The Rubicon is a river in Italy. I didn't know that, and in fact I didn't really care about rubicons at all until this morning. I was listening to a podcast of The Media Show and they were debating the latest in the Leveson press regulations where the phrase 'crossing the rubicon' came up a number of times. So many, it started to bug me, so even though I knew what the meaning was, I didn't know the reason for the meaning if you see what I mean. Anyway, all was revealed thinks to Wikipaedia. I won't cut and paste the full text, you will have to look that up yourself, but it seemed to be a satisfactory answer. So, what do we learn from this learning? That the Rubicon (or Rubico I think it said) was a river in Italy and was something that Julius Ceaser had to cross to do something or other. More importantly, we learn that phrases we know and love (well, know anyway) have an interesting historical basis for them.
As for training, did 1900m of swimming last night. First time for a months or so, so quite satisfied with that. It took 40 mins, which is also satisfactory for me. I'm sure I will never be a fast swimmer - that probably needs embedding in at an early age like playing the piano for something, but I don't get too knackered doing it. The snow keeps on falling and the weekend weather is poor, so no biking unless I'm lucky. It will have to be a bit of time on the rollers.
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