Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

Here’s something odd. Some of you may have noticed the little ‘widget’ to the side there, proudly informing you that I’m on The Twitter™. Well, according to latest scientific studies from the International Institute of Twitter Research and Nerdology, I’m (at the time of writing), in the Top 400 Sydney Twitterers in terms of followers! [...]

As the Athens Olympic Games draw to a close, the performances of Stanozolol, a long-time powerhouse in the Olympics medal tally, have drawn harsh criticism. Stanozolol, a banned anabolic agent, finished a lowly seventh on the Olympics table with 6 Gold, 9 Silver and 2 Bronze, for a total of 17 medals. This compares unfavourably [...]

I really miss ultramarathons. Remember them? A group of damn fools would run from Sydney to Melbourne and it would be covered on the news and people would say ‘wow! kudos on running so far for no good reason’. I wonder why they faded from public acclaim. Perhaps people grew blase about the distance. Maybe [...]