1.5 mile run

[ccfc]

Well my mate has just been on the phone to me and has failed his 2 day selection, unlucky i guess, he has failed on his 1.5 mile run and is telling me its all up hill ( lichfield ) how true is this because ive been running on flat ground, and if its all up hill, i will start training on up hill!

[RMC]

havent been down to lichfield yet, i am going in about 3 weeks i think, but my recruiter said that is is pretty much flat, and this at lichfield it if just once around the perimiter. but yeh....he says its flat, what time did ya mate run it in and what was he going for??

[ccfc]

Well we both went down the track together, he done the run in 10:05 mins
Bad to say but i did it in 11:34, he's going for the royal artillery but that doesnt make any difference does it?

[RMC]

well different run times for different jobs, when i go for a run i dont do track runnin, i just like run randomly, and try to add some hill sprints in2 my run, what was you're mates run time at lichfield??

[ccfc]

OMFG my mates a tit.... he passed.... was lieing the bell! the run is twice around the camp an he done it in 9:04 mins, and there is one slight hill not steep thou, sorry for waseting your time

[Tab]

The time they give you to cover that distance is almost a fast walk

[anglo-saxon]

OK, girls. I realise you're busy swapping spit, and despite the utter hilarity of your posts (thanks for brightening what would otherwise have been a singularly ordinary evening!), you may not have actually noticed that you've lapsed into lazy-assed text-speak. 'Tis verboten around here as it alludes to slovenliness and general don't-give-a-shyte, which is not the way of the warrior, now, is it?

So, echoing the many thousands of rants from the esteemed of these hallowed halls: Write nice or fark off!

1. It's "I", not "i".

2. Comma splices do not a compound sentence make.

3. Capital "L" in Litchfield.

4. He "did" the run, not he "done" the run (unless you're actually Alabama banjo-players).

5. "though", not "thou" (unless ... oh, forget it it!).

...and so on and so on and so on.

No one expects perfection, just a little effort.

[Greenronnie]

Plus doing a mile and a half in 11.34 is effing embarassing!!

[anglo-saxon]

Plus doing a mile and a half in 11.34 is effing embarassing!!

No kiding! Maybe Litchfield is up hill both ways!

I don't do the 8:40 BFT I used to in my 20's, but "11:34"? Are these guys on Zimmer frames? I take it this entrance run is in daps and running kit these days, too, not boots, etc.? Even at my age, that time would be iffy!

[Greenronnie]

No one said bugger all about NBC kit blah blah blah, it's just a piss take that a young lad takes 11 and a half minutes to cover a mile and a half. You could definately stop and walk for part of it at that pace. Do youngsters not do thier own training before joining up any more then? I ran virtually every day for two years to prepare myself.

[London Boy]

OK, girls. I realise you're busy swapping spit, and despite the utter hilarity of your posts (thanks for brightening what would otherwise have been a singularly ordinary evening!), you may not have actually noticed that you've lapsed into lazy-assed text-speak. 'Tis verboten around here as it alludes to slovenliness and general don't-give-a-shyte, which is not the way of the warrior, now, is it?

So, echoing the many thousands of rants from the esteemed of these hallowed halls: Write nice or fark off!

1. It's "I", not "i".

2. Comma splices do not a compound sentence make.

3. Capital "L" in Litchfield.

4. He "did" the run, not he "done" the run (unless you're actually Alabama banjo-players).

5. "though", not "thou" (unless ... oh, forget it it!).

...and so on and so on and so on.

No one expects perfection, just a little effort.

Thanks mate. Saved me the trouble.

And ccfc, you've been told before. Now buck your ideas up with regard to writing!

RMC the same applies to you!

This kind of writing is totally unacceptable:

"when i go for a run i dont do track runnin"

"When I go running I don't run on a track" is correct English.

STANDARDS!!!!!!

Otherwise swap mobile numbers and text each other!

[London Boy]

"When I go running I don't run on a track" is correct English.

I think you'll find that the sentence requires a comma to separate the primary and subordinate clauses.

No it doesn't -"when"is conditional for the imperfect verbal-noun running. Thus completion, i.e. action, has to follow in the same clause.

Too many commas are used incorrectly in English.

There was a great book out a few years ago called

Eats shoots and leaves. (the panda) Or was it

Eats, shoots, and leaves. (three verbs)

Two very different menaings