Exe Valley Triathlon

Just a reminder, if you're thinking about entering the Exe Valley Tri on 9th May 2010, entries are filling up.

It's a nice pool sprint with a mostly flat out-and-back valley bike, then an onroad rolling run. Good little start to the season.

That 'Russian Analysis' and a Plea for Honesty

Busted over at Deltoid. It's another cherry-pick and misquote by a politically-motivated organization, repeated in the sympathetic press without fact-checking.  James Dellingpole, have you no shame? Again, it'd be great to see honesty from the right: Some Russians who said "yes, it's happening and we think it's great! Farming! Resource exploitation! Enough for all - you get flooded, come here, work a Siberian vineyard and show us your wacky indigenous dishes: everyone wins!" Alas no. The "Russian Analysis" is a selective sample that doesn't even say what they say it says, and by name-dropping they give it that fake gleam of state support. It's just some suits talking crap.