sweat and Leonard Cohen

I have a bizarre, some would say unreasonable, aversion to losing more than 7 percent of my bodyweight in sweat at any one time. Call me crazy.
On weeks like this one here in Melbourne, this tends to limit the amount of running I can do. The long-range weather forecast reads like an infernal tale of [...]

I’m melting

Hot weather sucks the big one, not to put too fine a point on it.
There’s absolutely nothing to be said in favour of it. You can’t run to any great degree (although I note some people don’t seem to realise this) and you can’t really do any gardening. The lists of things you can’t do [...]

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 [...]

uy que calor!

Oh man it’s hot….Yes, if you were wondering, that picture is of melting tarmac…… No, that’s not my glove.
I hate the heat.

feeling queezy

It was a decidedly ordinary weekend, this one just passed. Everyone in Melbourne suddenly had the experience of being a pack-and-a-half-a-day smoker, whether they liked it or not.
Now I used to be a pretty heavy smoker, and even back then I don’t recall being quite as short of breath. Then again, I probably didn’t ever [...]