Thursday 2 April 2009

April in Paris

Posted by speedygeoff on Thursday, April 02, 2009 with
"A thief broke into the local police station and stole all the toilets and urinals, leaving no clues. A spokesperson was quoted as saying, 'We have absolutely nothing to go on'."
Thanks Strewth, that will be all.

Alan Duus
Come on admit it - you noticed Alan Duus first.

This blog has been decorated with some good photos, don't you think? I have also completed other improvements - a new icon as you would have noticed, and changes to various links and labels. Thanks to Ewen for hosting a couple of files I needed for these changes.

One of the new links I have just added to the side-bar via Google Reader is to a blog named "Younger Legs for Older Runners" at http://petemagill.blogspot.com/ - this is a brilliant blog, great content, great presentation, and should be on everyone's "following" list. In any case it is now linked from here, and I may extract quotes and links from it from time to time. The author often updates twice daily, so there is always something new to read. A must for masters athletes! Thanks to Ewen again for discovering this blog.

Today’s quote from the “Younger Legs” blog:
"If you do everything you can to combat the cold -- rest, fluids, vitamins, medicines, chicken soup -- the cold will go away in about a week. If you do nothing to treat the symptoms, the cold will last about seven days." - unknown, as related by Dr. George Sheehan to Joe Henderson

April in Adelaide
Forty-six ACT Athletes are competing in the AMA Nationals at Easter. I have derived the following list of names from the official program. The event count includes "multi events" which i have counted only once, and does not include any relays some will be running. Close to the time I will post more detail - times and event details for every ACT entrant.
Speedygeese of course have a yellow highlight.

35007 Ellis-Brownlee, Rachelle W36 4 events
35019 Osborn, Brad M35 12 events
40019 Forestier, Katie W43 4 events
40055 Walker, Amanda W41 4 events
45019 Graham, Bruce M47 3 events
45021 Hanley, Peter M45 3 events
45022 Hardy, Jayne W46 6 events
45041 Masters, Carol W47 4 events
45047 Muell, Matthew M46 8 events
50008 Crumpton, Geoff M54 6 events
50029 Kennedy, Leo M51 3 events
50039 Morton, John M50 5 events
50042 Palmer, Denise W51 6 events
50043 Parker, John M51 7 events
50044 Pilkington, Roger M50 4 events
55014 Burden, Noeline W55 9 events
55040 Lamb, John M59 2 events
55054 Rossiter, Maureen W58 6 events
55058 Sims, Kathy W57 4 events
55066 White, Ken M55 4 events
60002 Banens, Robert M60 6 events
60008 Chamberlain, Kevin M62 2 events
60022 Green, Ray M64 6 events
60031 Maher, Garry M62 7 events
60036 Moore, Geoff M60 4 events
60051 Sims, Geoff M60 3 events
60053 Taylor, Margaret W61 8 events
65002 Banens, Janice W67 6 events
65013 Glover, Clive M68 3 events
65038 Rudov, Raylea W65 5 events
65050 Thomas, Bryan M67 5 events
70012 Collins, Cory W72 5 events
70037 Schmidt, Joyce W73 5 events
70042 Wahren, Mary W74 5 events
70044 Young, Anne W73 4 events
80004 Gleeson, Gwen W80 3 events