It was great to see Manx Harriers doing so well in the National Cross Country on Saturday. Another big step forward for Kevin Loundes in particular. I understand that Keith Gerrard had stomach problems. It’s a real shame when anyone’s performance is affected by this. The only consolation I can think of is that on some of the days we have enjoyed good results someone else has been affected by similar bad luck.
I’m always conscious that some people think I favour some events over others. If I was really hard I would say “tough” and ask people to use the forum or to ensure that their club websites cover all the events. But I am not really hard and so I try to feature as many events as possible. In the case of the National Cross Country, because David Griffiths provided me with some useful statistics, and I have my photo library, it was much easier to do a feature before the event and not after. I shall have to leave it to others to either add further information and comment to the forum (if they can) or follow the links from PJ’s Manx Harriers website (he is away this week and so can’t update the site). David is also going to let me have some film for YouTube.
YouTube seems to have dominated things this weekend.
My schedule was pretty tight yesterday. I was up early as usual and went for a short run soon after 7 am (I had done my long weekend run the day before) and then I started to prepare the family lunch whilst catching some of the Match of the Day repeat. I am far from a perfect contributor to family life, but I did undertake some years ago that, at the very least, I cook Sunday lunch for the family. The timer on our cooker is often employed on a Sunday. Robbie was supposed to be ready for a 9.15 departure to the fell race but inevitably we were a few minutes late.
Unfortunately Marie was suffering from a migraine at the weekend and I promised to take her mother out for a drive at 2.30. As always I enjoyed watching the fell race and taking my digital photos and movies and left before the end to start the video editing. I got it finished in time to upload it whilst serving and eating lunch with the aim of getting the photos uploaded afterwards and the front page tidied up. I didn’t count on YouTube being unavailable for uploads for an hour or two and I was late for my afternoon engagement.
I had another delay which I was rather more pleased about when Ben rang to say that he had set a personal best by over 13 minutes in the Pocklington 10 in Yorkshire! He had only run one ten miler before, his first ever race just over a year ago, but even so his 64.45 was a pretty big improvement.
Newspapers are one of my many addictions and with a copy of the Sunday Times adding to the pile of most of the barely read recent additions of the Independent, catching up with some of the world’s events put me behind schedule to revert to my website, blogs and email.
When I got up this morning, however, YouTube was back to haunt me as Jimi Hendrick’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” had been removed from the soundtrack. I hadn’t realised that it was Warner Brothers music which is no longer licensed by YouTube. So instead of cutting the film to suit the length of the music track, as I normally do, I hastily looked for a track of the right length to add to the existing film. It almost made me late for work.
I expected Oasis to be on the soundtrack by now but that too has been disallowed. This was my prompt to write this lunchtime piece whilst watching the film in silence - like the rest of you will have to as I’m not going to spent time looking for a third soundtrack!.
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