Hard to Beat

I've been a bit busy lately. I was in Munchen/Muenchen/Munich last weekend just sipping beer, gluhwein and more beer while walking around the famous Christmas markets. It's nice walking around holding a cup of hot alcohol while watching how commercialized Christmas has become. And on Friday I'm going on my Christmas vacation with my girlfriend for 3 weeks so I have to pack my bags and all in the meantime, while finishing work and sorting out other stuff.

In the latest edition of Q magazine, they listed the best albums of 2005 (I'll do mine when 2005 has actually finished, I still need to listen to some albums) and also a list of people's favourite songs of 2005.

Mine is Hard-Fi's Hard to Beat.

The song has everything for me. A good beat you can dance to. Enough guitars to make it rock. A simple story (guy meets girl in a club and spends the night with her). From a great album. Everytime I hear it I just wanna jump up and down. I will definitely use this song when/if I'm DJing.


"Read all about it, have you heard the latest?
Boy in a band, Babe's a hollywood actress
But baby, you and me, we came up from the street
No time to hesitate, we've got to push our weight"

Run, Run, Run

Last Saturday I ran the escalade. The first time I ever ran an official race in my adulthood (I did a couple of races when I was a little kid). And to my amazement, I finished the race, ahead of some other runners.

The race is 7.25km long and it took me 40.05 minutes. I came in 1592th out of 1863. You can all laugh your heads off seeing my time or position, but in all honesty I thought I won't be able to finish the race. You see, my endurance is bad. BAD. I can sprint for a couple of seconds really fast but then I'd be gasping for breath soon afterwards. We trained (I did it with my team) from a month before and during the training I never managed to do the 3 full laps. Only 2 at most and that with some walking in between.

So I could hardly believe it when I was running towards the finish line and actually finishing the race. I only walked for about 20 meters, the rest I ran.

I guess I am able to improve my endurance...