What a 'orrible day. I woke up to 25 degrees and 100% humidity. In
fact, I spent most of the night awake in bed -- not stressing about
getting to sleep like usual, since that usually results in you staying
awake -- nope, just too 'orrible to sleep.
And the Melb rain radar movie showed, and still shows, 7 hours later,
a very dense rain band moving parallel to its um... direction... So
the formation basically stays covering the same part of south west
port phillip bay, permanently. When I left, the rain was due to miss
me by a few km, and indeed, I got barely wet, except for the fog on my
glasses.
Met the usual suspects, with most of us turning up inexplicably 15
minutes early -- probably all had the same sleeping troubles I did.
I had had a rest week -- I felt [censored] after Sunday (you know, I put a
lot of effort into that beach visit, while silly people were off
climbing alpine regions!), had cramps til the middle of the week, and
then started feeling fine after Wednesday. Lots of eat, lots of rest.
So I was feeling quite well, and up the Kangaroo ground climb, spent
the first half holding onto Gag's wheel, until he blew up, then sort
of shared with Ashley (he did most of the work, so I overtook him just
this side of the final hill, the [censored] that I am). And ended up
beating my PB by 55 seconds -- 13:08. The lama claims that's not a PB
if you are drafting someone, but I claim its all phsycological when
you are going up a hill, unless you are playing lama style silly
buggers, and averaging on 30 -- that's when the handy wind break in
front of you does some work.
Overall, I also got a PB in terms of average speed. 29.08km/h --
usually I seem to be getting 26 or 27 (um, come to think of it, this
is BC1600 values of "average" -- dunno what the real one was). So
proof that [censored] weather makes you better.
Topped the day off by going to work, hoping for shower and air
conditioner, but found that in my process of emptying my wallet (got
to save 200gms!), I didn't include my access card (or keys to my room,
for that matter) in the pile to take with me. Home, boring home then.
Hey Derek, got that link to your sunglasses?
--
TimC
All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical
chemists know it.
-- Richard P. Feynman