NO.
Where will they all sleep?
Ian Healy writes:
Myself and a few other expats (some featured above) in London are coming to run the Dublin Marathon on Halloween weekend and collect that sweet centenary medal at the finish line.
We met through a free fitness group called Project Awesome, which is inspired by the November Project in America.
There are groups in London, Bristol and Edinburgh and we meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday each week in London at 06:30 am so we decided to co-ordinate a workout on the Friday before the marathon (28th October). Surprisingly, Dublin City Council have given us access to use their space on Wood Quay
PA is all about the positive power of the mix of community, fun and fitness. We’ll be there at 06:30 and running a free workout until about 07:15, and we then always go for coffee and breakfast as a group afterwards.
People of all ages and fitness levels are welcome – I was a couch potato until I started going along back in November.
It’s a one-off event for now, but the aim is to find someone to run it long-term. If not, a few of us are moving to Dublin in the next year or so, and will happily set it up and lead it anyway.
Project Awesome Dublin Special (Facebook)
Nope.
Christ.
The scene that celebrates itself.
Dat’s nice.
‘PROJECT AWESOME’.
Jesus wept. Spare a hanky for Jesus.
Project Noisome – the sound of one hand fapping
There has to be a group for everything now?
So is this because people no longer have groups of friends and family networks anymore?
If you want to exercise at 6.30am just get up and do it.
It’s quite difficult to get up at 6.30 on a cold, wet winter morning to exercise. Doing it with a group makes it easier.
Duh
And cringe…. “expat”
You’re not an Anglo-Indian civil servant from a Graham Greene novel.
You’re an EMIGRANT!
Ewwww.
In the name o’ the late JC, thanks you ‘awesome’ bunch of ‘expats’ for coming to set a shining example for us backward hicks.
Because clearly we are not mired in parochial post-colonial resentments and insecurities. At all. Apparently. In this thread. Wow.
‘Cept it isn’t really true.
If you move with within your company & spent two years in one of their other offices in another city, are you really an emigrant?
You might argue that one technically is but it doesn’t sit comfortably with all the usual tropes & understandings of emigration.
Oh dear. Do we not have enough friggen joggers as it is?
runners, joggers is so 80’s, keep up lol
Best of luck with the meet up and in the marathon.
Running groups are great fun and can be very rewarding. I hope it takes off.
Rewarding in what way?
Hope you guys smash it ! Enjoy !
I’m a running group here, invaluable for that little extra motivation for the long runs or cold days of training, new routes, safety on night runs, also runners tend to be positive and fun people, must be something to do with being fit and endorphins, its nice to meet new people have great chats during and after run, good for networking too as a self-employed missus, runners traveling through will hook up for a running tour of your city, I could go on all day, beats the pub, well until you get that post run recovery pint ;)
in a running group not am,
really who cares.
I was going to come in here and express some leeriness at the extreme levels of happiness on display over on the Project Awesome website, but then the comments already here almost gave me whiplash in the opposite direction. Where’s the middle ground for those of us that are horrified by rapturous group activities but aren’t quite yet fully immersed in the putrescent pool of bile from which the broadsheet commentariat views humanity?
Spin 1038?
Is that an exercise class? I told you I’m not a joiner.
Nor am I although I did scrape a C in Junior Cert woodwork.
And you would have got a pass only it was supposed to be an O.
Fair play to you missus. You’d want a heart of stone not to smile politely at this level of wholesome enthusiasm.
runners high, not a myth
What’s your PB?
Perfect Breakfast?
Lads the running thing is great but by jaysus you need to tone down the self-applause.
It is a bit loud but perhaps it needs to be to drown out the rising mutter of feckin’ begrudgery.
Ah Nidge, I wouldn’t begrudge anyone an oul run, or a hobby that they enjoy and meet up with other folk to do. It’s the runners that start talking about personal bests, muscle cramps, laptimes their ‘wall’ etc. after a feicin FUN RUN for gods sake that require a face-punch. What is that all about?
10k mini marathons, just for you hoop ;)
Good on yiz. Enjoy your marathon, and well done.
Hate that word
Awesome
Feckin yank teen telly shyte
I’m sure you’ll have a lot of interest- enjoy!
Really? I say nobody will turn up.
I’m in awe… of the comments…..
(me hole)
Project Awesome is the opposite of the Broadsheet comments section… people actually out in the world doing something and enjoying themselves while they are at it! Thanks for the giggles though… hilariously cranky bunch : )
On a semi-serious note, its a fun way for people to meet others in a city while taking part in a free activity… look forward to meeting any of you who might be interested.
Also, thanks Broadsheet for sharing!