camelback is go

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 [...]

restraint in exercise

I’m not one of those runners who obsess about their weight, or looks or health, other than wanting to be healthy enough to run. I probably only weigh myself once or twice a year - only really when I shower at my mother-in-law’s. She has a set of scales in the bathroom.
I was over there [...]

boxing

Oooooh baby, was that a grumpy post or what? It’s amazing what a boring day at work, the flu and 4 days off running will do to a person.
Thankfully, as I pen this humble missive, the grumpiness, like Christmas itself - there’s a strange coincidence - is more or less over.
We contrived, somehow, to spend [...]

britney spears, no knickers

I’m trying a little bit of an experiment, based on this article: Aussies think knickerless Britney is pretty flash .
Apparently the most searched-for topic on the Australian bit of the web was about Britney Spears sans briefs. Strange folks. Very strange. Having seen the film clip for her latest song “gimme more” in which she [...]

ouch

I’m always happy to chew the fat with JoJo, the world-renowned blogger behind runjanerun, particularly when she’s in this sort of mood: uh-oh drunk pussycat.
Sadly, I wasn’t able to answer her question on Saturday night, owing to having other things to do….
Anyway, she expressed a desire to hear more about my whacking-the-elbow-and-writhing-around-in-pain incident from Friday. [...]

good stuff

As I wrote on Andrew’s blog the other day, I’m really enjoying running at the moment. It’s nice to run just for the pleasure of the thing, and without that sense of dread and panic a marathon always gives you.
It helps that 42.195k at just over 4 minute ks seems to have done something to [...]

iphones and sleep

This story is a bit sad eh? ….
Greg Packer, the first man in line at Apple’s flagship store in New York is now the proud owner of a 4GB iPhone. But because he hasn’t signed up to a plan, the phone lies dormant.
Packer, who we interviewed last week shortly after he began his 109-hour vigil [...]

I need a drink

Yes, I’m not alone in that. The whole of Melbourne, the whole of VICTORIA, is drier than a dead dingo’s donger. And that’s dry.
Luckily our political lords and masters, far-seeing and omnipotent people that they are, have come up with a super-dooper plan to make sure we don’t all die of parchedness. Yes, we’re going [...]