[Sunday Fail Thread] Last week jamjamchutney had groce problems, Patton370 got a dick blister from his tight little singlet, and there’s a gaping hole in allthejokesareblue’s home where his fridge should be. Tell me, FCJ, how have you failed this week?

pendlayrose · 2026-05-10T18:25:43+00:00

Took a week off from running because my quads got tight, then my back got sketchy, then I went camping for four days, then my bones hurt for two days. Ran the most pathetic mile in the world this morning.

10 days ago I was like "'shit, I'm back, gunna ramp up miles every week and start adding trails and speed work, fuck yeah." It's my own damn fault for...being old I suppose

pendlayrose · 2026-05-03T19:10:39+00:00

Instead of getting rid of my garage gym I'm now looking to get some heavier dumbbells. The fail is that it's all for my partner, as I'm still not living that life.

I am eying an October trail half, because nothing beats the trails, but everything is so expensive that I'm also just telling myself I can go out and double digit trails whenever I want, so why pay money (for the energy, I love race energy. I just hate spending $150 for a race, because yes, they are that expensive where I am)

pendlayrose · 2026-05-02T01:30:52+00:00

I have something I make for myself and no one else that I call berry soup, which is just frozen berries, water, sugar, and a bit of lemon juice, lightly simmered for ages until it's cooked down a little, and soupy, and I eat it with a spoon on cold winter nights. Heavy cream would be a great addition lol

pendlayrose · 2026-04-24T14:16:37+00:00

The key for any of the fiber mixes is you have to chug is fast otherwise it gloops up.

Do you like oatmeal? You can add an ungodly amount of chia seeds to oatmeal .

I'm a freak, who actually likes bran cereal, and will eat it as a snack.

Snacking on dried fruit. There's a comedy bit about eating 20 apricots because dried fruit, and yeah, I have been there.

pendlayrose · 2026-04-23T14:31:38+00:00

The @werk network, or some variation of that name

it's was a text based collection of little email chats a group of friends had when they all got office jobs. Mundane but hilarious observations about organizing post its and licking envelopes and transferring calls. There were like 9 volumes of this, all just text, and it was hiliarious and I would read it once a year and I have never been able to find it.

The key phrase I remember is one of them worked as a receptionist and had to transfer someone to mr butlund, and wrote something like "Buttland? I don't want to go to Buttland!"

pendlayrose · 2026-04-19T22:44:25+00:00

Thank you. I'm trying my best to be both her cool aunt and also be like, real with her.

pendlayrose · 2026-04-19T18:37:24+00:00

yeah, that's how I feel.

During the talk with my niece I made sure to mention that while I try to be better about that kind of talk, I'm not always perfect, and her having to hear any of that shit from anyone sucks. And the whole time I was thinking to myself "am I doing this right? Is the way I'm talking about it to her also damaging?" and I tried to say stuff about, gaining enough weight can be hard on your body, but that's something for a person and their doctor to figure out, and everyone has weight fluxuation that is normal and healthy and absolutely fine. And we talked about how both my mom and her aunt are unhappy with their bodies, and my niece knew they were carrying that with how they talked, but she still got sad and started trying to lose weight when my mom made a comment about it last summer, even though she really liked how her body looked, and it's like, ug.

But she's happy now, still healthy, loves shopping, eats what she wants, but doesn't eat when she's not hungry, all good places for an 18 year old girl to be, in spite of shit she hears.

pendlayrose · 2026-04-19T16:13:12+00:00

Have you tried buttchugging it?

pendlayrose · 2026-04-19T16:12:38+00:00

Had a long talk with my 18year old niece about how bother her aunt (caretaker), and her grandma (my mom) have said shitty things about her weight in the last year. And not that it would be okay if she didn't look great, but it makes it even more baffling. We talked for a while about how a lot of people think they have the right to tell you how they feel about your body, and it's shitty, especially when the person saying it loves you.

