Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Had thought of going outside but the weather was miserable (and the colleague's bike I was planning to borrow had some mechanical issues), so instead this was a stationary bike in the basement, something about as exciting as it sounds. Worked decently hard, though - always feel like I'm working a bit harder in a session like this than I am on the road (unless it's particularly hilly). Seemed to warm up progressively through the session.

Victoria isn't the only place going to the polls this weekend; it's referendum time in Switzerland again. The most exotic one, and the one that's most likely to get up, is a proposal for government payments to cows with horns - apparently this is an animal welfare measure to encourage farmers not to cut them off. A proposal to weaken privacy laws to make it easier for investigators for the Swiss equivalent of Centrelink to spy on their clients is somewhat surprisingly in with a chance, while likely to go down is a proposal to give primacy to Swiss judges over international law (which would have probably the effect of forcing Swiss withdrawal from such bodies as the European Court of Human Rights), which is getting support from the sort of groups you'd expect to support something like this. (It's interesting that Swiss voters vote for right-wing populist MPs in numbers greater than almost anywhere else in Europe, but don't usually vote for right-wing populist referenda, unless they involve immigration).