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The Dojo blog hits 100 posts. This is a fun blog, forever in the shadow of the Brisbane Ultimate Blog to be sure, but while we do our best to maintain some sort of diplomatic statespersonship, Sensei calls it as he sees it, even if a possible subheading for the work is 'let's bag everyone else, especially the BPL TD (bless him), while we talk ourselves up and maintain a persecution complex'. Hmm, did we say we only try our best over here? But seriously, well done, particularly since most of the posts are substantial, rather than some of the guff we post (but then, we do aim for 'mostly daily'). And it was UQ Passion with the persecution complex after all.
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Meanwhile our spies report that a bunch of the Heroes Ultimate Club went in last weekend's Bridge to Brisbane. The stats below may give the Slamtown some tips for who's fit and who ain't for their game tonight:
Chris Brown DOMINATED the club results at 00:47:33 (a good 6 seconds aheadYou go, Mansauce. At least we can be confident you were chatting to chicks.
of the runner up Pete Allen). Closely followed by Gavin Croft at 00:49:12, and the bearded Brown brother at 00:50:21 (in my book,qualifies for a RED runner next year). Leading the second half of theroster is Michael Strelan at 00:56:23, and a very close competition between Miss Laura Sonter and Craig Behrendorff at 00:57:05/ 00:57:45respectively. Your 2IC (I have the number 2 jersey for a reason) [edit - that's Sean there] enjoyed the leisurely pace of 01:02:23 (twenty seconds slower than Iwould have liked), with Adam Baker behind me at 01:06:50 and Mansauce spending too much time chatting and not enough time running to come in at 01:26:12."
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Elsewhere, there's new research, this time from the USA Track and Field gang suggesting that stretching is a waste of time, and you should just be throwing you fool.
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Mixed Nats 2010 has a website!
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Also, we figure we should share a tip with photographers out there. We here at the Brisbane Ultimate Blog figure that getting photos of the teams is a simple way to record history. Your grandchildren playing for Gold Medals at the Astrolympics will be able to search for you and all that. But its always been a bit of a challenge to get decent ones, and quickly when some players don't give a shite. But the team shots at Halibut seemed to come out better than usual. Why you may ask? This time around, we stumbled upon the best way to get half the team to make the front row and half make the back row. "Women in the front and lads at the back, please" worked very well for a mixed tournament, but easily you could have "O team in front and D team at the back" or something like that. This saved several minutes of the usual fumbling around, and made for relatively balanced and tidy shots. Next step - get the back row to move slightly right or left to centre up.
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Finally, yesterday was Jack Lilwall's birthday!
7 comments:
Yeah, like the 1728th runner up ;) Running 10km in under 30mins is crazy talk. I know some people who would struggle to ride a bike that fast for 10km. It was really good to see a couple of teams running the event and actually meeting up afterwards (heroes and hammertime?), my team (Team Hatch) ran in the same shirts but that was it. Although credit to my training partner, who did it 42mins from the back of the green section, b@$^ard
Its crap that Jack's birthday barely rates a mention. He's awesome. You used to do birthdays all the time before you sold out, BUBlog.
It Pete Allen really a member of Heroes? How does he square this away with chumping around for the Dojo? Can he be trusted by anyone?
Yeah, Anonanonanon is right, not really part of the club. Never played a game for them...yet.
Well' he's signed onto Heroes for Lovefest, so it's only a matter of time.
And we're not picky.
...Clearly.
Thanks for mentioning the stretching thing - waste of time indeed. The evidence base it is non-existent and the sooner people realise that the better.
It seems that what's most important is simply getting your body warmed up, for which evidence does exist, and having a routine that you stick by.
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