September 2018 Running Challenge

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  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    edited September 2018
    mbaker566 wrote: »
    if i remember their locale, i read in their accent. otherwise i read it in TV reporter accent

    I'm guessing you mean modern General American, but I'm thinking old timey Mid-Atlantic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEqesVTEFPM
    (skip to 3:06 for a great example using the lyrics of "Sabotage").
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    edited September 2018
    rheddmobile wrote: »
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    How can i weigh xx0.6 before bed, and wake up at xx2.6? Magicness in bodily functions.

    Oh i got stronger! Haha!

    Is it Friday yet?
    Yeah magic reverse pee. You should sell it to NASA, they could use it as inverse gravity ballast.

    I know "they" say not to weigh more than once a day, but if you're capable of not obsessing it can be really good info. For example I can tell if I'm about to have a lupus flare if I retain a larger than usual amount of weight overnight. My overnight drop reliably goes down before any other symptoms, giving me a chance to jump in with my meds and avoid the flare.

    Or in your case, you can tell your scale is inaccurate within three pounds, which is also good to know. Almost all home scales due to the way they're made cannot be accurate within about 1%. But they also have a built in memory that conceals the inaccuracy by giving you a reading the same as the most recent one if it's within a pound or two, and then resets after a certain amount of time. You can usually force this kind of scale to give a new reading by picking up a heavy object and weighing yourself, then taking your weight again. It's a good idea to do this at least once to get an idea of the range of variation - for example I know my scale varies about three quarters of a pound from moment to moment. So any weight loss or gain within that range may be purely the scale messing about.

    It's just PMS weight. I ran yesterday so could be coupled with recovery inflammation, and ate some salt in my low-ish carb soup... 😏 Iz just having fun with y'all.

    I grab a post run weight occasionally to gauge my hydration. Not necessarily scale obsessed.

    ETA could also be due to a fluctuation in gravity. 🤔😝
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    @MegaMooseEsq hah that video was great.

    I don't have much of an accent until I have to say bag or about (although I don't hear a-boot much anymore) 😂
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    I do not have an accent at all. :p
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,188 Member
    @Elise4270 I am in Texas and have lived here all of my life except from the ages of 2-5 when I lived in South Carolina. So definitely a Texas accent with a bit of southern thrown in. I believe that @girlinahat is from England.
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    mostly, my area sounds like news reporters but we have slips of UP and Polish.
    and i'm an absorber of accents so if i stay too long talking to someone, i pick it up from sound to cadence
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    edited September 2018
    MegaMooseEsq wrote: »
    I can totally hear someone saying "mom" in that really flat, drawling accent you sometimes hear from people who are making fun of American accents.

    Gah. My kids only say "mom" if its 1000 times and they want something, thank Stewie on family guy for that..
    DD is always maaaa maaa ma (think sheep here, like bah but mah, more Chinese than American). Goofy kids.
    DS says mum.
    I called my mother Stacy...

    People make fun of American accents? Haha! I've been in Oklahoma for 20+ years now, I'm sure ive picked too much of it up. Little British comedy or a few episodes of Dr Who resets the ear.

    Shocked when the main character in Preacher spoke out of character and was not American! Hes British, i think. Wow 🤯
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    BruinsGal_91 wrote: »
    I'm English living in Boston, MA. My accent is very northern English, but there are a few words I 'Americanize', like 'tomato', 'water', 'butter' because if I don't, I get some very blank looks.

    Oh man. Is that tomado? Wader and budder? Mmm buddah.. were so lazy here.
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    edited September 2018
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    MegaMooseEsq wrote: »
    I can totally hear someone saying "mom" in that really flat, drawling accent you sometimes hear from people who are making fun of American accents.

    Gah. My kids only say "mom" if its 1000 times and they want something, thank Stewie on family guy for that..
    DD is always maaaa maaa ma (think sheep here, like bah but mah, more Chinese than American). Goofy kids.
    DS says mum.
    I called my mother Stacy...

    People make fun of American accents? Haha! I've been in Oklahoma for 20+ years now, I'm sure ive picked too much of it up. Little British comedy or a few episodes of Dr Who resets the ear.

    Shocked when the main character in Preacher spoke out of character and was not American! Hes British, i think. Wow 🤯

    Eddie Izzard does a great bad American accent, or at least he used to. Maybe it's gotten better with time... Another great one for OMG British? was Jamie Bamber from BSG.
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    I remember hearing the guy that played Jason on True Blood in his real accent and was shocked. For an Australian he nailed a southern accent.

