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Interactive Interweb

So joined this internet radio station last.fm and it rocks. My sister is on it too. And so I have added a list of my top played tracks on the right. Might be interesting, maybe, maybe not.

Was at student nationals last weekend, it rocked. My uni team Skunks came third in the 2nd Division. Which whilst not being the top division of student ultimate, was still an awesome result as the level of ultimate in the eight years I have been a student has risen considerably. We had a small squad of ten players, of mixed abilities but equal enthusiasim. Rock.

The only downside was a cricket player (from Southampton Uni) called it "ultimate gay", cos ultimate frisbee is a gay sport. I am not fussed about the use of gay to mean rubbish, loser etc, but why do people react in this way to frisbee being played as seven a side team sport. Are they afraid of it as it is something different? It is a childish playground insult to a un-offenisve sport. I don't go around calling cricket gay, football gay, rugby gay.

Anyways, Southampton lost the cricket to Cardiff Uni I think (it is not up on their website yet) this made me happy too.

The finest sports club in Wessex, fuck off.

Rooting around the interweb...

Check out the fixed bikes, perhaps this is bike porn, ooh dirty bikes. Check it out.

Angry team

Not a lot of joy at training these days, I wonder why...

Chiltern 100

I have entered my first cyclosportive event. I am not doing the big 100 miles, but the shorter 100 km around the Chiltern hills. I will hopefully travel up with Ed, although Ed is taking on the full 100 miles. And then more races afterwards, few. Just one for me will do, need to find out if I will enjoy it before I take on Paris to Roubaix next summer.

I am excited and a little scared of racing. I have never done it before. So over the next few weeks I will need to get in some sort of training. And will need to work out how to fix the bike computer so that I can get my milage and average speed. I took it if last week in disgust as it was not working.

Or I can try being like Greame Obree, and just follow what my body tells me.

Oh and here is a frisbee tip:
Take up more than just one sport. It is good to not get too involved in just frisbee, there is a big world out there to explore.

Word out.

Southampton to Calshot

Here is the bike at Lepe beach. It was a nice ride, will have to do more like it.

Paganello

(Photo taken by Roland)

So it was great fun once again. I arrived feeling a bit jaded and was not sure if another Paga full of UK players was going to be as much fun. Maybe it is a bit mean of me, but I woud just rather not hang out with British players most of whom I do not know. I much prefer hanging out with my mates and playing ultimate.

Fortunatly I only hung out with my mates and we hand a great time. I was a little anoyed that we came 7th and not as high as last year, but it was still awesome. I was thinking, if we came 7th but stuck it to an American team I would have minded less. But this year we rolled over at the quarter finals stage. For some reason we did not really perform.

The other games were all close run things though, and the beaches were beautifull, my team, Shocker, was fantastic. Our super sub Mega Man rocked. In fact it was great, screw 7th. We are still the best UK team at mixed ultimate, and we are rude.

Oh and I did not catch that disc in the photo, I forgot to close my hand around it, so it bounced out. Luckly JD expected this to happen so dove (layed out) to catch the redirected disc (we call this a MAC, mid-air correction), woop.