Sorry Cry Fury*

Not as yet.  [;)][;)][;)]

Bet 14 complete with a final balance for today of £659.73 (+159.72)

14/14 and only 1 placed, pleasing again.  [;)][;)][;)]

Cheers Undern!!!

no worries, will be interesting to know what the system is/was when it's over

The two selections will be in the 16:35 at Roscommon and the 16:50 Ffos Las.

I have to go out now so the 2nd and hopefully to complete the 4% for the day is a lay of Draoicht in the 16:50 at Ffos Las at 23.0 for £13.80 now only paying 2.5% with the purple players.

Good Luck... [;)][;)][;)]

how you do?

Are you coming back any time soon Gowly ?

Hi Gowly - I saw that you logged on yesterday. I hope you continue your challenge thread today.

It has been 12 days Gowly - please come back ....

We have to keep the memory of poor Gowly alive. One of us needs to buy a dog and name it after him. That way the magic that was Gowly will never die...  (Well, not until the dog does, anyway!)

To be fair to Gowly, his last post said he had to go away for a few days on work. Could it be that he's simply still away???    I don't get the idea that this thread was a significant part of his life, the way your thread seems to be for you Undern.  It might well be that he'll be back in a few days to start posting. He might, of course, just be distracted.   

Last time we heard, he was winning, and he always posted his bets before the off, so whatever the reason is for him not posting again, I suspect it has nothing to do with the challenge itself.

I think people often underestimate how much work is involved in keeping one of these Challenge threads going. (Not saying this applies to Gowly, but it is certainly the case with these threads in general.) They think it's going to be a lot of 'fun' recording their thoughts every day, without realising the commitment that'll be needed day after day.

When I was at school, I started my own variation on the Play-By-Mail games that were something of a cult in the 80s. The players (my classmates) would be thrown into some predicament and they'd then tell me how their character was going to get out of it. I'd then write them a new move telling them what happened, and the story of their character would grow from there, with new moves coming every day.

As it turned out, my game started something of a craze. Within a few weeks, somebody else had started running their own version, and within 9 months, mine was one of 37 different games at my school, all of them being run along similar lines to mine. 6 months later though, mine was the only one left. It lasted over three and a half years (it was just as popular at the end, but I stopped it to concentrate on my exams). The next longest lasted for about a year. None of the others carried on for more than a few weeks.

The problem was, people simply didn't have a clue how hard it was to keep the thing going day after day. I spent two or more hours a day on that game (at least three if you count the time I spent during lunch-hour getting the moves from all the players), and I had a very efficient system plus lots of creative spirit to draw on. Most people would enjoy running their own game for a few days, but as soon as they hit their first rough patch, or got distracted for a day or two, or got heckled by a few players telling them their orcs weren't acting like 'real' orcs (you got plenty of annoying people questioning everything, just as you do on these threads!), they'd simply abandon the game and never give it a second thought.

I can imagine the same applies to many of these Challenge threads. Particularly when you throw in the fact that most of them are built on very uncertain foundations, and financial chaos tends to ensue with indecent haste. Kudos to you for keeping your challenge thread going for so long!

Gowly would make quite a good name for a dog

Undern you're right. only mine and your challenge threads seem to have the stamina to carry on

hi Gowly hope you are well. Can you please update your challenge thread. Hope you have a good day betting today.

How did your challenge go today OP ... frustrating sometimes .... I am still not quite settled into my challenge but hopefully this week I can try and get the right balance of betting - staking, markets, selections ...

Simply asking the OP to update or end the challenge .... his 100 days challenge lasted 10 days and then silence .... it is not the attempt it is more the silence which I find frustrating because people start these threads and then as soon as things turn bad you simply don't hear from them ....

It is very easy to start a challenge thread but it is a lot fking harder to keep going with one ... so simply want others to complete or wind up their challenge in the right away ....

I will re-phrase ... independent of the success or otherwise of the thread it would be nice to see people end their threads I would deem in the right manner .... I agree he doesn't have to post but why start the thread in the first place if you are not prepared to finish it one way or another ...

... and it is nothing to do with my challenges other than sometimes it would be a boost up for me (when things aren't easy) to see someone else 'plugging away' with their own challenge (openly in public) through the good and bad moments ...

About time you updated your £100 to £1K thread then CG...