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Interview with pedroscalls


pedroscalls says: Thanks westmoors. This was a hard question as I'm not really into looking backwards and I'm not into the whole "celeb" thing. If pushed I'd say that I would like to have met my paternal grandfather, he died 5 months after I was born. He was apparently a great character, born in 1903 and travelled around the country with 11 kids in tow. As he grew older he went blind but spent his days making all sorts of furniture and helped making beds for a local charity that sold them to the public.

pedroscalls says: Thanks LG. I have no idea really, I've always worked on limited sleep. When I was younger I could go a week at a time without sleeping, used to work a day and a night shift and only sleep on a Sunday. Nowadays after about 36 hours I'm done. It also helps that I can doze anywhere and anytime, a quick 10 minute nap and I can go for another day or so. Sometimes it's more of a curse than a blessing really.


pedroscalls says: Thanks Bowman. The best thing about running for me is the thought at the end of a run that I've just nailed x amount of miles, time to me is relative as I'm not very fast so it doesn't bother me. Worst thing is getting wet, I hate the rain, mind you that isn't just on running that's on any activity I do outdoors.


pedroscalls says: Thanks G. I had to think long and hard about this one, when I was younger I thought about doing coast to coast across the USA and Canada, but now I think it would be a trek through Siberia, Mongolia , China and onto Nepal and the foothills of the Himalayas, up to the base camp, just taking my time and enjoying what I suspect would be fairly desolate areas with few people about. I wouldn't need to go up Everest itself, I have no desire to climb a mountain.

pedroscalls says: Thanks Mushroom. No I wasn't the most sporty when I was younger, I was mainly inspired to give it a go when I got a job in the south of Aberdeen. I was getting the bus through and the bus station was about 2 miles away from the office, so initially I was walking it. Then I thought if I ran it I'd be able to get fit and leave home half a hour later and equally get home half a hour earlier at night. It snowballed from there then before I knew it I was getting off the bus at the other side of the city and running across town, 5 or 6 miles every day.


pedroscalls says: Thanks very much B. Currently we have 3 cats, Jaffar, Groot and Dot and Bailey the welsh border collie. That's the fewest we've had in years, over the years we've had fish, hermit crabs, gerbils, hamsters, bearded dragons, rats, guinea pigs lots more cats, at the peak we had six cats and a tattooed rabbit called Juliet.

pedroscalls says: Thanks RRR-Caz. I think it would have to be a Superbowl, preferably one featuring the Kansas City Chiefs and or the Minnesota Vikings as I'd be taking Callum and his team is the Vikings.

pedroscalls says: Thanks Pothunter. This is a hard one, as much as I enjoy food as evidenced by the size of me, I've never really thought much about favourite foods.
But as a last meal I would have to go with a starter of proper Cullen Skink followed by a rare cooked fillet steak served with chunky chips, stuffed mushroom, onion rings and a nice whisky sauce.
Dessert would have to be *sticky toffee pudding with a generous helping of cream.
I would wash it down with a large vodka and Irn Bru.
*(As an aside there is a claim that sticky toffee pudding was invented at the Udny Arms Hotel in Newburgh, which is now closed but I drive past it every day to and from work)

pedroscalls says: Thanks Welshpoppy. I think I'd like to have invented AIS, as in the automatic identification system that is used in shipping, it appeals to the geek in me, watching vessels sail around the world. Although I would have made it more powerful so that vessels far out in the ocean were more viewable, the system only works on VHF radio signals so after a vessel moves a few miles away from a receiver it disappears from view, so there are lots of blackspots on the oceans.

pedroscalls says: Thanks WW, it depends, I really liked the Far Grimshader, the crew on there were always good for a laugh and you always got a good feed. It was the smallest vessel in the Farstad fleet but was the busiest until it crashed into an oil rig and everyone stopped hiring it as it didn't have DP (dynamic positioning). It's still going strong at 41 years old, now it's out in Columbia and has been renamed.
I also like spotting the bumble bee vessels as they were nicknamed by a friend of mine due to their yellow and black colour scheme, there are quite a few of them all named something Viking, including the Magne Viking which anyone who's watched the movie Tenet will recognise as the vessel in the film.

pedroscalls says: Thank you Ness. The way I went about them is always look to see who's around you on the course then stalk their training.
For every mile they do I always wanted to try and do two.
Also I look at how many miles can I fit into whatever window of opportunity I had and always look for extra windows that might be available and use them as best as possible.