    And even though I know Andrew Lincoln is English it always throws me after watching the walking dead for years.
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    christian bale always throws me for a loop when i hear his welsh accent
  • BruinsGal_91
    BruinsGal_91 Posts: 1,400 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    BruinsGal_91 wrote: »
    I'm English living in Boston, MA. My accent is very northern English, but there are a few words I 'Americanize', like 'tomato', 'water', 'butter' because if I don't, I get some very blank looks.

    Oh man. Is that tomado? Wader and budder? Mmm buddah.. were so lazy here.

    Yup, you've got it. It's second nature now, which means I don't half get laughed at when I go back to the UK for a visit and ask for a glass of warder.
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,211 Member
    MegaMooseEsq wrote: »
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    MegaMooseEsq wrote: »
    I can totally hear someone saying "mom" in that really flat, drawling accent you sometimes hear from people who are making fun of American accents.

    Gah. My kids only say "mom" if its 1000 times and they want something, thank Stewie on family guy for that..
    DD is always maaaa maaa ma (think sheep here, like bah but mah, more Chinese than American). Goofy kids.
    DS says mum.
    I called my mother Stacy...

    People make fun of American accents? Haha! I've been in Oklahoma for 20+ years now, I'm sure ive picked too much of it up. Little British comedy or a few episodes of Dr Who resets the ear.

    Shocked when the main character in Preacher spoke out of character and was not American! Hes British, i think. Wow 🤯

    Eddie Izzard does a great bad American accent, or at least he used to. Maybe it's gotten better with time... Another great one for OMG British? was Jamie Bamber from BSG.

    The best was Hugh Laurie from House! His accent was so good even his co-worker didn't realise he was British until he accepted an emmy because apparently he kept his American on between takes
  • juliet3455
    juliet3455 Posts: 3,015 Member
    @RicciDarlene I hope we didn't scare you away with our jest about 204 mile run.
    RunsOnEspresso wrote: »
    I thought it was fall 😭

    @RunsOnEspresso It is.wa0bl5weaapf.jpg
  • MobyCarp
    MobyCarp Posts: 2,927 Member
    BruinsGal_91 wrote: »
    I'm English living in Boston, MA. My accent is very northern English, but there are a few words I 'Americanize', like 'tomato', 'water', 'butter' because if I don't, I get some very blank looks.

    Battery? I know a nice Australian woman who lives in the area; she told a story of having trouble buying batteries because she pronounced it in the Australian fashion and the sales clerks couldn't tell what she was talking about. It also didn't help that her example was, "what you'd put in a torch." (Americans call them "flashlights.")
  • MobyCarp
    MobyCarp Posts: 2,927 Member
    ContraryMaryMary wrote: »
    Question for those who know: I have a 15km race on Sunday, specifically scheduled (by the organisers) to be a pre-half marathon event. It's exactly four weeks out from the Auckland Half and includes part of the half's course. Do I run this at half marathon race pace? It's meant for testing my desired speed is it not? I did a 20km slow trot last weekend and will do another on October 7th before I start to taper. Advice please?

    Depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you just want to increase your fitness, you can run the 15K as race for the best time you can run on that day. If you're concerned about pace control for the half, you might want to use the 15K to practice your pace control.

    There is a local 15K that's traditionally 2 weeks before Boston, 3 weeks before a local half. I've run in before running the half, and run it as a race; run it before Boston, as a race; and run it before Boston, as an exercise in pace control. There are advantages and disadvantages to either strategy. You just have to decide what's most important to you.
  • BruinsGal_91
    BruinsGal_91 Posts: 1,400 Member
    MobyCarp wrote: »
    BruinsGal_91 wrote: »
    I'm English living in Boston, MA. My accent is very northern English, but there are a few words I 'Americanize', like 'tomato', 'water', 'butter' because if I don't, I get some very blank looks.

    Battery? I know a nice Australian woman who lives in the area; she told a story of having trouble buying batteries because she pronounced it in the Australian fashion and the sales clerks couldn't tell what she was talking about. It also didn't help that her example was, "what you'd put in a torch." (Americans call them "flashlights.")

    What's the quotation? "Two countries separated by a common language", or something like that. You should have seen the mime show my husband put on in Home Depot while trying to buy a bath plug. We eventually realized we should have asked for a tub stopper. Or rather seeing as we're in Boston, a tub stoppah.
  • ContraryMaryMary
    ContraryMaryMary Posts: 1,787 Member
    Thanks for the advice. Will aim for an average 5:10 pace (!). Slower start, of course, and a few faster k’s in the mix to make up the difference.

    It’ll be an interesting event as the race starts at 7:45am but it’s also the first day of daylight saving (way too early in my opinion) so I won’t have much time to wake up and digest breakfast before I start running.
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