Long run
A fairly eventful few days since I last posted, but sadly I ain’t telling you nothing, no sir. Nope.
“How’s that” you say. “Isn’t blogging meant for uncritical spewing forth of every little detail about people’s boring little life?”
Well, yes, on the whole. But there are somethings too boring for public consumption even on this forum. Also, some of the news concerns things for which I would be hung, drawn and quartered if I so much as hinted about. Incidentally, what exactly does “drawn” mean in that context? If you’ve already been hung, does it really matter if someone draws a picture of your limp corpse? And “quartered”, what’s that about?
Moving smoothly along, I did do some running, and that I can tell you about.
Actually, in the last 48 hours I’ve done a lot of running, somewhere over 46ks actually. A brief run in the rain on Saturday afternoon. At the moment, running in the rain is quite the luxury. Ask me again in about 4 months and I may not be so sanguine.
Yesterday I went out for my long run, and ended up doing around 29k. It was a challenging (for me) course that took me from Ringwood to Lilydale on the Maroondah Highway, then down to Montrose and back to Ringwood on Mt Dandenong Road. There are a couple of interesting hills along the way, chiefly the one that climbs out of Chirnside Park. CP has never been my favourite place, apologies to any CPers out there. Yesterday, I was pretty glad to see the back of the place.
The one thing you can say for Chirnside, is that people don’t try to run you over. Some guy in Mt Dandonong road Croydon did just that, leaving me practically sprawled over the bonnet of his car. Actually, it wasn’t that dramatic. Also, I suppose it’s better to be on the bonnet than under it.
The whole thing took 2hrs 15, meaning I was theoretically on course for a 3hr 16 marathon. I’d be pretty happy with that time, although part of me thinks I can go faster over a flat course. Perhaps I can go as fast as this guy? Or perhaps not.
This morning I carted my running gear into work and did a rough 10k loop starting and finishing at my office and taking in Southbank, Docklands, and the north side of the city. Not bad at all really. The legs weren’t feeling too bad after the weekend’s exertions.
The training program has me doing an easy week now. I mean really easy. Ridiculously so. Kind of annoying really.
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Hmmm, if you are hinting Freud would say that you really do want to tell us.
Let the speculation begin
And I am sure a smart guy like you knows exactly what the drawn and quartered bits mean. Have you seen Braveheart? Let’s just say they don’t hang you until you are dead, they want to keep you alive for the really fun bits to follow.
They really knew how to treat prisoners in the middle ages
Hung - obvious, but not actually killed, just strangled a bit
Drawn - iviscerated, apparently an abdominal incision and your intestines fried on the BBQ while you’re still alive.
Quartered - 4 horseys tied to your extremities (excluding your head) and then they run in opposite directions.
This happened at Carlisle Castle after the Jacobian Revolution (Bonnie Prince Charles of Scotland leading the highlanders down to England as far as Derby)
Apparently the song
‘You take the high road
And I’ll take the low road
And I’ll be in Scotland afore yee’
Was written by condemned Scots waiting for execution singing to their Scottish wives, as they’d be buried over the border before the wives got home.
Of course this could all be English propaganda….
ohhh, come on, spill your guts, I live my life through others, pmsl!!
On top of the bonnet is definitely better than underneath! I hope you shook your fist at them as they hooned away
I always thought that the “drawn” bit referred to letting your blood flow out after you have been sliced a bit but not yet quartered.