Happy Days

Coming into some good head-space at the moment - final assignments cleared, tenders fnished etc.

Friday: First run - 8 x 80m on grass + 2 x 1.5k walk run. Very slow - hips tight but no injuries - happy

Saturday: 60min (modest) intervals on bike + (some) swimming.

Sunday: 61k in 1:38. Pumping like crazy - quite fried afterwards

Diet improving (generally)

No injuries. Health good. Happy days

Simple stuff for 6 weeks

After aborting kick-off to finish essays and a bout of the seasonal respiratory/sinus infection, I’ve finally got some time to restart this thing properly.

31 weeks to go.

6 weeks plan – really simple:

Ø  I’m fat - Get weight to 86

o   Sensible eating plan has started

Ø  I’m fragile

o   Small/easy sessions often

o   Massage

o   Anti-inflammatory foods

When Annabel Crabb saved a whole election coverage

Weight : 89.4 Here we come
Achilles: Smooth as. Can't wait to give them a burst.
Head Space: Lively
Rating for the week: 2

Back on the bike for 30min of spinning last night. Not much, but at least the door has been unlocked again. All good.

What exactly was the highlight of the election coverage? Some people may have missed it, especially since it lasted less than a full second, the lime it takes to say a single word, potentially even smothered by the sound of a single bite of pizza.

Anyone not watching the ABC’s coverage would have missed it completely, but right in the middle of an ‘ad hoc’ piece of conversation, Annabel Crabb dropped “egregious”. She did her best to act as if it just rolled straight from the super-highway of her most recently resonating neural pathways to her lips, but everyone tuning in knew that she had brought that word along in the kit-bag and was just searching for an opportunity to throw it in. Sent me scurrying for the iPad, and apparently it is “conspicuously bad or offensive”.

Obviously Annabel knew in advance that something during the election was going to be conspicuously bad or offensive, even if its just a rehashed reference to a pollie with his penis in a glass. Clearly that’s egregious.

Which makes me wonder, what is the world’s greatest word?

Ø  Foppish, meaning Hugh Grant

Ø  Masticate, simply for the fun of it.

Ø  Mindfulness, just because I like it.

Ø  Kakistocracy, meaning the NRL Commission

One day there’ll be a definitive list, and egregious will be a starter for sure.

Busco in the morning

WEIGHT: 89.8

ACHILLES: Perfect – though entirely unused

HEAD SPACE: Filled with snot

RATING FOR THE WEEK: 1

Board meeting early in the week followed by a week of the flu so no training this week. Final assignment for the year due 20^th Sept so another week and a bit of faffing about - Quite longing to get my boat wet again and drag the MTB up the hill a few times.

Loving Busco on SWRFM (Blacktown community radio) during the morning commute. I think he is the only dude with a paid permanent on-air position, and the others slots are a bit sketchy, but Busco seems to have that polymath / hipster combo thing going on, with a good range of music.

In the mean-time my head will be stuck up the collective freckles of Keith Windschuttle and Henry Reynolds and how the relatively scant documentation of historical “facts” in relation to white settlement in Australia provide such a fruitful forum for the academics and media commentators to build their own profile through agendas derived from left / right dogma rather than any genuine attempt to deliver better outcomes for indigenous people.

Pure, hateful, self-indulgent, fuck-the-consequences dogma.