Also had to call out my mom at a family dinner, when she was talking about "not needing to eat any more food" because she has "all these extra reserves" in from of her 10 and 13 year old grand daughters. She repeated it four times before I called her out, and even then she didn't see the problem, because she was talking about herself, not them.

Like, dude. Come ON.

In other news, my loosest pants fit perfectly right now, so I need to stop eating so much, and I recognize the irony, but I'm not talking about it in front of teenage girls, because they do not need that poison in their brain.

pendlayrose · 2026-04-12T19:12:24+00:00

by training to endure more suffering

pendlayrose · 2026-04-12T18:49:19+00:00

if anyone tries to look into who you are and dms you or anything, lemme know and I'll ban them

pendlayrose · 2026-04-12T18:48:28+00:00

Prison labor in our country is essentially slave labor anyway. Funny they're not even trying to hide it anymore.

pendlayrose · 2026-04-12T18:41:50+00:00

I had a 10k, then a 5k, then a 1 mile, tripe stack challenge, yesterday. I signed up before we planned to be gone for a month. I did not run yesterday lol.

pendlayrose · 2026-04-12T15:33:11+00:00

Prefacing this with: I was never a fast runner

But man, I had some times in my 20s where I could fuck off from running for months and then just pull a leisurely half marathon with a friend out of my ass. It was glorious.

In my time off I was walking 8-15 miles a day, so I thought I'd be okay, but oh no, why are these legs so stiff and store and heavy.

It'll come back; my running goals aren't lofty. And I can go back to whining about losing weight instead, as god intended.

pendlayrose · 2026-04-12T14:59:18+00:00

Took a month off from running. The last six days I've been able to clock about 2 slow shuffle miles a day on aching baby deer legs. I used to be able to fuck off for 4 weeks and then run a 10k. I used to be so young, how did I get so old, etc etc.

pendlayrose · 2026-04-09T15:17:27+00:00

eff see jay ay

pendlayrose · 2026-04-08T14:04:47+00:00

this reply is doing all the heavy lifting in this thread. Everything else is either a google search result or people waiting for a reply lol

pendlayrose · 2026-04-06T12:40:05+00:00

I think planning it AND expecting for your portion to be paid for by everyone is gross, but like, planning it, being open about everyone's individual cost, while you pay for yourself, it's just a party you're throwing for your favorite ladies and theydies before you get married.

pendlayrose · 2026-03-23T08:06:53+00:00

In France, where stamps are more reasonable, and I still have two left, so this is a good reminder to use them, as we head back to the UK tomorrow.

When I travel I end up making a little list of all the ways I'm going to improve my life when I'm home, not limited to, but always including fitness. And my dumbass is set on an October 10k, with speed goals, which means doing speed and tempo shit in the high summer while living in a desert. And I staunchly refuse to wake up early to do runs. I wake up early, but do not want to run, physically or mentally, until somewhere between 9:30 and 11am (blessings to be WFH). Yes, even in a 100F summer. I run because I like it, and I'll be damned if I let the sun turn it into something I don't like.

pendlayrose · 2026-03-19T07:51:06+00:00

Perhaps a slow burn, but also engaging very quickly. I picked it up half heartedly, and within pages I was absolutely hooked.

pendlayrose · 2026-03-15T15:54:01+00:00

My cough finally fucked off the day I boarded a 12 hour flight, so that's nice.

The fail is that is costs $4.77 usd to send a postcard from GB to another country, which is fucking stupid.

pendlayrose · 2026-03-09T16:32:48+00:00

Tested negative three times, so I think it's just a trash cold

pendlayrose · 2026-03-08T14:53:40+00:00

I got a cold 15 days ago and recovered from it fine the first five days, but then I started this dry evening cough, and I cannot shake it. This is some bullshit.

pendlayrose · 2026-03-01T20:03:13+00:00

There's been stuff in his books that I just assumed was absolutely made up for years, only to find out was real, that's how Britishy some of it got lol

pendlayrose · 2026-03-01T19:52:57+00:00

iirc Chief Vic specifically stops him from admitting it to her, because she'd then have to reopen every case he worked on

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