Distracted

When sitting down to write my blog of yesterday’s run, I firstly went on e-bay to try to buy myself a new, cheap camera for running with. I used to use my phone but have recently upgraded to a new one and, as with all fancy new phones, it’s massive and not really something I want to take running with me as it might weight me down. That and I don’t want to damage it.

So the other day I went to Asda and bought a £10 pay as you go phone purely for running with in case of emergency. Thing is, being a £10 phone, it doesn’t have any features other than phoning and texting and it occurred to me that, on my leisurely runs, I sometimes like to stop and take the odd photo or two. I therefore decided to buy a cheap very small camera and thought Ebay would be a good place to start.

I haven’t used the auction side of Ebay for a good few years now and forgot how exciting it can be. I had my sights set on a few Nikon Coolpix cameras all ending within the next twenty minutes so I had each of them open in different windows.

The first one I left until 20 seconds before the end before placing my bid – I was too hasty and got outbid with 5 seconds to spare.

The second and third went a similar way but on my fourth attempt I decided to be extra brave and wait until under 10 seconds remained. I got as far as 8 seconds and then flew in with my maximum bid of £31 and I won! £26 for a Nikon Coolpix S3300. It’s a non-fault customer return so is effectively brand new and has a manufacturer guarantee. The cheapest I have found this camera on the internet is £49.99 and that was for a refurbished one!

I love a good bargain.

Anyway, back to the point… the excitement of Ebay made me completely forget why I had gone on the internet in the first place – to write my blog.

It appears I have been distracted again from this as I haven’t yet mentioned anything about my run. To be honest, it was totally uneventful really.

Total distance – 6 miles.

(P.S. I have manually amended the date of this blog so that it appears on the day the actual run took place, even though I wrote it the next day)