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 [...]

philosophy

In retrospect, Sunday’s post was an unnecessarily petulant, foul-mouthed display, which should and could be avoided. If I was thinking properly I would have realised I didn’t do that badly considering:

I hadn’t done anywhere near enough hill training and
the longest run I’d done was just over 2 hours

Still, it was disappointing to finish a run [...]

train-wreck

I was going to describe my first attempt at Maroondah Dam 30km this morning as a “car-crash”, but that’s clearly inadequate. Car crashes aren’t nice by any means but, unless the Blues Brothers are involved, they usually only involve minor carnage. This was more than minor.
So, train-wreck it was.
I enjoyed the first 600 [...]

not so grand prix

A rare and uncharacteristic burst of common sense from Melbourne’s “King of Major Events”, Ron Walker:
Maybe it’s, you know, ended its usefulness to the state of Victoria and we should move on,” Mr Walker said of the grand prix yesterday.
I’m not sure how it ever qualified as “useful”, but that’s me. The only thing in [...]