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Tuesday Jul 5, 2016 #
7 AM
Run 1:01:00 [3] 11.0 km (5:33 / km)
A somewhat uninspired morning run before the rain started in earnest. Got out to the hills on the Kew side; handled the hills vaguely respectably (at least the back was OK).
Got the train into work this morning and was standing on the platform next to a family heading into town during school holidays, with a boy and girl of about 11 and 8 respectively. My first hint that they might be somewhat atypical of their demographic came by virtue of the fact that his book was 'The Legal System in Australia' and hers was one I didn't see the title of but was a couple of centimetres thick with reasonably small print, then he was joined at the next stop by a friend of around the same age and they started talking - the finer points of the election results. I was only too happy to join this conversation and spent the rest of the trip discussing the finer points of the geography of Batman booth results and expected trends in late counting in Flynn and Capricornia with a couple of specimens of my 1983 self. You don't really expect to encounter election nerds on the train, and you certainly don't expect to encounter a pair of 11-year-old election nerds (although I wasn't sure how useful it would be to bring up analogues from past campaigns with people whose only potential involvement in the Kevin '07 campaign might have been as potentially kissable babies).
Got the train into work this morning and was standing on the platform next to a family heading into town during school holidays, with a boy and girl of about 11 and 8 respectively. My first hint that they might be somewhat atypical of their demographic came by virtue of the fact that his book was 'The Legal System in Australia' and hers was one I didn't see the title of but was a couple of centimetres thick with reasonably small print, then he was joined at the next stop by a friend of around the same age and they started talking - the finer points of the election results. I was only too happy to join this conversation and spent the rest of the trip discussing the finer points of the geography of Batman booth results and expected trends in late counting in Flynn and Capricornia with a couple of specimens of my 1983 self. You don't really expect to encounter election nerds on the train, and you certainly don't expect to encounter a pair of 11-year-old election nerds (although I wasn't sure how useful it would be to bring up analogues from past campaigns with people whose only potential involvement in the Kevin '07 campaign might have been as potentially kissable babies).