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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 2h

I posted earlier about attempting a 5K Time Trial today. Some of you may find the phrase "5K Time Trial" unsettling, as did I. It's like one of those greco-latin bastard portmanteaus. (5K is, of course, the production code for "Nightmare of Eden", as any fule kno.)

Title card for Doctor Who adventure "Nightmare of Eden"

Title card for Doctor Who adventure "The Trial of a Time Lord"

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 3h

My 5K training plan directed me to run a "relaxed 5K time trial" today, at "95% of maximum effort". This must be some new definition of "relaxed" of which I was previously unaware. I gave it my best and managed the fifth fastest of my 82 parkruns to date, and my fastest since May 2022.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 1d

L-R: Dua Lipa, Dual Ipa

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve listened to this and it’s proper dead funny. Give it a go!

Dan Mersh @danmersh.bsky.social · 3d

You like chuckling don’t you? Well the first instalment of my new sketch comedy podcast with Kathryn Haywood is now available wherever you get your podcasts. 17 minutes of fun and there’ll be another one next week whether you like it or not. But you will like it. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 1d

Right. I’m in.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 2d

And clone Leela staying in the cloning cubicle and looking out at the camera but not saying anything or being acknowledged by any of the speaking characters is just gloriously weird. I audio-taped this at the time so can recite it, so all the oddities for me are visual like this.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 2d

The Doctors are all still men and the nurses and receptionists all still women. Surgeons are still indulgent and eccentric and everyone else is functional.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 2d

Retrospectively, Marius' lab now looks like one of the partitioned off areas in the exhibition centres that were pressed into service as Covid vaccination centres. As he transfers the mini clones into the Doctor the episode is quiet for the only time.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 2d

"The Invisible Enemy" Part Two is marked by some unique stylistic oddities. Lowe's visor makes him look as though he's summoning K9 into existence via voodoo cosplay. The ophthalmology department is signified by a pen and ink figure from an anatomy textbook.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 3d

This is the most on-brand Reading story possible. Not the festival, the town.

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 3d

Reading, 1998. I went with a group of friends including my ex, cos we'd bought tickets before the break up. Sunday night after many drinks, she offered sex. I turned her down on grounds it could re-open old wounds. Better than admitting I'd shat myself in the queue for the bogs.

Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 3d

I see this and picture Al Murray’s pub landlord beating his chest and chanting “FAAAM-LY”.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 4d

5K PB training cycle 4 of seven complete. 8 days, 6 runs, 38 miles in 5 hrs 53 mins. I covered roads, canal towpaths, and two different 400m outdoor running tracks. I'm finally beginning to feel the positive effects of these last five weeks.