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Bazoaxe
Notched up 200 today after about a four week wait due to other things on a Saturday morning. It wasn’t pretty but I haven’t been training well so to be expected

Annoyingly I was for the second run in a row one second away from one of the three remaining stop watch bingo times

Todays result though might just give me the motivation to lose a bit of lard and train properly.
14 Sep
11:45am, 14 Sep 2024
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Bazoaxe
Oooh, nice round number as well of 175 at my home run and 200 total.
14 Sep
12:57pm, 14 Sep 2024
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paulcook
Neal wrote:Now I feel old - when I was there Trev's was also women-only (and is where my wife studied), and I think there were some men only colleges in the city centre.


Not sure when Trevs went mixed. I was there 97 onwards and it was mixed then. I don't think it was much before my time, though certainly long enough that every year above me had been mixed too.
14 Sep
3:05pm, 14 Sep 2024
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Dvorak
Well done on your eventual 200, @Bazoaxe :-)

Now get training ;-)
14 Sep
5:59pm, 14 Sep 2024
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larkim
paulcook wrote:Neal wrote:Now I feel old - when I was there Trev's was also women-only (and is where my wife studied), and I think there were some men only colleges in the city centre. Not sure when Trevs went mixed. I was there 97 onwards and it was mixed then. I don't think it was much before my time, though certainly long enough that every year above me had been mixed too.

It was mixed by 1990 but I think only recently, maybe a year or so max. Still tales going around that the hexagonal shapes it was designed of were intended for a female only cohort because apparently 90deg was intimidating 😮
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9:31pm, 14 Sep 2024
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sallykate
That's weird @Neal . Looks OK now; I was hoping to run it today but I couldn't make it. It looked like a lovely park for a run.
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11:02pm, 14 Sep 2024
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paulcook
larkim wrote:paulcook wrote:Neal wrote:Now I feel old - when I was there Trev's was also women-only (and is where my wife studied), and I think there were some men only colleges in the city centre. Not sure when Trevs went mixed. I was there 97 onwards and it was mixed then. I don't think it was much before my time, though certainly long enough that every year above me had been mixed too. It was mixed by 1990 but I think only recently, maybe a year or so max. Still tales going around that the hexagonal shapes it was designed of were intended for a female only cohort because apparently 90deg was intimidating 😮


I'm trying to remember the yarn we were told. I think it was along the lines of hexagons being a modern architectural interpretation, of probably the castle. We were also warned - especially when drunk - about walking into windows because of unfamiliar angles; though that seemed ridiculously unlikely.

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