t know Swittle but judging by the comments I’ve read he was a top fella and dearly liked and loved.

Perfect and will contribute too

In

Also in.

I'm also in Thanks for looking into this.

This is a great idea. Thanks Fetch

Lovely idea, Ian I’m in.

I'm an old friend of Swittle - from the age of 5 yrs, and in regular contact with him over those many years. I apparantly introduced him to running in 1983. He was deeply impressed when I came back from a 10 mile run and was still able to talk. Soon after, we went to a running shop in Camden to buy some shoes and he never looked back. We shared many thoughts about running and music, and partook of quite a few runs together, although he was in Liverpool, and I'm in Suffolk.

I would like to thank all you Fetchies for your kindness and concern for him - and particularly Fetch for reporting his non-appearance to the police. It's a demonstration of a proper and healthy community. I'm sure Swittle's sister will be happy for this proposal to go ahead - I certainly am.

Lovely idea, Ian, and lovely to hear from you, Oss.

I’m in too - thanks for organising this, Ian. And thanks for commenting, Oss.

Lovely place for a bench, I'm in

Great to hear from you Oss

What a great idea, and lovely to see you on here @Oss

Thank you Oss.

Wow, thank you for sharing, Oss.

I will contribute too. Just tell me how to.

I am on board thanks for doing this.

Lovely to hear from you Oss. Lots of support for this idea. Maybe if there are more contributions than needed for the bench the rest could be donated to a relevant charity e.g. educational, or one his family and friends knew Swittle supported.

Yes, that's a fantastic idea and also on board.

Thank you Fetch and Oss. Great idea regarding giving any extra to charity. I suspect the £200 figure will be surpassed pretty easily.