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April 4, 2005

Do Not Eat iPod Shuffle

After my killer run on Saturday, I have come to understand much, much better the target market for the iPod Shuffle. It's me.

When you're out running for an hour, having tunes along for the ride (in my case, yes, it's "Waiting For The Siren's Call" by New Order ... I'm boring) helps take your mind off the relentless pounding of joints and ever-harder huffing/puffing. I did my run with my trusty, third-generation iPod in tow, and found it to be a little tedious by the 45th minute. The 'pod skipped once, but mostly I felt the thing to feel like it weighed about a million pounds in my left hand.

(Actual weight: 5.6oz. I'm a pansy.)

So today, I decided to take advantage of my ever-shrinking student pricing window to get a 1 GB iPod shuffle. This thing is smaller than a pack of gum, and weighs basically nothing.

Of course, the deal I made with myself is that I have to actually get out and run laps around Greenlake a lot more. That half marathon is t-minus five weeks and counting. Tick tock, tick tock.

Posted by Gavin Shearer at April 4, 2005 2:28 PM. Posted to Fitness.

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