He called it "pure day-dreaming" or, to put it in a Scottish context, an unadulterated nightmare.
Some former players, not surprisingly, felt that the artificial reasons for the new numbers are unfair to the hitters who established the career-leading totals in what they feel were purer days.
Dave Rimmer writes that with the revival of punk ideals of stripped-down music in the early 1990s, with "Cobain, and lots of kids like him, rock & roll...threw down a dare: Can you be pure enough, day after day, year after year, to prove your authenticity, to live up to the music.
He has a team built around him and eight years of experience to call on, meaning he can target stages which arenot pure sprint days.
That's pure early-days David Cameron – sympathy, but no solutions.
"Sometimes you're not going to hit it pure every day, you just need to rely on a good short game".
It is a sentiment echoed by Wanda James, who says she and her husband remain committed to restarting Simply Pure one day.
Balance your combat and you will have an advantage over a pure any-day.
Five systems were investigated for more than 70 days: pure sand, pure Fe0, Fe0/sand, Fe0/pumice and Fe0/sand/pumice.
