Daily Archive for May 7th, 2007

Edinburgh 10k

Yesterday I completed the Edinburgh 10k in a time of 58:24. I was aiming for a sub-hour time but hadn’t trained for over a month thanks to a pain in my knee which happened on my first run without my iPod. I’m not sure if my knee always hurt and I never noticed it due to musical distraction or if it was just coincidence.

To be on the safe side I made up a quick 60 minute iTunes playlist to keep me going:

  • We Will Become Silhouettes, The Postal Service
  • Carolyn’s Bootie, The Presidents Of The United States Of America
  • Float On, Modest Mouse
  • Going Missing, Maxïmo Park
  • Let Forever Be, The Chemical Brothers
  • Pounding, Doves
  • Never Had So Much Fun, Frenzal Rhomb
  • Empire, Kasabian
  • Mr. Brightside, The Killers
  • Hungry, Kosheen
  • Do Your Thing, Basement Jaxx
  • Up The Bracket, The Libertines
  • Knights Of Cydonia, Muse
  • Crash, The Primitives
  • God Put A Smile Upon Your Face, Coldplay
  • Spitting Games, Snow Patrol

Because it’s grammatically incorrect!

A long time favourite site of mine is yournotme.com – one of those sites I thought was fun but didn’t serve any real purpose. That was, until now.

For the uninitiated, the site searches UK data and tells you how many people share your name, or any other name you enter for that matter. My new pastime involves checking how many people have a comedy name. For instance, Isla Wight (four people), William Ding (one person), Helen Back (six) and Michael Hunt (a frankly staggering 561).