pantai kuta

i wish i was here right now.
[dont you reckon its really annoying when people try to show just how 'international' they are by throwing uncommon foreign words into sentences, especially in titles]
[btw paintai = beach in indonesian]

may 31 movement

and finally for today
if you are in melbourne on may 31 go to melbourne museum and join the movement movement for a 5km (!) jog through the exhibition space. sounds like FUN!

m1

i opted for single speed, with back brakes and sensible tyres. those without are kind of dangerous when I am the driver.

14.14km later

i survived the run. it wasnt a record breaking time, but the good news is that i didn’t get to ‘eye of the tiger’ which i had lined up in my ipod for that moment when my body was screaming no and the finish line was not yet in sight.
i found that merengue tunes are good for running to, as they [...]

carlton fc – what’s good about it?

so katy has just become an australian citizen. and in doing so she needed an afl team to get behind. being a regular to  the princess park running track, it seemed only natural then that carlton fc become ‘her team’.
even though i know little about carlton, i do know a couple of things. namely: the [...]

6 sleeps to the ‘fun’ run

have yet to train the full distance [14km - i know - not 'that' far - but it is for me]. i am afraid that i will get halfway through the burnley tunnel and the event will end, leaving me stranded in the tunnel with big trucks and other dangerous vehicles in my path.
still need [...]

bells, take III

easter long weekend coming up and i now have my own ’surfbetty’ thanks to ebay and TNT. its down to torquay for the third consecutive week, and the rip curl pro has just begun, which i am pretty psyched about. surrounded by such surfing royalty as kelly, taj (he’s from WA down south),mick and andy it’s [...]

double pluggers

the double plugger had totally escaped my mind until this week, when it came up quite casually in two  conversations. determined to reconnect with a fading memory i searched the web until i found a worthy double plugger image. 
having grown up by the beach, i get quite nostalgic when it comes to things like cheap synthetic footwear.  [...]

a runner’s world diet

because i am now a serious runner i went through our library catalogue and reserved every single running book that had running in the title or subject. 
so now i am fast learning the theory and psychology of runners and running. according to runner’s world  complete book of running everything you need to know to run for [...]

a writer on running

I found this 2005 Haruki Murakami interview from Runner’s World, which shall act as inspiration for 2008 the year of running not working marathons.
My favourite Murakami quote in the piece:
There was this one time when I tried a 100K ultramarathon, I was tempted to listen to Mozart’s Magic Flute from the beginning to the end, but I gave up [...]