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Stuff I think about while running round in circles

Here are a few pages from my blog. This has very little to do with the business - in fact its mainly included here to test the effect of putting an RSS feed from a blog on a web site.

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Coming Soon - Charlie's Challenge

I'm thinking about organising my own little running race. I have discovered that I prefer smaller races - the atmosphere for the Bognor 10k (1000 participants) for example seemed much better to me than the Bristol 10k (15000 participants) and I enjoyed the Fishbourne Flat 5 less than 200 participants even more.

So the plan (if I can sort the organisation out) is to run an invite only race for about 30 people - I'd quite like to run it as a pursuit race i.e. with staggered starts so that eveyone finishes at the same time - but I'll need to think about courses and distances a bit.

More later.

(Todays Run: 5.2m - Distance so Far 483.5m)

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Ow

Can't believe I did that - I've just broken rule 1 and gone running in inadequate socks.

2000 miles including a marathon in expensive running socks = 0 blisters

5 miles in tesco (5 pairs for 6 quid) trainer socks = 1 blister

P.S. In the unlikely event that anyone from Tesco's legal department is reading this Charlie would like to make clear that the Tesco Trainer Sock is a very fine sock and he does not believe that socks purchased from any of Tesco's competitors would have led to fewer blisters.

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The random playlist symbolising information overload

Something random popped up on the ipod while I was out today (some classical guitar piece which I probably acquired in one of my lets pretend to be intellectual phases in my youth) and it led me to thinking about the way I listen to music. Its pretty much always random now, I listen to 6 music when I'm in the office and random play on one of my many ipods the rest of the time.

Its interesting because I never know what is going to happen next and things quite often crop up that I enjoy, but would never have thought to put on.

The downside though is that I almost never listen to whole albums anymore, in fact I rarely make any choices in the matter at all. I've also pretty much stopped buying new music - I think in the last year I have downloaded two records (Florence and the Machine & The National's new album though thats not material to the point) whereas until 4 or 5 years ago I was a 10 CD a month man. There are also albums that I "ought" to have that I don't - the last albums by Gorillaz and Arctic Monkeys being the most glaring examples.

Its not that I'm less interested than I used to be - in fact I probably spend more time listening to music listen than at any other period in my life. The problem is that an Ipod with a fairly eclectic 30 year collection on random is just so good that there is no need to make choices any more. I used to have to be active in order to find stuff I wanted to listen to, now it just happens and somehow something has been lost.

Anyway I'm off to listen to all of the Cure Albums in chronological order.
(Todays Run: 4.7m - Distance so Far 440.5m)

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