10-mile time trial horror show

The new year club "10" is traditionally where you put up the season’s worst time.  It was cool and damp with a stiff constant headwind for over half the course.  And I just couldn’t find the leg power: I was working as hard as I could, but my HR didn’t pop over 170 (the whole time was spent up in zone 3 though).  Yup, season’s worst and exactly the rude awakening I was expecting.  My best is 27:47, but today I put down 31:25.  Under evens!  Oy, veh.

The pretty people are here for your socks

The internet is aflutter with images of this woman, a French newsbody called Mélissa Theuriau.  I'm sure you'll already have been spambarded by people sticking her clear, balanced, symmetrical visage across your screens with various flavours of squee attached.  Tritalk have her in the Phwoar! thread; other places have OMGZ I <3 Melissa!!!! froth.

Can I be alone in crying out "Uncanny Valley!" ?  She's too damn pretty, she's a robot or an angel or CGI or something in a dream sent to steal my odd socks! Flee! Flee!

Just when Halle Berry was starting to age and show some decent (and indeed likeable) human traits, this damn creature has to come along.  The world just isn't safe.