Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
Outdoor Activities => Exercise, Fitness, Training, Competitions and General Health => Topic started by: mregan on June 05, 2013
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Good luck to all those taking part this weekend. Craicing weekend for it.
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Is it this Saturday? Is going to be a toasty one, I'd rather have it cool and damp! Not that I'm actually doing it ofc :)
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Yeah. Not ideal weather for the ultra runners either!
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I'm glad I'm only doing the 10km...!
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I walked the mourne way from Newcastle to Rostrevor today, I wouldn't fancy having to run it in that weather! Roasting!!
Here's a few pics
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Nice pics spud. It's amazing weather long may it last.
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I was hoping to get a last minute entry in for the 10k but my weak ankle is playing up lately so not paying big entry fee for a long walk home ;D Instead I'll be down at the finish manning the Mountain Rescue stall, come and say hello, and bring cash as i'll be selling stuff ;)
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Awesome pics Spud, it looks like cracking weather, bet you were melting. Did you walk the whole route?
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Awesome pics Spud, it looks like cracking weather, bet you were melting. Did you walk the whole route?
I sure did, every sweaty step! God it was warm! Lol
Here's a couple more pics
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Nice one Spud, run it next year! ;)
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Brilliant days craic yesterday at the mourne way 10km event, fair play to the ultra runners and marathon people. The heat was something else, brilliant day and well organised. Here's a pic of me with my yazoo which was in my race pack, it wasn't drank btw! Warm milk in sunshine.......na
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/06/09/haderupy.jpg)
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A pedantic note on the word "craic". Crack meaning chat, fun or banter is not an Irish Gaelic word. There is no need to spell it "craic" when writing in English!
Apologies for this but when I saw "craicing" at the start of the thread then "craic" further down I couldn't help myself. I really hope this is the last time I see the word "craicing" in print! People do of course spell in all sorts of weird ways these days so sadly (for me!) I probably will.
If anybody is at all interested see the link below noting the History and Criticism sections especially,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craic)
Apologies again for derailing this thread. Congratulations to all who did the run.
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cheers for that.
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Look like you had a craicing day - well done Claire!
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We had a craicing weekend climbing :P ps well done claire
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Here there was wild heat up them there mournes! Like it was mental, sweat was lashing aff me, and I only done the 6 miles. Like here's me......what!
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It was good craic alright - and you're not joking about the heat. Have been givin a dose of the burnt shins!
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Nicely done Claire. Anyone else do it?
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professor Eileen M. Trauth notes "craic" as an intrinsic part of the culture of sociability that distinguished the Irish workplace from those of other countries
I think the use of the word craic is a positive affirmation of our cultural heritage, as being from the island of Ireland. I also think it universal across Northern Ireland, regardless of political, social and religious viewpoints.
I don't particularly mind whether it's pseudo-Gaelic or English or just something we made up.
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I love how in our Island there are so many words and sayings associated with different areas. Saw this on Facebook and it made me laugh. I remember being called a 'cuddy' by an old work colleague who was from Fermanagh direction, I actually had to ask him what it meant. (http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/06/10/ymyde3uv.jpg)
Bit off the original thread about the mourne way. Spud fair play for walking it, hope you used factor 50!
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From a pragmatic perspective the meaning of language comes mainly from how it is used. The word "craic" is used to describe fun / banter throughout Ireland and will do for the foreseeable future, so I'm happy to accept its meaning as such. The whole "psueod-gaelic" thing from Diarmaid Ó Muirithe is an erudite musing from a language specialist, but just as some are pedantic about the word data being plural - it as little bearing on the real life use of language.
I doubt the word craic is going anywhere any time soon.
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Absolutely Ed. It's like...
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/06/11/8y5ahyge.jpg)
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Spud fair play for walking it, hope you used factor 50!
Cheers claire, had factor 30 and a sun hat! Lol
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Absolutely Ed. It's like...
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/06/11/8y5ahyge.jpg)
Haha that's a "craicer"
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Well done clairebear, we were up there on saturday and watched a lot of the runners pass by Hen Mountain, it was a scorcher, like an open oven in the face, lol, karma.
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Well done ClaireBear. I took the Rambler up to Fofanny, and the professional photographers there for the athletes kindly took my picture.
(http://i.imgur.com/RFSW2H5.jpg)
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Sigh. I suppose I deserved all that :-[ (but craicer and craicing ... come off it!!)
I like all our dialect and slang words and phrases as much as the next person .. in fact maybe a bit more, I've quite an interest in Ulster English and Scots dialects. That's why it irritates me to see a word consistently and needlessly Gaelicised when people are writing English.
Won't mention it again, whatever way people spell it! ... But do please check out the History section of that Wikipedia page.
Certainly no offence meant to anybody on here or elsewhere,
... sure it was only a bit a craic so it was.
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It could be worse, they could have mentioned the SpRinkwee River >:(
p.s. well done Claire, wish I could have done it, I was a bit jealous of all those runners at the finish, although I still managed to wangle a free beer ;) (sjh, are we allowed to use wangle ??? )
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Haha sjh, all good crai...er.. Fun :)
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It could be worse, they could have mentioned the SpRinkwee River >:(
p.s. well done Claire, wish I could have done it, I was a bit jealous of all those runners at the finish, although I still managed to wangle a free beer ;) (sjh, are we allowed to use wangle ??? )
I hope I have never written 'Sprinkwee'!
Wangle is fine! I think people have slightly missed the point I was making here. I stand fully by what I said but I don't want to derail the thread any further so if anybody wants a discussion please PM me or start a new thread and I'll gladly contribute. I should probably have done that in the first place actually ... or just ignored it ...
Again well done to Claire and the others who did the walk/run ... hope you can get your thread back on track now!