Sunday's Great Ocean Road half marathon was my 4th. However, it was the first for which I downloaded the official photos. And this was mostly due to the great scenery. This was the first that I'd taken my phone (forgot to mention that yesterday), and stopped at a couple of points to take photos. My brain being more focused on 'just keep running' rather than lining up camera angles and avoiding sun glare meant that neither of those photos is particularly good. (One I edited today in Instagram and it looks a little better, but the one I was hoping would be as fabulous as the actual scene was disappointing). My favourite of the official photos has a very similar scene though, and there is one (yeah, only one!) photo where I don't look like I want to punch the photographer. If you get more than 1 photo, you get all those in which your bib number is recognisable, so I got the whole lot. First time.
I also took advantage of my technology for some music today. I have been asked to perform a certain piece for a wedding in September. I am really excited about this. The piece is not easy. I tried to get it from imslp, but it won't be available for 'a while' (their words). So I took a deep breath, and bought the concerto from Sheet Music Plus. The deep breath was because I know what I'm like when on that site. Still, I only bought 2 other things, both on sale. Then I continued to listen to more recordings on Youtube. And one of them, instead of the actual video of the performance, or still shots of that performer, had the actual solo violin part as its images. Score! So I took photos and printed them, so I can start learning the piece
now.
As you can probably tell, the actual part will be better, but still... 3-6 weeks?! I want it now!
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