the waiting is over

A short post again today, as you might imagine I have a couple of things to do.
Team JH has a new member as of about 12:15am this morning. However, I don’t imagine Matilda will be up to much in the way of running for a while, as she’s only about 50cm long and tends [...]

good luck chuck

It’s been some time since last I posted, three days I think, during which time I’ve attended to the great questions of our time: is the globe really warming, should we boycott the Olympics, why Jessica Alba agreed to be in “Good Luck Chuck” and of course: whether one can grammatically include two colons in [...]

poor me

I was going to write some sort of review or response to the Wayne Carey interview on Denton last night, but I’m not sure there’s any point. If you’re interested, you probably saw it yourself and can make up your own mind. If you didn’t watch it, there’s a chance you gave it a miss [...]

gardening, running, kids, earth hour

I’ve pretty much ruined my chances of a fast Run for the kids time by spending today doing the “g” word (gardening). Our front lawn, never the most impressive lawns at the best of times, has been at death’s door for the past two summers. We decided to put it out of its misery, so [...]

it ain’t pretty, but…

I could never be bothered shaving on the morning of a race. There doesn’t seem any point making myself presentable. I mean, look at this, from Monday’s run…

No amount of shaving’s going to make that look good! The photographers at SC races normally make a point of looking elsewhere when I approach. I applaud their [...]

10km pb at burnley

I decided last night to run the Sri Chinmoy run at Burnley after eating a million hot cross buns the previous day and consequently feeling fairly flabby and evil.
I made it there by about 7:30, just in time to register, stand in line for 10 minutes for a pre-race bog and then jog up and [...]

up before the dawn again

It’s getting to become a bit of a habit - this rising in pitch-blackness thing. I both love and loathe it. The loathe bit’s obvious: sleep is the most precious pleasure known to man, to be savoured and protected at all costs.
On the other hand, when you actually make it out the door, there’s [...]

god’s truth

There seems to be some misconception amongst you lot about my post yesterday, in which I said something along the lines of:
Julia Gillard: there’s something about her…
Now, it’s true I may have embellished the truth slightly, as I am wont to do, but as they say in the classics, many a true word spoken in [...]