Training Log Archive: inuksuk

Up to the stream... getting the most of summer before we head south.

6x100m pretty cruisy -- just testing the legs out.

Drills -- concentrating on alignment and posture

cool down

Another run around the lower forest behind uni and across to the creek for a quick swim.

Around the lower forest behind uni and across to the creek for another wade around.

Back home. Just a bit of dull pain.

Lara seems entirely unconvinced that the kitchen table is an ideal exercise device -- surprsingly even less convinced than she was of me using the freezer for keeping spider samples.

Which actually reminds me... On my walk to work the other day, I discovered a not-yet-fully weaned rat in the middle of the footpath. It was motionless; its eyes were partially closed; and it was curled up in the direct sun in what would at ground-level have been some pretty torturous temperatures. So, as you do, I picked it up, and with ill-conceived intentions, put it in my shirt pocket. I looked around and couldn't see any sign of a parent or even a willing predator, so I headed to the lab, thinking maybe some of the students might like to have a look before trying to decide on a fate for the poor animal. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised to find a particular student overly keen on the rat, as he directed me to his new collection of live, mostly venomous, snakes he’d gathered from CangShan and around the university, and keeping in cartons in our lab… I was pretty impressed – I told him in a few choice words that I thought his finds completely trumped mine, and then when recounting the story to Lara, fully neglected to mention from where they came. Sometimes, I think, ecology labs are real darn close to circus shows. We only just got the pheasants out of the foyer a few weeks ago.

C • What happened the the ratli... 2

Well that was something. Coming back off the state sponsored communication blackout for universities in the peasant provinces has been a welcome relief. The last week or so we've been graciously afforded up to ten minutes each day outside .cn before your computer would crash; before that radio silence. Anyway, it seems the settling of faroff social unrest has reached some apparently acceptable threshold of conflict and anarchy; the monks seem happy enough in the pictures I've seen; and the culpable driver has been sentenced to death. I hear: they're selling postcards of the hanging...

C • phproxy org may be of use. ... 2

Behind uni with La. She cut off to go have a much more interesting run up the hill, while I headed to the river for a soak. Our little swimming hole has swollen to a thundering torrent...

Down the hill - glad to be pain-free.