Collective nouns

We tried this last year,,,Got some gooduns' too.....Can you think of a good collective noun for a group of long distance runners?

Here's one or two to start us off..

An Asylum of long distance runners.........

An i-pod of long distance runners...........

and my favorite from last year.....

A KNOB of long distance runners............(Dirty girl, not me!)......~

unintelligible trivia.................

Posted 08.05.10, 9:09pm

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MistaNiceGuy
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real ones -

A murder of crows, a parliament of owls

or try

a session of runners, an exhaust of runners, a buzz of bloggers

a clutch of testicles

Cheers, MTS

Posted 08.05.10, 9:46pm

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A fleet of runners

A (carb) load of runners

An obsession of runners

Posted 08.05.10, 11:40pm

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One from rich_x4 might be........

An obesity of long distance runners?..........~

unintelligible trivia.................

Posted 09.05.10, 12:08pm

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from a forum my wife uses..... when 3 or more smart cars follow each other, it's called a tube, as in..... a tube of smarties. If then are only 2 then its a funsize-tube!

How about... A Gaggle of Runners...

....A Gooseberry of Runners...

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Posted 09.05.10, 12:25pm

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Post edited at 12:25 on 09-05-2010 by kaboom360

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Schott's Miscellany has a "field" of runners (boring!)

Also in there:

A malapertness of beggars

A murmuration of starlings

A doping of sheldrake

A drunkship of cobblers

Maybe - a masochism of runners

Spoogie37, as named by The Style Council - not the pop group but some strange woman I used to work with who wanted to put me on the Trinny and Susannah show.

http://www.realbuzz.com/blogs/u/spoogie37/following-as-in-really-following-a-program/

Posted 10.05.10, 10:53am