What's Occurin? (dont want the G)

Some interesting discussions on the BMMC lower mt chapter run this morning. Spent the morning with W.E.S and the Prince looping backwards around the Australia Day Fatass course till we got to the turn off to Piscar Rock were we promptly turned right then ran back home via Oaks rather than wrestling with Mt Bikers on the single track in peak flow time.

Whilst the run, as all runs are up here in the blue wilderness, was supreme in its visual and auditory stimulus. It was in fact a number of the discussion points that take due notice this morning:

1. Salary cap issues. It is understood that there are circulating rumours that BMMC has been Stormesck in it's operations and are in breach of the very tight salary cap rules associated with running associations in NSW and Australia. People questioning how we could hold a stable including Sleep Train, Gottagofasta, The Prince, Shogun, Whippet Girl and Sprinter yet still have the funds to attract out of area members such as Spud and Rodthehornet. Whilst continuing to fill the roster with notable performers like W.E.S, Dr Phil, Fat Kiwi, vstaR, Terry the Woodchopper and still be chasing known performers like Ms Vernon, Rob Spilling, Tom Richardson and anyone with the surname Baldacchino. Lady's and gentlemen people just want to run for us bring your auditors there are no storms in our coffee cups.
2. What constitutes a daily run? W.E.S was some what confused today as to what constitutes a daily run. His statement that if we can just maintain the 6hour runs or 50km runs each week then before anyone knows it it will be just like we are running 50kms everyday. Some might question this line of thought as Tom Foolery (for Tom as we know was surely given the title of fool). However if one considers his Celtic brotherhood of knowledge, that wealth of grey matter development that comes with years of tribal story telling then I think his belief that a weekly run equates to daily experience has something for us all.
3. More confusion was clarified when a person on the run (not wanting to be quoted) lets just classify him as not from Australia originally gave us more great insight. For we now know that if we run from Glenbrook to Woodford and back to Glenbrook we get the benefits of both ways. Not only this it was clearly stated that in fact by running up we get the benefits of running up then when we run down we get the benefits of (don't try and guess here) running down. To think that in point 2 some people were questioning said wisdom.

So a great day of running and in sharing of wisdom was had by all. For me the legs are real heavy, following big Saturdays through the last month including 3weeks of 6hrs or more and the fourth week in the mix being sick yet still clocking in a touch over 4hrs. Today I felt everyone of those minutes, the difference between having done these long runs for years and my measly 9 months I guess. Starting to tapper now so hopefully the results in 2 weeks will land on the positive side of things.