Stu

After last night Dundee will be complaining we’ve an extra home game against Rangers.

Good luck! Crowd is fantastic in London. Try not to get too frustrated at the amount of runners you’re having to dodge round. PB is unlikely for that reason alone unless you put your estimated time about half an hour quicker than you’re really aiming for.

Amazing time - a good 10 minutes quicker than the six guys dressed as a caterpillar too!

Hope @conboyhibs had a good run in Manchester today. I was 3 hours 25 minutes and 19 seconds and have raised more than £2,000 for ACCORD in the process. Thanks to all those who sponsored me! https://www.justgiving.com/page/stuartisturning40

Thanks to all those who sponsored me for the Manchester Marathon today - more than £2,000 raised for ACCORD is beyond anything I could have hoped for! 3 hours 25 minutes 19 seconds for those interested. https://www.justgiving.com/page/stuartisturning40

After we beat Rangers that season I did think it would be absolutely typical of us to win a cup when we were unable to have the open top bus etc. Given we made the last four in both cups that season, and who was left, it's pretty frustrating we didn't win at least one of them - and if we'd won both let's not pretend we'd have shut up about it by now. Anyway, thank you to everyone who has sponsored me for the Manchester Marathon for Accord Hospice, I've reached an insane amount. This is my last plug before the race on Sunday (if I'm not in hospital or an ice cream induced recovery coma I'll try to post afterwards about how I got on), so if anyone else fancies chucking in a few quid... https://www.justgiving.com/page/stuartisturning40

There is no way that mother and daughter are getting close to the end - didn't they manage to burn through nearly a third of their budget in the first episode? And there's a good chance the boy training to be a pilot will throttle his mate before long. Having said that, I thought after the first episode last year that one pair were useless because it take them so long to get out of the park they started from and they ended up winning

Cheers, you too. I see no rain in sight now on either the BBC or Met Office, which must be bollocks as it's Manchester. Did give myself a fright when it showed 26 degrees then realised it was a Manchester in the States!

Conveniently, the latest episode of the new And Colossally That's History podcast with Richard Williams and Matt BIshop talks about Schumacher. Weirdly, it doesn't seem to show up on all feeds (including Apple) but you can get it at https://podcast24.co.uk/podcasts/and-colossally-thats-history

White?! Are you planning on meeting someone for lunch?! I see there's a bit of wind but can't be as bad as some of the stuff I've trained in. Looks like it's the perfect direction to be a pain in the arse for that long five mile stretch. Safely negotiated my final run today, had convinced myself weeks ago I'd do my ankle (again) in a pothole. That combined with it pishing it down yesterday and then being frosty overnight added to my concern.

You're aware this is Dundee you're talking about?

Wasn't it Henderson who had a good spell at Caley Thistle, or did Jamieson have one too? Is he injured now as he seems to have disappeared from the squad after getting a decent chunk of game time. Always felt more optimistic about Offord's chances rather than Jamieson but that was based on their stats and little else. If Gogic leaves, where do people think he'll go? Only realistic options I can see in Scotland are Killie, Motherwell and Dundee. Guess if one of them is in Europe that convince him.

I'm not too bad, just everything I see is a hazard. Was out a run last night and convinced a dog would trip me up or the kids fishing would land their hook in my mouth. Last short run tomorrow so hopefully I come through that unscathed. The race is the easy bit, it's all the other stuff like getting there that's the problem! What wave are you in? I'm bronze. Forecast at the moment isn't too bad - if it can be dry for the hanging around before the start that would be good.

I noticed that got brought up on Twitter the other day. At the time people were right to criticise and concern because our form was awful and we'd gone from pushing for the top six under Goodwin to being dragged into the relegation mire under Robinson when we should never have been in danger of going down. They weren't much better in the League Cup either. Thankfully, things have obviously improved considerably and I've no problem admitting I was wrong but it seems not everyone is in the same boat.

I take it from Robinson's post match interview and Langfield's comments on Twitter that some folk have been having a go at the team again? I accept our recent form isn't great, but we've made it into the top six with room to spare - if I've done my maths right, it turns it Olusanya's goal against Aberdeen was what ended up putting us on enough points to secure our spot. Over the course of the season we fully deserve our place, even if we have stuttered a bit lately, and back to back top half finishes is a remarkable achievement after so long of not making it. Robinson has done a fantastic job over the past two years and the off the park work to improv the atmosphere and increase the attendances is also excellent. Not saying folk can't be unhappy with the recent results, but the replies you see on club posts after some of our latest results are laughable and everyone - including the players and management (and me!) - would be as well ignoring them rather than giving them any credit. If we were just scraping over the line to stay in the league like when Gus shitfested us to safety seem to be the height of our ambitions, I'd understand it a bit more. Last year we very much bottled our final pre-split game against Kilmarnock but yesterday we were up against the third top team in horrendous conditions and probably should have got a point. The recent form has probably screwed our chances of fourth - especially as we're incapable of beating Kilmarnock and they seem to be quite handy against the Old Firm - but fifth is very much up for grabs. Last season, making the top six after so long and the previous near misses was the achievement and we seemed to be on the beach after the split. Don't see that being the case this time around.