This weekend I took part in a duathlon.  That’s the self-congratulatory part.  But I didn’t do the whole thing.  That’s the other part.

So what happened was this: A colleague had signed up to do it with a friend, with the friend biking 10km and my colleague doing the 5km walk.  The friend backed out, and I backed in.  Had I biked 10km before?  No.  Am I used to biking?  Sort of, and where I live is moderately hilly.  So I thought, why not. […]