This evening’s run

I guess all that hill work is pay­ing off. I ran a most­ly-flat 6.55 miles in 53:32. That’s creep­ing down toward the eight-minute mile zone. This rocks!

Except it did­n’t real­ly rock. Stu­pid iPod kept on being too finicky. Who­ev­er thought it was a good idea to base a portable dig­i­tal music play­er on a spin­ning disk should get a stern talk­ing-to. I think it needs to go in for repairs too, ’cause I get about 1/4 the bat­tery life it’s sup­posed to. I think it’s about $100 for bat­tery replace­ment but lets see what the nice folks at the Apple Store tell me.

The oth­er day I ran with a bunch of songs crammed onto my Palm Tung­sten T3. Worked fine. And I saw 512MB SD cards at Cost­co for like $80. Could put a bunch of songs on that, but it still requires a lev­el of plan­ning that I’m not hap­py with, plus effort to get the songs to play in the order I want (in the case of albums or whatever).