The Orange

I can walk.

Just.

All the muscles in my upper legs hurt.

My brain hurts when I think about what’s hurting.

I am tired and I ache when I sleep.

And it’s a fun run????

Sunday morning is for golf or sleep.

So what do I do this morning?

Out of bed at 8.30 and off to run 7k around the Wellington bays.

It’s a fun run.  Yeah right.

In the end, I break 40 minutes which was my goal.  My butt was kicked by my 13 year old daughter but I’m hardly an athlete.

Anyway, it’s all over now.  I hope to be walking again in a week or so …

Tomorrow is the Wellington Round the Bays fun run.

Fun and run go together like hammer and thumb.

You run because you have to – to escape, to score a try, to get into the lift so you don’t have to take the stairs.

Fun is what the couch is for.

I need to save my energy for tomorrow …

“Woeful Aussies”

 Aussies limp to new low

10 wicket drubbing

Black day for Aussies

They’ll be in real trouble if we can ever get our team (w)right and not brace-well!

I’m sorry to be a non-believer but I still can’t get excited about the Super 14 starting this early in the year.

We’re still in the middle of the cricket season and for most of us, summer has only just arrived.

To be honest, because I can’t be that bothered right now, it doesn’t bug me that the NZ teams don’t have THE annointed 22.

It did bother me when the Canes lost to the Reds.

However, after the Canes deservedly beat the Indians (too many Indians and not enough Chiefs!) I was happy to let the selectors rest a few more.

This weekend sees the Aussies (with not quite 22 players rested) playing the Black Craps and the Caketin on Friday night then the Canes take on the Blues on Saturday night.

If they’d really planned it, they could have played the first innings, then moved the stumps and played the S14 game, then played the second innings under lights.

It would at least ensure one NZ team wins!

Having asked for a bit of competition on the way to strolling to victory in the VB Bank Uni-series plus two other teams, the Aussies are struggling to come to grips with reality.

Foxsports cricket blog – add your thoughts while you’re at it

Oh dear, how sad, nevermind.

Perhaps Sweet Lou Vincent had a point after all?

OK … it’s been a week or two since the Superbowl but I am catching up.

American Football (they don’t like calling it gridiron) is something of an acquired taste.

Having said that, you could say that about most types of footy with the exception of soccer .. err, football.

The boot-iful game is pretty simple and the most complex rule would be the off side rule.

By comparison, American football and the derivatives we are more familiar with tend to be a lot more complex.  While we may shake our heads at AFL and NRL, they do likewise trying to understand some of the arcane rules.  Try explaining to someone why a scrum needs to be reset after the ball has already popped out!

NFL is brutal.  Make no bones about it. (Geddit??)

But it is also surprisingly strategic – a game of chess played by fridgerators on legs is a pretty good description.

Like league, possession is the key – in fact more so than even league.

The conditions for the Superbowl – rain and lots of it – made possession even more difficult than normal.

The fact that the pre-game focussed on the colour of the skins of the coaches took about some of the focus on the actual footy.

Mind you, when did the All Black coach last have a brown face?

It’s a bit of a worry when you find you’re reusing titles.

I suppose you can get used to certain headlines:

• All Blacks Win
• Black Caps are Crap
• Knights/Kingz Lose

However, it is a worry when I find out it’s not the first time of done the blogging equivalent of AWOL.

If I had a reader (singular, I’m not getting greedy here) I would have lost them … err, him or her. And it’s been a little while since the last post and a few things have been happening that I should have, could have blogged about.

Anyway, I’m back.

And so are the Poms.

England Wins a Cricket Game

That’s a headline.

England Wins Four ODI’s in a Row

That’s a miracle.

England Beats Aussies in Final.

That’s … priceless.