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 [...]

nasty, brutish, and short

Don’t worry, I’m not referring to Grant Denyer who, though undeniably short, doesn’t seem terribly brutish. Actually, I think a touch of nastiness might help him - it might balance out the smarmy-gittishness in him.

Anyway, moving on. Today’s blog title has very little to do with light entertainment personalities of any description, instead it’s as [...]

good stuff

Last night was a rare and precious thing. To be precise, it was the run I did last night was the beautiful thing: it started strong and finished stronger.
I should have guessed I was in for a pearler when my MP3 player, set to shuffle, kicked off the proceedings with “Fire in the head” [...]

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 [...]

up before the dawn

It’s been a couple of days since I last posted so I had to go refresh my memory. (What’s it all about?) It appears after much soul-searching I came to the conclusion that I run because I like it.
Wow! That’s the kinda stuff that draws in the readers. It’s profound on so many levels. Insightful; [...]

what’s it all about?

I wrote something this morning over there at the Ausrun forum, on a post Clarkey started called “Introducing…”.
It was all about stuff like “Why did you start running?” “What do you like about it?” and “how much training do you do?”, that sort of stuff. I, dutifully, filled the thing out and clicked “publish”.
Simple.
The thing [...]

vegie runs

“Vegie run” - the term is fairly new to me. I gather it refers to a sort of training run you might do where you just amble along at around snail-pace, making any nearby tortoises feel good about themselves and never lifting the heart rate above “induced-coma”. (I don’t have a Garmin, but I would [...]

technical difficulties

I did a run this morning and at the time I thought it was pretty gosh-darn impressive. Clearly, not as impressive as my Anderson Street escapade earlier in the week, but pretty good nonetheless.
So I mapped it all out on mapmyrun.com, as you do. I then thought I’d have a stab at inserting the map [...]