We’ve just registered Chatterboy for his first soccer season – he’ll be in the Under 6s. We thought long and hard about it, as we’re not sure he’s going to enjoy it at the beginning, but think it’s really important to learn a social sport that you can continue throughout life.
So we found a few [...]
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Grading
Posted in Education, Parenting, Sport on 29 January, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Cycling to work
Posted in Sport, cycling on 11 January, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I cycled to work today, which is not that much of an achievement, given its 4.5 km, but I still feel proud. A few observations:
there are heaps more people cycling to work these days – I reckon twice as many as when I last cycled to work more than a year ago
it’s still really annoying [...]
A vicious cycle(ing)
Posted in Civil Liberties, Sport, global warming on 8 December, 2006 | 2 Comments »
A few months ago, in Melbourne, a pedestrian was killed by a cyclist while crossing the road. It was early on a Saturday morning, when the local cyclists were out on their morning ride. A friend told me that the cyclists on this ride are notorious for not obeying the road rules; they effectively think of it [...]
Mountain Biking
Posted in Sport on 1 December, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Inspired after reading Elsewhere’s frequent cycling posts, and Jennifer (ponderosa’s) memories of mountain biking, I went mountain biking for the second time in my life on Tuesday, the south of New Zealand. I’m mostly over the bruised shins, and aching muscles in most parts of my body, so I can say it was worth it.
We cycled [...]
Bike Lanes
Posted in Sport on 4 September, 2006 | 7 Comments »
I went for a bike ride on the weekend – across the Sydney Harbour bridge. The harbour bridge bike lane is the only way for a bicycle to cross Sydney Harbour Bridge without dismounting or cycling in 80 km/hr traffic until you get as far west as Concord Road (20 km west of where I live, [...]
Antipodes
Posted in Sport on 25 June, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been reflecting, during the World Cup, at how good we Australians are at watching sport in the middle of the night. But it’s part of being a sports fan, here. We’ve grown up watching pretty much any world class sport in the middle of the night. Think Ashes tests, Wimbledon, US & French Open [...]
Fandom
Posted in Sport on 13 June, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I loved reading Fever Pitch, (one man’s story of the highs and lows of being an obsessive Arsenal fan) when I first found it, but I never thought it would apply to me.
But watching the World Cup last night with Australia spending most of the match futilely trying to match Japan’s controversial goal before coming [...]
Cycling
Posted in Sport on 6 December, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Philip Gomes has a post in Lavartus Prodeo a couple of days ago about Michael Duffy’s dummy spit about Sydney cyclists. Read his post, and the comments – a depressingly familiar tale of bike riders being blamed for riding in the only ways that are left to them by the way the road system has [...]
Gymnastics
Posted in Sport on 26 November, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The world gymnastics championships are on this week in Melbourne. I did gymnastics all through high school, and I have really mixed feelings about the sport.
I was OK at it, not elite, but moderately serious (six hours of training a week), and for me it was a great sport. The training wasn’t that serious, and [...]
Football
Posted in Sport on 17 November, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I went to the soccer last night. It was fantastic. I am so glad I was there. I made a vow after the Sydney Olympics that I would go to world class sport if it was ever in Sydney. Almost immediately, I got pregnant, and changed focus. But it’s reminded me why it was worth [...]
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