leanderman
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Great stuff.
Took my daughters to the kids' Brockwell parkrun on Sunday - the four-year-old ran the full 2km!
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Great stuff.
Took my daughters to the kids' Brockwell parkrun on Sunday - the four-year-old ran the full 2km!
Onket
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Not played for decades but could be up for this.
Gramsci
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I think I might have listened to this when it first came out.
Social epidemiology is also used in "The Spirit Level" - which is very good read about inequality.
Was a book all politicians read at last election. Then forgot about.
The study quoted shows its not purely about being middle class.
When the study was done it was expected that those higher up in management would have worse health due to the responsibility they had. To there surprise they found that in this group of reasonably well paid people it was those slighter lower down in management chain who had worse health. Status has effect on health outcomes.
In the Spirit Level they argue that the more a societies wealth is unequally distributed the more there are social problems. So its slightly different argument.
This is not about the Welfare State. In Japan there is not the large disparity of income compared to some other countries like UK/ USA. But Japan is not a European style welfare state.
Nor is it necessarily about how wealthy a society is. Its about how its distributed.
I'm still not up to your speed!
One guy I run Parkrun with did the junior with his 5 year old boy and said it was great. Again, he was impressed with his ability to do it non-stop.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
I have always been a runner since my early teens - with ups and downs of motivation (downs at the moment, thanks to some very uncomfortable insoles and a miserable podiatrist in North Street) and changes in preferred distances. I have also noticed a huge increase in the number of other runners out there recently. Given the very low entry cost of running (there is a chap previously mentioned who does park run in normal shoes and trousers - a bit extreme!) and small amount of time needed thanks to being able to do it straight from your door, why does it seem to be the preserve of gentrifiers?
Right, new objective added. Participate in and complete one Parkrun sometime this year.
boohoo
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Perhaps it was originally seen as the preserve of the middle-classes and is hanging onto an old stereotype.
I have to admit to having avoided Parkrun of late for much the same reasons Manter mentioned. I get competitive and am just not up to it fitness wise at the moment!
I'll be back soon...
I've noticed
The whole point is to get fit/fitter isn't it? To have an increased capacity to cope with and enjoy life, to enjoy the activity for itself. Given my current level of fitness, i would be bringing up the rear but it's never a good idea to come first.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
When I say I get competitive, it is more against myself really, since I could be 4 minutes (25%) behind the fastest runner and still be really pleased that I got a good time for me.I've noticed
The whole point is to get fit/fitter isn't it? To have an increased capacity to cope with and enjoy life, to enjoy the activity for itself. Given my current level of fitness, i would be bringing up the rear but it's never a good idea to come first.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
How so? Do you mean that the non-middle classes felt they were not entitled to go for a jog or that they felt that by doing so they might be becoming "one of them"?
Or, Dexter, I could just be pleased that I hit less balls out of the court than the other player
But you were quite impressed by how far i hit them out of the court or maybe it was shock.I think there may have been something wrong with leanderman 's balls.
boohoo
No.
I don't know anything about the history of jogging. A lot of ideas tend to trickle down rather than up from the street. So although jogging is technically accessible to all, it might be perceived as something that a certain type of person does. It's a bit like those who spend money on a big mac meal when they could threw in an extra quid and get a nicer burger and chips from Honest burger - its about perception not reality.
cuppa tee
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probably because one would be not so inclined to go for a jog before or after a hard shift in a factory or coal mine
I started jogging in my teens and everyone though i was crazy, my own family included. You would get looked at as if you were doing something wrong or you were running away from a crime scene.
It was the same thing with reading books. They couldn't understand it, it was a working class thing; it still is.
The person who "invented" jogging died of a heart attck while out jogging.
Jim Fixx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fixx#Death
ffsear
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Found out i'm not registered to vote. I filled out the forms, got the conformation letter, entered the code on the website months ago. No polling card come through. Just checked experian and no one is registered at my address. Useless lambeth council.
Is there anything I can do now or is it too late?
Is there anything I can do now or is it too late?
You could ask someone you know who is refusing to vote to cast a vote on your behalf. That's a bit of a shit suggestion but it is all i can think of.
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
The deadline was 6 May.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
Go to the town hall.
Rushy
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Well - except that they don't need to thrown in a few extra quid.
I'm not quite sure where jogging ends and running begins. But running has a perfectly working class history - although more so up north (funnily enough, where more mines and factories exist than in London cuppa tee). Particularly fell running which is very much seen as a community sport.
Given that it is generally a good thing for the individual to exercise - and that you really can get out what you put in - what are the main barriers to breaking down perception?
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Rushy
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Hands up all those working class Brixtonites who get their daily exercise from hard manual labour in a factory or down a mine every dayprobably because one would be not so inclined to go for a jog before or after a hard shift in a factory or coal mine
.As mentioned above, fell running is a popular community sport in the industrial north - but they are tougher up there
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Rushy
basically a scrotum
Probably for the best best before he started getting mistaken for a certain British celeb.
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
As Claire always tells us "It's not a race, it's a run".I have to admit to having avoided Parkrun of late for much the same reasons Manter mentioned. I get competitive and am just not up to it fitness wise at the moment!
I'll be back soon...
You don't know how many are going to be there so you could be top 100 of 120 or else 175th out of 250 with the same time. The only thing you are competing against is your own pb. And the only way to beat that is to keep at it.
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Rushy
basically a scrotum
Yes - but because there are so many runners there is almost always someone who is running at a similar ability to jostle with if you need spurring on!
Although I wouldn't want to put anyone off by calling the event a race - it's a friendly and laid back thing - there is as much or as little pressure as you want. Plenty of people just happy to get around having a chat.
Parkrun really is a brilliant concept (he says, having only managed to make it at 9am on a Saturday about 6 or 7 times in 2yrs!)
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boohoo
No.
Once again, boohoo uses her trailer park origins as an excuse for not exercising.
Trailer park!! Cheek! I'm busy exercising the brain - that's my excuse!
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