Back for another Year

It has been too long, I know.

With the holidays and other things, updating the blog just didn't seem to happen with my limited time and access to the computer.

I finished off 2008 really well with a best ever 418.6k in December taking me to 3,550k for the year.

January had a slight hiccup with a niggle in my right leg. I could not quite work out exactly where the pain was coming from, but I took it easy for a week and have been slowly building up again. So it was only 253k for January but back to 97k last week.

The plan at this stage is to continue base building in February and then start introducing some faster running when the weather gets a little cooler with the focus on the Gold Coast Marathon in July.

Along the way I will have a couple of test races in the Twilight Half in April and Doomben Half in June.

One of the activities that has been consuming more and more of my non-running time is compiling music mixes. After 30 years of making them just for my own listening pleasure , I made one specifically for posting to Art of The Mix.

It was called "Tower of Robert Song". (Download here.)

I have also been doing a lot of these mixes with Johnny Dark and we are currently on our 9th.

Our latest was Aliens Crash Into Unsuspecting Music Mix. (Download here).

However much I might be proud of those artistic efforts, just as in running, you always have to have something motivating you to go that extra mile and produce something of lasting quality, like this video ...

Now seriously, I was rather pleasantly surprised to find out recently that the Audio archivist Graeme Cousel who was recently awarded Guinee's highest honour, the Palme Académique en Or, for his tireless work on the Syliphone Archive is from Melbourne. His story of his work is here. The many compilations released from his work are on the Stern's Label and are all highly recommended.