Posts by Damian Christie
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Oh, and Melbourne was great thanks, I'll be blogging about it shortly... and Indonesia... I just had to get the Movember blog out first.
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Yeah Gabor, I agree completely. I recently bought a new bike for exactly that reason - well that and the fact that by biking you get the benefit of incorporating fitness with transport. I can bike to work instead of scootering - and while it's humanly possible I suppose, I can't imagine ever running 10km to work and then home again at the end of the day.
I think the long(ish) distance running will end with this half marathon. But who knows.
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The bursitis is a symptom of undertraining.
Ironically Edward, in this case it isn't. Whatever happened to it (and I'm still not sure), happened during a very casual short run, which was supposed to be the first run of my 14 week training regime. I ran slowly for about 20 minutes, and towards the end noticed I was limping a bit. The next morning I could barely walk.
At the time I was receiving physio for a problem with the bursa in both my shoulders (caused by overtraining at the gym during my detox), so there was a bit of concern it might have been something systemic. Apparently it's not though, and the heel is okay again, but my shoulders are still a bit twingy, quite a few months on...
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simon g: good point but isn't Obama one of them muslims? Don't they revere facial hair?
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Thanks for the advice Grant and Edward.
Grant, duly noted about the carbs and brekky.
Edward, I take your point, but I think if that particular injury was going to flare up again it'd do it after the 10km. if I can already do 11km without any problems, I'd rather push it a little than do the quarter. And I definitely want to run over the harbour bridge. But I'll certainly walk if things get too hard.
...and you certainly get gloating rights if I'm proven wrong.
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Can people overseas access TVNZ online as I posted a link for the 7 Worlds Collide doco on a list and they couldn't access it in the states?
Nah, they can't.
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If 120,000 people want a party represented in Parliament, they get it, but if 115,000 voters want a different party they're extremists?
Any threshold is arbitrary. Actually, the whole thing is pretty arbitrary really isn't it? You know... life.
Isn't the only reason the tail gets to wag the dog so much, whether here or in Israel, is because the major parties are so power hungry that they'll sacrifice any proportionate negotiating power rather than say "fuck it, go to t he other party then, see if I care" and risk not holding the reins.
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so it wouldn't be ACT, United Future, and the Progressives so much as Rodney Hide, Peter Dunne, and Jim Anderton, all on their not-very-powerful lonesomes.
Um, Dunne and Anderton are already, aren't they? Which really just makes this is an argument to get rid of the Act party... and I realise how appealing that will be to most PA readers - just confirming your point George!
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The show was pre-recorded and they did a retake. The clip only turned up on TV later as a blooper.
Andrew - Yeah, I saw Jase at the Qantas awards and he said he'd seen it, and told me the same story, although he said he wasn't completely sure whether it had aired originally... I love the fact that even though it was pre-recorded, rather than cut it just kept on going for as long as it did. Which probably added to the urban legend "do you remember the day when..." - Nice to have someone who was there commenting too, thanks!
I finally realise, nearly 30 years after the fact, that they're doing a car-rental variant of The Pointer Sisters' 'Fire'.
Danielle - I know... isn't it great!?
RB - do you know who the singers are and just teasing us, or wondering who's out there?
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Damian Christie interview Ruth and Paul of Minuit about their new album, Find Me Before I Die A Lonely Death.com. Listen to find details of how you can contribute to their new music video with your own picture...