Athletics - Running and Jumping and Throwing and stuff!

[QueenOfGoths]

Matthew Pinsent has just tweeted this apparently

"Jonny horizontal, vomming under the stands. Ali "he's fine. The end of any tri is carnage"ceremony delayed for sure."

Poor Jonny but I'm sure he'll come round for his bronze

 

[SpookyFrank]

Get back to us when you've finished and let us know you're time (assuming you don't drown)

OK, I did the events in the wrong order for logistical reasons, and I'm not counting the transitions because for simillarly logistical reasons they took bloody ages. Here are my times anyway:

20km cycle - 43 minutes
750m open water swim - 18 minutes
5km run - 22 minutes

...giving me a total time of one hour and 23 minutes. All distances were approximated (using google maps) and times are simillarly approximate as the only timing device I had was the clock on my phone.

The hardest part was explaining to Mrs Frank why I now need her to drive to the lake and pick up my bike

 

[Lord Camomile]

The hardest part was explaining to Mrs Frank why I now need her to drive to the lake and pick up my bike

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

OK, I did the events in the wrong order for logistical reasons, and I'm not counting the transitions because for simillarly logistical reasons they took bloody ages. Here are my times anyway:

20km cycle - 43 minutes
750m open water swim - 18 minutes
5km run - 22 minutes

...giving me a total time of one hour and 23 minutes. All distances were approximated (using google maps) and times are simillarly approximate as the only timing device I had was the clock on my phone.

The hardest part was explaining to Mrs Frank why I now need her to drive to the lake and pick up my bike

Why is your bike still there and why don't you go and get it yourself?

 

[Lord Camomile]

Why is your bike still there and why don't you go and get it yourself?

Fucker's just gone 25.75k on his own steam!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Fucker's just gone 25.75k on his own steam!

Well if he'd done it in the right order, he could have cycled home

 

[SpookyFrank]

Why is your bike still there and why don't you go and get it yourself?

TBH I probably will need to go and get it myself, as Mrs Frank left me two months ago and is currently on a nice romantic getaway with one of my mates

 

[Treacle Toes]

Well if he'd done it in the right order, he could have cycled home

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

TBH I probably will need to go and get it myself, as Mrs Frank left me two months ago and is currently on a nice romantic getaway with one of my mates

 

[Lord Camomile]

Oof

 

[Corax]

Oof

Quite.

 

[Corax]

I'm off to watch it tomorrow. GO MO!!!

 

[Frumious B.]

I think Lolo Jones might be on in a minute - in the 100m women's hurdles. She's famous for (a) knocking over the hurdles and (b) being a 30 year old god-bothering publicity-seeking virgin http://todayinlondonblog.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/08/07/13162595-lolo-jones-on-virginity-talk-maybe-i-should-zip-it?lite

 

[belboid]

I'm off to watch it tomorrow. GO MO!!!

Si thee there

 

[Corax]

Si thee there

Not on your nelly. I'm with my folks, and they think I'm a nice young man, not the sort of reprobate that frequents the armpits of the internet like this place.

 

[quimcunx]

Maybe you could ask on the recycle thread if anyone has a spare one?

I'm watching the diving on 301! Managed to do a retune.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'm watching the diving on 301! Managed to do a retune.

Told you that's all you needed to do!

I forgot about it and am recording 1 so have only just switched over

 

[quimcunx]

Told you that's all you needed to do!

I forgot about it and am recording 1 so have only just switched over

I have done it in the last couple of months though.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I have done it in the last couple of months though.

You needed to do it again when the Olympics started to get 301 and 302 (did you not get any pop-up messages on your screen reminding you to do so?)

Found the diving I recorded on BBC3

 

[quimcunx]

yes, it said I might need to retune if I hadn't in the last couple of months.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Well fucking done!

Doing it Kelly-style

 

[Lord Camomile]

"Kick you bastard, kick!" - think my flatmate who doesn't follow sport was a bit confused

 

[twentythreedom]

Osagie just made the final, good lad

 

[Corax]

Osagie just made the final, good lad

Lot of heart in that final push.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

yes, it said I might need to retune if I hadn't in the last couple of months.

Well now you know not to trust everything you see

 

[twentythreedom]

TBH I probably will need to go and get it myself, as Mrs Frank left me two months ago and is currently on a nice romantic getaway with one of my mates

Has the dirty, skanky bitch picked your bike up?

 

[twentythreedom]

Running, throwing stuff and jumping over things is

 

[editor]

Loved the Ukrainian jumper applauding the crowd.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I like Veronica Campbell Brown, she is always so calm and measured when interviewed

 

[twentythreedom]

Russian highjumper is a dj at Hairdo FM