From Melbourne
15.2.82
Dear Alan
I
figure you are probably back from Zimbabwe by now and have some idea of
practice possibilities there. They must be better than paying $80000 for a part
time practice in Melbourne. You painted an interesting picture of dentistry
Soweto style. Is there any hostility towards you there? Is the place ready to
explode as we are lead to believe? It
would seem to be a much more stable situation in Zimbabwe and they must be
short of dentists because so many of the barstards grabbed their dough and
headed for Oz when the going got rough.
Personally
I prefer to forget Bill Lawry’s and Bob Simpson’s visit to SA. It was all part
of the aussies bad run against quality fast bowlers which began with Hall and
Griffiths and continued through Snow etc. to the present matches versus the
Windies. Although I saw Hughes make a
brilliant 100 in the Melbourne test a few weeks ago and we finally drew the
series 1 all. I was surprised to see that the Pollocks are still playing. They
must be well into their 40s. The players there can forget about any chance of
Test cricket as the Windies and Pakis would immediately refuse to play against
their opponents.
Did the
fact that the whites are trying to get money out of the country indicate the
exodus is still on? I admit I do lump them all together as a pack of turds but
with the stories we get here do you wonder. It sounds as though you have met
some good ones. Anyway if you are enjoying dentistry then stick to it. I can’t
say it is doing much for me at the moment, and the usual February gaps are
beginning to appear in the book. I am going to arrange it so that I can have a
spare to run when possible. Thank you for being jealous about the Melbourne
Marathon. You didn’t mention if you are still running. If so give yourself 8
weeks approx. to get fit for a marathon. My running was based on average of 1
hour per day for 6 days a week but I was doing more than this in the last
month. I was running at a consistent 5min/km
pace. This was a mistake as I should have been mixing up the fast stuff with
the slogging, in retrospect. I am planning to run another in Canberra in April.
Make
sure that do a couple (at least) of runs of about 20 mile distance in the 2 or
3 weeks before the run, and practice running while drinking every 5 km or so.
Yes I hit the wall at about 32 km right where the books say it might happen and
the last 6 miles were very tough and I did a lot of walking here.
Regards CJ
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