Took the day off on Sunday, which is normally my “big run” day as I had completed the 7.5 on Sat, so out today for a little scamper. Decided to do a decent run, so planned a 5.5 miler today which I started after work, and unfortunately didn’t time it, nor did my GPS work properly – although the bit it did record averaged 6.5 miles and hour – not sure why.
Anyway, now that I am back in my “office” I downloaded some funky music ready to help with the run. I had asked Santa for a simple Phillips Go Gear for Christmas, as I didn’t need anything wild or expensive. Well, plugged it in, and in automagically upgraded itself – then hung. I tried again and it whinged then hung, then again and then it seemed OK. Downloaded a couple of Albums (cant believe how quickly you fill 2GB these days!!) and set the player up pressed pause and I was ready.
Well I set off and attempted to “un-pause” the stupid device, it was blank – so as any normal technical guru I pressed the buttons really hard and swore under my breath until it came on.. So with Paradise City in my ears off I went. Not very long after I realised that I could only hear the music and no voice through the headphones, waiting for another song, and although just getting into my stride had to stop to try and sort. The bleeping blumming thing didn’t seem to be responding – so I did the only obvious thing when confronted with this sort of technical issue I ripped it off from its clip pressed it 14 times a second getting progressively harder and told it in no uncertain terms that I was going to stamp on its blummin head if it doesn’t start working – it was obviously scared at this point as it literally fell apart. So I stuffed it in my pocket and continued on my way – in silence. Although it wasn’t content to stay there quietly, no it had to shuffle and rustle and dig into my back……
Found my legs, or more specifically my shins are quite sore today. Not sure why that happens as they have been fine for a couple of weeks, but not good tonight. Anyway, a day off now, back on the road Wednesday unless we get snowed in?!?!?
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