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Interview with runnerbean


runnerbean says: congrats Happy on getting in with the first question ;-)..Looking back Fetch has made me very sensible and wise.I've learnt to tie my own laces and everything.Srsly though it's given me loads of (ok a few ) new friends (ok ok maybe one new friend)..It's educated me on sensible running (sometimes)..it's picked me up when things were tough, it's made me realise that if others can achieve running stuff then so can i.I love reading blogs and poking about in the gallery, it's almost as if we can peep through the keyhole at other peoples lives isn't it?...i guess i hope in the future i'll learn more of everything from the brains on the site and maybe one day i'll get to a social event (Lord help you all if i do)...


runnerbean says: thanks Chick, the forst thing i am going to buy is a hairband for a ponytail, no not for me silly i'm still very bald but for you

Fave place to run...anywhere really apart from that bastard Queensway in the Hastings Half.I quite like the nature reserve, love the mud and the fact the animals all talk to me....maybe if you're good i'll take you there...

runnerbean says: Fankoo....the only beans i like are baked ones so i quite prefer them cooked.Mind you i can't do the Heinz baked beans it has to be Branston.Sometimes i like to arrange them in special patterns on my toast, i can even spell my name with them.I think i'm actually quite clever now.


runnerbean says: there's a few people that made MASSIVE differences to my training with their input.IanM constantly sent me videos , oer...with technique changes and stuff but the best thing and the biggest change was going to have a 1:1 with SharonD.Assessing me and changing the problems literally got me running again injury free but she has this amazing way of making you be able to visualise what you need to see to adapt to those changes.Her and Sharkie spent loads of time picking me up and dusting me off when things went wrong (they still do :-)).Now the speed has come with the fact i am running consistently.

runnerbean says: thanks HOD :-)....this took some thinking about but i reckon i've got the right team..goalie..got to be Phil Parkes, back 4- Moore, Lampard snr , Bilic and Reid...Midfield-Devonshire , Di Canio (my future husband) ,Parker and Bishop then up front- Peters and Cottee...I still have my Di Canio shirt, i think it's worth more than Messi


runnerbean says: Hi Ruth *waves*.I'm not sure how i found fetch in the beginning but it seems a very very long time ago now


runnerbean says: Hi Mushroom...i don't think i do really although i do get that high every time i run now.It's very rare that i don't enjoy a run.I really do look forward to every training session even the ones i hate



runnerbean says: thanks Sarah, my mate once called me Runnerbean when i'd been running in a green top.It's stuck ever since.All my kids at the track call me Bean too lol


I may visit next year, i'm giving you plenty of warning now so you can be prepared

I reckon my funniest incident was the one with the new mountaineering gloves that i put on and couldn't get off...remember that one? the poor postman heard me yelling through my letterbox and climbed in my conservatory window to undo them. I still see him now and he takes the piss big time.


runnerbean says: thankyou. Looking back now i am kinda amazed i got through.I cried loads and loads everytime it went wrong and i really did almost just give up but IanM wouldn't let me ( i love Ian ...) I spent shit loads of time riding my bike and i hate it so much now.It's in the basement going rusty and i might even saw it up with a saw or something one day.
If you can't run you HAVE to find something you really really like to do to keep motivated (i liked my bike in the summer), i quite enjoyed aqua jogging, i used to go when the old dears were there, they were so rude


runnerbean says: Lady MacBean..that has a lovely ring to it doesn't it? *waves royal style*..old mother hubbard i used to find hilarious purely cos the dog got zilch from the cupboard....no idea why that is funny but it is.
I'm a bit like Mr Bean in some ways, the more i try and be sensible the worse i am.I even tried to be normal once.I'm a bit horrible sometimes..like once i was walking down the town and a blind lady was out with a puppy guide dog.She headed for some scaffolding and the dog went under it and she obv didn't .I laughed first then picked her up.I am so going to get struck by lightening for that one.

