2008/09 - Winter

[Sweder]

OK, well perhaps your calf is telling you not to do any more damage and get it sorted, which is wise council in the long term.

Noakes - I'm stoked (to use the current youthful venacular) about Noakes.
I too did some dipping last night - all the while Jaques Tati's Les Vacances de M. Hulot playing in the background, much to the cackled amusement of the Grannies. I flitted between the two, astonished that Tati had preceeded Mr Bean by some 40 years (and that no-one to my knowledge has ever pointed out Rowan Atkinsons' blatant act of plagerism in creating the lucrative if incredibly annoying Bean), and amazed at the content of Lore. There are fascinating chapters in there. I 'm keen to get into the meat of heat exhaustion (definitely something I'm well aqcainted with after TOM), carb loading on the hoof and fluid intake on distance runs.

The claim by Jackie Mekler, that during one 90 kilometre Comrades race he took his first drink of anything at 60 kms, left me slack-jawed. He won that race by the way. There appears to be a lot to be gained from picking Mr Noakes' brain, even if some of the scientific stuff may as well be written in the language of the Aztecs.

Good luck tomorrow. You're doing it right; I've no doubt your new-found fitness and resolve will get you through this challenge.