sadness, delusion, rain

Back in April I wrote a couple of times about Charlton Athletic, and their troubled, troubled times this year. From memory, the words “dire”, “dreadful” and “desperate” featured more strongly than is probably normal, which should give you a fair idea of how the season was going at that point.

Well, after an oh-so-brief revival in March and April, which was just convincing enough to raise hopes in the more deluded of our supporters, Charlton went into their customary late-season frenzy of self-destruction and have now been officially dumped from the league.

Very sad: well it’s sad to me.

But if you want sadness and delusion, nothing beats this article from the official Charlton Athletic website - Fans make Charlton league leaders.

The gist of it is, some report has come out to say our ticketing facilities are the best in the league.

Charlton Athletic continues to perform well where it matters most to supporters

Yes, absolutely correct. I’m certain Charlton fans care more about ticketing than minor issues like having decent players, playing good football and winning more than once a season.

It would be easy to be rather humorous and satirical at all this; frankly I’m not in the mood.

Readers, somewhere perched 16 floors above the Melbourne CBD, there sits a Charlton-supporting runner shedding a silent tear.

Running
I have a 10 anaerobic threshold session today, probably tonight around the streets near my joint.

Marathon news
I finally buckled under the pressure and sent a politely worded email into Sri Chinmoy, asking where my race number is. And the good people over at SC responded, very promptly, to say it’ll be in the mail shortly. They had some trouble printing out the marathon course maps apparently.

The course map is now online (finally), but even now I’m not convinced it’s 100% correct. The main thing that worries me is the text saying “4 laps of course”. Given that the course seems to be close to 30k, that could be a long day’s running.

Next week I can start fretting over the long-range weather forecast. Actually, I’m ahead of schedule there; the Age weather page suggests a “medium” chance of rain. I’m not bothered by that, provided it’s a gently, misty rain rather than the blowing-a-gale-tempestuous type rain.

In fact a nice cool, foggy, showery morning might be quite pleasant.

Cross fingers.