Another few weeks of little chuzwoza action. However the competition is about to be reignited once more as the competitors resume hostilities. Team England are confident that their new impromptu elbow redesign will reap rewards in the coming months. The new design was unveiled this week, although it turns out the Aussie team have been using the a similar design for a few years.

Race 3 will now be held end of August, with Race 4 end of September.

Whilst the Aussies spew forth with blogiarrhea, Team England focus on a repeating their June performance. Even with a totally broken elbow, they set a new 10K PB of 37:55.4 taking them past the 250KM mark for the competition.

The broken elbow has since swollen up and is quite painful, but with a near 3 minute difference in the 10Km PBs, the English team are confident that they can be competitive with the Aussies using just one arm.

With 3 wickets falling in the morning session, looks like underarm bowling is all that is needed! :p

Team England now have a time logged for each of the PB categories, and it is now up to the Aussies to respond. A new PB at 2Km was the latest time to be logged, surpassing the time set in the 2Km race held at the end of May. With Team England away (in England) for the next 10 days, and access to the necessary equipment problematic the Aussies have a great chance to catch up.

After a week of Australian mischief on the chuzwoza blog, Team England have hit back in the only way that counts; by taking the overall lead in the competition by reaching the 200Km milestone some 45Km ahead of the beleaguered Aussies.

This is the headline the Aussie team would like to read over their cornflakes tomorrow morning. If it were true, it would give them a glimmer of hope at winning Chuzwoza '09. Instead, tomorrows headline should read "Team England complete 1/2 marathon in 85:59.3" but the editors have decided to hold this headline back in fear that it would crush any remaining spirit left in the Aussie team.