Accelerated Taper

I whipped out a 10 kilometer rowing session last night. Tonight I'm putting in an easy five mile run and with that, my countdown to Surf City on Sunday begins. Call it mini taper. I prefer accelerated taper. You know - normal taper for a marathon is three weeks. Since this is Half, I'll accelerate the process and do it in three days. (Hoo boy.)

After my run tonight, I'll need to get to some important tasks - like a Half Marathon play list. I had one, but I've not been having the best luck with mp3 players made by the company that named themselves after the Beatles' recording studio (despite what the official story is, they *did* get sued for copyright infringement). In the past three months I've been through two 3rd generation Shuffles and 3 5th generation Nanos. I'll take responsibility for the shuffles - one was a straight out loss. But these Nanos? I've had two where the lock buttons stick in the "lock" position (meaning you can't even turn the things on and off), and the third one (which I've had for all of 2 days) does nothing but reboot. The Apple Genius Bar and I are becoming BFFs, and I'm starting to get perturbed. Anyone else having these problems?

Oh well. Enough ranting for a while. I've got an appointment at the Genius Bar I need to get to.....