Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Not altogether convincing and think I would have found anything more demanding a challenge, but got around this, through the top end of Yarra Bend and out to Westgarth. Giving everyone a wide berth; runners haven't had a great press in the letters columns the last couple of days. (One of the less edifying features of recent times is that it's given lots of people carte blanche to publicly unload on anyone else who's Not Like Them, whether it's old people on young people, country people on city people - the Corangamite councillor who referred to Melbourne people as "spreaders of death" was a particular lowlight - or everyone else on the Chinese).

I'm currently making my way through a book on 1001 days that changed the world, and have got as far as the Roman defeat in 9 AD in the Teutoberger Wald in northern Germany. This was commemorated by the construction of a very large statue (a.k.a. "Hermann the German") which will probably be remembered by anyone who was at WOC 1995 (especially the long distance finalists - ranks I didn't quite manage to join - who started next to it).