Rain fills rivers and helps farmers
By Tom McKinlay Wednesday, 26th April 2006
Heavy rain overnight threatened flooding in the Taieri, Shag and Kakanui Rivers, but otherwise brought welcome relief to dry parts of Otago.
Raineffects hydrologist Dave Stewart said the long-awaited rain would be welcomed by farmers across the province, but particularly in North Otago.
We haven’t seen one of these rains for a long time. It is the type of rain you need, especially in North Otago, to get some moisture into some of the aquifers, he said.
While you don’t particularly want it to rain on Anzac Day, the rain is really good. So far, it has not been too heavy, so it’s been brilliant for all the areas that are extremely dry.
The MetService last night issued a special weather bulletin for the eastern hills and mountains of Otago and South Canterbury, predicting up to 120mm of rain in the 24 hours from 9pm yesterday.
The heaviest falls of 10mm to 15mm an hour was expected this morning, after which the rain should start to ease.
Are you on the North or South Island of Kiwiland? Where is Otago? Sorry but is that a province? If so, what the biggest city there? Excuse my ignorance :o
And in that beautiful rural scene, is that a beach way off? You got rideable wave?
Otago is a province in the lower South Island with Dunedin it’s only city which is where I live.
Looking at that picture you can see a point in the middle of the view just above the tree line. our place is on that line.
We live in a rural area next to a horse stables (I’ll post a pic later). We are very close to the beach as in 10 minutes from sofa to sea but water is bloody freezing wetsuits all year :eek: Waves by our place aren’t great but 5 minutes along the raod are pretty good.
BTW it will take more than a bit of flooding to stop me training later
slow jog back to start between reps, 10 mins between sets.
Recovery
Epsom salts bath
Rating
8
If mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid day sun, what sort of idiots go out on days like this? :rolleyes: Actually it wasn’t too bad when I went, a bit of drizzle at times but was probably the best of the last 40 or so hours. Had to train on the track as all the parks were soaking or flooded
Weighed myself this morning and was 186lbs (84.5kg) which is down 2lbs in 5 weeks. Not a huge amount but I haven’t been consciously dieting so am pretty pleased.
Below is a pic from in town, it is normally a meandering stream :eek:
GREAT PIX. That’s a hell of a flow. And an idyllic vista at home. By the way, did we mention we’re all coming over to stay?! :eek: Just for a general prep phase or three.
’ Thanks KK, visitors are always welcome here although some may need to harden up for GPP in our winter…at least it doesn’t snow that often ’
Visitors to harden up? Someone must have given that advice to the Waratahs when they were away to your Highlanders in the dumping rain and freezing cold of which you’ve made us so aware.
You knew the first time they tried to land here they couldn’t because of the flooding? :eek:
The Warratahs are a class side…unfortunatley the same can’t be said of the Highlanders they try hard and have some solid players but just can’t make the grade. I was talking to the radio commentator from the game yesterday and he said at times he could hardly see accross the other side of the pitch due to the conditions :eek:
FYI South Africa have never won at Carisbrook in 7 attempts.
Don’t get me wrong we have plenty of beautiful stunning days, but nobody is ever going to say it’s a tropical paradise
Long hills
350m x 2r with walkback recovery
40mins rest
350m x 2r with walkback recovery
Recovery
bath
Rating
5
That was hard work should I have only done 1 set? possibly …but last rep actually felt far and away the best one…probably because I knew it was the last one
3 sets :eek: don’t recall seeing 3 sets just 2 x 2
and anyway what the hell happened to
I ALWAYS recommend athletes must train “systematically” and also symptomatically".
By that I mean that if your 300 PB is 32.0sec but you can’t move much better today than 37sec because you are tired, sore, tight or the prevailing wind is terrible and there’s nothing else you can do about the situation, then 37sec is what you run. Then you try to put in just as much in the back-up reps.
Of course if you are running your 300m in 37 for the whole year, you can look forward to some very slow 400m races in summer.
So if you cheat on effort, you cheat only yourself.
But by the same token if you are really only in 35sec shape for 300m (for whatever reason) and you try to run 33sec when it’s not in you yet, then disaster may be just a step away.
[b]So be kind to yourself, be gentle with your body. Build speed from rhythm, mechanics and relaxation on the run.
Listen to your body, pay attention to the warnings. Your first instincts then will nearly always be right, which will help you avoid injuries in the short term and help you come to good speeds when your body can cope.[/b]
ok Mr smartypants, to confirm your smartestness explain please, in simple steps 1 to 101, how to post a photo on cf.com forum? Even CF himself cannot figure that out! :eek: But I have some useful snaps sitting idle in my H-drive waiting for this moment! drum roll . . . over to ya
It defaults to upload file so click the Browse ‘button’
Slect the picture file you want from the File upload box the same way as with an email attachment.
Click on the Host It ‘button’
The file will then be loaded and you will see a number of options. Copy the top one from the bottom lot called Hotlink for forums (1) by left clicking with the mouse (it selects it all) then right clicking and choosing copy.
Paste that in the post (Ctrl + V), click Submit Reply ‘button’ and Robert’s your mother’s brother
If you have the photo saved to your hard drive, then when you are typing a message to post…scroll down a weensie bit and click on manage attachments. If it is just one photo, it will display as a photo.
What’s a hard drive? :eek: :rolleyes: It’s taken me this long to get John’s advice. I’m on a good thing. I may stick to it. Thanks anyway and I will try Herb’s IT Highway. Eventually
but water is bloody freezing 
wetsuits all year :eek: Waves by our place aren’t great but 5 minutes along the raod are pretty good.
me no comprende