political oracle

I really should change the name of this blog to “JRuns - the oracle of Australian politics“. No sooner do I hint at a stunning comeback on the part of John W. Howard and co, then out he comes with the mother, father and sainted aunt of all tax cuts.

It’s not subtle, it’s not clever, it’s probably not even a good idea, but it’s sure to be popular. More importantly, it puts Kevin 07 on the back foot.

At least that’s how the thinking goes. I’m not so sure. It seems like every year the tax cuts get bigger, yet strangely I don’t feel any richer.

Do you?

Running
Back to form somewhat today. 12.5k at lunchtime, including 2 windy laps of Princess Park done as an “anaerobic threshold” session. Mapmyrun had it down as 3.58 minute ks, which I find frankly unbelievable. Still….

Goals
The big thing after the marathon is usually finding something new to do. You have all this fitness which you don’t want to waste: all dressed up and nowhere to go, in a way.

There are a couple of things on my long term goal list: Trailwalker, 4 peaks alpine climb, Great Ocean Road marathon. In the shorter term I’ll probably look to slice a couple of minutes from my rotund 10k PB and gouge as much as humanly possible from my obese 5k time. That should keep me busy over summer.

Slack-arse naked falling dude
You may have seen this story about the traps today:

Near-naked man in nine-storey fall

Now, you’re probably saying to yourself: “how could anyone be so stupid?”. You see, that’s where you’re wrong. What you should be saying is: “how come he didn’t finish the job?”

He’s clearly one of nature’s least fit; one whom natural selection is bound to leave floundering in an abscure eddy of natural history. So, two questions remain:

1. Why only “near-naked”?
2. Why is he still breathing?