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BBC SPORT | Cricket | Pro cricket hits the USA. I just read “Playing Hard Ball: County Cricket and Big League Baseball“, Ed Smith’s book about Baseball and Cricket. Very interesting. Then I see this stoy on the BBC web site. I really think that our American cousins might take to Twenty20 – it is perfect for the American audience. Heaven help us that the US might win the World Cup in 2019 (which will be in Twenty20 format by then…)
Max asked me how I was doing against my target of 1 million metres on my Concept2 rowing machine this calendar year. Well, the marathon helped to get me back to a week behind target, but as I type I am 31,000m behind the “pace boat”. In laymens terms (and at my snail like pace) that means about 2 hours 15 minutes of rowing. So if I do a 10,000 for the next four nights in a row I will be in the right sort of place. But 10,000 is a long way – and three in three days is hard work. Graphical progress against target below (courtesy of my OpenOffice.org spreadsheet):
Standing here, drenched in sweat and barely able to stand straight. Not a pretty site. Why? For some unkown reason I have been posessed with the urge to row a marathon (42,195m) on my Concept2 Model C rower. The first two hours were fine, but I nearly died over the last 90 minutes. My time? A grueling 3 hours, 18 minutes, 43.9 seconds. Believe me, the 0.9 seconds is important.
Thursday morning: I ache all over – the severe buttock pain from last night has lost its edge, but my legs are ruined, and I feel like I have rowed about 26 miles. Funny that. Good preparation for the cricket season on Saturday. Normally the first 45 overs of wicket keeping is desperately hard, but hopefully the 20,000m a week I am rowing will take the edge off that.
I have started playing with PHP-Nuke. I think everyone should run their own portal. In my case I am planning to set it up for my cricket club, and run it from the garage. It looks pretty useful, but with a bewildering array of options. I will work it out, but is a system of this nature overkill for a cricket club with 50 members?