Technology is just too much.

Tried and tried to use Beautiful Daughter's iPod today for my Week 1 podcast, but nooooo. Apparently the volume doesn't work while it's charging. I learn a new techie thing every single day. However...I do know how to transfer files to my Mp3 player and so, off I went to the sounds of Old School Rock. I think whoever put it together went to a different school than mine...
I liked it, though. Discovered that Week 1 is not 5 or 6 repetitions of run 1 min, walk 90 seconds; it's 8.
Passed just one person on the trail today. Well, I say this, but in truth, he passed me on a bike. I really enjoy having the trail to myself. More to come next week!

Back in the Saddle

Well, there were no excuses today! Out on the trail I went, after an absence of many months. But I clearly didn't learn from the last time I tried using podcasts; listen to the thing at home before you go out! Then you might discover that all that has been downloaded is a description of the program, NOT the music you were hoping to run to....So today's run has been brought to me by my cellphone stopwatch. The only music I heard was the song of the birds, which was just fine with me. Several trees were downed by the big windstorm of a couple of weeks ago, and nothing's growing, but it's just the right temp for a run today. I think I may have shortchanged myself by a few walking minutes, but this is far easier than it was when I started out as a newbie runner last May.