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Tuesday Nov 29, 2016 #
8 AM
Swimming 36:00 [2] 1.0 km (36:00 / km)
Reasonably standard swim at Fitzroy after a false start because my goggles strap had loosened. Steady pace throughout. Felt a bit sleepy before the start but fine once going.
And then it was almost deja vu - a near-identical incident to last Thursday's (although at a different intersection, Rathdowne and Victoria this time), but this time ending in a near-miss with the car suddenly changing lanes to try to get around a blocked intersection. (Part of the reason for the gridlock, as it turned out, was that a few hundred metres away another cyclist had gone under a truck). It is illegal in Victoria (and probably all other states) to enter an intersection you can't clear, and the penalty is a not-to-be-sneezed-at $466, but this must be the state's least-enforced law - I've never seen anyone booked for it. (If they cared to enforce this law, at $466 a pop I expect the police could raise a six-figure sum for the state's coffers in a single morning at any major CBD intersection).
Had another session with the physio tonight, including my first taste of needles for a few years. This is apparently nothing to be alarmed about. Shuffling a bit afterwards but not as tight or as painful post-session as I recall from many such sessions in the 2000s.
And I regularly give out brickbats for sloppy wording in the media, so kudos to the Herald-Sun for putting "allegedly" in the right place in a story that started "A Reservoir great-grandfather killed allegedly by his 90-year-old neighbour....". (Too often, you'd see "allegedly killed", but that fact that he was killed was not in dispute). Latest news, however, is that the police no longer consider it suspicious.
And then it was almost deja vu - a near-identical incident to last Thursday's (although at a different intersection, Rathdowne and Victoria this time), but this time ending in a near-miss with the car suddenly changing lanes to try to get around a blocked intersection. (Part of the reason for the gridlock, as it turned out, was that a few hundred metres away another cyclist had gone under a truck). It is illegal in Victoria (and probably all other states) to enter an intersection you can't clear, and the penalty is a not-to-be-sneezed-at $466, but this must be the state's least-enforced law - I've never seen anyone booked for it. (If they cared to enforce this law, at $466 a pop I expect the police could raise a six-figure sum for the state's coffers in a single morning at any major CBD intersection).
Had another session with the physio tonight, including my first taste of needles for a few years. This is apparently nothing to be alarmed about. Shuffling a bit afterwards but not as tight or as painful post-session as I recall from many such sessions in the 2000s.
And I regularly give out brickbats for sloppy wording in the media, so kudos to the Herald-Sun for putting "allegedly" in the right place in a story that started "A Reservoir great-grandfather killed allegedly by his 90-year-old neighbour....". (Too often, you'd see "allegedly killed", but that fact that he was killed was not in dispute). Latest news, however, is that the police no longer consider it suspicious.