Gave the sprained ankle another workout today.
It looks like a biathlon with a very fast swimming leg, but alas, it’s just a plodding run.
The perfect EarPods that I spent so much time searching for, ended up giving me itchy ear canals, so I have upgraded to AirPods. Yes, I went with Apple again, because we’re an apple family and I want all my gadgets to be able to speak to each other. The headphones are surprisingly comfortable and never give the impression that they’re going to come off accidentally while I’m running (I feel like there should be a single word to describe that quality, I wonder what it is?) Plus, they have the benefit of clearly signaling your antisocial nature.
As with all modern gadgets, there are many extra features that I don’t need or want and can’t control. For some inexplicable reason, my 180 bpm playlist suddenly became very quiet just before a favourite old Cure song started playing. I’ve since figured out this was the AirPods reducing the volume to enable me to hear someone talking to me. Trouble is, it was just the wind. The wind has nothing to say to me except “welcome to the roaring forties” which I don’t need to hear as I’m living it every day. Needless to say, I’ll be searching for a different setting the next time I run (probably fruitlessly, to be fair).