'Lies, damn lies and statistics'. I love that quote, said to be by Mark Twain who quoted Disraeli but (according to Wikipedia) there's no sign of Disraeli using it. Whoever said it, it really does sum up statistics. Take today's episode..I just published some telephone stats and within half an hour I had a grumpy employee asking what I was doing. She obviously was not impressed, but the issue is that she didn't look at the overall scene, instead she concentrated on her part of it, how it could be perceived and how it reflects on her without looking at the big picture. I'm sure I'm now classified as a 'liar' as per the quote. She'll have to get over it ..... or not.
Cleaned my bikes last night. The road bike was worse than I thought (after it's 53 mile evening jaunt) and the CX bike not so bad cos it only did a mile before puncturing. I'm wondering if I need to get a new/better back tyre. If it was a piece of flint, which I'm sure it was it happened so fast, then the tyre might be damaged. I had that on my road bike earlier this year and kept getting punctures probably because the split in the tyre nipped the innertube. It's Nettleton CX this coming Sunday so don't know if I should sort the tyre out or not. I'll probably leave it to late and end up with another puncture.
Hopefully do a longer run tonight. My (much) better half is out until about 7:15, so we have a late tea and gives me an hour+ to get a run in. I tried out some new earphones last week and they were very good. Didn't fall out due to the fact that they hook behind the ears although heading into the wind was a bit noisy so I had to turn it up. I listen to podcasts such as Front Row, Friday Night Comedy and other (mainly) Radio 4 stuff that I'm never in to listen to. Podcasts are really quite good.
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