What Were The Odds?

A light plane flipped on the Wellington Airport runway yesterday, as pictured from Stuff.co.nz

Now the scarcely believable bit about this is that they claim a freak gust of wind caused it. In Wellington? No, surely not!

Actually the really cool thing is the passenger filmed the whole crash... it was on the news last night but I can't find a video link. No one badly hurt, by the way. Although the plane may need a panel beater

Kepler Update

Well, 13 sleeps to go and its getting into crunch time. Training has been a bit interrupted this week with a massively crazy week, and on top of all that theres a wee niggle in the calf muscle now which has necessitated a layoff over the weekend. Not so happy :(

However, overall I'm looking forward to the event this time and expecte a decent crack at beating 8 hours. I've managed to shave 14 mins of my best half marathon time, win the workplace 4 week pedometer challenge, nail a 30km race in the Port Hills in really ugly conditions, and last weekend did 30km on the Routeburn and didn't keel over at Chris and Stacey's wedding afterwards. So all is good really!

One more week of hard out training now, then tail off into the carb loading and the long drive down.

And then we all get to enjoy the Xmas party season- hard earned!

Movember

Yes folks, with the numerous facial hair references in this blog it was impossible not to down tools and procure the face fluff for the fine cause of raising loot for Prostate Cancer prevention, and mens health in general.

And you can even sponsor me- go on throw a $5-er in and if theres enough out there I may even accept Mr Smoothfluid's request for a photo! To sponsor my Mo please go to http://www.movember.com/nz/donate/?action=sponsorlink&rego=183272, enter my registration number which is 183272

And feel free to pick one off the list that you think would suit me.....

Razor Review- Crowded House

Well this was always going to be a good one. And in this particular case it was a great one shared with the best possible company :)

First time I saw the Crowdies was back in the early 1990's at a free gig in Hagley Park on my first ever visit to Christchurch. Of course since then I think I've seen every incarnation possible of the Finn family- brothers, solo, Betchadupa, Liam, Liam with dad, brothers junior, everything except Split Enz. And of course that little oversight is going to get fixed in March 2008 now!

We arrived near the end of Pluto's set, so I can;t really rate them. But the specially reformed Supergroove then proceeded to warm the crowd up very nicely thank you very much with a trip back down memory lane with the 1990's funk jazz fest, much like the Chilli Peppers on speed really. An energetic and enthusiastically received show.

The main even started off with a great version of Private Universe and then carried on for an hour or so with a mix of old and new tracks. Some of the new stuff has grown on me nicely- especially People Are Like Suns and the excellent Transit Lounge- there is a lot going on in that one when you give it a few listens.

For a few moments early on the band wandered off into freefall a bit often, but minor gripe really, this was more than made up for and soon forgotten with the stirring final encore of Don't Dream Its Over, the haunting Into Temptation, and Better Be Home Soon.

Everyone left happy, have to say not as good as 1992 but this was still great- 8 out of 10.

Ok I know

...its been quiet here lately. Never fear there are updates coming soon, I promise. Especially about weddings in Paradise.

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