runnerbean says: hi Anj, yes they help immensely.I eat beans then i have to run like a gazelle to the loo.I've learned not to have them the night before a run now nor shredded wheat...that stuff is pure evil in a packet.

runnerbean says: omg you're my mother ? *cries* a good influence you ask ? hmmmm i guess you most definetly are.All my good behaviour comes from the fine example you set..not forgetting our antics in the cupboard dancing to Mika doing triple somersaults off the chair


runnerbean says: morning coach :-)...that depends you see , if i run on the beach i don't see any as they don;t live there silly...if i close my eyes when i run i don;t see any but if i dress in dark colours and run through the woods i see hundreds and hundreds possibly millions even.I saw 3 on monday but they were dead ones in the road..do they count?

runnerbean says: the only hammer i know properly is the claw hammer..i think it's used for cracking xmas nuts or something similar...i have no idea of the other 14 or even if there are 14 more hammers.....

runnerbean says: Ah my LLL , where you been ugly ? i missed you...okay so motivation? now i can run i don;t really seem to need motivating.Everyday i get up and i want to run, i want to be able to be free and to feel like i can do whatever i set my mind to.When i was coming back from injury and was slow and heavy legged i used to look at Hippos and Mrs Jigs logs and be inspired.Even now i know that if Mrs Jigs can run those amazing times at her advanced age



runnerbean says: the whole bloody lot ......you hunky piece of bald toffee


runnerbean says: thanks Girlie, i would most deffo grab my west ham shirt and hat (that counts as one cos i wear them together !! ),my Dallas boxsets and my new googly thingymejig.....crikey i'm quite shallow really aren't i ?


runnerbean says: hi NE, i'd like to race passed London one day




runnerbean says: Love you heaps too Roobs.....i would put my newly stolen hand drier by the front door so i could warm my hands as i go in and out...do you think i could fit my head in it too?

runnerbean says: Hi SA, ideally i'd like to lower all my times.This year is my first year of 'proper' consistent training so i believe i can get a few PBs next year especially if i concentrate on shorter stuff.The problem is i like everything from 200mtrs to the marathon so i train for everything....i'd be happy with 12 PBs next year too


runnerbean says: merry xmas to you too....:-) i love the white fairy lights.If you put one behind your ear lobe it makes it see through...go on try it...;-)


runnerbean says: thankyou and you're not loony at all are you?....;-) i think my genes are perfectly 'normal' and it's you lot that have cranky genes but my 'normal' deffo add to my running success.It's down to my genes that i don;t understand logic so when i'm 'supposed' to rest i think why? i'm not doing that...why do i have to sleep? why do my socks come out of the washing machine the right way when they went in inside out? oh we won't get started on that one again eh ? ....

runnerbean says: Morning wee person...serious eh? OK.....I think my times are simply the result of consistent training and believing that you won't actually die very much when you run so fast that you can't breathe.Next year I want a sub 1-45 half,a sub 36 5m, a sub 44 10k plus maybe some fast track times....well faster than SharonD anyway. As for stalking you ,you really should close your curtains....although I like that black dress you're wearing right now....

runnerbean says: Hi Owl, I totally loved VLM this year (and hated it at the same time).It proved to me that i could do anything if i put my mind to it.I love the atmosphere, the people, the music even the big balloons at the start.It's something i will always remember forever even if i never do it again.Everyone that runs a marathon should at least have a bash at it.You could always come to Hastings in March and do the half marathon Owl


runnerbean says: I that depends on what you class as 'puppies'....sometimes (*)(*) are known as puppies so I think Mr Fetch might be picky but I would allow all photos of all puppies especially mine.....



runnerbean says: Happy new year Purple head:-) my fave toe is my big toe, it's the only toe which looks normal and has no sticky out bendy bits. Also I think I need it to run fast, I think I remember being told that if it fell off I would fall over more than I normally do or something.

runnerbean says: haha Jogger...he wishes i did then he'd be really fast lol
