camelback is go

Posted on January 13, 2008 by JH

I feel I can safely say my experiment with on-board hydration, vis a vis using a Camelback, was a great success.

Incidentally, does one “use” a Camelback or “wear” it? Perhaps “carry”? “Drink”? It’s a tricky one.

Moving on: I had a long-ish run planned for today, and I managed it all-right, thanks to my new friend the camelhump. I went from home down the long hill to Warrandyte, then back again taking the long way home, via Croydon.

I was reasonably happy with the way it went. I took the first, mostly downhill, part slowly and steadily, reasoning correctly that, on an out and back course, what goes down must come up. It certainly did come up, but not too drastically.

I was sweaty, but not chafed and fortunately had a nice bit of plastic to suck on when it all got too much. I detoured through North Croydon and Croydon proper, just to pad out the kilometres a touch.

27km in 2 hours 15. Not fast, by any means, but okay given the level of hills. Here it is on mapmyrun.com.

The camelback has passed the test and will stay. It should open up some new long runs for me, now that I don’t have to worry about water.

Morsey
Welcome Morsey, to the “I hate my job” club.

I just had an idea which, thanks to the nature of blogging, I can publish to a potentially vast audience without any sort of reflection or quality control.

Here it is: we should all swap jobs for the month of January. Morsey: you can come and design websites at my place. I’ll go look after Andrew’s work and Andrew can be Em for a few weeks.

Sure, I have no idea whatsoever what AJH does, but I’m sure I can improvise for a few weeks. It’s bound to at least be interesting, and if it backfires, at least we’ll look forward to our old jobs at the end of January.

It’s a stroke of genius, I tells you. I’m right, aren’t I?

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8 Responses to “camelback is go”

  1. Steve, on January 13th, 2008 at 10:55 pm Said:

    I’m on long service leave at the moment, back to work late May or early June, would you like to swap with me……..

    Your 27 km was certainly faster than mine.

  2. JH, on January 13th, 2008 at 11:21 pm Said:

    Sounds good Steve. I’m due a bit of long service leave, despite what my employer might think.

    I’m sure you’ll catch up to me, what with all the kms you’re doing lately.

  3. Em, on January 14th, 2008 at 12:43 am Said:

    Excellent idea, we don’t have photo ID at my work so anyone can sit at my desk really. We have lovely change room and shower facilites here so it is probably best that Morsey sits in for me as she is the right gender.

    My laptop password is …….

  4. JH, on January 14th, 2008 at 12:47 am Said:

    I kinda liked the idea of switching gender for a few weeks, but that’s just me.

  5. jojo, on January 14th, 2008 at 8:11 am Said:

    …lol… anyone feel like leading a bunch of rascally rugrats(12-18years) the wonderful virtues of mathematics?????

  6. MorseyRuns, on January 14th, 2008 at 9:50 am Said:

    Cool, let me know who gets to grab my dear friend “Fred” and the swap is on! Can I design the websites on paper then someone else does that ht-something- code thingy for me??

  7. Andrew(ajh), on January 14th, 2008 at 10:21 am Said:

    Do you want to start tomorrow ? It is a Tuesday (staff 1-on-1 day) - my least favourite day of the week. And one of them tomorrow needs a good rollicking too - that’s always good for a laugh. I have a book called “They Call It Work For a Reason” - I’m thinking of giving it to him and suggesting he read it.

  8. JH, on January 14th, 2008 at 11:20 pm Said:

    Morsey, if you can manage the technology involved in pencils and paper, you’re a step up on most of the people I work with.

    AJH - Now you tell me! Rollicking is my specialty. I’ve even been known to give a “bollocking” when roused.

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